Buying A Bass Soon

Is It Hard To Learn? Is It Something You Should Start When Your A Kid Or Is Any Age Good?

I've heard it's pretty difficult. I suggest you start out with a clarinet or tenor sax and work your way there.

This could have a few meanings.

1. You are currently considering buying a popular, tasty gamefish.
2. You would like to buy a classic woodwind instrument...but hit the spacebar by accident...and added an extra "S"
3. You are a frustrated guitar player and have relegated yourself to a rhythm instrument.

in all seriousness....

You can learn an instrument at any age...as long as you're interested in it. I would suggest you buy a used bass...or a student model. This way...if you end up not really taking to it....you're not out too much money and won't lose a lot if you try to resell it.

I wouldn't spend too much money on lessons. If you're really just looking to have fun, you can learn all you need to know by buying a lesson book....and just playing, playing, playing. You don't really need lessons.

for all the funny guys i meant like the bass guitar... im really into hardcore music now adays and i would love to play the bass in a band just wondering if its hard im sure mastering rifts might be a little hard

for future reference, the Everything SG board is for topics that pertain to the site. the Lifestyle or Music boards would have probably been more appropriate. but it's not a big deal.

anyway, join us in the Bass Players group. there have been some threads on the same topic that may help you in your purchase.

good luck.

p.s. buy the best quality instrument you can afford. don't go for something cheap just because you want to try it out first.

Any instrument is as hard to learn as time you are willing to put into it! Get a bass (like SuicidePuppies said, not a cheapo one but something decent that you can afford) , take a few lessons, learn to read TAB, and take off from there!

The bassoon has made a new home in band camp for private reasons. We are sad to see it go and wish it nothing but the best. Please feel free to check out its sheet music and enjoy your time with our hundreds of wonderful active but slightly dorky woodwind instruments.

This one time . . . at Band camp . . .

Is this really about a bassoon or a are you actually buying a BASS soon. I was prepared to make a bassoon joke, but flippin' Admiral_Pants went and beat me to it.

As Cash said, it really doesn't matter. You can learn an instrument (or how to raise, or prepare and eat fish) at any age if the drive is there.

I find a bass guitar comes pretty easily to one with previous experience on guitar or keys, but according to a former woodwind/brass accompanyist with experience in breath-generated sound, a bassoon may not be the best choice if you have nop prior musical experience.

However, he also says if you love the bassoon and want to play it, and I quote:

"Fucking have at it! And give it Hell!"

Now, a stand-up bass is a whole other animal. the instrument is quite odd for me, and I've played a fretless electric bass before.

And a standup bass fish would be quite odd as well

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The trick is to not sleep. Ever.

You're never too old to start.

I have found that my pursuit of proficiency has improved ten fold since I "matured" (got old.) I've learned more in the last 5 years thatn I have in the last 20 years of playing guitar.

just go do it. i played a $200 ibanez POS for like 8 years before i bought a high-end bass. worry less about gear than about practicing, after all it's you that's making the music not your bass.

also, give the ole [upright/string/stand-up/double/contra] bass a try...it's wicked fun (but expensive) and will make your porkchop playing so much better

For some reason even though I know this is the music forum my first thought was;

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also, also ignore all the folks telling you you don't need a teacher. it's piss-poor advice, no matter what style you intend to play. having real, immediate feedback on what you're doing right and wrong will make it easier to get better quicker, which in turn will get you playing more interesting and fun stuff, which makes the whole endeavor more fun. you don't necessarily need to go to lessons every week for 15 years, a handful of lessons with a good teacher at the very beginning will set up your technique properly and allow you to practice the right way instead of practicing mistakes over and over.

wander over to talkbass.com ... there are a lot of gear wonks there, but the advice you get there is mostly right on the money

+1

For guitar, I had 'lessons' in 3rd grade; Mel Bay books and stuff, but I was disilusioned. Then, in junior high school I started watching friends and others play and tried top learn from that. It was better than the Mel Bay sort of classes, but I to this day wish I'd had a good teacher back then - you can find teachers that are especially knowledgeable in whatever genre(s) you desire. You'd do well to heed DownNeck's advice.

I might just have to wander over there myself - I've been playing more and more bass lately. And I still suck.