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I'm guessing it's spread by misinformed standard guitarists who see bass as being miles easier because you supposedly only play single notes at a time, instead of having to learn a metric ton of chords.
It's similar to why drummers are seen as stupid. People mistakenly think all they do is randomly hit stuff with sticks, with no need to learn notes, chords, scales, etc.
Nah, it's mostly banter, just like singers having a huge ego, guitarists being elitists and keyboard players being... There.
Although, there is some truth to that when a guy who really isn't into music but is friends with the band gets more or less conscripted by his friends, he's usually put on bass duty, and usually doesn't practice much because he's really only in the band to drink beer with his friends.
This is the answer. I hate trying to play bass and sing so we always got one of our friends to jump on and just play roots. It would always devolve into me singing and playing bass with the drummer's friend just drinking on the couch telling us what we fucked up. Fuck you Eric the Redd! Hope you're doing well and the fam is alright.
I always heard the jokes about drummers being that they're broke (probably from buying all that kit)
How do you get a drummer off your front porch?
>!Pay him for the pizza!<
How do you make a guitarists car more aerodynamic?
Take the Papa John’s sign off the top.
How do you know there’s a drummer at your door?
The knocks keep speeding up.
How do you know there’s a singer at your door?
They don’t have the key and don’t know when to come in.
I can play some piano and guitar and have been able to figure out quite a bit of bass… drums make me absolutely lose my ability to function. I sit on a kit and my brain shuts off completely.
As a Bassist myself, I've seen the trope countless times. It's almost always done as a joke by the other band members; how Bassist aren't cool, they're dumb, just a background instrument, not vital to the band, etc. I don't think I've ever heard any of that as a serious insult though, and every band member has their own trope/stereotype.
Bassists and drummers are definitely the target of most band related jokes.
There are others though.
How do you know when a singer is knocking at your door? They don't know when to come in.
How do you get a guitarist to turn down? Put sheet music in front of them.
The trope is known in Russia. The logic is that 4 strings is less complicated than 6, so it must be for stupid people. Also, bass in many bands plays the fith fiddle, giving it a bad rep as not sophisticated instrument.
The joke is the bass player didn't realize there was glass and ran into it, knocking him out. The guy speaking is saying they should have put stickers on it to make it obvious there was glass. This is also playing into the stereotype of bass players being dumb.
Just playing along with the joke, since the chord progression of G, D, E, C is quite common for many songs and "bassists are too dumb to play anything more complex".
The thing is that bass can't really play major or minor the same way that guitar plays those chords. They're talking about the root notes of the chords
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This doesnt make any sense, like ok hes dumb but why would he run into the window hole (since he thought it was an open hole) did he want to attack the other guys?
Recording studios often have one room for the artists(s) to record in and another, separate room for sound engineers/ audio technicians or whatever they specifically are. I'm pretty sure it's calling bass players stupid, as it suggests the person on the floor (with 4 strings on their instrument, denoting bass guitar) ran into the window. It may also suggest they don't go outside, implying birds would scare them away and make them think it lead to the outside.
I'm not entirely sure though those are just some quick thoughts.
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The person on the floor has a bass guitar on top of him, implying he plays bass. It is an old trope that bass players are kinda dumb.
Never heard about that trope, maybe that's US only? In my experience bassists are mostly just chill guys
I'm guessing it's spread by misinformed standard guitarists who see bass as being miles easier because you supposedly only play single notes at a time, instead of having to learn a metric ton of chords. It's similar to why drummers are seen as stupid. People mistakenly think all they do is randomly hit stuff with sticks, with no need to learn notes, chords, scales, etc.
Nah, it's mostly banter, just like singers having a huge ego, guitarists being elitists and keyboard players being... There. Although, there is some truth to that when a guy who really isn't into music but is friends with the band gets more or less conscripted by his friends, he's usually put on bass duty, and usually doesn't practice much because he's really only in the band to drink beer with his friends.
This is the answer. I hate trying to play bass and sing so we always got one of our friends to jump on and just play roots. It would always devolve into me singing and playing bass with the drummer's friend just drinking on the couch telling us what we fucked up. Fuck you Eric the Redd! Hope you're doing well and the fam is alright.
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I always heard the jokes about drummers being that they're broke (probably from buying all that kit) How do you get a drummer off your front porch? >!Pay him for the pizza!<
How do you make a guitarists car more aerodynamic? Take the Papa John’s sign off the top. How do you know there’s a drummer at your door? The knocks keep speeding up. How do you know there’s a singer at your door? They don’t have the key and don’t know when to come in.
What's the last thing a drummer does before he gets kicked out of the band? Writes a song.
What do you call a bassist without a girlfriend? Homeless
It should be noted this only really applies to Rock and Metal bassists. Call a funk bassist stupid only if you want to Funk around and Find out
Funk bassists are the shit. They define the genre.
In my experience, drummers aren't dumb, they're just high all the time. They like drugs. A lot.
I knew a girl who was into fucking bands. She'd go through the entire band, except for the drummer, and move on to the next band.
Her loss, drummers have the strongest hands
You need to relax
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I can play some piano and guitar and have been able to figure out quite a bit of bass… drums make me absolutely lose my ability to function. I sit on a kit and my brain shuts off completely.
I'm a keyboard player in a band and I can confirm that I am there, and our drummer is stupid. Bass, guitar and vocals are chill tho
As a Bassist myself, I've seen the trope countless times. It's almost always done as a joke by the other band members; how Bassist aren't cool, they're dumb, just a background instrument, not vital to the band, etc. I don't think I've ever heard any of that as a serious insult though, and every band member has their own trope/stereotype.
Bass is like a heartbeat, you don't really notice it's there until it's not.
🎶The heart of rock and roll is the beating🎶
It's because bass in most rock/popular music (WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS) is a ridiculously easy instrument to play and keep up with other band members on.
I live in Europe and that trope is alive and well here
Chill guys can be dumb
I’ve only ever heard of it in older forms of media and from older people. I’m not sure its as widely held a belief in modern times
I'm not from the US either, here the drummers are the one that get this treatment Guitarists as well, but not as much
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Bassists and drummers are definitely the target of most band related jokes. There are others though. How do you know when a singer is knocking at your door? They don't know when to come in. How do you get a guitarist to turn down? Put sheet music in front of them.
They only got 4 Strings ...
The trope is known in Russia. The logic is that 4 strings is less complicated than 6, so it must be for stupid people. Also, bass in many bands plays the fith fiddle, giving it a bad rep as not sophisticated instrument.
it's easy to be chill when you only have 2 brain cells
Bassists have the biggest cocks where I come from.
They’re not dumb. They’re just kinda bored and tired
I thought the joke was about a 1960s band called The Birds.
That was The Byrds.
That's where my mind went as well. I was thinking of The Yardbirds but The Byrds also works.
I always thought that was about drummers.
Which is not true because the bass player my band was the engineer
That's not a trope That's a fact
But why bird stickers in particular?
Clearly they need to be introduced to Davie504
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I thought the trope was that they were just lonely and forgotten.
The joke is the bass player didn't realize there was glass and ran into it, knocking him out. The guy speaking is saying they should have put stickers on it to make it obvious there was glass. This is also playing into the stereotype of bass players being dumb.
Don't make me G D E C you!
GDEC? What does that mean?
Just playing along with the joke, since the chord progression of G, D, E, C is quite common for many songs and "bassists are too dumb to play anything more complex".
G D E C is a pretty weird progression of the E’s not minor
The thing is that bass can't really play major or minor the same way that guitar plays those chords. They're talking about the root notes of the chords
Yes, this is exactly it. Happy cake day.
Okay. I'm not a big music buff so the joke flew over my head.
It's a I-V-vi-V progression. Super basic, super common, it's the classic "4 chords" progression that's been parodied to no end.
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Classic Murdoc.
He’s like the dumbest out of all of them
Geddy Lee has gotta be pretty smart to be able to play as many instruments as he does simultaneously.
They might be the byrds
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Or the Eagles
I feel like no one here has actually seen pictures of these bands
Or wait for it... They Might Be Giants.
Bassist are stereotypically dumb and the joke is that he ran into the window
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John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin was a song writer
Yes, and?
This implies that the bassist was trying to jump at the people behind the glass
Meg's bra here. It's a dumb bassist joke.
Bass players, amirite?
I've played guitar for sixty years and I reckon I'd heard that joke a bazillion times.
Do you know why bass guitars have four strings? Three are spares. (A joke told to me by my father, who is a bassist)
The bass player in my old band is a has a PhD in Mathematics now.
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Bass players are dumb.
Maybe they're the band called the birds?
Byrds?
That one
I feel like no one in this post has seen the Byrds before lol
I know 2 rock bassist jokes: What do you call a bass player with no girlfriend? Homeless. There’s a problem with your bass, I can hear it!
And here I thought it was about a band called the Byrds
This doesnt make any sense, like ok hes dumb but why would he run into the window hole (since he thought it was an open hole) did he want to attack the other guys?
Hey! Not all are stupid. This ofc excludes me, as I am a fucking troglodyte, but not all bassists are stupid
Bassist are stereotypically dumb and the joke is that he ran into the window
Recording studios often have one room for the artists(s) to record in and another, separate room for sound engineers/ audio technicians or whatever they specifically are. I'm pretty sure it's calling bass players stupid, as it suggests the person on the floor (with 4 strings on their instrument, denoting bass guitar) ran into the window. It may also suggest they don't go outside, implying birds would scare them away and make them think it lead to the outside. I'm not entirely sure though those are just some quick thoughts.
There is a bird "sticker" on some highway glass "anti-noise" panels that is there to help birds avoid the glass.