The piano playing is overtaking the Bass playing.?

[bubinga5]

I will always be a bass player. But the more i have lesson/ play the Piano/Reading, the more i think there is more music at my finger's. I've got to grade 3 now, and its a real musical journey. maybe its because i never had the chance geographically to get good bass lessons. it is helping my bass playing no end.

anyone else playing the piano.? like i said the bass for me is forever.

Edited February 26, 2014 by bubinga5

[Woodinblack]

I play the piano, but then I have always played the piano at least within the bounds of what I can remember. Really if I had played more I would be pretty good by now (actually I was pretty good at 16, that was a long time ago).

However, it is a different thing, like most instruments are, same as a guitar is. I always found it was a lot more natural and possibly easier to apply music theory to the piano, maybe because of the way that it is all laid out and obvious, or just because I am more used to it.

[Bilbo]

Why wouldn't you prefer the piano? It is all there. I can't play it but wish I could (clearly not enought oactually TRY!!)! I have one but never got passed a few basic exercises and some chords. In short, I am a s***load better as a bass player than I am at anything esle so that is where my efforts went.

[Count Bassy]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1393410544' post='2379811']
Why wouldn't you prefer the piano? It is all there. I can't play it but wish I could (clearly not enought oactually TRY!!)! I have one but never got passed a few basic exercises and some chords. In short, I am a s***load better as a bass player than I am at anything esle so that is where my efforts went.
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Which remind me of:

Man 1: Can you play the violin?

Man 2: Don't know, I've never tried.

[xgsjx]

The way things are going with me musically, I'm tempted to go back to piano/keys. Get a good keyboard & you can get some excellent bass sounds too!

I'm a great believer in learning as many types of instrument as possible, that way you can understand what your part needs to do in the song.

Edited February 26, 2014 by xgsjx

[SlapbassSteve]

Interestingly I started off playing jazz piano before switching over to bass... I half wonder if I'll go back one day?

[bubinga5]

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1393431250' post='2380236']
The way things are going with me musically, I'm tempted to go back to piano/keys. Get a good keyboard & you can get some excellent bass sounds too!

I'm a great believer in learning as many types of instrument as possible, that way you can understand what your part needs to do in the song.
[/quote]i know what your saying, but i love actually playing the bass physically. no software can match that.

[EliasMooseblaster]

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1393432099' post='2380256']
Interestingly I started off playing jazz piano before switching over to bass... I half wonder if I'll go back one day?
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Me too! Well, I had piano lessons for a few years with a guy who introduced me to jazz...saying I could actually play jazz piano might be overselling myself! I do still play, though I haven't practised regularly for a long time, and I'm limited to a keyboard in my pokey London flat.

It probably gave me a bit of a head-start when I first took up the bass. I'd already been taught a few scales and some basic theory, so once I got hold of a bass guitar scales book it made it much easier to find my way around the neck. That, and a collection of Doors songs transcribed for piano. Couldn't play most of them for the life of me, but it was a good source of inspiration - ol' Ray (RIP) did play some really nice bass parts with his left hand!

[cytania]

Ah there's my problem, piano is something I left in childhood as I could never coordinate both hands. String instruments suit me much better. Keys players have my respect but I can't make chord hand and bass hand work myself...

[bubinga5]

i see this. why did i piggin start.? Bill Sharpe is just amazing imo. one of my musical heroes. anyone who might not have heard of him, he was the pianist for a band called Shakatak, . you might recognise a song called Night Birds . imo this is epic in anyones book. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gihCpd2RqHI[/media]

Edited February 28, 2014 by bubinga5

[EliasMooseblaster]

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1393563539' post='2381917']
i see this. why did i piggin start.? Bill Sharpe is just amazing imo. one of my musical heroes. anyone who might not have heard of him, he was the pianist for a band called Shakatak, . you might recognise a song called Night Birds . imo this is epic in anyones book.
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Agreed - beautiful stuff!