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What Do You Want To Learn In November/December?

  • Ear Training Exercises 45
  • Technique Exercises (comment which technique) 30
  • Natural Harmonics Deep Dive 27
  • Cool Licks You Can Throw In Any Bassline 88
  • Tone/Recording Tips (comment specific questions/issues) 16
  • 10-20 Minute Continuous Practice Sessions 66
  • 2024-11-07
  • multiple choice
  • 272 votes
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Content

My fellow bassists,

We assemble once again to determine the fate of upcoming bass pedagogy... Make your voice heard! (You can pick more than one option - leave a comment if you don't see it listed here!)

Comments

Drake

Still begging for the 10 levels of tap tabbed out 🙏

David Gaines

Galloping tips. Can’t seem to get speed for something such as “Run to the Hills.”

Jonas Chan

Cool licks and tone sounds great! I would really like a video on reverb like the one u did on compression 🙏

Claudio

I cannot create a slap riff with the following notes: C - G - A# - F . If you can show me a video sample, I'd be grateful. Thanks

pegass

strumming exercise 2 please

Steve Penpraze

Still want to learn Nothing Else Matters

Kristof

Man the tone/recording videos revamped how i play totally. I would love more

Fred Grossi

I am happy with any of the nuggets you share with us. A gifted player and excellent at passing on the knowledge.

Alexandr Sor

I would like more finger style exercises with a bunch of ghost notes, groovy things

Corey Butler

Hello ,I need help with what to study to start getting gigs

S

I just wanted to share what has helped me with gigging, for example playing cover songs with different bands and musicians, be open to exploring all styles of music, if I had to play 1 style of music I'd go crazy so I learn from everything one of the most helpful things is think of your notes as numbers relating to the major scale and natural minor scale so it will be easier to play songs in different keys if the people your playing with don't do a certain song in the original key but I suggest learn every song in the original key first because most of the time you'll play the songs in the key of the record, youtube is going to be your best friend with this because you can save videos to playlists that you create then put them in any order, personally I like A-Z by song name. Go out to your local bars that have live music & take notes of what songs these bands are playing, pay attention to what songs the crowd is excited about, meet these musicians in these bands then eventually they'll let you play 1 or 2 songs with them Check out jam sessions & open mic nights then get to know these musicians, there used to be a really cool newspaper called the recycler that had an awesome music section where people would list all kinds of instruments for sale, that newspaper had categories called musicians looking for bands & bands looking for musicians, it's really cool cause you could place your own ad for whatever you're looking for. I'm pretty sure it's online now just type recycler.com to check it out this gigging thing doesn't happen overnight, I've failed a couple of auditions in the past until I found a more constructive way to practice, once you find consistent practice you're happy with people are going to keep asking you to play with them I highly suggest studying some music theory & different rhythm patterns if you haven't already The way I look at it is keep having fun & never stop, you're gonna wanna throw it against the wall plenty of times but don't get discouraged because you can make positive things happen

S

Happy to help, even though your gonna have to learn popular songs never sacrifice songs you enjoy playing, always keep it fun for everyone