Do I have to have a bass guitar to start learning bass guitar or I can use acoustic guitar to learn bass?

Question

do i have to buy bass guitar first before learning bass guitar lessons or i can use acoustic to learn bass guitar.

Answer 1

I must give my opinion here since my name is funkybass4ever: get abass to learn bass, learning on a guitar just won;t do it. You need to feel those big strings, you need to get those callouses on the fingers and hear those tones and learn the fretboard and how to reach for notes and you need to get a bass, even a real cheap one-even if you don't have an amp- if you know someone with an upright bass or cello ask to play it, get it in your blood and it will set you free!

Answer 2

You could play a bass line in the song with a baritone guitar like Hound Dog Taylor and other artists did, but what you're talking about is really not practical. Get a bass if you want to be a bass player. You can't emulate a bass tone on an acoustic, and until you get used to having your fingers on the heavy gauge strings of a bass, you'll be a poor bass player. You just can't call yourself a bass player and not be familiar with a bass guitar. Regardless of that, an regular 6-string acoustic is not suited to play the low pitches of a bass guitar; the low E on a guitar is one octave higher than the low E on a bass, and if you tune the guitar down to that range, your strings will never stay in tune and the song will be ***.

Answer 3

You could play a bass line in the song with a baritone guitar like Hound Dog Taylor and other artists did, but what you're talking about is really not practical.

Get a bass if you want to be a bass player. You can't emulate a bass tone on an acoustic, and until you get used to having your fingers on the heavy gauge strings of a bass, you'll be a poor bass player.

You just can't call yourself a bass player and not be familiar with a bass guitar.

Regardless of that, an regular 6-string acoustic is not suited to play the low pitches of a bass guitar; the low E on a guitar is one octave higher than the low E on a bass, and if you tune the guitar down to that range, your strings will never stay in tune and the song will be ass.

Answer 4

Bass guitar and regular are two entirely different instruments. To start playing bass, you need to buy a bass guitar. You can learn some basics of bass on a regular guitar, but it would be alot better to start with a real bass. A bass guitar requires a different style of shaping your fingers and the strength, then just a regular guitar.

However, there is acoustic bass and electric bass.

:) If you already know how to play a regular 6 string, that will help you understand bass guitar better.

Answer 5

You could start learning bass guitar with a bass... but, in my experience, it would be advisable to learn some 6-string regular guitar first. Why? well, it has its pros and cons. I know that bass is a completely different instrument, with its own technique and gizmos, but in order to understand the music principles, harmony, scales, etc. the regular 6-string guitar is the best. You may take it just as a step in your bass learning, but the fact is that it will make you a better musician. Not that you can't impecably learn the theory and practice of bass, but without the intimous knowledge of rythm, harmony, melodic ideas and all that stuff that guitar (or any other polyphonic instrument such as piano) would give you, well, you may have jus a limited and myopic understanding of music and its mechanics.

Answer 6

I learned mostly on acoustic, but you need to understand that they have completely different actions to them (meaning they require different pressures, techniques, etc). I'd get an actual bass. It'll help strengthen the fingers, and it'll help with muscle memory too. Making your fingers go exactly where they should, etc.

Answer 7

Well....the top 4 strings are the same!!!??!!!

(I learned guitar first, and the bass was ....How can I say it???......BASIC!!!!!!

Good Luck, Don't Quit!!!

Answer 8

they have acoustic bass guitars also.