Is bass your priority?

[Thunderbird]

Just bass here I don't know how you guys find the time to do all that other stuff

[Cat Burrito]

I'm really a bassist but I currently play lead guitar in one of my band and over the last 10 years of a 30yr playing career, as well as bass, I have ventured onto guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica and upright bass with varying degrees of success. These days I really enjoy guitar simply because I put the work into my playing and have got more confident but bass is something that I will always have roots with. I should add I still regularly gig and record with bass too, it's just the guitar band is busier.

[zbd1960]

OK, I can see I might be the odd one out here...

I am new to bass so it is my minority activity at the moment.... I play cello in several orchestras and I did a concert in Birmingham last weekend and Chester and Tenbury Wells the weekend before. I play tenor sax in a couple of wind bands and I played at the Bridgewater Hall with one a few weeks ago and I'm in the midst of the usual summer fetes/concerts with them at the moment (one on Sunday afternoon at Maghull). I'm an experienced choral singer and I've sung with chamber choirs and choral societies in everywhere from a village hall, stately home or two, about 2 dozen cathedrals and the Albert Hall.

Apart from that, I don't do much. Pic from last week's concert
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqs1km7c3gj0jy4/Concert-01.jpg?dl=0

[Lozz196]

I`m a bassist who can play guitar. At present I don`t have a guitar as am preferring to concentrate solely on bass for my current band.

[Les]

I play bass for money and guitar and keys for fun.

[thebrig]

Bass is my main instrument, but at home I play guitar and mandolin, although not brilliantly, but if/when I do hang up my bass, I would like to concentrate mainly on the mandolin, for me, it's such a lovely instrument,

[neilp]

I totally agree about the mandolin. When was the last time you heard the phrase "that mandolin part is a bit too aggressive"??

[Norris]

As a youth my main instrument was the trombone. Since taking up bass at around 16 that has been my main thing. I dabble with other instruments but not really up to performance standard. I'm a bass player

[ribbetingfrog]

I am a bass player through and through.

The great Billy Sheehan once said it is an absolute necessity to learn guitar as it is a great song writing tool, so I have.

In hindsight though, I only play covers...

[SpondonBassed]

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That may of course be gross misrepresentation and tantamount to a terminological inexactitude, but that's what I say nevertheless.
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That's easy for you to say. Meh!

[SpondonBassed]

I am probably a better armpit player than a bassist but neither the brasswind section nor the woodwind section appreciate my prowess so bassist it is.

[blue]

Strictly electric bass guitar and backing vocals.

I need to put more into singing. I'm thinking about taking lessons.

Blue

[paul_5]

Music is my priority. Bass is my main instrument, but as long as I'm making and playing music then I'm a happy bunny.

[DaytonaRik]

I'm a vocalist who also plays guitar and more recently bass. My voice has always been my best asset backed up with the ability to play a mean 2nd guitar or simple bass lines.

[thegummy]

I bought a bass recently (as a guitar player) purely to use on recordings and making the mistake I'm sure you all laugh at in thinking I'd be able to play the bass too by default.

Got it, couldn't play well at all so decided to practice a little bit and during that time I've fallen in love with the bass and have been mostly focusing on bass. Even just dropped 120 quid subscribing to Scott's Bass Academy.

Now I just need to make sure I don't forget about the guitar!

[spongebob]

Yes, except my interest in cars... probably both about level.

[mrtcat]

Bass is my first instrument but I get lots of gigs on drums too which I really enjoy.

[leschirons]

Bass and acoustic guitar are what I play most these days although still do the odd drum dep. As for priority, none of them really feel like they are. If I wasn't in any bands though and it was purely a hobby, I'd probably just play drums for my own amusement.

[merlin]

nowt else,just bass and only four stringed ones with no frets,just don't need to be sidetracked by anything else ha really cant play anything other than bass

[Conan]

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Basschat is, obviously, populated by bass players,
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Well, certainly we all play bass - but I would question whether we are all "bass players", as the responses to this thread show.

Bass is the only instrument I can play with any skill, so I concentrate on that. It is also my favourite instrument, and the one I predominantly listen to in music. So I guess that makes me a bass player!

[joeystrange]

I am a bass player.

I can play guitar but I don't really like to.

[Geek99]

I take out my 12 string but to be honest I just live making people jump with my p bass. Weedy acoustic guitars just don't do that

[fretmeister]

I mostly play bass, but kind of by default.

These days I prefer to sing, but at the moment I don't have the chance for that very often.

I still play a bit of guitar and sax.

[tauzero]

Primarily a bassist, I also play guitar for songwriting and to accompany Mrs Zero when we go duetting.

[solo4652]

I played classical guitar as a teenager and hated it. I sill have the guitar, and haven't touched it for 40 years. Started playing bass aged 50 and it's certainly my main instrument. I also dabble on the cajon and have been the "house cajonista" at a few open mic evenings, accompanying anybody who came along and wanted a bit of percussion behind them. That feeling of comfortable improvisation is something I'll never have with my bass-playing, since I can only play basslines I have spent hours practising. So, in terms of hours spent, I'm a bass player first and cajon player second.

Edited June 22, 2016 by solo4652