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Post subject: help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:56 am
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I don't play bass guitar but i play electric guitar in a rock band. if i ever wanted 2 start bass, is it easy 2 learn after i play lead guitar?

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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:59 am
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Well, anything played correctly just need some practicing. Bass is a little diff't than guitar. Basic principles are the same tho. Scales are the same but in diff't position sometimes.

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Post subject: Bass mindset...
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:15 am
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Depending on the techniques you choose to use, it will feel different. For example, if you decide to pluck the strings with your fingers, unless you have been a finger picker or classical guitarist, it will take some time before that will feel natural.

Since you do play guitar, it will be an easier transition than somebody who hasn't played a similar instrument. Though, keep in mind the bass has a longer scale. Also, the tension & thickness of the strings is greater than the guitar. The electric bass needs more muscle than the guitar. So f you get a bass, don't overdue it until you have comfortably adjusted to the physical difference of the instrument.

Also, the mindset of bass performance is different from guitar performance. Your approach to music will be drastically altered. You will need (if you don’t already have) to develop a great sense of time. You will be taking the roll as the pulse and you will outline the melodic structure of the music. As a bassist, the root of the music starts here. In due time, you will learn to have reverence for the groove. It is amazing what one big phat note can do in the right place at the right time!

With practice and patience, you shouldn't have any problem with the transition to the bass from a guitar.


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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:50 am
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I think it is really easy to leanr 2 play bass if u play guitar... it will be easier if you look it look it like a guitar just taht without the 1st and the 2nd stirng... so if you know to paly guiatr you have the base.
I my case first I learn to play guitar but by the time I began playing bass, so it was really esasy for me... then when you fell confortable with your bass you begin learnig teckniques.
so i just meed practice.


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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:34 pm
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I agree it was a lot easier for me to learn the bass as I learnt guitar first I was really hard out into guitar I never got really liked the bass that much but once I picked it up it changed everything its kind of the opposite now I’m a bass fanatic iv been playing bass for about two years now I’m really loving its awesome!!!!


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