What do you call yourself?

[colgraff]

Are you a bass player, a bassist or a bass guitarist?

Do you care which of these names people use to identify you?

Personally I don't mind but I know some people get very exercised about it.

[RickyV]

Hmmmm......, for me I think it has to be bass player or bassist. Tend not to use the g word!

[Grangur]

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Hmmmm......, for me I think it has to be bass player or bassist. Tend not to use the g word!
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This^ My late Mum had an anoying habit of describing me as "a guitar man". It always made me cringe.

[blue]

I'm an American Electric Bass Guitarist. To me bassist is more for the jazz guys that play the double bass.

Blue

[MacDaddy]

Musician.

[Bassman Sam]

A grumpy old fart who plays bass.

[davegriffiths91]

+1 on musician.
My tool of the trade happens to be bass

[Marvin]

Incompetent fretboard botherer and string tickler.

If pressed I'd use the term bass player as I play bass. I never use the term guitar when referring to the instrument so wouldn't use guitarist. Bass guitar just doesn't sound right to me, it's a bass.

[Bobthedog]

Bass player, bass guitar player, I don't really mind. Even guitar player will do, after all I don't hear many saxophonists stating what sax they play.

[Happy Jack]

Jedi Master Of The Low End, Keeper Of The Secret Flame Of Rhythm, Thunderbird Maximus, Riff Finder General, and of course Playground Monitor.

[Twincam]

My name is Twincamus Decimus Meridius, bass player of the North, General of the Fretted Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Leo fenderus. Father to a murdered tone, husband to a murdered technique. And I will Learn to play the bass, in this life or the next.

[CamdenRob]

I much prefer "bassist" or "bass player" to "bass guitarist" I know bass is shaped and played similar to a guitar but that's where the similarity ends. They are completely different instruments, fulfilling different roles and requiring a very different skill set and musical approach. Despite what the uninitiated may think, we do not just play the same as the guitar an octave lower...

Edited February 22, 2016 by CamdenRob

[Telebass]

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I much prefer "bassist" or "bass player" to "bass guitarist" I know bass is shaped and played similar to a guitar but that's where the similarity ends. They are completely different instruments, fulfilling different roles and requiring a very different skill set and musical approach. Despite what the uninitiated may think, we do not just play the same as the guitar an octave lower...
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Precisely, it's a guitar-like bass, it's not a guitar. So bassist or bass player it is.

[Luulox]

Bass player but used to work with a guy who played bass that insisted he was a guitarist and didn't like been called a bass player. He used to say he played guitar but it's only got 4 strings!? He was amazingly defensive about been a bass player for some reason. I started avoiding him as he also liked a moan too, it all got to much for me. 😊

[Lozz196]

Bassist

[uncle psychosis]

Don't care. People get way too precious about this kind of thing.

[leftybassman392]

So... slow day at the office then, eh?

[Hobbayne]

Bass player. Sometimes Bassist too. depending on the mood I,m in.

[ratman]

I beg to differ, it is a guitar, it's a bass guitar. And I play one. I don't care what I'm called, unless somebody ignorantly spells it 'base'.

[CamdenRob]

Just to add that I'm not mortally offended if someone calls me a bass guitarist.

... I'm called worse on a daily basis at work.

[RockfordStone]

i'm a musician, i just specialise in bass

[keefbaker]

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Musician.
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+1 The world knows me better for the electronica I do.

[keefbaker]

But if comes down to it "Bass Player", especially as I play some EUB too.

[EssentialTension]

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Don't care. People get way too precious about this kind of thing.
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Yes, why would anyone care?

If I said to someone in possession of, for example, a Fender Precision bass 'so, you're the bass guitarist' and they replied 'no, I am a bassist, it's not a guitar', I would think 'what a pompous twat!'

[peted]

Bassist or bass player usually.