The 12 Days of PedalsAndEffects, Day 5: Behringer Ultra Vibrato And Reverb Machine!
On the fifth day of PedalsAndEffects, you have a chance to win …..Behringer Ultra Vibrato Pedal UV300 and Reverb Machine RV600!
Background:
A big part of my fretless bass sound is a great sounding vibrato pedal, because it gives the bass a human voice sound that is very musical. One of the pedals that has a regular spot on my touring pedalboard is the Behringer Ultra Vibrato UV300. This vibrato pedal can keep up with any other vibrato pedals out there but is one third of the price.
I’ve already featured the Behringer Ultra Vibrato UV300 here on PedalsAndEffects…check it out:
Putting vibrato on harmonics, like I do on Big Sir’s “Regions,” helps fill out the sound of bass. Chords also get that same type of lush content that really helps give a band a big sound. If you check out any of my pedalboards, you’ll almost always see a vibrato pedal on there.
Behringer offers a lot of pedals, and all of the ones I’ve tried (like the Reverb Machine RV600 and Vintage Time Machine VM1) are awesome and parallel ones that cost a lot more. The Reverb Machine RV600 has deep reverb and I like to use it on super spacey or dubbed out bass parts. If you want to get your pedalboard beefed up but have a limited budget, consider Behringer as your go-to pedal company.
To see more of Behringer’s great products, visit www.behringer.com
How to win:
Just follow the instructions and you’ll be entered!
A winner will be chosen at random from all entries; we’ll then email the winner tomorrow (December 19) and give him/her until 11:59pm on December 22nd to claim the prize. If we don’t hear back, another winner will be chosen at random. Once a winner has been chosen, we will announce the name on our Facebook page. Good luck!
To help work out frustrations.
What REALLY inspired me to play bass was in fact a friend of mine when I was ten. We needed a bass player for a project that we were doing, and I had already played drums before, so I took up bass. Seven years later and I still haven’t regretted that decision.
You’re awesome Juan!
Drugs and boredom
Having an instrument nearby
Hearing Metallica for the first time as a 12-year-old.
Jimmy Page live is what started me playing
Jimi Hendrix inspired me to play music
At the lage of 11: my parents. The love for music soon followed and stayed.
I believe it was music itself that inspired me to play music.
Music is my avenue for creativity—a means of communicating emotion without words.
my inspiration were many of the great bands that i was able to see as a kid on tv, guess i wouldn’t be so inspired nowadays…
To express the ideas Ive had kicking around my head that have never ceased in over 15 years!
Cool!
It was probably Iron Maiden. Yeah.
Friends had started playing music and my father played guitar. It was bound to happen.
Cool dealJuan!
What inspired me to start playing was to feel what it was i saw my friends doing. To lose myself in the music and let it come out of me
my dad was a drummer so I was always around music but hearing Are You Experienced sealed the deal
I heard Cemetery Gates for the first time, and it was like an explosion. I picked up the Bass a few days later, and never looked back. I went from Bass to Guitar and many other instruments along the way, as well as learning how to record and engineer music.
Nirvana did
Mindlessly jamming on a friend’s acoustic guitar.
Tons of great bands, composers inspired me to play music. The emotional impact, to be clear.
Being able to express and provoke.
Once I saw a guy playing guitar on a street, surrounded by lots of nice girls…
That was the day when I bought my first bass guitar.
I always loved music, but the first thing that absolutely made me pick up an instrument was visiting with some family friends when I was 10 or 11. Their teenage son played me the bass interlude from Metallica’s Orion and I just had to be able to create those sounds on my own.
Jack Bruce and John Paul Jones
my brother was the one who got me into playing. i always looked up to him, he taught me a lot.
As weird as it may sound: listening to Tom Jones while attempting to mimic the drums at the age of 3 years old.
Blood sugar sex magik.
My uncle inspired me, he plays drums.
Machines against snow!
I have always wanted to play music, it took me a while to find out that the bass was right for me. I bought me a bass and never looked back.
Behringer Ultra Vibrato And Reverb Machine!
I could really use these for my pedalboard!
My brother played guitar, and he needed a bass player, so I got drafted!
watching my friends play instruments made me want to play an instrument myself
Seeing a concert by the dire straits made me pick up guitar. Playing music is a way of expressing myself I can’t in any other way.
What first inspired me to play music was just an innate urge to beat on stuff, try every instrument at hand.
jaco pastorius definitely, when I heard the bass lick of Opus Pocus the first time, I decided to learn to play that lick.
I would honestly have to say that Nirvana inspired me to play music. I was at that perfect age where they seemed to come out of nowhere and took me from listening to whatever my parents were listening to having my own musical identity. They also were so easy to identify with that for the first time I had the thought that that was something I could actually do.
thanks for doing this
Led Zeppelin.
Kiss Alive I!!!!
I always enjoyed it and when I was 14 I had the chance to be in my highschool band playing sax. I started with sax, then switched to guitar aand aftewards to bass. It then became my life. I work with music and audio
I’d really like to try the vibrato.
I was a very uncool kid but a band needed a bass player and I worked my ass of to be cool. After a year of playing I didn’t give a crap about coolness but I kept giving a huge deal about the bass. Now I’m 26 years old and have been playing for 15 years.
I was inspired to start playing music by a performance of a high school cover band I attented when I was young
I wanted to find something to express myself with
I’m a huge fan of this website and all of the videos. Thanks Juan!
And Rush
I started music in middle school and slowly just fell in love with it.
Listening to inspiring musicians since I was a kid and trying to recreate those beautiful sounds (still trying!)
Deep Purple !
Tom Morello inspired me to play the guitar when I was 8 years old! Also, inspired me to play and buy stompboxes to expermient with effects!
It seemed the ultimate form of expression, years later I can certainly say it is!
I’ve liked music since I can remember. So it was natural for me to pick up an instrument. Started with singing as a kid though.
Video of Audioslave-Show me how to live
I was greatly inspired to enjoy music by my father. Every evening he would come home and just listen to music. I think I started playing as a result of that.
To feel good.
the only freedom you have…
My older cousin used to play drums like a maniac. that’s how i got hooked on drums, en ventured on towards other instruments at a later stage…
Mostly my father, he played the local clubs for over thirty years.
brap
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, specifically, the song Californication.
these will definitely help fill out my sound, and that ‘s a good thing,,,, send an amp if you got an extra???
My brother
I was initally inspired to play music as a highschool student. I didn’t have any real hobbies to speak of and my friend started playing the bass guitar. I then thought I would buy an electric and start to learn. Now that I have been playing for 8 years I am inspired continually to represent my own emotion and themes of humanity when I play but it is still a very communal experience in so many ways.
Jon
My babysitter was a piano teacher.
an ad that I saw in the street
Pixies did!
My 9 year-old son decided that he wanted to learn to play guitar, so I decided to learn with him. We don’t work very hard at it, but we have a blast making noise together!
everything
I was 16 and something in my bones told me I should pick up an instrument. For some reason guitar never interested me but the second I learned of the Bass I knew I had found my place.
Thanks for doing the giveaways Juan! Its greatly appreciated.
I started playing music because of public education. Without an arts program in school, I don’t know where I would have learned how to read and play music. Fund art education!
I started playing music because my father played, and I was inspired by him to make music.
I’ve always loved music. I’ve been inspired to play ever since playing the snare drum for the high school band. After going to my first shows I wanted to feel whatever it was that my favorite musicians on stage were feeling, that has been my inspiration.
haning out with musician friends and hearing/feeling the low end of the bass
Thanks for this Juan!
I began with keybouard because my gand parents had bought us one. switched to bass to enter to a friends band as they did not want a keyboard player. havent been able to stop playing my bass since then
Making people move on the groove. And please my ears and thus giving me a good feeling.
I hope i can accomplish both pretty well by now.
Music was always a fun-topic to me. By some circumstances, an acoustic guitar entered in my life. But the most important sparkle of inspiration, had to be “Re-arranged” by Limp Bizkit. Maaan! When I hear that intro part in the song, I KNEW that instrument was the one I wanna play all my life.
Was a social mandatory matter,at the city I grew up. You must know to speak a foreign language,play a music instrument ,know to dance,drive a car otherwise you were out!
Free Double Bass lessons at school!
Forced piano lessons when I was five.
Many things inspired me to play music. Listening to rock music my whole life. Going to shows ever since I was 16. Having friends in college that all started jamming together is what really brought it out for me. The passion has been growing ever since.
love of melody and sound
Well, I started by really enjoying The Beatles and Red Hot Chili Peppers then it snowballed into hundreds of bands that were more obsure/punky. By then I was so in love with the sounds I was hearing I decided I needed to, and that it would be extraordinarily fun to give back to the art world.
Family influence and love of music
I went to see Megadeth on the Peace Sells tour, that’s all it took.
started young as a bass player, fugazi made me do it.
The whole 60′s and 70′s stuff
i got inspired by Abraham Laboriel. all the joy that he can erradiate from his 5 strings and as i grew i started to branch out on musical tastes
I started in church and the when I started “discovering” all these players like A. Laboriel, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, etc… I decided I wanted to do this for the rest of my life!
Definitely Les Claypool.
The reason I started playing music has a lot to do with the fact that both of my parents are professional musicians (my father is a symphony musician and my mother is a church organist and music teacher). There was always music, instruments, and musicians at my house growing up. In fact, I remember being so surprised when I found out my friends’ parents didn’t play any instruments.
Robert Johnson
Listening To My Dad Play Guitar (Mostly Acoustic) Was An Obvious Start. However I Was Not Driven To Play An Instrument Until I Found Sublime. Eric Wilson Drove Me To Pickup And Fumble With The Bass Guitar. Shortly After Opeth Drove Me To Play More Guitar. And These Days Ween Keeps Me Interested In Music.
I was inspired to start playing music because of the joy, peace, and connection that music gives me. Music is a way to connect with other people and things in a way that is transcendent at times. Music is so much bigger than us. That is why I started playing. I couldn’t help it. I was drawn to it.
Feeling a guitar vibrate in my hands inspired me to start playing music.
I once started composing stuff on a software, this way, I needed to play something to play all the stuff I composed, but by that time it was purely innocent, I was just trying to play my own stuff, but today I love just playing music, jamming or playing someone’s else compositions, friends, big bangs, etc.
I was inspired by a live show that my junior high had. It was loud and awesome!. From then on I had to play guitar and then bass because there were too many guitar players around.
This would be a sweet New Years gift
I might be being a bit retarded but I can’t see the question… I guess it’s how you came to play music so… A guy came to my school about learning to play woodwind and I took home a flyer about but when my Dad saw it he, no offence to woodwind-ers, persuaded me that it was pretty lame and so I took drum lessons. About the same time, I entered a kids tv competition to win a guitar – I was half asleep when they called and it took me a minute to realise what was going on so I ran into my mum’s room to pick up the phone but she was chatting and looking at me like I was mental so I ran back to the tv room and they were calling someone else. I was understandably upset and so when we were out that day my mum asked me what the prize was and I got a cheap catalogue guitar. Anyway, when I then moved to Australia and we were renting, I didn’t feel I owned the sonic space to play drums so I got into playing guitar and now that’s probably my main instrument. I’ve got a bass now too and while every instrument is as good as another in the right hands, my hands (and head) are rightest with a guitar.
Pink Floyd live in Pompeii. I saw it as a kid, and I knew I wanted to play drums from that moment on.
I started taking guitar lessons as a kid, because honestly, I wasn’t any good at sports and was looking for an identity. But it was through those lessons that I was exposed to all sorts of genres of music I wouldn’t otherwise have found on my own, so the lessons inspired the love of music as opposed to the other way around.
Someone is going to be lucky
Music…Simple!
Everyone in my family played music so I was always fascinated with the idea but never thought I could learn. My grandfather had an old peavey bass that he showed me some basic runs on and from then I knew I had found something that was going to be a huge part of my life. Once I started making music with my friends and playing shows I knew I was in for good. I think the band that inspired me most was Pink Floyd, but around the time I picked up the bass I started finding out more aggressive music on my own.
It began as a hobbie after school… and suddenly I found myself doing it for love….
Andy McKee
I saw the joy it can bring to people, and I wanted to be a part of that. It’s hard to imagine being human without music. Oh, and Primus.
Metallica’s Cliff ‘Em All – I wore the video out in 1989. I always loved music, but watching Cliff made me really want to get into music.
I didn’t start playing music, the music started playing with me. That’s when shit got serious.
I started playing music because of bands like The Mars Volta, Tool and Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails. It came from a curiosity to create different sounds with the guitar and software sequencers.
Looking forward to having one of these,i’ve wanted one for a long time!
Just music, doesn’t have an explanation!
Dunno, just happenned slowly and naturally until i couldn’t help but do it all the time.
Honestly, it all started with getting chicks haha Then it just grew from there
To lead in worship.
AC/DC inspired me.
The need to express something
dunno!
I’ve always wanted to play music ever since I was a little kid, but we never had the money for buying an instrument. I originally wanted to play bass, but my brother also wanted to play bass, so I took up guitar. When I turned 12, a friend of mine had already been playing guitar for over a year at the time (He introduced me to The Mars Volta). He would let me play on his guitars and right then and there, I wanted to make this into a passion. However, I had to go through beaten up old guitars throughout my 8 years with necks that were warped and pickups that were short circuiting. This year, the same friend who got me into playing gave me his Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster as a gift for being persistent throughout the years.
When I was a teenager a few of my friends played guitar, and one played drums. I bought a half-broken SG bass copy and we formed a band. If I didn’t stand perfectly still, the jack on the bass would come loose and I’d get a nice little shock through my fingers. Great times.
MUSIC PLAYS ME
Duran Duran.
Being a retard in school.
The sound of the guitar, the heavy metal and rock, Brian May
yeah ! man
My parents didn’t play music on the radio when I was growing up so when I finally started listening, I couldn’t get enough even if it was my own awful guitar playing at age eleven. Now I’m 53, play several instruments, and still can hardly get enough.
To become Ace Frehley!
because the energy attracts me endlessly,it just is amazing,and it’s a place for me to be in,it is my sanctuary.my life would of never been this way without playing bass.i owe everything to it.
Music is my live,
At first I tried to play a friend guitar and it was easy and pleasuring, so i continued from them.
Indeed I’m studying Sound Engineering.
Wanted to learn to play the heavy metal songs I started listening to in high school.
Actually the same as Ryan, Ace Frehley did it for me as well
I never wanted to play any instrument until someone put a bass in my hands; after that I just couldn’t stop.
I need a awesome vibrato!
Smooth!
Steve Harris, Cliff Burton and John Entwistle inspired me to start playing bass!
I’d say it was probably the raw noise and emotion behind the bands of the early ’90′s, namely Nirvana. They sounded young and angry and so was I, so as soon as I got my guitar in my hands, I finally had a powerful outlet. I’ve grown up, as well my sound, but the power behind it hasn’t. Been needing both these effects in my arsenal! Thanks, Juan…and thanks to Behringer.
The sound of a crunchy guitar.
sup bro
Entwistle Jack Bruce, and Les Claypool
Being in some friends rehearsal for the first time, so then i said to my self: I got to do that!
what really inspired me was absolutely The Mars Volta’s works!!
I got inspired by grooving to my parents listening to Boston.
Hearing my dad’s Who records
When I was 19 I used to listen mostly all kind of rock music and most of my friends played guitar but I was more attracted by bass tones so I started learning bass with a really kind teacher to simply jam with them. Since then, my love for the instrument and the feelings while playing in a band grow up every day…
The possibility to express myself..
My dad has been a bass player for the past 30 years and started me on guitar when I was 8. Been addicted ever since.
La música es mi vida, y es la única razón por la que toco mi guitarra.
Ehm i guess the sounds of it..pulled me into it..
My Dad and Uncle Lupe used to play all the Big Band Hits that they grew listening and taught me some chords. It was when I first heard Creedence Clearwater Revival is when I decided hey I can to that and have been playing guitar ever since!
my dad inspired me to play music, listening to Paul McCartney songs endless times. I also listened to some John Lennon solo stuff (all this around 5-6 years old), and actually never listened to Beatles stuff much hah. Then came Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc at my teen years and i was old enough to ask for guitar classes by then.
Always wanted to be a player..
para tocar back in black
Because my best friend said me that i cant do it!!!!
A bunch of friends were starting a band back in high school and they needed a guitar player. I wanted in so my dad had an old Les Paul copy in the closet that didn’t see much use so I picked it up and learned Louis,Louis. From that day on, I was hooked.
My favorite bands at the time like At the Drive In & Fugazi, which have awesome guitars, inspired me to start playing music. That and I was a moody bastard in school and I needed an outlet.
One day that I was with my friends having some beers and one of them taught me Californication’s melody… after an hour fooling around with it I said “I’m digging this instrument”
Vamos Juannn!!!!
My older brother played guitar and i wanted to be like him until I heard The Real Me…went to school the next day and signed up for bass lessons. That was a long time ago.
To play all my favorite songs and express myself.
My parents, they were always playing music at home. A lot if salsa & top 40 but I loved the grooves & rhythms. Later a neighbor turned me on to rock music.
One day, some melody shocked me… and that was it. You never know how it comes to you, but you can never get out
I was inspired to play music by the Ventures. I always loved their sound.
my mother, Jimi Hendrix and Tony Iommi.
My dad playing punk in the car inspired me. Now music is my favorite thing
Simply, get out all my creativity
Meh
I can’t remember I just always wanted to.
My dad played guitar, so it was only natural.
My friend played, so he showed me some stuff, then I loved it and started playing more than he did
A Behringer reverb machine is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
School introduced me to creating music, in music class, where our goal was to form bands and play throughout the school year. That basically got me hooked and after that I just kept on playing, inspired by a large array of bands like Deftones, The Fall of Troy, Glassjaw etc.
It should be christmas more often
got into playing because of talented friends.
Because it’s the only thing I connected with
Music has always been the only thing that really truly meant something tome and got through to me. It is Powerful and inspiring, I noticed this even at a young age and soon started playing guitar. Years later, a very close bass player friend of mine passed away, and I decided in 2010 to make the swith to being mainly a bass player in his memory, and I am loving it!
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. They inspired me in my childhood, then when i grow up i start to hear all kind of music, all these influences takes me to start playing my bass.
Muse are the band that first made me want to play music, originally guitar. But then my uncles band needed a bassist so thats when i started to play bass.
What got me to first play music was my staying with my great grandfather and lipsyncing to old Mexican ballads for him. I’d learn a couple chords that my uncle taught me so could catch up and play along. That started it.
My dad and my cousin for sure. They used to play bass at the house I grew up in and I would just watch them. It was very inspiring to me.
Hearing John Deacon with Queen made me wanna play the Bass when I was around 14. At the same time The Prodigy’s first Album “Experience” got me into composing and being a professional musician.
Roger Waters
I can hardly remember I was so young, but I will say I really became dedicated because i knew two guys who were making awesome music and they didn’t have anyone to play bass, so I learned a new instrument just to play with them, and I haven’t stopped since.
My dad had shouted at me for not wanting to be a lawyer, my mum is a hippy, it was my first time with Mary Jane, my friend with a ginger afro was playin some blues licks he’d just learned on a £50 guitar, the Audioslave were on in the background and a guitar shop had just opened up in town, what else was gonna happen!?!?!
ups…here again: Hearing John Deacon with Queen made me wanna play the Bass when I was around 14. At the same time The Prodigy’s first Album “Experience” got me into composing and being a professional musician.
I was inspired to play music when I heard “Smells like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana for the first time.
I rly dunno. Wanted and started playing guitar in my childhood and never ever thought about quitting.
My parents always had music playing in the house as I grew up. There was a series of records that intro’d kids to how music was orchestrated. I learned how individual instrumentation fit into a whole piece. It taught me how individual instruments have a voice. I listened to music differently after that. Miles Davis’ “The Man With The Horn” was a big eye opener as a kid.
Thanks Juan
This site is done wonders to open my mind to the possibilities of bass guitar. I’ve been looking for something like this for awhile now. Thanks for the great work.
Pots and pans and wooden spoons – were the first things to help me understand how important music is to me!
the sound of the bass was the thing that inspired me to play and more specifically STEVE HARRIS
I always had bassplayers as boyfriends :p
My brother got a guitar when I was about 10. I always looked up to him so naturally I wanted to start playing. When his friend came over to jam he brought his bass guitar and that was the first one I had ever seen. It looked way cooler than a guitar so I bought one and the rest is history.
the sound of the bass was the thing that inspired me to play and more specifically STEVE HARRIS
gracias por el pedal giveaway i would like toi hear about the Flanger hoax
The fact that it conveys emotions better than anything else in the world
My brother inspired me to start playing… music itself has inspired me to continue.
I wanted to learn to play the clarinet, I was 11 and I think I liked the idea of playing my own music!
I saw Flea slapping the crap out of a bass. It looked so cool. I had to get a bass.
drums gave me my musical interests, been playing for 10 years now
Electric guitars.
hear my grandpa´s guitar making music.
The ability to express myself.. and spend hours and hours alone in my room, practicing something worthwhile.
What inspired me was wanting to know more about myself. I had always had a deep connection to music and it served as a way to express myself that was the most meaningful to me.
I started out as a singer who wanted to play drums. I suppose I met those two in the middle when I discovered bass and never looked back.
first was to get along with my friends and explore a little bit more abaut the popular music but then I realised that I can explore and express myself with a guitar an the blues
I just love music.
Rush!!!!!
Women love players
Es como mejor me expreso
Boredom. Making music is the only thing that can keep me concentrated for several hours and offers me something thats constantly evolving as I am.
Great couple!
Found an old guitar at my grandmas place and it went from there!
A lot of my family are musicians and I grew up around lots of music, so that was a big inspiration.
What started me playing music was a seizure that happened about 6 years ago (wow long time). What happened was it worked like a stroke where it electrified my brain and in doing so screwed it up. I wasn’t handy capped but my prosessing went down about 60% after that. What it also did was jump start the part of the brain only musicians use. Within a month I needed to play something and I chose the electric bass. I have worked hard over the past few years and am now studying electric and upright bass in college.
I saw how good many guitarists were and I knew that I wanted to be as good as them, so I brought my first guitar.
Phil Lynott, love his playing style and vocals and that bass…oh that bass.
My grandfather would always play his old records or cassettes, and he would sing along to the songs; so I guess that inspired me to start playing music.
RATM
I’ve listening music since my early years, but what really inspired me to start playing music was the need to express myself and to put my feelings into music. Also, the main reason I started to play the bass guitar was the need to give this instrument the relevance it deserves.
What inspired me to play music was the amazing way it can be interpreted as a language. i always look to communicate better with everyone, and it’s a fascinating experience when you understand other people through an new language, in this case, music.
Just to do music myself…!!
The sixties inspired me!
My parents and my brother. And just being exposed to a ton of music growing up.
Shoop doo wwap.
Inspired me to start playing music? Jealousy! Haha. All my friends were playing guitar and I thought I could do it better…
i was always very shy and i mostly stayed at home. i needed something to focus my energy on, otherwise i would have exploded at home. then i listened to john frusciante more seriously and got all into it when i was about 17 or 18. then i started to play guitar and now im also playing bass and drums and im loving it, wishing i could hop on the next plane and play concerts all over the world instead of studying everyday
It´s all about winning yeah
I guess i was inspired to play in my childhood, at 5 or 6 years old, way before i started practicing any instrument, hearing some local artists from Brasil, such as Raul Seixas and Mutantes, and others outsider bands like Pink Floyd. But after i started playing, what inspired me the most was to exteriorize some feelings and/or use music as a self-knowlege instrument.
Juan tremendo Site, y mucho exito en tu carrera. Thanks for Supporting musicians around the globe !
I love music! So i decided to play and create my own!
best friend
Being exposed to wide and eclectic array of music as a child.
Playing music was a way to communicate with other people without being misunderstood. Its raw emotion, exciting and happening RIGHT NOW!
it was the thing to do in high school
I was inspired by the live video of Metallica’s for whom the bell tolls where cliff just shreds in the beginning instead of playing the bassline exactly on the record
Nirvana
watching Metallica – Live Shit: Binge and Purge
because of how music made/played by others made me feel. . . and curious of how others will react of what I would do
Just started listening tot metal land after that i wanted to make it myself
Listening to music and receiving an instrument at an impressionable age.
my parents inspired me to play
The Ability to create pictures without a paint brush, using the listeners imagination as the canvas and music notes and modes as the colours!!
In The Light by Led Zeppelin. I heard it in like 2004 in my dad’s shitty station wagon and I wanted to play that bass part that sounded so cool. Then…I found out it was a keyboard.
At the end of 2010 I was almost exclusively listening to folk music, and bass guitar isn’t generally used too much in that genre. I kept thinking of really awesome ideas that I couldn’t seem to get what I wanted out of a bass. I then inherited a Mandolin. Life changed.
I just wanted to have fun and be in a band with my friends.
to cover my favorite songs :d
Jack White inspired me to start playing guitar, his tecnique is so simple but the music is outstanding. Then I found more complex music like Mars Volta and started to really like playing.
I’m happy to see all the other people that said “Nirvana” because that pretty much did it for me too. Along with that and all the good music my step dad played for me, but when I was 9 Nirvana came out with Smells like teen spirit and that was it.
Music made me able to express things I thought I could never express….
Those are cool pedals!
I started playing bass a little later than most but my motivation was to get involved in writing creative music with other creative individuals. A lot of the music coming out in the late 90′s felt uninspired to me and I really wanted to take a hands on approach. I am also the complete opposite of most players, I only recently began learning a few cover songs and spent the last decade learning and helping write originals. I wasn’t getting involved to play other peoples music, but rather expressing my soul through music.
I started to make music just to be able to know my insides better.
What inspired me to make music? when i was a kid, listening to pink floyd’s “The wall”. Later, listening to Webern’s arrangement of Bach’s Ricercare for 6 voices opened up a new interest in music exploration, a path I still follow…
Just noticing the ability for creative exploration. made me dwell deeper and deeper into learning my craft.
my brother-in-law Mario Gonzalez is the one who introduced me to bass. He started showing me bands I had never heard of, which then grew my love for bass. He still inspires me to play. After he introduced me to play bass and I started to play more, God gave me a deep passion for the instrument and for music. I’m not as talented a I would like to be, I hope I never am, but I’m passionate about bass and I pray I can play till the day I die.
My parents made me, and I found out I loved it.
Hearing Fugazi’s Repeater and Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation when I was 13. Then seeing my first VFW show and realizing it wasnt that hard to be in a creative band. 20 years later, I still play warehouses, basements and VFW’s and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I like making noise!
My father, who is also a bass player, is what made me want to play music. Since I get to use all of his stuff, I get to use all of his gear. This definitely helps since I am a poor college kid!
After seeing The Mars Volta live in Cleveland back in 2009, I decided that playing music was the only thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Before that, I had never experienced live music nor had I ever picked up an instrument. It was truly a turning point in my life.
I started listening to what it was telling. It chose me.
I don’t remember, but I’m glad I did when I did.
i saw some local bands play some shows when I was about 13. I bought a bass from a guy that new at the same time a good friend of mine bought a guitar. We’ve been playing together in different projects for 14 years now. Hadouken-jax,FL, Glitterpiss.
I’d sure like to win these two! Thank you so much Juan for doing this giveaway.
My neighbor played guitar and started teaching me when I showed interest.
i wanted to play some songs of metallica and iron maiden on calssical guitars, and become famous. then i wanted to impress girls with electric guitar and be more famous. now i love playing bass, and i dont give a sh*t about famous i have nice band to play with;)
I always liked the bass sound (even before i knew what was a bass)! I don’t know if is because the sound it self or his position in the whole music but i can tell you that the bass have some kind of magic that get me in the first time i heard it!!!
Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits. The red one from 1980. Someone brought it to camp to show me “Dream On,” and I wouldn’t give it back to them for days, until I bought it myself. And then I begged my cousin to show me how to play “Walk This Way,” so she gave me one of her basses and one of her guitars that she wasn’t using anymore, and never showed me how to even tune. It was great!
first taste of a freedom in creating a colorful world in totally different dimension of music when I was given an opportunity to play the guitar for the first time
I got inspired after my brother received his first guitar, then i wanted to play too but decided on the bass and as I started playing the bass I just loved the sound of it. I’m only 20 years old but i’ve been playing for around 6 or 7 years now.
My father, when played me for the first time Led Zeppelin 2 when I was 6. After that, I knew I wanted to play the guitar. There was no looking back since then.
I started playing music in fourth grade because why not?. I ended up really enjoying it.
lets see a digitech multi-play review soon.
Elder sibling
Music itself inspired me. I’ve always had a deep love for music, it calms me and I love a wide range of sounds. For me playing music is a way to let out my creative influence into the world. It’s a catharsis and a creative outlet. Even if I never made a dollar from my art, I’d never stop playing, because its a part of the very core of who I am and what’s in my soul.
out of high interest to create things, kill boredom, and look cool in high school!
I need it
My brothers ispired me
oh!! perfect to me
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My friends were guitar players so that got me started.
interesting review…
I initially started playing music because I wanted to be a rock star, but it quickly became much more important than that, and is now my primary creative outlet and form of artistic expression.
the guitarist (Yagmur Sarigül) of the turkish rock music group “maNga”
Having the ability to express myself through the bass while also throwing down some funk.
What inspired me to start playing music was my depression. A lot of times as a teenager I had a lot of frustration and negative emotions and never felt like I really had anyone to talk to about it. Once I started listening to the Smashing Pumpkins and then Radiohead a lot of their more melancholy songs really reached out to me in a way and made me feel better and opened me up more. And ever since then (still to this day) I’ve wanted to be able to do that for other people, to be able to “reach out” and communicate to people like me who at the time might not have anyone or anything else. So I guess that’s really what inspired me to start playing music and writing songs about six years ago.
Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page inspired me and still do today at 53 years young.
¡ A song of Red Baron !
I started playing music because I wanted to become a respected musician and travel the world.
Steve Vai!!!
You know, I have no real idea what started me playing music…most likely it was because I was hooked on music from an early age, and found a path to expression through music (originally as an orchestral percussionist, but then I branched out.)
Badmotorfinger by Suondgarden!
Just shocking when I heard it for the first time!
My Dad. He plays guitar and has small hands. I have large hands. I told me if I didn’t play an instrument he’d break my fingers
. I picked bass because everybody and their dog had a guitar and I’m too much of a spaz to play drums.
We always had music around the house, and it was a reasonably diverse collection, all things considered. My dad had a ton of 45s…Elvis, The Beatles, all sorts of Motown, and I remember hearing the Doobie Brothers on 8-track (Old black water, keep on rol—KER-CHUNK—lin,’Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me). There was some disco in there, some Pink Floyd, some Styx…a little Jim Croce. But I don’t think it dawned on me that I could actually learn to play music until sometime in elementary school when we were introduced to the possibility of music lessons. Big thanks are long overdue to our school system and Mr. Zapf from the now-defunct Zapf’s Music in Philadephia for bridging that gap for me via the alto saxophone.
But, just to explore the question a little more fully, it wasn’t until years later that I was *inspired* to play. I’d played in school emsembles and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t a defining characteristic of my life. It wasn’t until high school when being in a band sounded like the cool thing to do that I started to explore guitar. And that led to seeing saxophonist/flutist Denis DiBlasio and his quartet. His bass player, an unassuming cat named Ron Velosky, now sadly departed, blew my mind, and that’s what inspired me to pick up the bass. I haven’t looked back, except to say ‘thanks.’
Seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show is what made me and many old farts like me want to play music.
I’ve always been drawn to music since I was a kid. It was the only thing that kept me sane in the worst parts of my life. Pretty sure it saved my life, why would I ever stop.
My friends brother was looking to start a band and we had similar musical interests and influences, I was going to suggest I bought a guitar and we looked for the rest of the band (I already played a little guitar) but he said to me ‘no need for another guitarist why not get a bass instead, cause bass players are harder to find about here’. That was 10 years ago and even though we aren’t in the same band anymore I haven’t looked back.
My dad, for better or worse. He had a past as a musician and we had tons of microphones, guitars and old records. When I found that I didn’t really have much fun with the other things you could do in the small town where I live(namely soccer) I decided to follow my fathers footsteps and pick up an instrument.
My dad was a guitarist, but I picked up the bass. I’m not sure why I did, but ever since I started playing bass my love for the low end has only grown deeper.
I had always been intrigued by music and loved it, but Carlos Santana and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s playing is what made me want to actually start playing music
I was the only one among in my group of friends who didn’t play any instrument, so they slowly got me into it. But the one who inspired me the most has been a guy in a local music shop, who asked all my friends, one by one, what instrument did they play. When he asked me and I replied “i don’t play” he smiled and said “heal yourself!”
So i tried guitar, drums and finally decided that I am a bass player
I thought learning to play guitar would lift me to “really cool guy” status. While it helped, I am still not that cool. I gave up on that a while ago, but I’ll be damned if I give up playing music.
Finding out what rock really is. The inner desire to express myself.
Play music make me feel better and more human
!!
My Dad made the choice for me, he named me after Mark King, the bass player from Level 42. I was listening mostly to funk and jazz music since I was little and I finally picked up the bass after reading the book about Jaco Pastorius by Bill Milkowski. Since then I’ve been influenced by Stuart Zender, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke and many others. My most recent discovery is your friend Janek Gwizdala (say hello for me, he’s awesome) and finally you, Juan. Those sounds and pedals of yours are incredible, thank you
Love, simple as pie
When I was at high school, aged around 12, I picked up a bass in the music department one lunchtime. It was a horrible piece of junk, the action was so high you wouldn’t believe, BUT…. I was instantly hooked. There was something so satisfying about the sound of the bass. I started playing along and working out some Beatles lines to play along with friends in their practical exams, then spent a year or so saving my paper round money to buy my first bass (another fairly horrible thing – BUT IT WAS MINE!)
como? solo entro y ya estoy participando? quiero el vibrato!!
I wanted to express myself.
hearing David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars is what got me into music
Gimme da pedals
great musicians !!
I wanted to join a band and they needed a bass player in high school. The first songs I learned were Down on the Corner by CCR and Peace Sells by Megadeth
To be in some place nowhere exist
Not surprisingly it was going to a Volta show. I never really saw many live shows and that was probably my third concert I’d ever been to. I’m the first generation in my family to play music so it just wasn’t really around. I was never wowed by music until that show back in 2004 with the Pixies.
My parents sent me to a school for musicians, and my bass teacher was really motivating ! that and Red Hot Chili Peppers, they blow my mind when I was a child!
Me toco una guitarra en una tómbola de la feria de Sevilla
wanting to be able to play what gave me chills down my spine
When I first heard a instrument played live by itself! Inspiration is simple
My dad inspired me. He loves music and there was always something playing in the house.
Wow! That vibrato pedal sounds amazing
I accidentally found myself at an Intronaut show and it was so inspiring that I began to take music seriously. The Faint also heavily impacted my decision to pursue music.
What inspired me to start playing music was just the way it felt when I played the open E string on the school bass guitar, full volume. The bass sound just made me feel sick, I loved it! So I decided that bass would be the instrument for me!
my father! he was always creating music, and he is a bassist primarily, so naturally i was drawn heavily to bass! i pciked it up as a way to add to hip hop beats i was making, to add extra instrumentation and gradually i started branching out and today i make all sorts of music with bass!
Music makes me feel good
The Doors (the band)
I started listening to Rx Bandits and it was all downhill from there.
Nirvana.
since i was young i listened to the beates and that inspired me to create music
My boyfriend would be so happy if i won these for him!!!
Punk Floyd live in Pompeii
They look so solid
Kurt Cobain!
I wanted to be able to express myself in other ways
John Frusciante made me aware of my potential in playing music, and has endlessly motivated me since. Also, Eric Avery, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Saul Williams, The Mars Volta…
Elvis!
People have always said to me that behringers are just for noobs. But then came the man known as Mr. Juan Alderete and showed me how the thing really are!
Juan you are the man for doing this. really hope i get this amazing pedal
What inspired me to play music and actually take it SERIOUSLY was when I first heard Nathan Hughes’ song “Glove”. It was so much different from what I was used to listening to as a kid and I thought to myself, ‘I wanna do THAT’.
My father has played guitar for around 40 years now, so it was only natural that I’d eventually play. I always had an interest but it wasn’t really until I started to smoke weed that I gained a “connection” and got serious about playing. Thank you drugs!
I started playing music because I was a music fanatic at an early age. I got into punk and some of my friends had instruments and bands, so I bought a bass guitar from a friend and learned it enough to play in a band with my friends.
oh and the chili peppers inspired me to play music i guess
A friend of mine played in a local band when I was about 12. At the time my best friend and I enjoyed hearing him play and decided to start a band. I picked bass because it was something different. Few people seem to just go ” I want to play bass.” But I did and love the instrument.
Music has always been encouraged in my family. Everyone from my grandparents, cousins, parents, and siblings, have all played music since I can remember. So, naturally, I wanted to play an instrument, rather than just watch everyone else play. As I got older, I began finding other inspirations, such as Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, etc. but my family has to be the initial inspiration for me in music.
I wasn’t inspired to play music so much, it was more just something that I couldn’t help, being in a musical family and environment helps though
Seeing Watt in 83.
Seeing Watt in 83
Queen.
my grandfather
It kept me out of trouble when i was a teenager!
Iron maiden
the beatles for sure!!
I was inspired when I was 14 and I really wanted to be in a metal band. I thought it would be really fun to get tattooed, pierced, and grow long hair while playing the heaviest/chaotic music while people would not know what to think but strangely be pulled into the sounds. It started with bands like Zao, Blindside, and Luti-Kriss.
My inspiration still grows all the while I find hidden gems from the past and new complex heady psychedelia…..like Tame Impala.
awesome guitarist jimi hendrix
My inspiration to start playing music was my desire to create and even emulate sounds. I am a HUGE effects user and as a bassist it really makes you a marketable to able to explore different sonic territories.
I’m usually pretty quiet and have trouble communicating through words. Music spoke to me ever since I was young. I’m just trying to return the favor.
What inspired me to start playing music was going to concerts as a young boy and realizing that’s what I wanted to do.
My dad, always hearing those great vinyls, cassettes, etc. Back when I was a kid, Pink Floyd were playing everynight when I tried to sleep. Led Zepp blasted the car’s stereo system, and Chick Korea/famous jazz players rocked the house’s sound system.
Musics been running in the family for a while. That started off the addiction, but what really lit the gas was me watching a Linkin Park concert on the tele and really making the music thing click for me. After that, musics been going non-stop.
It was a spark that I was born with, began singing/performing at a very young age.
Classic combo of ‘Whats the Story Morning Glory’ and My Dad
John Frusciante
My mom put me in a choir almost as soon as I could speak and around 13 yrs. a mentor of mine just let me play his bass and I was immediately hooked. I haven’t looked back since then.
I found an acoustic guitar laying around in the garage. It was like a lost relic that needed to be found. Once I strummed the 6 strings, I knew i was on to something bigger than myself here. I felt more connected to the idea that music wasn’t just something other people did, its something anyone can do. And I needed to be a part of that.
Listening to classic rock in the car with my dad growing up.
I so much want a reverb pedal. Really like to get into surf music.
The first time I heard Don Caballero’s “Fire Back about your new baby’s sex”. Someone told me it was a three piece and that Ian William’s was looping riffs over each other to make these almost lucid dreamlike wakes of chopped rhythms. I didn’t know what it meant and I didn’t care. I just said “I want to do THAT”.
Juan, I met you at Amoeba Hollywood when Big Sir played. That was by far one of the dopest moments of my life to talk music and gear with you. And I love that you rep highland park. A heartfelt thanks brother!
chang, chang, chaaaaaaaaang, chang, chang, chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang heavy & slow riffs
My sisters
My mother’s vinyl collection. Sabbath, Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes, etc.
I already loved music so much that it was the next logical step.
The first time I ever heard a RUSH album convinced me to change from guitar to bass!
Music for the sake of music inspired me to make music. And it’s through bands like TMV, NIN, and John Frusciante that made me realize that sake.
I started playing cause i heard a band playing, and the sound of the bass was so unique that it haunted me enough to buy a cheap ass bass. after that it all fell together.
my parents and my school encouraged me. it wasn’t until Nirvana and Pearl Jam that I really wanted to do it for myself.
I can’t name how many records changed my life, and I started playing music because I wanted to help change other people’s lives with my records
I borrowed a buddy’s bass to fool around with and just fell in love with the instrument.
My brothers and my friends. Now I hope i can pass a little inspiration to my sons.
Wanted to be Jimmy page. That and folks record collection- soul music.
Listening to The Beatles for the first time since I grew up with mariachi and banda. Since then, I’ve been searching and looking for more and more music and have been expanding ever since.
My dad, who played sax, guitar, and bass, was a major influence.. also fiddling around w/ friends instruments encouraged me to buy my own. As for bands/ idled musicians: Led Zeppelin’s J.P. Jones, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, Rush’s Geddy Lee, Metallica’s Cliff Burton, Primus’ Les Claypool, list can go on..
Seeing someone play the drums made me want to play music. I played once and now I am addicted.
Cliff Burton and Sting. They just looked ans sounded amazing!
Because I am too tall to play guitar.
all the great tunes on the radio
i love music
I was an only child and had a rather strange upbringing, so music was my escape from it all and my best friend. I can’t say there was any one particular musician, but growing up in the San Francisco area in the 60′s gave me a lot of inspiration everywhere I went at the time.
it was you JUANITO that inspired my hot fire passion for all things music
My first concert was Coal Chamber. I saw how awesome it was and realized that they had a female bass player. I said “if she can do it, I can do it!” Lol…..I was young
My friend at high school who played guitar.
The mars volta made me start to play music.
I like some of the behringer stuff, because you get a really good sounding unit at half the price, specially those discontinued pedals!!!
I decided playing guitar because I felt better when I listened music.
Rock and roll and wanting to play it on an instrument.
I was inspired to play the bass guitar back in Jr. high school- a buddy of mine picked up the guitar and I picked up the bass so we could play together- and after discovering the music of Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, AC-DC, Hendrix, Sabbath, The Who, Cream, etc., I found that those 4 strings just suited my personality better. I liked being just outside of the spotlight and prowling the back of the stage near the drummer. I got to wield the thunder and jump off my bigger bass amp! It was a great introduction to playing music.
Always loved music
Well, music is… is life. Music is everywhere. Everything in the life makes a sound. Even absolute silence seems to have a ring to it. Music is the most important thing for me and it’s what i wanna do with my life forever.
Growing up with it everywhere. Oh, and initially wanting to be ‘cool’.
Its in my blood
I’ve always loved music, and back in ye olden days when I was 15, friends of mine started up a band, and I got sucked in by it. Tried guitar out first, didn’t care for it, but then got my first bass, and have been hooked ever since.
My dad.
Hearing the music, modulating sound and the power of creation!
What inspired me to start playing music was the entire new world I could see in it, and writing and playing music brings me somewhere that nothing else can.
What inspired me to begin playing music was the powerful emotional response I had to music and the ability to express myself through my instrument.
Finding a way to express myself in ways I simply couldn’t with words inspired me to start. Spreading positive feelings and vibes with the rest of the world is what keeps me going.
My dad! He’s a musician, that’s his job, that’s what he does for a living. I’ve always wanted to take that same path.
The sound of Geezer Butler!
I owe it all to Chuck Berry, first time I heard him something switched on inside me.
The Beatles!
From an early age all I can really remember is watching videos of SRV, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep and other great guitarist and musicians with my dad. I didn’t really get it back then but it was inspiring, I knew I was going to play music one day. Music is very much apart of me and my family even to this day. Music is a medium for commune and conversation in my family. It’s something that’s very spiritual to me as it has changed my life and I don’t know what I’d be doing without it. I started playing music because of the things my dad was exposing me to musically at a very young age.
You’re a naughty penguin mr hotdog happy feet
Chicks, man, chicks. That and the Cure.
I was in high school art class in 1978 and some friends were starting a band and needed a bass player….they were into Thin Lizzy but the guy they were considering was into the Clash! I told them I could do it, (and I was WAY into Thin Lizzy)without having ever played anything but football and baseball before, and soon I was playing bass on a Framus my bandmate bought at a yard sale. That’s what inspired me, helping my friends form a cohesive unit.
Randy F’in Rhoads!
The first time I heard Mick Karn’s bass line on “European Son” by Japan.
All the musicians!!
My friends did. A few of them already played and they inspired me to do the same as well.
Some guy traded me an old guitar for a mountain bike frame in ’88. lol
Expression – as much as I loved soccer and baseball, they didn’t seem like things I could use to truly express myself.
I didn’t have enough listening to music. I wanted to be able to make music too.
I don’t remember, really! I think that I always loved music… At first I started listening music on the radio and some albums from a friend’s dad… Later in the last year of high school I took some lessons of bass…
Watching my uncle play upright in a jazz band
I just got inspired by music of KoRn and their bassist Fieldy. His unique technique made me to start playing bass guitar.
I’ve always wanted to be a musician but there were no musicians in my family. I bought a junk guitar off a friend.
My older cousins and I grew up around watching them and eventually they gave me my first guitar.
As a teenager during grunge era, I’ve picked on my second-hand, horrible quality acoustic on and off for years. Achieved nothing but frustration.
Then I listened to Led Zeppelin II in its entirety. On repeat. Mother of all cliches, that was IT.
For my fater.
The amazing soundscapes control of Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix
Two things- listening to parents record collection when very young and hearing my neighbor playing electric guitar in his backyard
My father would always yell for me to come listen to the upright bass solos on his jazz records. He always plays jazz in the house but when the bass would start solo’ing he would yell for me to come listen to it with him. Then my friends were putting a band together and they needed a bass player so I figured it was a sign. I was 15-16 years old and that was way back in the 70′s. First song I learned was Evil Ways by Santana, then Black Magic Woman was the first thing Steve Evans taught me to play at our first lesson.
What inspired me to play music was hearing love me do for the first time as a ten year old. Hearing what could be done and expressed with something as simple as sound really go me going.I’ve known since then playing music is what i was destined to do.
When i was young, bassists like Simon Gallup, Peter Hook. More recent, bassists like Roger Waters and Juan Alderete.
My dad played guitar so i have always been drawn to music and the playing of music. So i picked up the guitar but wasn’t good enough to play it in the church band, but i was for bass.
Music is the greatest gift, & I love giving gifts.
It all began as a punishment ’cause what I really wanted to learn was painting or drawing but the teacher of my school didn’t want in her class so, the other choice was guitar lessons, but in the moment I strummed my first chord I fell in love with music, right now I prefer to play an instrument than painting, it has become a vice.
breathing, I guess…
Probably the Appetite for Destruction album, and stuff like that. oh yeah, teenage angst!!! lol
I wanted to play my favorite songs and to be able to write songs of my own.
I want to get surprised by this pedals
Nirvana
My friend had a guitar and then I really wanted one.
What inspired me to play music was the Red Hot Chili Pepper album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Still my all-time favourite.
What inspired me to play the bass guitar was the album “Lateralus” by Tool. I very much appreciated Justin Chancellor’s bass playing and how he went about cutting through in the mix. I was inspired by Jeordie “Twiggy” Ramirez, Flea, some vato named Juan Alderete, Tim Commerford, Justin Meldal-Johnson, Eric Avery, and Chris Chaney.
Heavy Metal and Punk Rock
We miss a very big sound, and since you say these may help.. It would be a great pleasure!
I decided I had to play guitar after going to my first Iron Maiden concert in 1999 :-p
I just happened to stumble upon Metallica’s One video when I got home from high school- I had never watched MTV, I literally turned on the channel as the video was starting- goose bumps, I knew I had to play music.. never looked back.
Californication album : ]
Bruce Harris, Billy Gould and Cliff Burton! I used a borrowed P-Bass and a vintage Fender guitar amp in a rock/metal covers band when I was 16 and never looked back. That was 20 years ago! I couldn’t play but just did whatever the guitarist said to do. I’m a bit better these days.
At first I was inspired by the deeply emotional playing of John Frusciante. Then everything around me suddenly became an inspiration to create sounds.
I would love to win this. Playing with my 75 j-Bass I would kill with that Jaco type tone and clarity. & for the price range – it would be great to add to my arsenal. BEHRINGER definitely does justice!! Thanks Juan!
Growing up in a latin musical family I have always been immersed in music at a young age. Anything from salsa, rock, funk to hip hop and jazz. I started playing horns at a young age and eventually got into playing bass. A lot of bass players like Roger Waters and Flea really got me into playing music. & eventually my tastes have expanded to broader horizons now.
I’ve always loved music and played instruments, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the first to make me love rock music. It was Guitar Hero (yeah really) that made me wanna play guitar
My parents, when they bought me my first guitar!
Growing up around musicians really made me think that this was something I can actually do, since then, I’ve learned how to play over 6 instruments.
Listening to Rage against the Machine!
Timmy C.
I started to play guitar to get the chicks, but then I met the bass and he got me.
When the sounds are trapped in your mind, you need to find a way to get them out.
Watching my heros light up the stage with their mastery and showmanship drove me to keep trying.
Technology has allowed me to realize some semblance of musicality.
My dad had an old Fender P-Bass in the basement that I would sneak down to play. Once he found out, he gave it to me and taught me some stuff he played back in high school. Then I heard Flea and knew I had to keep going.
Music takes us all to another place. I believe that it is the highest form of self-expression and art because it invokes the visual from primarily just noise. It has the power to make us react in ways that a sculpture or a painting cannot. That’s what inspires me to create and play music.
It’s interesting to see how many people started playing music after hearing Metallica and RHCP, it’s the same story for me. My brother was playing guitar and I was playing bass parts on another guitar
Later I’ve got to hear a lot of other great music that inspired me, including The Mars Volta who probably had the biggest influence on me.
This is as simple as i could make it. Music is the only thing that ever made sense to me. It was the one and only thing that has been in my life since i could remember. Music is the only thing im good at. Playing music is the greatest and most fun escape for me. #bass4life
I have always been a big fan of most all music, but it was guitar players like Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, and Steve Howe that got me playing.
My Dad.
Nothing cooler to a little boy than dead rock stars!
Aerosmith on 90′s MTV when they were cool!
You Juan… You…
Just loved the groove/rhythm of the bass in most modern music, and said “I want to do that!”
I was inspired by my older brother to start playing piano as a child, then as I grew older I started listening to different music and Flea originally inspired me to start playing bass.
I was a music junkie ever since I was a small child but the guitar I had at age 10 was unplayable. When I was 22 I made a friend who was a bassist. He showed me anyone could play if the just tried and I did. It brought a new level to my enjoyment of music. It is now 37 years later and it is what makes my life great.
A friend of mine has been bugging me to pick up a guitar so we can teach ourselves how to play. When he came to my house showing it off, I jumped online and ordered a Fender knock-off bass. I always loved the bassy bass sound of the old 70′s Soul and R&B. Since picking it up, i’ve been hooked! Started a heavy metal band, now I’m producing for various genres. I will never be without a bass….its addicting!!!!
Jane’s Addiction…Mountain Song was the first bass riff I learned from a girl named Jessica
Listening to music and just wanting to be a part of it all!
By day dreaming about doing a concert
I’ve been playing music since I was a kid, but it was finding an electric guitar in a dumpster that re-ignited my love of the guitar! I don’t go more than a day without playing…..
When I was little I used to love dancing & singing along with whatever was on the radio. As a teen, I loved writing poetry, stories & more… When I figured out that I could seamlessly combine my words with music, I fell in love with it.
Both of my parents are musicians and I got the love through hearing them play and also their gigantic record collection!
My dad kept telling me I would be a good bass player. Christmas 99 there was an Ibanez starter pack under the tree. We had to have nut worked on so that I could flip it upside down and play it lefty. Been rocking ever since
I started playing music because I saw my friends playing guitar and thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I kept playing music because I realized just how many different ways to make and combine sounds there are and I’m having a blast just experimenting and trying out all sorts of new stuff every day to come up with new sounds of my own.
Being exposed to Neil Young and Led Zeppelin when I was about eight years old first turned me on to the thought of playing an instrument. Still find immeasurable inspiration from both almost daily.
Love what you’re doing with this site Juan. Great to see you’re not only an incredible musician, but also a great guy. Hope to meet you one day.
I love the sounds of music.
My first instrument was violin. I started because I had seen an assembly in grade school of a small string ensemble, maybe from the local high school. There was something powerful of pulling together those sounds out of air that really got me and made me tell may parents I wanted to play violin. Since then I dabbled in trumpet, had years of piano, and have played guitar for decades.
The irony is that even when well played there’s that frictive sound of bowed violin that has put me on edge since adulthood.
Everyone needs to go listen to unFact
I could’ve never done anything else. Music’s been my life since I remember.
Thanks Juan, love all your projects!
The Beatles!
Watching Tears For Fears music videos in my high chair when I was about 3/4 and so I’ve been told “tapping along” on the table
Woops, just saw the question! My father was a musician, it’s in the blood!
When I was at most three, I was essentially entranced by the Boston Pops performing on live television (WGBH public television, I believe). In varying degrees, music has predominantly influenced my decisions on work, school, and that time I near-happily lived in a warehouse practice room for half a month.
when I was a young boy, I was given piano lessons that went on for a number of years. then i stopped because i wasn’t really into it. i picked up sax for a bit, then relatively quickly phased out of that. I didn’t play anything for a few years, then picked up singing, being inspired by Pantera and Nirvana mainly. shortly thereafter i began playing guitar and writing songs, then playing the drums.
I wanted to play air guitar without air.
Paul Gilbert
Saw my friends play at a jr high talent show and was blown away! Had to start playing!
Led Zeppelin!
Iron Butterfly. Thank-you for the chance.
When i was yonger (about 16) my brothers band needed a bass player… i’ve been addicted to writing and playing music ever since. It was the best decision I’ve ever made!
Victor Wooten’s ‘Music Lesson!’
And TMV of course ;]
Since I was a little boy, I’ve always found myself tapping the chair to the beat of the music I listen to. Upon further investigation, I noticed that I was always tapping along with the bassline of each song. I realized that it was meant for me to learn bass. I still do the tapping today, but now I’m doing it on purpose.
watching a tv concert of Rodrigo y gabriela
Because i wanted to create something amazing, unbeliavable and delightful, and I already have some songs of my own, but i’m looking something unusual, yet beautiful… I believe that any of these pedals and effects will help me accomplish my objective… I cherish the music because this is i’m meant to be.
Thanks for the giveaway Juan. I’ve been trying to recreate sounds I remember from the 80′s with a chorus pedal most recently.
Year was 1965, a great lead guitarist with long hair (a radical back then!!) two houses down who owned a “real” Fender Jaguar. I remember him playing the lead kick to a Stones song “This Could Be The Last Time”. I decided what I wanted to do!! I mowed enough yards to buy his used Kay acoustic guitar for eight dollars. He purchased it from a Spiegel catalog. I learned leads off the first Led Zeppelin album by lifting the arm of a cheap record player.
The Moody Blues
because i love music
I don’t know. Just always wanted to play bass.
It was just magic. I can’t really remember how or why I got involved in the bass. It’s like floating down a river. I was young and then, there it was, the greatest thing to ever have happened in my life.
Frances the mute
I started out on violin in 4th grade, but picked up the guitar and bass via my best friend in the 8th grade. U2, REM, The Beatles, and The Smithereens were very influential for me.
I was inspired by those around me that we’re already playing music, especially my cousins, who were playing the electric guitar. I too played guitar for a long time, but I was very frustrated until I found the bass. The bass guitar has been my muse ever since, allowing me to carry the bottom, as well as solo on the top, with a rich harmonic content from the vibrating heavier gauge strings.
Started out on the guitar, moved to bass, and then settled back on guitar to be more of that front-man role in a band. Been playing guitar for 23 years now. Recently discovered Lovepedal…who makes fantastic stuff, IMHO. Check them out.
the beachboys
Juan really has me wanting a vibrato pedal and a fretless…
both my parents are singers, so it seemed like was born to it. But George Harrison inspired me to pick up the guitar and Geddy Lee the bass
I used to play guitar and I lived with a bunch of musicians and we would jam a lot. I had a bass that I picked up for super cheap, and because I was the only one that had one I ended up playing it a lot and just got sucked in…
Ooooooo I need these, I could ditch my reverb tank in the ole BF pro and have another pre amp stage to play with!
When I was in high school, a couple of classmates and I just decided one day that we were going to start a band. We all had some musical background, so we each chose an instrument and went for it. I’ve been playing (and singing) ever since.
When I was a little kid, I used to have to wait in a waiting room while my sisters took piano lessons. One day, walking down the hallway of the abbey where they took lessons, I saw a guitar leaning against the wall in an open room. I knew I wanted to learn how to play it. I begged for lessons, but never got them. Finally, when I was a teenager and had some of my own money, I bought my first guitar. I’m not the greatest player, but it is fulfilling.
I just loved the way listening the music made me feel. I worked at making the noise myself until it sounded like music.
I always loved music. I played trumpet and piano as a kid. In college I decided to pick up an instrument again and picked up my first guitar.
Oh man i gotta get that reverb. looks sick!
As a kid in the 70s, my Dad always played Neil Young, Zappa, Bowie, The Who — by the time i was in junior high I had music in my blood and wanted to be a part of it. Got my first guitar – a Squier Bullet – when I was 13.
Metallica “And justice for all”
I learned music early and it became an awesome way for me to express myself and communicate my feelings.
I just enjoy the feeling of relaxation I get from playing and creating new music.
find something new in my life
What inspired me most was the fact that I was allowed an outlet to create something unique to myself. Though music does have some parameters and guidelines, I always felt that sounds and song patterns were limitless. Whenever I hear someone make a song that is very different from what I ever heard before, I get inspired not to recreate what I heard, but to make something else that is very unique and that pushes the envelope.
I started playing in order to get involved in art, painting never worked out for me
immersion/challenge/freedom
I just always wanted to play after listening to bass players all my life and decided to start when I was fifty one.
the need for catharsis
I started playing bass because my dad had an old Norma bass from the 70′s that I still use every so often. I heard The Who when I was about 8 and that was it, I wanted to play music.
I was always very into music from an early age, but hearing the Californication record maybe me instantly pick up the bass and i have been growing and evolving as a player and a writer ever since!
I always liked music, especially rock and metal, so I decided to play electric guitar
Girls fall in love with members of the band
Women! The thought of giving a listener the experience I sometimes get when something in a song moves me. Wanting to be a drummer, knowing we couldn’t afford it, & seeing Charo play Flamenco on the Johnny Carson Show! Then, I’d hear about a man by the name of Carlos Montoya ….
Long car rides to the beach while listening to my dad’s Weather Report, Yes and Stevie Wonder cassettes.
What inspires me to continue to play music was how relaxing it is for me. It allows me to zone out and kind of lose touch with anything that might be worrying me at the time.
NICE PEDAL
My inspiration to start playing music was my frustration and happiness and boredom and fear and love and death.
My inspiration to start playing music was my frustration and happiness and boredom and fear and love and death. (Wanted to comment with my name)
Primus
It was in my blood.
Music is life. I’ve just been expressing life ever since I was little.
a friend !
Darnell
Goldie’s drum n bass sounds drove me crazy in my early years i’ve been hooked ever since
Goldie’s drum n bass sounds drove me crazy in my early years i’ve been hooked ever since
My friends in high school who played guitar and drums always wanted me to play bass but I couldn’t afford a bass at the time. Then time goes by and a vato negro album comes out and Juan played bass player live w Omar and that just blew me away. Turned 22 picked up a squire j bass package and started playing
The ability to express myself without having to say anything.
The Strokes
I started playing music when I was13 to impress girls… then at 16 it was to be cool… and then at 25 I finally understood that I can’t live without my instruments and the wonderful sounds that come out of all of the.
The way that music can bring out emotions and change the way that you feel, or even think about a situation.
originally, jimi hendrix. but i went to Musicians institute because I heard you wen there Juan. i know that sounds corny but your work has definitely impacted my life and I thank you.
I began playing bass long before I realized it. As a child every time I picked up a guitar I began playing, what were unknown to me, but were bass lines. It was not until my early twenties that I became sincerely moved by live music so much so that I wanted to create music of my own.
Grew up around music. Wanted to make my own.
My grandma’s piano, which was made in 1889 and still produced a fantastic sound 20 years ago.
Great action, nice effects
Eddie Van Halen, Jaco Pastorius & John Alderete