Posts Tagged ‘Bass Guitar’
When I started playing bass guitar in the mid 1960′s and it was time to purchase my first bass guitar there wasn’t much of a choice. You either went into Manhattan to Manny’s Music Store and bought a big name bass or electric guitar that would have cost more than what I wanted to spend at the time, or go to my local music store and purchase the only cheap bass guitar they had in the store.
There wasn’t much of a selection back then for cheap bass guitars or cheap electric guitars. In today’s market the selection for high price and cheap electric guitars is better than ever, and the quality is exceptional also. There has never been a better time to purchase a cheap electric guitar that also comes in your favorite electric guitar packages.
Learning how to play electric guitars or bass guitars can be a very rewarding experience. I know for myself I have played primarily bass guitars and owned quite a few bass guitar packages over the years.
I have learned my craft quite well, it has been over forty years since I took lessons and mastered the art of playing bass. I don’t play anywhere anymore, I just play for my own enjoyment. That being said it has always, and still amazes me how nobody rally notices all the hard work you put into learning, or how good you really are. Minor mistakes aren’t noticed because all people focus on is the overall sound of the band and if that is good they don’t notice the rest.
I don’t know about the rest of you but sick and tired of hearing these advertisements about items being 50% off. I have heard advertising giving you 50% off along with a buy one get one free to go along with it. If these merchants can afford to drop their pricing so much, then how much is the mark-up on the item to begin with?
Electric guitar packages and bass guitar packages are priced where you will never see them on sale, that’s because they are so ridiculously low priced that they can’t be reduced anymore. When you know that the electric guitar or bass guitar you are shopping for is always at a low price there’s no reason to hurry your purchase. Now isn’t that a better way to shop.
In all walks of life whether their is an attention to details that we all do, but is not necessarily noticed by anyone else. How about a simple task like washing your car, if you go the extra mile and even clean your tires do you think all the details are picked up by anyone.
This can pertain to you on your job, or playing an electric guitar or bass guitar. Has this ever happened to you; you go through the tedious task of looking through many different styles and types of electric guitar packages or bass guitar packages only to pick out the right one for you. You very carefully set up your guitar packages to deliver just the right sound. Upon playing a song you mistakenly play a few wrong notes but continue to play as if you didn’t, at the end of the song the people around you applaud you for playing that song and never pick up on the fact you played wrong notes. The point that I’m trying to bring out is unless the people who are listening to you are guitar players too it’s a good chance they won’t even notice.
Are you undecided on what to get somebody for the holidays this year? How would you like to give multiple gifts to someone with the purchase of one?Guitar packages are short for electric guitar packages, bass guitar packages, and acoustic guitar packages. Each guitar package contains the guitar of your choice, be it a bass or electric guitar or possibly an acoustic guitar. Along with the guitar of your choice is a guitar amplifier or bass amplifier according to which type of guitar you pick, and yes there is a difference. Those two items alone are enough, but there’s more. The guitar pack includes a guitar stand, case, tuner, and guitar polish and cloths.
The lead singers and guys who play the electric guitars in bands seem to get all the attention, while the people playing the bass guitars seem to be invisible.I started playing bass guitar back in the mid 1960′s. I have purchase many styles of bass guitar packages through the years because I tend to single out the bass guitar before any other instrument in most bands. I have found that there are a lot of people out there that don’t even know what the difference is between electric guitars and bass guitars.
There were some bands in the early days of rock that let the bass come to front, it was like having a secret weapon. I owe my love to bass guitars to bands like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Blood Sweat and Tears and a studio band named the Funk Brothers.
I have played bass guitar since the mid 1060′s. I had purchased my first of what was to be many bass guitar packages when I was sixteen years old. I learned how to play by taking lessons at my local music store. From my teacher I learned the basics like playing scales till your fingers bled, and I even learned some songs,
If you want to learn how to play electric guitars or bass guitars it helps if you have an idol. Even when it comes to purchasing the bass guitar packages and electric guitar packages you want to play you can use the influence from someone that you admire.Whether it was coincidence or influence from The Beatles, the early days of rock found the hollow body or semi-acoustic electric guitars used widely. At some point after the use of the stratocaster style electric guitar kind of took over as being the most popular.
For me I am partial to the j-bass and p-bass style, and of course the bass guitar that Paul McCartney made famous the vintage violin bass guitar. I found that having these different style bass guitars, and playing them both personally and on stage, that your sound is broadened by the contrasting sounds.
I chose these bass guitars because of my idols Paul McCartney as stated before, Jim Fielder of Blood Sweet and Tears, and James Jamerson of the Funk Brothers who were the body and soul of the Motown sound of the 1960′s.
The first thirty years of rock were the best in my opinion, and I think in most of yours. The early years there was a lot of use of semi-hollow electric guitars, like the Memphis Jazz made by Glen Burton Guitars.
Many of the bands had a distinctive sound, a sound that was identifiable just to them. The Beatles were at the top of the list, mot only were they first when it came to their electric guitars and bass guitar sound they were one of the first with outstanding vocal harmonies not heard since the late fifties with The Everly Brothers. Another distinctive band was Pink Floyd. Their electric guitar sound was and still is like no other, it’s like they were dropped off from another planet.
Do you own and play electric guitars? Do you perhaps play bass guitars? Do you play and own either electric guitar packages or bass guitar packages? Have you ever thought about playing both?
Playing electric guitar or bass guitar by itself is a great thing but the ability to play both is even better. I can tell you from experience it gives you and the band that you are playing with flexibility. I am not the best bass guitar player in the world, but by no means am I the worst. As far as playing electric guitar I am OK, I know enough to get by. There was a time in the 1960′s when I was part of a jazz band with the lead instrument being a tenor saxophone. We had someone on keyboards while I played bass along with having the lead singer role. We had some songs where I would switch of bass guitar and play electric guitar while the guy playing sax would play my bass guitar. If we didn’t have the flexibility we wouldn’t have been able to play those extra songs.