If anyone thinks that the bass cannot do more then lay beats, then you are unfamiliar with Avant Garde Bass playing.
string, string, brass, string, string. how random...n one of the biggest ****ing brass instruments possible at that...
I play guitar(Les Paul) and have been playing.... lets see...... 3,4 month's already learned much of it so far as the basic's and the harmonic's. But if want to know what song's I can play is smoke on the water, 7 nation army, and learning: the night, animal i have become, welcome home, free bird, sweet child o mine and back,n,black. learning the hard rock one's first
Drums! I play drums in my friends' band 7th Soul (We're on MySpace! CHEG IT OUT) Songs I can Play Panic Attack by Dream Theater Everlong by Foo Fighters My hero by Foo Fighters Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson/Alien Ant Farm ...And Justice For All by Metallica This Calling by All That Remains Don't Stop Believing by Journey And ALOT more...
I might be playing Ghostbusters in band this year, I'm psyched. And the reason there's no viola, cello, etc... is because there aren't enough options, or I would have gone as far as Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, etc... So don't worry bout it.
i play guitar. have for 3 years. got a sick nasty shecter. she is pictured below. I listen to metal. Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu. many others. dont feel like listing my itunes library right now.
Bass guitar, vocals, and I can do programming and mixing, etc. I also played drums a few times as well as guitar.
There are soooo many kids these days that consider themselves "guitarists" when they just... aren't. I think that the guitar is that one instrument that anyone can learn the basics of and still be called one. I don't consider 9 out of 10 guitarists, well, guitarists, because they either A. Can only read tabs B. Never took a lesson, so either flat out suck, or can only play their favorite songs, or C. Own a guitar, so they call themselves a guitarist. I think this is because 9/10 teenagers, if they could play an instrument, would pick the guitar. So when they're parents aren't involved with the instrument at all, they pick it, and choose not to take lessons. On contrast, parents who are involved with their kid's instruments, pick a variety of instruments, and then make them take lessons. So you end up with a lot of guitarists that are self taught, and suck, compared to a lot of trumpeters and violin players that are VERY talented.
'Tis very true Zander. I've seen that so many times already, tons of people in my school call themselves "guitarists". It's so popular that if you can play smoke on the water you think your good enough to be one, when actually, music theory, style, ability and feeling come into play, and just being able to play freely without playing to a song sets people who just play songs by bands, like my brothers, to people who take and innovate ideas into new music on the spot, like myself and my father. I, along with my brothers, were all taught by my father, my other triplet brother getting more attention than I, and I had to cope and learn on my own. And I did a damn well good job with that. I surpass my brother in mostly everything, except for covers to avenged sevenfold. I do consider myslef a fine guitarist, playing for 7 years and all, but I have to say your absolutely right.
...which is why I myself have takin the time to relearn all the scales and chords that I so foolishly rushed through 2 years ago just because I wanted to be able to play a few songs just to say I could, now because I have my rickenbacker, which cost me hella lot I money, I decided now would be as good a time as ever to truly understand what the -blip- I was doing.
About six kids in my grade play guitar. When I ask them if they know how to go up and down any scale at all, in any form, they ask what a scale is. They then ask what a chord is. Then they say they can play Smoke on the Water.
Then they so dearly need help, and if you don'tindy asking, how old are these kids? Are they like 12 or are they like 16? 12 is understandable by. I they are around 16, then they seriously need a lesson of some sort.
Lol, I saw this guy in guitar class who was playing insanely well he looked pro. I was pretty jealous. Then when the teacher asked him to play jingle bells I ended up doing better then him. He could not even read half of the staff.
Halfway. They're 14. And I've been saying they need help for the past six years, so I doubt that's going to change. And Radiant, some people play by ear, so I wouldn't say his inability to play off sheet music means he's terrible. Well, I wouldn't but you said jingle bells. I'm sorry, I don't know how to play guitar and I can still do that by ear! Hahahaha...!