Do bass players qualify as musicians?

when they only play one note at a time?
 
 
;)

daryl1968


when they only play one note at a time?
 
 
;)

Sometimes I screw up and hit more than one at a time. It sounds awful but I fantasize that I'm being momentarily creative.

I assume this is a humourous thread Craig...


I mean, you still have to play them


a In the right order
b With the right groove and timing
c Knowing your scales better then many guitar players
d With the right dynamics
e With an appropriate tone


So, yay, I would say they are musicians...


I would say 'Ask The Ox' but sadly he's not around any more...

disrezolution


This is really a messed up question and insult to bass players.  Here is a video to answer your question. Watch this bass player play chords and everything else in his bass solo. 
http://www.youtube.com/wa...e=youtube_gdata_player

He's one heck of a bass player !

SEVerstraten


I'm a bass player, and some times I strum some powerchords ( I- V - VIII ( so 3 notes at a time))

So only then I am qualified as a 'musician' ??? 

Reminds me of this newsbit, on the disregard of bass players:

Brilliant :)

by the way - watch this bass player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjVGJ3YFDc8

Moshkiae

daryl1968


when they only play one note at a time?
 
 
;)

You might as well say that no bass player has enough musical knowledge to know how to play 2 notes together ... not to mention do something totally different that adds/makes the totality of the music/song be totally different.
 
Maybe the issue is you have never played with someone that knows music better than you do ... and that has less to do with the bass, than it does with anything else!
 
But then, if you have only heard rock'n'roll ... that's all you know about bass use, no?

Seriously, I was only joking - see posts above
I thought the little ;) may have been a clue

just watch atleast the first 45 seconds,this guy tries,big time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGcL7myWLQ

i was surfing around and caught this and couldnt stop laughing,i know its rude to laugh at the novices but its totalt allowed when its posted on you tube.

goes to show people will post anything.
and that is wrong.

That Vail Johnson solo is also one of my fave bass solos. I have got a video of the complete piece. It is pretty long in total. There was some incredible bass playing before the final bass solo. He and Kenny did some exchanges, he copied the sax lines perfectly on the bass. Some of them were quite ridiculous.

Love that drummer too. Kenny even played great! Am I going to get into trouble for saying that?

Jeff, you may get a disapproving glare, but don't worry about it. 

You get used to them.

Well, to pick a nit (what does a picked nit sound like anyway, as compared to a strummed nit?):

As an upright bass player, there are times when one has to play double stops and even the occasional triple stop... so every now and again more than one note gets played at a time.

And jazz is another entire world...

But...

According to many no, 'cause if the classical bassist was any good, he would be playing cello, and the orchestration books that comment, "The sound of the bass soon palls the ear," must surely be correct.

The viola has it even worse... standard (bad) upper strings joke: if the violinist is good, he/she plays 1st violin, if no real ability, 2nd violin, and if totally insane, viola.

If nothing else, the upright player can brag that he gets to finger notes on the longest strings in the orchestral string sections (to which others will reply, "All the easier to play out of tune.").

Then there is the old pop joke: Why do the drums always have to play?  Answer: no drums, bass solo.
 
Or perhaps even worse... a certain forum member playing Am, Am, Am, Am...
 
<smile>

You bassisismist, you!!!! <smile>

Were you watching?

djwayne


Does Paul McCartney qualify as a musician ??

I dunno but I bet he's tasty roasted.

You haven't made it until you've had a standing multiple O though...