Bass?
i kinda figured the most people who dont really know music only know of the treble cleff. very few know of the bass. so i though that if you are one of the Down to earth people who live in the basement, whether played or sung, just leave a post. you could say what you like best to play, a funny anecdote, or just to say hi. but let us show everyone the support and structure of the band and/or choir and how big we really are.
let's include the people who love bases on this post too and you can state the reason why…I know i love me a sexy bass…mainly cause you know…hmm voice alone and im in love baby
i play the upright bass, and ive noticed for some reason, people dont always notice it, but when you take it out of a song, it feels like the heart and soul of the song is missing. Take Simonon out of Clash, McCartney out of the Beatles, or Ron Carter out of basically every jazz CD (as he IS the most recorded musician of all-time) and its just not the same.
if you are going to mention how people dont really know of the bass clef, try the tenor or alto clef, that's when things get all funky
I play bass and love it. The bass clef is much more comfortable for me to read than treble.
You know what would be hot? A bass clef tattoo in the small of a girl's back.
Or the Soprano clef… that's even less common… gotta love the movable G-clef.
I sing bass.
And we piano players have to play in both treble and bass clefs…
I play trombone–I think there are a lot of people out there who read bass.
I play electric and upright bass, and sing bass 1. Any bassist can probably back me up on this… UNDERMIXING! Big problem. Especially with guitars… I think bass clef and treble clef should be even… people need to get over high notes. They are cool, sure, but for some reason the masses find a pentatonic scale in the high range to be "amazing", but a cool harmonic minor bass line is just "a neat bass line".
i've played the double bass for many years… and im missing it … im thinking that it's about time to join the campus orchestra! i agree though… the bass instruments are always undermixed.
I play the trombone, and being forced to learn several other clefs, I can honestly say that bass clef is my absolute favorite. I play the tenor trombone but I looove playing pedal tones. It just feels good!
I wholeheartedly support the cause of bass clef awareness. Theory teachers should teach it more often; it really makes treble clef people freak out when they have to use bass!
The bottom end is the heart and soul of music. Just look at my picture!
yeah i totally read all the clefs *pats self on back*
Yeah, I play tuba and electric and upright bass, and I would have to agree that bass clef is the best clef. My friend Mike would agree. He is a trombone player, and he has a kick ass tatoo on his right shoulder that at first glance is just a tribal design, but is really a bunch of bass clefs!
You think that the bass clef is underappreciated? Try playing the viola.
"What is that thing?!"
"It's an alto clef."
"A tenor clef?"
"NO! It's an alto clef."
No one uses the alto clef. Except for us.
i sing a Bass 1… so i am not as "down to earth" but i try. my favorite part about the bass cleff is making places rumble, or cutting through the soprano's with a rhythmic sound.
Electric Bass all the way But I also appreciate the treble clef and play alto saxophone, electric guitar, tenor sax, and clarinet
Yeah…I have a music editing program and I was like "WTF I've never even seen these before!" lol.
We should use the tenor and alto cleff more
And I'm not actually sure I should post here, considering that I'm a first tenor…hehe.
GO TENORS!
Tsk tsk tsk!
I play bass trombone in jazz and I've got to say – it's great!
I read treble, bass, tenor and alto clef. But as a cellist, bass is my clef that I most encounter. electric bass rocks though. play that too
you know youre a bass cleffer if you can read through your Aural Skills/Sightreading material written in Treble Clef and actually think ending on "fa" sounds a ton better.
Since I've been playing piano since first grade, and played clarinet for 3 years, I've known the bass cleff for about the amount of time that I've known the treble cleff. Plus, I sing very low, so occasionally at church I'm called to sing with the guys often, which means bass cleff time!
Honestly, once I got used to it, I prefer reading the bass cleff over the treble cleff. But that's probably just me.
I'm a bass in my school choir, but my Voice teacher has me sing all this baritone stuff. Therefore, I see both cleffs all the time, and I'm a singer. It just winds up confusing me, because I'll think no way man, that note's too high, but it'll be bass cleff and I'll have it no problem. It messes with my head man. I prefer the Bass Cleff, entirely.
I've been playing the TUBA ever since fifth grade (had to sit on phone books to reach the mouthpiece!). Therefore, I've been reading bass clef even before most of my TC baritone friends knew what a clef was. Since then I've moved on to bigger, better, and badder tones such as the double bass, and the electric bass. What can I say? Guitar is ok (also played by me), but bass just dominates all!
I'm a clarinet/oboe/saxophone performance major and will be studying flute and bassoon in the next few years, but I decided/had to join choir. Reading bass clef was unbelievably frustrating at first, but as I took Class Piano and sang more and more, it became easier. As of recently, I am pulling a Theatre minor and possibly voice in the future…yay for possibly having work upon graduation from grad school?
Well, I find it funny, I've been singing since I could (yay children's chior, and boo children's chior, I hate hearing myself from back then, granted I had an ear and sang in key, but still… ew) anyway, I was still able to sing higher than all the girls up until my freshman year (yeah four octive range with falsetto… haha…squeeks) but that all changed during highschool I was down to a tenor 1 by the end of that year, tenor 2 my sophmore year, bass 1 my whole junior year, and then a (well, still not quite the entire range, down to an E flat) by my senior year. Out of all the parts to sing, tenor was fun, but bass is the best!
I also play Bass guitar (sadly never really bothered learning to read off of the staff, self taught = not the best teacher, though no lessons worked pretty well for voice, shucks) back to the point. I agree on the undermixing, especially in rock. I'm playing and have my bass turned up to the point where I can finally hear it and get told by the guitarist (who is in charge of the band) to turn it down. I don't know how many times I've played for praise and worship, turned the volume knob to zero just to see if I could tell much of a difference and nothing.
Bass is amazing, and I better stop rambling on and get some sleep.
Bass clef rocks!
just to let you know kiddo if your singing baritone its still going to be written in the bass clef the only time you might see a treble clef is if your singing tenor dude sorry to burst your bubble
Bass clef is awesome.
being a Music Ed/ Bassoon performance/ composition triple major I thoroughly enjoy watching people freak out when they get to tenor clef and the movable clefs.
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