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Bass to Guitar, or vice versa?

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MickMick Frets: 98
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So how many of you started out playing the guitar, and then moved to playing bass, or vice versa.

1: I started playing bass, and moved to guitar.

2: I started playing guitar, and moved to bass.

3: I play both Bass and Guitar.

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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24595
    3

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • MickMick Frets: 98
    Fretwired said:
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    Nice one, so you play both.  Can you play the drums too. ;)
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    I'm 2, almost at 3. 

    But I started on piano, clarinet and sax before guitar
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  • strumjoughlampsstrumjoughlamps Frets: 3067
    Piano first, then guitar then bass, didnt like bass, then drums which I adore..

    I was recording some stuff just this afternoon, a strum thena lead, then a beat and finally some 70s style keyboard and I was thinking 'I love that I can do this'  not to a super tight pro standard mind, but love it all the same..
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  • ChristophEarChristophEar Frets: 46
    3. Can you ever really stop playing guitar?
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  • holnrewholnrew Frets: 8201
    I try to play the guitar, I tried to play the bass, I decided I'd be better off sticking with one for now.
    My V key is broken
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    3.
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17108
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    3 - I started on guitar and then took up bass a bit later. 
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24595
    Mick said:
    Fretwired said:
    3

    Nice one, so you play both.  Can you play the drums too. ;)
    Good God no .... I have a drummer named Roland Boss .. never complains or misses a beat .... ;-)

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7086
    2 but now 3

    (I was also a drummer after playing guitar but before playing bass (because I was tired of packing up my kit while the rest of the band were at the bar)) .
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5698

    I started playing guitar, then got a bass. So for a while played both. Then, as the bass wasn't getting played much (if at all) I P/X'd it against my first Marshall, an AVT50, which now resides with a good friend of mine.

    I'd happily (attempt to) play bass at a jam though, as long as there wasn't anything complicated to do (12 bar blues/simple songs) so no prog-rock...

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    3. Started on guitar though.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • GuitarMonkeyGuitarMonkey Frets: 1882
    1. The school band needed a bassist, but the bassman he don't cop for no glamour. (and I didn't have a 50lb hammer)
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    3. My slap bass is not good though, I need to rectify that.

    Started out singing in church choirs aged about 6. Never understood the mumbo-jumbo (still don't), but the musical education worked out to be useful in later life with guitars and tunes and stuff. Knowing that the stave exists is a good starting point ;)

    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9793
    recorder -> violin -> acoustic guitar ... + electric guitar ... + electric bass ... + keys (but not a lot)
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  • spacecadetspacecadet Frets: 671
    Started on guitar. Learning some bass at the moment just to get a few more gigs in when needed. Would love to play drums/ piano but but my brain isn't smart enough.
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    option 4. -  Bass ? wouldnt have one of those dirty fucking things in the house.


    :)
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • MyrandaMyranda Frets: 2939
    Never go bass to mou... oh.

    When I started learning guitar I played a bit of bass at the same time, but don't have my own bass, so it didn't really stick
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  • PolarityManPolarityMan Frets: 7159
    Started on guitar, can play bass and drums too.
    [SKYTREE]
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  • benvallbenvall Frets: 78
    I started playing guitar at 14, I had a mate who play guitar and his twin brother played drums. So I ended up playing bass in bands till I was 27. Always played guitar at home. Now I play guitar in a covers band. So guitar - bass - guitar for me.
    My Trading Thread - https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/58336/
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