I’m currently a drummer in a band in college with my friends and we’ve met someone that we work with that has played drums for a while and played in high school band. I started playing drums because we wanted to make a band about a year and a half ago but always thought about bass. Our bassist is our singer and he wants to not play bass while singing so the idea would be for me to move to bass and this guy we work with would play drums for us. I started on guitar a year prior to playing drums, so I’m not unfamiliar with playing string instruments so it wouldn’t be completely foreign to me. I have fun playing drums, but I find it hard to practice often due to school, work and not being able to play with living with roommates. I’ve gotten decent at drums, but sometimes feel like I don’t care too much to get better because I don’t really need it for the stuff we play. Bass would allow me to practice at home and be able to still be rhythm which I love and it is also something thought of playing other than drums in a band. I worry that I will miss the drums if I go to bass. I wanting to get opinions on what you guys think based on drumming or playing bass or if you’ve played both in a band before. Thank you
Submitted April 4, 2026 at 10:45AM by gazin0387 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1sc9n5m/should_i_stay_with_drums_or_move_to_bass/?utm_source=ifttt