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Re:Ask HN: What's your hobby? by jackgolding on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:36PM (#17762802)
Bass is great to pick up as someone who doesn't know any instruments because it only takes about 5 lessons to feel incredibly comfortable with a lot of basic music. After the first few lessons I've found the problem is now how do I contort my fingers to play certain parts of songs.
Re:Ask HN: What's your hobby? by wilsonnb3 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:41PM (#17776230)
I agree. The reason that I started playing it was because my three friends and I all played guitar and wanted to start a band. I was the worst guitar player so played bass.

The only downside to the bass for me is that it's not as fun as other instruments to play by myself. I love playing it in a band but when I'm by myself I'll usually pick up the guitar instead.