So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play.
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.
Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.
The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.