Can I Learn How to Play the Bass Without Knowing How to Play the Regular Guitar?
Posted in learn guitar on 31. May, 2010
Keep the learn guitar questions coming! I liked this one:
Question: I want to start learning how to play the bass guitar but I noticed alot of bass players already knew how to play the regular guitar first… would it be better if I learnt how to play the guitar first and then the bass? Does it make a difference at all?
Answer: Well acually no. It does help to learn a new instrument if you already know the notes and the scales and where things are so you can figure things out very easily. But if you have a bass just learn that and stick with it so that can be your bass, first instrument lol, and you can learn new instruments from that
hope this helps,
sincerely,Quinn
Yeah, you can do it.
It would probably make a small difference in knowledge if you’d already learned to play an acoustic before a bass, but it shouldn’t matter in the process of learning.
I think the Bass is a type of guitar… just saying
The bass is easier to learn/play
Knowing how to play the guitar first does help.
Then you know the chords, and and notes first.
You dont NEED it, but it will be a big help,
and you are right, almost every GOOD bass player I know, also plays guitar