What instrument do you prefer? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

darqDean wrote:

^ what?! you've never seen a bass before

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well...not that kind of bass, but thanks for the info.

"I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..."

^^^never seen that instrument before Confused

I play the guitar put I prefer playing the drums. The whole idea of hitting somethings makes me feel a lot happier Big%20smile

"I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..."

Keyboards

However, all are quite necessary for a decent sounding band (if you count flute as just "woodwind"): they sound best working together as one IMO.

"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."

Arnold Schoenberg

Lonely Progger wrote:

Keyboards! "L'Instrument Maitre " as we say in French.

Honestly when you just think about the musical possibilities, The only instruments that can produce harmony and melody are The Guitar and Keyboards.

And on a Keyboard you've 2 hands on guitare you're limited with one, a guitar has only 4 to 5 scales a keyboard has on average 7.

And a guitar doesn't have all the subtleties of the keyboard crescendo poco poco, tempo primo, Con anima ,Forte and all the other italian words.

The guitar is far more expressive than keyboards ... which of course doesn't mean that musicians can't put emotion into a keyboard solo, far from it. The guitar simply offers more ways to uniquely modify the sound ... consider bending strings, the different ways to create vibrato, palm muting, harmonics, dive bombs/string effects, sliding, tapping (we guitarists *do* have two hands), sustainer, fretless guitars (Vigier), E-Bow ... and even the most basic thing on the guitar (plucking a string) can be done in a million ways (fingers, pick, pick angle, direction, alternate picking, legato, sweeping etc.), whereas on a keyboard it's always more or less the same mechanism picked up by digital sensors.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 18 2008 at 08:48

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Bass and Hammond organ - though I can't play any instrument at all, unfortunately

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Scapler wrote:

So, this picture has convinced me, bass.

Hopefully someone has designed a 'killer' guitar to compete with that

Scapler wrote:

HughesJB4 wrote:

Scapler wrote:

I don't know, I play Bass and Keyboards, which do I choose??????

Guitar

Bass kills guitar.
Especially this bass

Holy crap, it looks like one of those Steinberger bass guitars (but I suspect it actually isn't). Let me guess, one of the 3 control knobs controls (gun) volume, one controls the active gunpowder boost and the 3rd one controls the tone i.e how much the shrill high end of the gun shot will obliterate your hearing?

Scapler wrote:

I don't know, I play Bass and Keyboards, which do I choose??????

Guitar

cacho wrote:

I would go for the bass or sax or keyboards. I'll go for bass. The bass is an instrument that few people apreciate. All most all prog heads apreciate of course. But I think the guitar is like pop now. The drums are cool but nah.

Guitar is like pop?

I tend to even think the even the guitar is widely unappreciated among the general public. It's scary the amount of people that honestly believe that the guitar cannot be used more expressively than in a pop-punk band setting

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rileydog22 wrote:

Shakespeare wrote:

Jaco? I don't think Jaco was an instrument.

Jaco is not the only thing in this picture. Tongue

Edited by Shakespeare - February 17 2008 at 18:04

Poll Question: What instrument do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Keyboards	17	[33.33%]
Guitar	18	[35.29%]
Bass	8	[15.69%]
Drums	4	[7.84%]
Sax	2	[3.92%]
Flute	2	[3.92%]
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