ummm i got other definitions of 'pleasant' :wink3: :P

i wanted to too..but then not...and then..i found me drums. and mmm drums are mighty sweet in the ass.

 

ooohh drums.

 

i went to cosmo music just before (my brother needed new guitar strings) and i was attempting to play a bass. but it wasn't plugged in.

i want to try and play it some more when it's plugged in.

drums just rule!

when you start playing a musical instrument, it doesn't really matter which instrument is "hard" to play and which one isn't. if you haven't played anything before, they're all hard.

 

what matters is how much time and effort you're willing to put into it, and how much natural musical talent you have, because some people will simply never be good musicians.

 

as far as the bass is concerned: your fingers WILL hurt a lot when you first start, but don't let that stop you, because that stops after awhile, unless you play for 4 straight hours at a club, as i have before. :rolleyes:

 

and if you're wondering what credentials i have to talk about it, i can play bass, guitar, piano, drums, saxophone, and harmonica, and i can noodle around on banjo and mandolin (which means that i suck at them but i could play something given enough time), so i have experience with picking up new instruments. :P

wow..you are musically..something cant think of word. due to too much boggling with brainium.

I can play piano, guitar, and sax... and RECORDER.

 

Love me too!

sax

did u mean sex?

 

 

and yes tom peed is right

you will suck if its your first time with any instrument

i have callouses on my fingers

fine i guess all you lamers will copy me and get a bass

if bass gets trendy its all your fault

bass is already a trend..the whole BAND thing is a trend now.

everything is....you cant say its not.

yes i can

stupid ass

more people play guitar than bass

ok..so now i am a stupid ass.

everything is fuckin trendy now...every since the new generation of "punk" broke out..everything became trendy....

yeah punks suck

anti flag is so over rated

political punk is the worst

perhaps.

Guitar is definately harder than the bass, but the guitar (in my opinion) is more rewarding in the end because you can actually play a song that people will notice. It took me a year to learn how to play guitar and i could play the bass after my second time of picking one up.

it doesnt matter

its all about musical ability

sure you can play a few gay tabs from blink 182

but you cant play lespaul stuff

i know this guy that picked up guitar...he sucked at self teaching so he went for lessons. but i dont know how he turned out.

that was the gayest fucking story ive heard in a while

umm yes.. well..fine.

i know some people here play bass guitar and i was just wondering about it. i was thinking of going to a music store first to try them out to see how i like it. if i like it i might rent one. then mabe buy one.

 

my brother said it's hard to play a bass. do you think i should try it out?

 

twin4life: are you sure you want to play the bass? coz there are plenty of unusual instruments out there which are really interesting.

play piano

bass is manly

you'll look like this if you play bass

i dont understand why youd want to hog it all to yourself...

its been around for a while its not like you discovered it and can keep it to yourself

i think it can be seen as trendy because a couple years back when my friends picked up instruments, most of them wanted to start on bass

and now, out of six of them that are trying to start bands, four still keep to bass and prefer it to a guitar even though theyve learned to play guitar

contrary to popular belief, there's a lot more to playing bass than knowing basic guitar stuff and then just translating it over to single notes on 4 strings. it's a whole different feel from playing guitar, unless the only guitar you can play is power chords. you'll learn to pick up subleties and nuances of rhythms and counter melodies that you won't even notice when you're playing guitar.

 

so i guess i would say, between bass and guitar, bass is probably easier to learn the basics (or is it BASSICS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) but if you want to be a master, you'll probably put the same amount of time into either. (i consider myself a master of neither, personally)

just get stuck in and buy a fender jazz bass :cool:

I tried playing my bro's bass and it was trés hard so I stuck to guitar :smug:

Bass isn´t that hard to play. If that´s your dream, go for it :)

 

Think about the female bass players, like that girl from Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, L7...