Do BASS players play guitar better than guitar players play Bass?

[Bass4real]

There's a few Bass players I've seen on YouTube , I'm a Bass player always and forever, I do play guitar also , but rarely , 

I think I played my guitar 2 times in 2024 .

I play my A/E bass at least a few hours every single day. 

I rent a , I call it the LOUD place , It's where I turn my Marshall bass  rig volume up and up more. It's a vicious 600w Marshall bass head top can 4 /10 s and bottom cab had

2 15s originally I switched the 15s out

and put 2/18s in .

Its LOUD and for 20 + yrs of getting abused  it still sounds like a new amp 

I play HeaVy fast and as loud as possible 

What can I say I'm not just a MeAtElHeAd

I'm metal 1st.

Anyway many times I bring a guitar player to my LOUD room , we'll drink a few beers 

I'll play guitar , guitar plays bass.

It's always the same.Im a pretty good guitar player for a bass player. 

And guitar players always every time play guitar on my bass . They always think their killin it on bass  , I like a Bass to sound like a BASS . Not many guitar players I know are what I would call a good BASS PLAYER.

they're good guitar players , really good.

BASS is the easiest instrument to play .

ALOT of guitar players have no clue what a good bass player can do.

They quickly find out when they jam with me.

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

I'm not conceited in any way shape or form

But I am some say brutally Honest 

I'm a proud to be a BASS PLAYER

BASS PLAYER.

: ?)

Have a good one everyone 

C.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Downunderwonder]

I can't play guitar for toffee. So that blows your theory right out of the water.

 

But yeah, an awful lot of guitar players think they can play bass. Some sure can. A lot of those can probably run rings around me. A lot of those play way too many notes but.

[Woodinblack]

So they play bass, they think they are pretty good, but you think they aren't.

You play guitar, you think you are good - maybe they think you aren't?

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Never mind the guitarists, the drummer I'm in a band with is a better bass player than me.

[tauzero]

I don't play GUITAR as well as I play BASS. The GUITARist at the open mic I go to owns a BASS and tries to play it, badly.

 

Why have we got to write BASS in capital letters? Seems like the equivalent of writing it in crayon.

[fretmeister]

I started playing both in the same week when I was a teenager. I was playing in a metal band on guitar and a school jazz band on bass.

 

The one I'm playing most at any particular time is the one I'm better on at that time.

[tinyd]

I don't have opinions about bass players' ability on guitar, but I *do* find that guitarists who pick up a bass often have a bad tone (because they don't pluck the strings properly) and their timing can be dodgy.

[Earbrass]

16 hours ago, Bass4real said:

I'm not conceited in any way shape or form

 

Good to know. 

[Geek99]

I do partly agree, playing bass is a mentality  that your part is a piece of the whole cake, not the entire cake in and of itself. I think that’s why guitarists don’t nail it, they can’t take a step back backwards. Whereas bass players are more able to step out of the box occasionally 

Edited Tuesday at 16:12 by Geek99

[Lozz196]

I play pretty good rhythm guitar but although I can solo due to my experience of keeping time on bass my solos sound mechanical rather than fluid.

[Terry M.]

And then there's Charlie Hunter who can play guitar and bass parts simultaneously and extremely competently. I learned about him through the D'Angelo album Voodoo. How he does that is beyond me.

[wintoid]

I haven't played with a guitarist for a loooong time, but my experience of guitarists is that most of them don't know how to (or don't think about how to) make space.  For that reason, the ones I've known have not been the greatest bassists, even if technically capable.

[Bass4real]

3 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I do partly agree, playing bass is a mentality  that your part is a piece of the whole cake, not the entire cake in and of itself. I think that’s why guitarists don’t nail it, they can’t take a step back backwards. Whereas bass players are more able to step out of the box occasionally 

Exactly 

Nailed it 

[Graham56]

3 hours ago, tinyd said:

I don't have opinions about bass players' ability on guitar, but I *do* find that guitarists who pick up a bass often have a bad tone (because they don't pluck the strings properly) and their timing can be dodgy.

 

Yeah, I don't need a guitarist for that, I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself...

[SteveXFR]

I'm a terrible guitarist. I don't like the way guitarists othen play bass. Too busy, not enough space, sloppy timing. 

[BassAdder60]

I play or have played both in bands and I can get away with some lead solos etc but that’s my limit 

 

I’m an excellent rythmn guitarist and I was a half decent rock bassist certainly good enough for all the bands I was part of over a 40yr period.

The bass always felt the right instrument for me ( I’m a big tall guy and the bass feels more in proportion to my frame if that makes sense whereas I feel I dwarf a guitar a little !

So I would say the two overlap nicely if you put in the effort on both as they need differing skills and where your place is in a band etc 

[Bass4real]

39 minutes ago, wintoid said:

I haven't played with a guitarist for a loooong time, but my experience of guitarists is that most of them don't know how to (or don't think about how to) make space.  For that reason, the ones I've known have not been the greatest bassists, even if technically capable.

 

42 minutes ago, wintoid said:

I haven't played with a guitarist for a loooong time, but my experience of guitarists is that most of them don't know how to (or don't think about how to) make space.  For that reason, the ones I've known have not been the greatest bassists, even if technically capable.

I actually have big respect for guitar players that are crazy talented and more times than not I find it's a guitar player that gives me goosebumps and gets me thinking outside the bass box.

Right now I'm listening to ALOT of

Andy James , a extraordinary guitar player 

has given me alot of new ideas on bass.

I also think his Bassist not the FFDP bass player , in 2017 Craig Dulles played bass with A.J.solo live in Paris (YouTube )

He's my favorite kind of Bass player.

A straight forward style nothing fancy

He's a true BASS player.

He's not a very popular Bass player.

But his playing style is a style I abandoned years ago.

  It is the perfect compliment to my technicality.

I've been playing Bass since I was 15 yrs old . I'm going to turn 63 on February 18th

  I've played everything from classical to jazz through Punk and prog metal .

Sometimes  it  takes a guitar player to give me new ideas to try on my bass.

 

Have a good one 

C.C.

 

 

 

[Bass4real]

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

And then there's Charlie Hunter who can play guitar and bass parts simultaneously and extremely competently. I learned about him through the D'Angelo album Voodoo. How he does that is beyond me.

The courage and passion to not only think it may be possible and then Practice , practice , practice , then more practice .

until the possiblity becomes reality.

then Charlie Hunter 

Maybe he's a savant.

: ?)

Or a proof of God 

Savants like blind severely autistic 13 yrs old able to play piano as good or better than most master pianists

Lucy is a 

Proof of God 

 

Edited Tuesday at 21:21 by Bass4real

[Terry M.]

3 minutes ago, Bass4real said:

The courage and passion to not only think it may be possible and then Practice , practice , practice , then more practice .

until the possiblity becomes reality.

then Charlie Hunter 

Maybe he's a savant.

: ?)

 

I had to Google "Savant". Never too old to learn. I like it 👌 

[Dan Dare]

My hovercraft is full of eels.

[Geek99]

IIRC

 

From the French verb savoir, meaning “to know”

 

I am also a savant, not yet sure of what exactly yet though …. 

[AndyTravis]

I do both, with varying degrees of success and not in the particular order you may think…

 

nobody is intimidated by my musicality in either camp…

[Bass4real]

4 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

I do both, with varying degrees of success and not in the particular order you may think…

 

nobody is intimidated by my musicality in either camp…

I think nobody actually sets out to intimidate other musicians or in life.

I think PEOPLE ( GET)  INTIMIDATED 

ALOT More than 

People want to be intimidating 

 Anyone trying to intimidate 

someone else .

Is an insecure basshole  , lose the b

 

 

 

[AndyTravis]

Was sort of a joke.

 

ah well. 

[Jackroadkill]

Do farmers do magic tricks better than magicians grow triticale?