Gutars bass or electric

[hargi]

A question for the musically talented people in here.
I used to play electric guitar badly when i was younger. And now i have a bass.
again that im not that good at.

Which do you think is the best to learn to get good quick?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Obviously bass because you only have to play one note at a time usually.
Of course people are now going to link to absolutely amazing bass players on You Tube that make Steve Vai sound like a beginner.

 

[m3csl2004]

Obviously bass because you only have to play one note at a time usually.
Of course people are now going to link to absolutely amazing bass players on You Tube that make Steve Vai sound like a beginner.

Bad muting on bass souds aweful though - you have to make sure your playing 1 note...

 

[Fisk]

I wouldn't say you can get good quickly on either. It's an instrument, put in the time or don't bother at all.

Saying that, learning a few chords on guitar is probably easier than learning to properly fret and finger-pick a bass.

 

[Andelusion]

Bass, purely for the one note at a time point - although a bass guitarists role in a band usually has a very different role musically compared to other strings instruments, you have to concentrate much more on what the drummer's doing than the keyboards/other guitars/vocals whereas this is often the case with electric. Fisk nailed it saying that both are instruments and neither is easier in the grand scheme of things.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I wouldn't say you can get good quickly on either. It's an instrument, put in the time or don't bother at all.

Saying that, learning a few chords on guitar is probably easier than learning to properly fret and finger-pick a bass.

Got to absolutely totally 1000% disagree.

If I had a beginner in front of me I'd have them very quickly playing the root notes of a riff on bass than trying to get them to play the chorded riff on a guitar.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Computer says 'no'.