Is it better to learn Bass Or Guitar first?

Answer 1

This is like asking should I play the trumpet or the tuba!!! They are different instruments that (tend to) have different roles in music.

Bass is a good place to steer a band from. It's not a C chord unless the bass player plays a C (no matter what the guitarist does). The bass player has to glue the drummer to the rest of the band. Your job is to make everyone else sound better than they are whilst doing as little as possible yourself.

The choice depends on what you want to play (if it's Motown type stuff then the guitar parts are generally much simpler than the bass parts), what sound you hear in your head (I've always been attracted to the bass).

Also good guitar players are 10 a penny. Good bass players are much harder to find.

A Simple Answer would be this:

If you want to learn bass, know that it is lower and is bigger and heavier. Guitar is smaller, usually lighter, and smaller. The thing is, the bass is so easy to improve your musical talent. Guitar, either your really really smart and self teach yourself, or you take lessons. Bass, you can go right from guitar to bass and be a champ. Utter utter nonsense...100% wrong.

BASS IS NOT EASIER BY ANY MEANS. GUITAR AND BASS ARE BOTH THE SAME DIFFICULTY

I would learn guitar. Bass isNOT any easier to learn, but you rarely see somebody sitting around in a group of people pull out a bass and start playing (because not enough people play bass).

A guitar is a stand-alone instrument, a bass is, in some hands, not.

Hope this helps!

Bass Guitar is NOT a four-stringed instrument that plays the lower notes. A bass is usually from 4-6 strings, however, I have seen many many bassists with 7-9 strings. Guitar is a string-stringed instrument that plays the higher notes.

For example, imagine a piano divided in half. The keys on the left play the lower music, and these are the low pitches you would get out of a bass guitar. The keys on the right play the higher music, and these are the pitches you would get out of a regular guitar.

Also, do you want to play rhythm or lead? With a bass, you can only play rhythm. With a guitar, you can do either or both. = LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > (Different person) you can play lead on a bass, I should know, cause I play the bass.

Before you decide to play any instrument, you should ask yourself, why? Learning to play the guitar, or bass, as a pro, is not an easy task. Are you wanting to play for fun, or get with a band, and tour the world? Do you wish to spend a lot of money, or just buy a beginner book, and a cheap instrument? There are advantages to playing both the bass, and the guitar, however you have to decide which you would rather play. Go to a music store, and check out both, then decide.

==You can still play bass and it doesn't have to be rhythm. Bass Guitars are best known to be used for rhythm (which is true), but the bass is still good. The answer above made the Electric Guitar a clear winner (saying its easy and has a few notes).

The bass has a couple different playing styles, making it a DIFFICULT guitar to learn, because theres a lot to choose and most of them prove to be difficult. Its also quite expensive because it has a wide range of tones depending on amps and sets.

Some playing styles include: Fingerstyle/Fingerpicking (Most common), Flatpicking/Strumming (common, uses a guitar pick), Flamenco (A mixture of hand strumming and Tapping), Slapping/Double Slap (check out Fieldy from Korn), and Pop (usually referred as Pop/Slap). These are the couple playing styles used for the bass.

Theres also some playing styles for the guitar: Shredding (its less common to shred on bass), Blues, Funk Guitar, Metal Guitar and even Tapping. It all comes up what kind of sound you want, while bass you would have to choose to master.

learn Guitar then Bass(bass has the 4 stings tuned to EADG which is same on guitar) if you want to have 3 chances of getting in to a band

Answer 2

Bass guitar definitely. Much more fun, much less wrote memorization, much less pressure, much easier to find work.

But then i may be a bit biased since I've been playing bass for 10 years.

It depends what you like listening to. If you like hearing the instrument scream, guitar's better. But if you like the low-end rumble that makes your stomach move, go for bass. I personally prefer bass, but then I play...

Answer 3

well depends on what you like. personally i play guitar, but bass is also good. its a bit more rhythmic and tou ten to play one note at a time instead of chords like you would on guitar

ALASDAIRS ANSWER,

well....bass, is the best and better than the rest. Basses are for people with big penis's

Answer 4

Guitar - If you can play guitar, you can play bass. Learning bass (4strings) Then trying to learn 6 strings is a pain for most people, and if you looks, most guitar players can play bass, not all bass players can play guitar.

Answer 5

Bass is definitely easier to be passable, being good is different. As with any instrument, the bass takes years, even decades to master.Bass only has four strings (verses 6 on the guitar, though 5 and 6 string basses are common and 7, 8, 9 and 12+ stringed basses are not unheard of) and only plays one note at a time (verses up to 6 at a time on the guitar). Also, in many rock songs, bass parts are often much simpler than guitar parts. By contrast in Motown, funk, ska and reggae (for example) the bass part is often more intricate than the guitar part and normally much more central to the structure of the song.

They also have different roles in music. In western music the lowest note controls the harmony (your ear hears the position of notes in relation to the lowest one). This tends to be bass guitar in rock, pop etc. etc. The bass tends to be the cornerstone, linking the drums to the rest of the band.

Think of the drums as the heartbeat, the guitars, keys and voice as the skin and the bass as the skeleton.

To physically learn how to produce a noise with a bass guitar is easier than it is on a guitar (I am primarily a bass player, though I play guitar also). However to be good at it takes a different mind set and requires you to do play in a different way from a guitarist.

Also ... good bass players are much harder to find.

Upright bass, however, is extremely difficult from a physical point of view.

Okay obviously the user above has stereotyped the bass guitar. (Agreed ... I've made some edits [the stuff in bold].)

Bass guitar and guitar are technically equal considering that guitar is hard in rock and metal, BUT bass is hard in ska and jazz. both are pretty easy instruments but when used at full potential can be very difficult.

Answer 6

I think bass because it teaches you rhythm and timing so it will make electric guitar easier for you!

Answer 7

I think you should learn all of them.... but my personal favorite is the guitar :) the guitar will let learn the piano much faster, theyre the same notes. but the bass is really really fun.

Answer 8

Guitar would be easier for beginners but bass is much more fun

Answer 9

bass probably