{"id":3608,"date":"2013-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2013-03-26T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:47:25","slug":"what-does-a-5-piece-band-sound-like-without-a-guitar-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/what-does-a-5-piece-band-sound-like-without-a-guitar-player.html","title":{"rendered":"What does a 5-piece band sound like WITHOUT a guitar player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some bass players hate guitar players &#8211; with a passion. My first response to that is that you probably hate <em>bad<\/em> guitar players, as in ones that always play too loud or are way too flamboyant when playing, or have a poor sense of rhythm, etc. The unfortunate reality is that there are a ton of guitar players who just never learned rhythm correctly and fudge it along as best they can; <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> probably what you hate the most.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what happens when you take <em>out<\/em> the guitar player completely? What kind of band would you have then? What would it sound like?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good example of that:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxhxY6aoqPY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No guitar player in the above. None at all. And it sounds pretty damned good. The bass can obviously be heard very clearly with nothing overpowering it whatsoever, and in addition the bass itself is not overpowering anything else. It takes more than just a good sound guy to make this happen as the band itself has to &#8220;gel&#8221; appropriately to make this kind of sound work.<\/p>\n<p>The lead instruments are actually the horns, while lower on the register the Rhodes-style keyboard fills in that space, and the bass + drums fill in the low end.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the best part about having a band such as the above is that you <em>do not<\/em> need a super-loud rig just to be heard over a screeching guitar. You can go smaller (such as with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebs-neogorm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EBS Neo Gorm<\/a>,) and you will be heard just fine. Leave the bulk behind, go smaller, be heard and play happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some bass players hate guitar players &#8211; with a passion. My first response to that is that you probably hate bad guitar players, as in ones that always play too loud or are way too flamboyant when playing, or have a poor sense of rhythm, etc. The unfortunate reality is that there are a ton &#8230; <a title=\"What does a 5-piece band sound like WITHOUT a guitar player?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/what-does-a-5-piece-band-sound-like-without-a-guitar-player.html\" aria-label=\"More on What does a 5-piece band sound like WITHOUT a guitar player?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}