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Playing Acoustic Stand up Bass What are the Similarities to Bass Guitar?

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We love to go to concerts with the symphony. The stand up bass players are always so amazing, it's just such an elegant and intriguing instrument It always blows my mind the beautiful sound that comes from it. The last time we saw someone playing it at a show it got me wondering how similar it would be to learn to play stand up bass versus taking conventional bass guitar lessons? I currently play the guitar so had an idea that learning the stand up bass would be quite a bit different then playing electric bass. Since the acoustic stand up bass has no frets there is alot of memorization and feel that must go into learning and playing to remember where your fingers must go to hit the correct note. The skill to do that is far greater then using frets on the electric bass neck to tell you where you're at. Some people do play an electric bass without frets of course most of them start using a fretted bass guitar. Also considering the stand up bass has a different neck then a bass guitar makes it far more different as well in terms of touch and feel. Much of it comes down to what instrument you learn first. if you learned a bass with frets or a guitar even then switching to an instrument without frets would be difficult later on. Likely you'd have an easier time learning on something without frets from the get go. I presume that it's much more difficult to learn stand up bass as well just based on the number of bass guitar dvd lessons how ever there is not such thing for acoustic stand up bass.You can learn electric bass quite easily with some time and discipline on your part using a course like Teach Me Bass Guitar. You just need to put in the effort and the time. Versus stand up bass you'd really need to start at a music conservatory and one-on-one lessons from a professional.