That guy needs to watch more John Myung:

Unfortunately for John Myung, bass fast sounds bad. :(

At that point I would just learn to play the guitar...

The first video is about as clean as a bass can be played.

Good bassists are few and far between. A lot less common than great guitarists.

The guy in the front looks like my freshman year roommate. It's not, but it's scarily close....

Pictures:

Yeah, it's clean, but it still sounds bad. It's just not a good sound, unfortunately. I'm not saying the guy isn't good, he definitely ******* is...but it just isn't an appealing sound.

Well, regardless, it's proof you can do a bass solo that's more than just the same string over and over and over and over.

Having a 6 string bass also helps.

It is easier to be competent at bass than at guitar. But it is easier overall to be an exceptional guitar player than it is to be an exceptional bass player.

well if the "freshman college student" was "high school freshman/sophomore" those 2 memes would describe me perfectly.

on that note, get me a beer

That's merely because the better musicians will end up playing the better instrument, leaving the bass to those who can't rock the guitar. It's not a matter of the bass being more difficult to master.

I don't agree. Yes, more people play the guitar on the whole so logically it will have a higher overall number of good players. But the different physical techniques required to play bass as a Victor Wooten-type level are more difficult to master IMO. Wider frets, thicker strings, inherent muddy tone of a lower-pitched instrument, different finger, slap, and tap techniques, etc. It just takes a lot more skill for an average music listener to be moved to the point of saying "Damn that guy is really wailing on that bass". Whereas every weekend cover band has a guy that can wank through their pentatonic scales.

Maybe what I'm saying is that it is easier to be PERCEIVED as an elite guitar player than it is to be seen as an elite bass player. I've played both instruments for over 10 years and in my experience it's just easier to stand out as a guitar player, even though I am probably better at bass.

Fretless bass ftw.

Well, the bass isn't really meant to stand out in the first place. But I get your point about the technicality.

True. In most cases it is part of the rhythm section. Which is nice because when I screw up almost nobody notices.

no?

Jerry Sandusky... in more 12 year old's mouths than Michael Jackson.



http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011...sky-ice-cream/

Why does he look like a manikin?

Another one of your fap sites?

on my reddit ipad app i saw a pic of a dead bird with a balloon around its neck that said get well soon. can someone find that for me? + rep!