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Are basses allowed? (media.piefed.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Pratai@piefed.ca to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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• Ibanez Portamento SRF700 • ESP B-205 (with modified Bartolinin pre-amp)

• Agular Tone Hammer 500 • Agular SL 4x10 cab (one of two)

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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think maybe I’m a dying breed. A true bassist. Never really played guitar at all aside from noodling around on the guitars of band members. I might know three chords if I even remember them.

And the fretless is my main. It’s amazing! I only ever use the ESP for tapping and percussive playing.

[–] Nimrod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A gold star bassist, nice!

I played quite a bit of bass in my early days. I wasn’t good, but at least I could get in the groove and play. For the last 15+ years I’ve played acoustic guitar almost exclusively.

I’ve learned that playing bass is nothing like riding a bike—whenever I do pick it back up it, I feel like a total beginner. It’s shown me just how different bass is from six string. The instruments are extremely similar but played so differently.