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#126 - Horrible Bass Advice That KILLS Your Progress (Patreon)

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My fellow bassists,

There's A LOT of bass advice out there, whether it's online or from a book or teacher... Some of it is great, and some of it can actually hold you back from making progress!

I've seen the full spectrum of bass advice and I've tried many things out myself. I want to make sure you don't waste any time on exercises or ideas that stop you from reaching your goals! So here are my top 5 worst pieces of advice that I've heard over the years - avoid these like the plague!

Let me know in the comments if you have any terrible experiences of your own, or if you have any questions about any of this.

Thanks for coming here and learning with me, have a great weekend and I'll see you in the next lesson!

Charles

Comments

Kyo

Thx for sharing ! Your posts are what keep me going every week! Thanks so much, always!

Clarity

Thank you!

Clarity

Keep sharing your great content, it's inspiring me to get me lil practice space up and running 🏃‍♂️ ✨️

Mystic Mind

Hi Charles! I'm feeling stuck in a rut with my bass fills. I have a music group on Monday, wherein I'm given the chords and a general rhythm to any song, with the rest being up to me. I like to do tactical fills, especially on songs I don't know, as experimentation, but I'm feeling a bit creatively stifled. I'm usually stuck either doing the root + fifth or the root + octave, then finishing off with a classic Steve Harris-style descending triad. Do you have any videos that could help me be more creative with improv?

Jonas Chan

The edit of Flea and Mr bean is so funny🤣🤣. I've never once practiced technique or learnt music theory so whenever someone uses music terminology I'm so lost😭🤣 other than that, never needed it and I hope I won't need to in the future cuz i have a short attention span to learn those things so it will be long and tough for me to learn the whole or even the basics of it

Jonas Chan
>>153382172

But I do kinda think skipping on technique and theory saved time so it let me progress quickly. I do really want to learn how to know what note sounds right for impro tho cuz trial and error till it sounds right is not efficient 🤣🤣

Zak Schenck
>>153382172

Just a word of advice from someone who shared the mindset on technique many years ago: I learned the hard way how important technique is, and still actively try to improve it. I injured my wrist / hand for a bit due to my poor technique. Please be careful. My personal recommendation would be to prevent injury, but to each their own.

Jonas Chan
>>153382172

I hope your wrist is okay! I will be careful, just also curious how did u injure it?

Zak Schenck
>>153382172

Oh yeah it was years ago im good now. My guess is I was constantly keeping my fingers flat on my left hand, forcing me to put extra pressure on my wrist. This is especially bad trying to play fast. Overtime my wrist started straining and I had to take like 1.5 months from bass to heal. It couldve gotten worse if i played through it. I just did a bunch of cycle of 4ths exercises building speed keeping my fingers arched.

Jonas Chan
>>153382172

Like as in your finger joints lock? That actually happens to me too on my pinky when its floating if that's what u mean I always ignored that cuz i thought that was cuz I was double jointed (or so did people say cuz i can do it with all my fingers at will) but I'll make sure to keep an eye on that from now!

Graham Fielden

I don’t change my strings nearly as often as I should… largely due to the cost of a pack of 5 strings… I recently found legacy strings which are excellent and really cheap (just advice not an advert….. delete if you need!)

Bassomatica

This one might be controversial but I think fingering permutation patterns are non musical. I think you're better off practicing sequence patterns over real scales and arpeggios for the same finger indepence results

Rahul Supan

where to get the pdfs of the exercises

S
>>153617324

At the top of your screen click on the black & gold bass camp logo 2x's, then click on the word (POSTS) , scroll down to #117 DOUBLE-POPS EXERCISE Aug 10 & #119 DIATONIC TRIADS - THE KEY TO BASS LINE MASTERY Aug 24, Charles has each video lesson numbered for easy navigation

Gideon417

Worst advice. What I told myself. Learn it all be ear. No books no teacher. Bad bad advice. Best advice. Join this academy. Improved my bass playing more in 5 months than in the last 20 years. Find a great teacher and be teachable

Z Wu

Thanks Charles! I'm learning to do some string bending and trying different string gauges recently. I wonder if you are still using the 44-102 strings you showed in one of your earlier videos.

Slipofzetong

I really wish I had such good advice and such a benevolent teacher when I started playing bass some thirty years ago (heck...I'm old :-@) Thanks for sharing your knowledge