If you know how to play guitar can you play bass guitar?

Answer 1

Yes. Just start by learning to tune the instrument and then learn to use your index and middle fingers by alternating them. Using the thumb to play is very easy but you will develope better skills using the index and middle fingers to play with.

But this is only an introduction to the many things that you can do with the instrument. Many of the techniques are very simple. Just start by using your first to fingers to maintain a steady rhythm. You will find as you are learning how to play the instrument that many people will try to guide you through complicated melodies. The easiest way to learn these melodies is to maintain a basic rhythm, and expand by learning good thumb techniques such as slap.

Answer 2

Pretty much. You do need a feel for the bass, and a style. The band needs a sturdy bass to go along with the songs, something to go along with the drummmers bass drum. If you can dig that, ya, the guitar strings are set up the same, you're halfway there.

Answer 3

Absolutely. Bass is actually much more simplified because you don't necessarily have to fret any chords to play....usually one note at a time. If you become proficient at the bass, solo work on the guitar seems to come much easier. To play generic bass lines, take the root note from the guitar chord and use that as the note you play.

Answer 4

Actually, for me, it was the other way around. Electric Guitar have much finer strings while bass has thick fat ones. If you know how to play good enough on the bass, then when you switch to electric, you'll know how to play the low E to G string good enough. Your fingers might not be too adjusted to playing the some strings due to diff sizes. but either way you should try. I play both so i have personal exp.

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Bass and guitar are two separate techniques. Most bass players with no other instrumental experience have to come to terms with the concept of chords -- playing more than one note at a time. For example, a bassist can play on the root notes of a song, but on guitar, he would suddenly have to come to grips with major and minor chords. I've met bass players who don't know that U2's "One" needs an A minor, not an A major.

One thing bass players do develop is finger strength. Most bass players have a much stronger left hand than Guitarists. They'd have to come to grips with narrower spacing and finesse, but they'd likely have more endurance.

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It depends on the person. all different people learn at their own pace. if you are able to leans guitar exceptionally fast, then bass should probably be somewhat easy.

Answer 5

It is like learning a new instrument, because there is no fretboard for the string bass, and there are no markings for where to place your fingers. It is all done by ear and will take alot of time to get used to for this transition. It would be a little easier though, compared to someone with no experience at all with string instruments.

Answer 6

no you have to know the notes and alsom learning it genius

Answer 7

If you can play one kind of guitar, you can adapt to another kind fairly easily. They all work with the same technique, fingering and picking and strumming.