Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
I think the reason why wife likes bass better are infinite.
When on bass, there's a groove.
When on guitar anything goes, what she calls noodling, and she's a drummer, so if there's no downbeat it "sucks".
Then the electric guitar.
Have you ever seen a simple instrument as perplexing at getting the tone you "want" out of?
I have come to realize that "playing electric" means trying 20 different pedals to find something that fits the mood that day.
= very little playing and a lot of "pedal rolling", just really not a lot of playing.
Back on the bass. Quiet, mellow, flatwounds so that strings don't hiss (she don't like that) then me trying to figure out some old grooves form the past or whatever.
I actually wrote maybe my best compostion ever over the weekend, on the bass, then in my head, then on the bass again.
Maybe I'm just too freakin ADD to write music on the guitar. I usually have no control.
Bass is more grounded, more coherent, timing more natural.
When on bass, there's a groove.
When on guitar anything goes, what she calls noodling, and she's a drummer, so if there's no downbeat it "sucks".
Then the electric guitar.
Have you ever seen a simple instrument as perplexing at getting the tone you "want" out of?
I have come to realize that "playing electric" means trying 20 different pedals to find something that fits the mood that day.
= very little playing and a lot of "pedal rolling", just really not a lot of playing.
Back on the bass. Quiet, mellow, flatwounds so that strings don't hiss (she don't like that) then me trying to figure out some old grooves form the past or whatever.
I actually wrote maybe my best compostion ever over the weekend, on the bass, then in my head, then on the bass again.
Maybe I'm just too freakin ADD to write music on the guitar. I usually have no control.
Bass is more grounded, more coherent, timing more natural.