Need help to not rushing eighth and sixteenth notes!

[MonsterBass101]

So the title is a bit misleading! I always seem to get uneven when I play sixteenths and eighths, even on very simple passages. I have a hard time keeping the space between the notes the same length. Is there an excersize i could use to help with this?

[puddin tame]

just play a lot of 8th and 16th notes to a metronome

[pacojas]

lighten yer touch.

[jacostilllives]

Originally Posted by puddin tame

just play a lot of 8th and 16th notes to a metronome

+1 you want to know something really stupid, but true. When my roommate bought the game rockband I laughed at him, but after playing it for a month or so I noticed my time got insanely better. I guess it's good for something after all.

[BassNoob1]

Originally Posted by jacostilllives

+1 you want to know something really stupid, but true. When my roommate bought the game rockband I laughed at him, but after playing it for a month or so I noticed my time got insanely better. I guess it's good for something after all.

Drummers use it for coordination of their hands and feet, too.

[DaZombieWoof]

+1 for metronome or something that gets you "regulated". Lots of practice.

[anonymous02282011]

set the metronome to notes of large values like 1/2 notes or whole notes (slow as needed) and play eights/16th over it so that you can internalize subdivisions.

if you set the metronome to 1/4s and play 8ths over it you're really not doing much

[Russell L]

Another thing I do is to let my little keyboard play an accompaniment with a busy rhythm section also playing 16ths. It gives me something to hear and try to match. When playing live it is essential to me to hear those kinds of things that the drummer or other percussionists are doing. If I can't hear them it is easy to drop a half beat or so, especially in songs that are very syncopated.

I, too, have timing trouble sometimes. It often seems like bass is in a time warp. Sometimes my notes feel delayed getting out of the speaker, even though I felt like I hit them at the right time. Anyone else ever feel like that?

[type C basses]

Originally Posted by adbass

set the metronome to notes of large values like 1/2 notes or whole notes (slow as needed) and play eights/16th over it so that you can internalize subdivisions.

if you set the metronome to 1/4s and play 8ths over it you're really not doing much

+1
And start slow, then go fast.

[Slyonbass]

What helped me get my sixteenth notes more solid was practicing accent displacement with a metronome i.e. play constant 16th notes:1 bar accentuating the 1st 16th note, 1 bar accentuating the 2nd sixteenth note etc.

To get a feel for it you can use ghost notes on the notes that you're not accentuating.

You can also come up with lots of variations...

[faulknersj]

ALWAYS alternate you index and middle finger on you picking (right) hand...ALWAYS...no matter what line, or scale or run...I, M, I, M, I, M (I - index, M - middle). This IS the key to speed AND accuracy. Period.