In your opinion, which one is easier to learn to play? Or would you say it's pretty much the same? And also I want to hear about your experiance with learning to play.....whatever it is that you play
It all depends on what you want to play. In modern music, guitar is harder, but in classic rock,bass is harder in many cases. I play the bass and I play all of the hardest stuff. The kid next door also plays bass- same amount of time as me, but he plays crappy music, so hes only 1/10 as good as me.
well i play guitar which was kinda easy to pick up after about a month but then its pretty easy for em to play some bass stuff, though easy bass b//c im not very good at it. if you learn one, youll probably be able to play the other though.
This guy I'm sort of seeing is a bass player --- His step-son wanted to learn the bass and he's making him learn guitar first, so that he's got the foundation of what the bass does. It's good to be well rounded I guess is the point... Learn some acoustic, learn a little electric and move up to the bass if you like the rhythm bit. I'm not saying become professional at any of them before moving on or up or over or whatever, but they're all worth learning in my humble opinion. I'm learning acoustic now, but am not really interested in electric either so that may be why I'm partial to learning acoustic first. Who knows. Gina.
Dumb question, if you reply guitar then someone will mention that a bass is a guitar. It also depends on what kind of bass. An acoustic bass (fretless) is much harder to learn to play than a electric bass with frets would be.
Thanks for the replys! And coming from someone such as myself who knows basically nothing about guitar or bass......its not a dumb question at all, just a general one. Thanks though, I have some research to do!
I started on bass about 6 years ago. After about a year of that, I got my first electric. I play both now--but after stretching all around for bass, I found it super-easy to play guitar. Plus, I had the main concept of chord progressions, arpeggios, scales, etc, etc, etc down! If you're going to learn bass, do classic rock. Classic stuff also has really nice bar chord stuff, inversions, and solos. New music tends to be just power chords and half-assed minor scale notes. What talent. ?? .. eek.
And also, if you're playing bass, look into some good jazz/blues. Jazz bass is GREAT. Also listen to some Charles Mingus. He's been one of my sole inspirations playing bass since I started, which was when I was old enough to hold a bass in my lap... *sorry if this was already mentioned!*
learn guitar first, and when ya learn all the scales and everythin, it'll be easier for ya to pick up base.(the scales are the same) where- the other way round, not so easy- (chords and all) learn guitar- then learn bass- then your away! both sure!
Actually I think chords would be easier after learning bass. Fingerings will always be hard the first few weeks, but if you played bass previously, you will know which roots to play and hopefully where they're all at. Everybody is different. Just trust your instincts, go with what you'd rather play first.
