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What do you want to learn in May? (Patreon)

Published:
2024-05-02 19:53:41
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2026-06
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What do you want to learn in May?

  • Ear Training 45
  • Arranging songs for solo bass 101
  • Fingerstyle technique 60
  • Slap technique 32
  • Tap technique 44
  • Theory / composition (comment specifics) 45
  • Famous bass lines 32
  • 2024-05-02
  • multiple choice
  • 359 votes
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Content

My fellow bassists,

We assemble once again to determine the fate of this month's bass education... Let me know what you want to learn and remember you can pick more than one option!

Comments

Michael Rothwell

Various shapes for major minor and maj7 arpeggios

Ralyks

I'd be curious to hear what it is you would like to teach, Charles. What are you studying currently, or are feeling passionate about?

Michael Rothwell

Another great topic would be using chord charts (cheat sheets) to develop bass lines on the fly at gigs

S

Please do a lesson on all types of harmonics & the note names of each of them

Marko Džeko

Can you sometime do double plucks?

BboyJenson

I’d like to know how would you make a slap bass riff when given a beat? How to make it interesting?

Ryan Steiner

Voted theory: I'd love to hear any insights you'd like to share about your process of how you compose a bass track to go along with other music. I have a feeling this is a tough one to communicate, but I'd love any tips or tricks to get me over the ol' "I have no idea what I'm doing here" hump.

Jonas Chan

Would love to learn how to make crazy bass solos like yours!

Mark

Theory - when playing with a band, some tips on stepping away from only playing the root notes.

David Sharp

Modes and maj/min pentatonic scales and their relationship to chord/chord structures.

Ralyks
>>136896624

I've had some luck with 10ths outlining a basic chord progrrssion. Find a cadence you like, play it into a Looper Pedal, then lay down a simple bass groove highlighting the other chord tones, then the hard part for me is coming up with a melody. My bandmates have been handy with that tho. It's always easier to find inspiration when you've got other people to bounce ideas off of

Ralyks
>>136894127

He did something similar last month. Improvising over chord changes

Ralyks
>>136893850

And their chords. 3 note bass chords that sound good and when to use them. That would be sweet

Nick Post

Using chords to play a solo or compose

Rich Mills

Effective use of chords in composition (e.g Stanley Clarke, Jaco)

Stephen Stetler

I think one thing you do so well that even after subscribing, I'm not 100% confident in is switching between styles. One moment in a song you're slapping, then you reset for finger style and tapping, then back to double thumb and then there's strumming... I can't naturally reset like that and wondering if you have tips for that.

Charles Berthoud
>>136893901

If it's bass, I'm passionate about it! My main channel is where I post what I'm currently feeling most passionate about playing, and here is where I fulfill my passion of teaching all of you how to play the music you want to the best of your ability

Charles Berthoud
>>136896624

The short answer is that it's a combination of knowing some theory (so you know which notes are available) and lots of listening (so you're familiar with the style, which rhythms/licks/tone work in that style, etc.) but that's a good idea for a full video

Ralyks
>>136893901

Thx man. Me too. I can play 7 other instruments, but I chose to settle on making Bass my specialty. Partly because I started my journey on Cello and felt a calling back to Bass Cleff, but also after seeing you play with Davie504 on Fivr, then the final moment of inspiration for me was seeing you play Slapology. I’m going to play and write music like that man. I’ll sacrifice just about anything for music. Thx for inspiring me to pick up a Bass man. I love it and feel like it’s the perfect instrument for me. It’s got some sex appeal to it, but it’s still an instrument the average person, shoot even other musicians never expect greatness from. I want to get to the point where I hear people tell me they’ve never heard someone play Bass like that, they didn’t even know that was possible on Bass. You’re that guy for me buddy.

Thatguy12455

Question, ive been spending a lot of time learning some of your harder solos from here (neon string solo in particular) but the thing i'm struggling with the most is being able to get that slap/pop sound without getting blisters within about an hour of practice. I have thick callouses formed now but getting blisters still feels inevitable. I switched to 40-95 strings recently and haven't had a problem since, but i miss the more full bodied sound of 45 gauge. Since you play on 45 gauge i was wondering if you face this issue, or have you been able to get light enough of a touch to avoid blisters? if so, how?

Jeff

The Sound of Silence solo looks really fun.

Darius Bosca

I loved your fingerstyle exercises and the way you incorporated scales in them and would love to see more with minor, major, pentatonic, blues, modes etc. Anyway i'm a member for 2 weeks now and your Patreon means next level practice for my slap and tap. Glad I subscribed and keep it up

Charles Berthoud
>>136980758

It sounds like you're probably popping harder than you need to. I'm assuming the blisters are on your index and middle fingers? i.e. not your thumb... Your action might be too high, particularly on the D and G strings, meaning you have to pop extra hard to get that crisp snappy pop sound. Try lowering your action as much as you can without it sounding buzzy and see if that helps! Let me know if you need help changing your string action and I'll link a video for you

Adrian Moore

Analyse and transcribe the sax solo in Konichiwa by Donny Benet, or the walking baseline in Moondance please!

Ralyks

I thought we were gonna get a lesson on taking a song and arranging it for solo bass this month? I can understand if you’re busy on tour, but might we still get some lessons on that. I imagine that will include transcribing by ear and or from sheet music, adapting chords for playability on bass, or using compatible chords that serve the same function, kinda like reharmonizing I guess. I would think that the most complex part of arranging a song for solo bass is altering the chords to something playable or tappable on 4 strings. I’d really like to see your process for going about this. You did a step by step for improvising a bass line using the given chords, but how about what I mentioned above? I’d love to see how you create these, “If this song was the hardest song in the world” arrangements. Obviously few of us will be capable of that quality and complexity, but I’d like to see the process and understand what theory knowledge is necessary so I can start working on that.