well if you knew me, you'd know i have no patience at all with pretty much anything hehe

and it was harder cause i have real small hands

but oh well, my guitar has a better life with ShangBang now

Yeah, learning songs by ear is really fun.

Except I tried learning Understanding In A Car Crash yesterday, and the main riff in the chorus is frustrating to learn by ear, because I cant make out this one note right in the middle which is barely audible.

I have no patience, so i dont realy play anymore, my bass is there doing nothing.

I dont play it, so i cant realy see the point in the buying a new one.

I'm pretty new at learning songs by ear. The other day I learnt "Tears Don't Fall" and "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around You)" by Bullet, although to be fair they both use the same chords really.

[QUOTE=Untitled]I have no patience, so i dont realy play anymore, my bass is there doing nothing.

I dont play it, so i cant realy see the point in the buying a new one.[/QUOTE]


yeah my guitar was just sitting in my room, collecting dust so I said to my good friend "wanna buy Chip (thats the guitars name) off of me?" and he said sure

so i got some money and made a friend happy

[QUOTE=Kif]No, you connect up mics, instruments, headphones to it so you can record instruments in Pro Tools. It's secksy, my friend has one.[/QUOTE]
I need something like that for my laptop, just so I can record drums at a good quality, and it would also improve my guitar/vocals quality too, seeing as I go through the output of a guitar amp at the moment.

[QUOTE=Kif]Oh oh I ordered my Mbox and Pro Tools today, which should hopefully come before or even on my birthday. I'm gonna have so much fun with that.[/QUOTE]
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

[QUOTE=cobert]I dont see how it take patience to learn guitar. Just get one and mess around trying stuff for about a month, thats how I learned bass.[/QUOTE]

It takes very little to play a bass.

I take a ****load to be good at bass, though.

It's one of those minute to learn, lifetime to master kinda things.

Guitar is much more intimidating to start out with. Plus guitarists show off a lot more than bassists, so it's really easy to get discouraged if you aren't immediatly good.

[QUOTE=Kif]I'm pretty new at learning songs by ear. The other day I learnt "Tears Don't Fall" and "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around You)" by Bullet, although to be fair they both use the same chords really.[/QUOTE]

One fun thing to do is to put your playlist on random, then try to catch on as the song plays and learn it as its going on.

JON: Youre right baout bass. Easy to learn, hard to be really good at. And I actually cant stand when guitarists show off. with my old band, we played some party, and I told my drummer that there would be 3 stages: We would play some songs we made, we would do the few covers we knew, then it would turn into the guitarist trying to show off by playing metallica solos, and I was totally right.

I realy need new bass strings, these things sound so dead.

[QUOTE=BridgeToSolace]
Guitar is much more intimidating to start out with. Plus guitarists show off a lot more than bassists, so it's really easy to get discouraged if you aren't immediatly good.[/QUOTE]

yeah thats pretty much how i felt - my friend Jon is pretty damn good at guitar and shows off a lot

eh oh well - just not for me

I started playing when i was like 12 or 13..

[QUOTE=cobert]One fun thing to do is to put your playlist on random, then try to catch on as the song plays and learn it as its going on.[/quote]

Too many tuning changes for that. Especially since I refuse to ever go to drop C, or to tune the guitar a half step down or anything like that.

Standard and drop d only for me.

[quote]JON: Youre right baout bass. Easy to learn, hard to be really good at. And I actually cant stand when guitarists show off. with my old band, we played some party, and I told my drummer that there would be 3 stages: We would play some songs we made, we would do the few covers we knew, then it would turn into the guitarist trying to show off by playing metallica solos, and I was totally right.
[/QUOTE]

Drummers would show off if drum beats were recognizable on their own.

Bassist would show if bass riffs were better written. It's the most underused instrument music. Everyone has one, maybe three bands use them.

I hate playing guitar in front of groups, because my friends are always saying stuff like "play a solo!" or "play something impressive!", then when I do, I immediately get given dirty looks and get told I'm showing off.

It's got to the point where I don't play anything impressive in front of groups of people because people immediately think it's showing off.

[QUOTE=cobert]
Except I tried learning Understanding In A Car Crash yesterday, and the main riff in the chorus is frustrating to learn by ear, because I cant make out this one note right in the middle which is barely audible.[/QUOTE]
For guitar? It's pretty much all the fifth fret on the G and B string with the same strings played open in between. Really simple. (although getting the exact rhythem is confusing.

For the bass...he pretty much just follows the guitar with other notes in the chord mixed in a bit. Simple.

I play guitar for me. Most people play to make music to share, but i keep my guitar to myself, very few people have heard me play at my best. normally only people i really love.

I want to play trumpet agian, that owned.


/drawing.

/atempting to draw.

cant time of anything [I]too[/I] draw.

[QUOTE=Untitled]I want to play trumpet agian, that owned.


/drawing.

/atempting to draw.

cant time of anything [I]too[/I] draw.[/QUOTE]
I own the trumpet, i cant wait for jazz band to start.

[QUOTE=chumpradio]I hate playing guitar in front of groups, because my friends are always saying stuff like "play a solo!" or "play something impressive!", then when I do, I immediately get given dirty looks and get told I'm showing off.[/QUOTE]

Playing guitar in front of goups is fun.

I'm just plagued by the fact that there always seems to be someone better than me listening (who play after I do and shows me up).

Also I only know maybe 5 entire songs, and the little parts that I know aren't really what most people listen to. My guitarist knows a bunch of alt rock stuff on acoustic and he would be considered better than me if he played them in front of people, even though I'm technically much more skilled than he is.

[QUOTE=PaintJessGreen]I own the trumpet, i cant wait for jazz band to start.[/QUOTE]
Pfft jazz :p , i want one so i can start a Ska band at uni, that would own.

[QUOTE=BridgeToSolace]Too many tuning changes for that. Especially since I refuse to ever go to drop C, or to tune the guitar a half step down or anything like that.

Standard and drop d only for me.



Drummers would show off if drum beats were recognizable on their own.

Bassist would show if bass riffs were better written. It's the most underused instrument music. Everyone has one, maybe three bands use them.[/QUOTE]

Then just skip tracks until you fin one in the tuning youre in. Its not hard. And drop C tuning is retarded. And i never quite understood why bands tuned everything down half a step.

More like: drummers and bassists would show off more if they cared about getting their as[size=2]s[/size]es kissed. Bass is very underused. It seems as if people try to start a band, and everyone plays guitar, so they have to find some kid to play bass, and he doesnt know much about it. And bass is usually lower in the mix, and anything cool done by is it kind of overlooked.

[QUOTE=Untitled]I want to play trumpet agian, that owned.


/drawing.

/atempting to draw.

cant time of anything [I]too[/I] draw.[/QUOTE]

drawiiing is great! :chug:

especially cause i suck at all instruments:rolleyes: , which is seemingly the main focus of conversation at this time

[QUOTE=CrimbleVan]drawiiing is great! :chug:

especially cause i suck at all instruments:rolleyes: , which is seemingly the main focus of conversation at this time[/QUOTE]
Yeh, i love drawing, im concentrating more on my art for uni, then instruments for recrational purposes.

[QUOTE=cobert]
More like: drummers and bassists would show off more if they cared about getting their as[size=2]s[/size]es kissed. Bass is very underused. It seems as if people try to start a band, and everyone plays guitar, so they have to find some kid to play bass, and he doesnt know much about it. And bass is usually lower in the mix, and anything cool done by is it kind of overlooked.[/QUOTE]

Very little done with bass is cool, really. Almost bassists I've heard that are considered good just full the guitar, but put fills in between chord changes. Which is really lazy writing, if you ask me.

When I started my band, my bassist was leagues better than me, so I always made sure he was really loud and I tried to make him the forfront of the band. He wasn't good at writing music, so it didn't really work out like that, though.

Being the guitarist, though, I later insisted that he become our drummer after we picked up another guitarist.

So now we don't even have a bassist :p

I'd rather have a third guitar.

[QUOTE=CrimbleVan]drawiiing is great! :chug:

especially cause i suck at all instruments:rolleyes: , which is seemingly the main focus of conversation at this time[/QUOTE]

You gave up playing...of course you suck...

Happy thousandth post.

[QUOTE=BridgeToSolace]You gave up playing...of course you suck...

Happy thousandth post.[/QUOTE]

hehe thanks ^_^

yeah i know, but anyway, drawing is something i'm much more passionate about anyway - so i put my time into that

Out of the three songs my band had, i acted as a second guitar in ne of them. I just had to play up on the higher frets. If a bassists just does fills (usually just lame 5ths), then that is pretty lazy.

I feel that bass is more important than a third guitar. If the bass is turned up, you can get some really heavy, thumping sounds out of it.

Haha, I used to play the trumpet too, Butt.

I was going to buy one last year just so I could start a ska band.

edit: I always kill this thread :(

ATTN: Matt
 

I'm in Montreal, come find me :p

[QUOTE=Lightning Strikes Twice]I'm in Montreal, come find me :p[/QUOTE]
you could be at my house in 4 1/2 hours!
I love montreal, having fun?

Heh so usual, i hate gory stuff, and movies and stuff.
But i downloaded the Dead Rising demo and its awesome.

Admitedly all i have done is gone around killing zombies, but you can pick practicaly anything up, set in a mall, i went into a kids toy shop, and picked up like a lightsaber, and started to use that, even though it was a piss poor weapon.