I think I enjoy playing bass more these days than guitar.

For my 5,000th post, as I approach the end of my third year at musicianforums and my last as a guitar player, I would like to present you with this picture of a Modulus bass that I would really like to make my own:

[img]http://www.modulusguitars.com/v2/gallery/Gallery/Q6_Figured_Walnut_SemiHollow_Fretless.jpg[/img]


And no, I do not expect this to happen.

You know you want to get [url]http://www.rockinn.co.jp/maniac/a3_alembic/alembic_s1_70s_b.jpg[/url] instead.

Yeah that's pretty sick.

All this is very fortuitous, because I happen to live half a mile down the street from here: [url]http://www.atlantabassgallery.com[/url].

Looks Jewish.

I wish my band didn't suck.

[QUOTE]Music just changed my life again.

I have played guitar for 7 years, and I've never once felt confident in my abilities. I love to write songs, but I've never really written a song that I liked. I just never felt like I was expressing my ideas properly. I've always thought I have a pretty decent musical mind, but something in my playing is always holding me up, frustrating me, and I could never put a finger on it.

Tonight, though, after a pretty satisfying jam, my friend and longtime jam-mate and musical superior, Daniel, who's at Berklee for jazz drums, said, out of the blue, "Dude, you should get a bass."

Suddenly, I realized that I am a bass player, I think like a bassist always, whenever I'm thinking about music. I've written a few sick basslines electronically, and even a couple on a bass guitar, but it never occurred to me that that was my musical strength. I think I've been operating under the horribly backwards mentality I picked up as a brainless Limp Bizkit fan: That, for some reason, I guess to do with the number of strings or notes played at the same time or something idiotic like that, bass players were not as good musicians as guitar players.

Of course, I never consciously believed this, but it was my subconscious prejudice against the bass that kept me trying in vain to excel at guitar. But I'm a very anxious person, my self confidence is low, and I've always felt nervous as the center of attention. I noticed recently, after a long and intense bout of practicing guitar, that my entire body was tense and that I was short of breath, almost at the point of a panic attack. Playing guitar isn't a proper release for me.

But now I'm thinking about bass, and I have full confidence. It feels like practicing bass would really satisfy a lot of the general anxiety I feel on a day-to-day basis. I have trouble motivating myself to practice guitar, but I'm already motivated to practice bass for hours a day. I haven't been this excited about playing music since I learned to play "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I haven't had this giddiness over getting a new instrument in so many years.


Yeah.[/QUOTE]

Welcome to 2006

Haha thats funny because I just started playing bass as well after being a guitar player for almost 4 years.

I'm really enjoying it so far, it just really tears up my fingers right now :-/

Everyone in my town is switching to bass :(

I switched to bass because my friends band needed a bass player.

I've been playing lots of guitar and bass lately, but drums are still my main instrument. None of my friends actually know how to play any instruments except for concert band stuff, so whenever we jam, I play guitar and I'm teaching a kid to play bass and a kid to play drums. We also have a guy playing sax and a cowbell player. We can only play about two songs all the way through, but we all have to start somewhere.

[I]Think[/I] like a bass player? Isn't that an oxymoron?

You're an oxymoron.

[QUOTE=Zappa][I]Think[/I] like a bass player? Isn't that an oxymoron?[/QUOTE]

Why don't you go listen to your WC?

[QUOTE=YDload]Dude, bass is so much fun to play. Especially fingerstyle, where your right and left hand both make contact with the strings, just makes you feel so much more CONNECTED to the music. You'll start listening closely to songs and realizing that some bassists are overlooked geniuses for what they've done for their band. Please join the club!

I think my revelation came a few months ago when I realized that I could figure out how to play songs without tabs. Just listen through headphones and pluck around to see if the notes match up (it will be really obvious if they don't!). I've had so much more fun playing along to my music now and I figure out a new song every day![/QUOTE]
you put it very well, excect even though i feel more connection to the sound if i fingerpick, i feel more of a bouncy flow if i use a pick.

Playing bass is fun but I have small hands so I never feel comfortable :(

bass driven songs are my favorite, but i play guitar way more than bass


i think i'm gonna play bass more so i can write more songs that i like

[QUOTE=sr800bkBassist]you put it very well, excect even though i feel more connection to the sound if i fingerpick, i feel more of a bouncy flow if i use a pick.[/QUOTE]

i can't use a pick at all, but so many of the alt/indie bands i've been getting into use picks for their sound (pretty much everyone except Husker Du actually). so i just pinch my thumb and index together and strum with my fingernail to get a picky sound when i need it :cool:

Finger player here too.

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]Why don't you go listen to your WC?[/QUOTE]

WC? Clarify.

i dont use picks for bass or guitar

[QUOTE=Zappa]WC? Clarify.[/QUOTE]

Water closet.

Splendour in the Grass was really fuc[size=2]k[/size]ing good. I had the best time ever.

TV on the Radio really impressed me. I didn't even like them before seeing them, but I absolutely loved the live show. DJ Shadow was a little disappointing but still good. I missed Sonic Youth. Brian Wilson was absolutely amazing (despite being completely fu[size=2]c[/size]ked up). Everything else I saw was really great too.

What happened with DJ Shadow?

He had a couple of technical difficulties at the beginning which made it a little harder to get into. And also, some of the new songs he played weren't that great.

[QUOTE=Zappa]WC? Clarify.[/QUOTE]

da bu ci

[QUOTE=Little Man being Erased]He had a couple of technical difficulties at the beginning which made it a little harder to get into. And also, some of the new songs he played weren't that great.[/QUOTE]

That sucks, he should have just done Endtroducing all the way through :)

So I'm at Brown for a week long pre-college course on medical controversy. I can get wireless in the dorm so I've been using my PSP each night to use the interwebs and watch Futurama.

i've got one more year of highschool, and i need an art school that's really cheap.
help me out with my location plans.
Portland, OR, vs Seattle, WA?
pros of each? cons?

Cheap art schools are hard to come by.

Here's the art school in my town. I hear good things about it

[url]http://www.kcad.edu/[/url]

[QUOTE=asdf]Cheap art schools are hard to come by.

Here's the art school in my town. I hear good things about it

[url]http://www.kcad.edu/[/url][/QUOTE]
yeah, ironic too, because of the whole thing with artists not really making any money at all....

but yeah, i've got one in mind in Seattle called Cornish that costs $11,000 tuition, which isn't cheap, but considering the AI's cost in the 20's, it's a good deal. i mainly like the Pacific Northwest area of the US, like from San Francisco, and up. i really want to stay in the pacific area in general, and the southern pacific is too surfer-ish for my tastes, so i'm planning on just going north.

also, does anybody know if Santa Cruz is affordable? i know it's near San Francisco where even studio apartments cost more than $1000 a month and it's impossible for a young person to live there on their own, but maybe Santa Cruz is still cheaper despite how close it is to such an expensive city?