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Originally Posted by Sybs I don't have an Evanescence CD...
Auf Der Maur are great live. I only took an initial interest because MADM was the bassist for Hole and latterly the Smashing Pumpkins, but her ability pales in comparison to the others. I used to play bass, it ain't that difficult. |
bass isn't difficult eh?
you obviously aren't a bassist then......bass can be one of the most difficult instruments out there, far more difficult than guitar (and take this from me, who's been playin' drums for 14 yrs, guitar for 8, and bass for 6)......anywho, i played bass for jazz band back in the day, and just like the case is with drums, you ain't nobody on an instrument untill you study jazz.....and lemme tell ya, jazz bassin' ain't that fuckin' easy.....
first off, itz all a matter of whether or not you use a pick or your fingers....if you use a pick, you suck....just give up and go flip burgers......so, you use your fingers, what can you do with 'em? like it is with guitar, usin' your fingers brings a variety of things you can do, but the most notable on bass is slap/pops....which isn't fuckin' easy at all....Les Claypool, Flea, they are slap/pop masters......that shit is so goddamn hard....
then comes all the matters of music and music theory....speakin' of bass, most "rock-genre" styles just play the "bass" notes that stay in the scale the guitar plays.....this is crap.....with bass, you can A. be the lead (very difficult), but interesting if you do it right; B. be the rhythm (difficult again, as it calls for more than just typical bass notes); C. ad-lib like a mother fucker (jazz style especially, although ad-libbin' is mainly reserved for guitar, you can do it on bass, but it takes knowledge of the instrument and scales as a whole); D. pick a style to groove with: funk, jazz, blues, hard-rock....all really depends on scales......and bein' that the frets and strings are bigger, how fast you can do shit is also a factor.....
but yeah, there's a lot that goes into bass.....i wanted to major in bass at college, but sadly they only offered classical guitar, and i ain't big on classical guitar.....
so don't tell me bass ain't that hard.....anybody can "play" an instrument, but to truly love it and admire it and master it takes a lot of dedication, and generally speakin', you either have it, or don't.....
