Bass or Keyboard

[FullMoon]

im gonna learn both this summer bass because of recording reasons and keybord so i can add a xylophone to my kit but witch do you think will be easier

[statdat]

neither will be easier. i think playing bass will be funner though.

[Ellx]

I believe that bass would be easier than keyboard to start off, but thats cause with keyboards you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.

[Janeway]

Keyboard is easier to make sound good to people who've got no idea about music beyond what MTV spits up in thier face. You can basically just sit there and play triads with a few passing tones thrown in and it won't sound bad.
I think bass is harder to make sound interesting.

[Seafroggys]

I believe that bass would be easier than keyboard to start off, but thats cause with keyboards you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.

I believe that keyboards would be easier than bass to start off, but thats cause with bass you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.

[AmodestBeginning]

Bass all the way

[darrell]

I believe that keyboards would be easier than bass to start off, but thats cause with bass you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.

Haha. I was thinking the same thing. :)

[spirit]

Keyboard, assuming you learn the theory, will make it easier to visualise said music theory, given that much of western music is based on the notes of a piano.

[O.J.]

i think keyboards can sound awesome if played properly but i think generally bass and drums go hand in hand so go for the bass. x

[ian1988]

Yeah bass and drums kinda link up because with bass you are trying to set the rythm to the song. and what you usually should do is line up youre kick drum notes with the bass notes

[Loser]

I believe that bass would be easier than keyboard to start off, but thats cause with keyboards you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.

I believe that keyboards would be easier than bass to start off, but thats cause with bass you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.


haha?

[sLarkin20]

I believe that bass would be easier than keyboard to start off, but thats cause with keyboards you pretty much have to learn the theory behind it, before being able to play anything.

because with bass playing you can just claw the strings with one hand and smash them with the other to make music, no theory behind it at all

[Det_Nosnip]

I'd say keyboard, mostly because that was the route that I went. Really, when it comes down to it, the Piano is the most straight forward, easy to understand instrument on the planet...it also happens to contain some of the most difficult music on the planet as well, though.

[Seafroggys]

haha?

glad people are getting the joke

[Ellx]

At school I was playing a bass and it was very fun and easy, and I assumed that keyboard was hard because... yeh.

I think I'll go and cry in a corner before the bassists start flaming me.

[pitchfork]

Bass has theory equally hard to learn, anyone can make a keyboard sound good but to make a good lead bassline takes theory.
Learning bass is good in the long run to help you lock in with the bassist, learning keyboard helps with lots of things.

[styler]

i think almost everything has been answered...


learn grammar though. you confusing bastard.

[Loser]

i think almost everything has been answered...


learn grammar though. you confusing bastard.


Using sentence fragments while telling people to learn grammar is funny.

[styler]

being a jackass is just as funny in almost any situation. no?

[FockerTheLopper]

If your learning both then whats the question?

[Loser]

being a jackass is just as funny in almost any situation. no?

Usually jackasses aren't funny.

[Killtacular]

Unless they make a TV show out of it.

[Loser]

Unless they make a TV show out of it.

I've never really thought any of the stuff they do on that show is that funny. I guess I don't have an easy-to-please sense of humor.

[moogoogaipan]

Keyboard, assuming you learn the theory, will make it easier to visualise said music theory, given that much of western music is based on the notes of a piano.

actually, western theory is based off notes of the vocal range. Keyboards weren't invented until the Baroque period... and that was the just the harpsichord. Western theory had existed about 1000 before that just on vocals and some weird wind instruments like the sackbut(trombone) and violls(string family ancestors).:smash:

I'd learn Xylophone. Bass... is hard, but from experience, a lot of the curriculum coming from many teachers is just finger patterns.
I have a harder time in my jazz theory class because I have to calculate the shape of each digital pattern. The guitarists and the bassists just have to move their fingers up and down to different frets.
In situations like this, keyboard is much more difficult.

[lalalockstep]

bass. Puttin a xylo on ur kit would be plain complicated.

[moogoogaipan]

bass. Puttin a xylo on ur kit would be plain complicated.
and vice versa wouldn't?