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02-24-2009, 06:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Antonio, TX | | | Beginner bass on fretless.
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Well, I've started teaching my little brother bass. The problem is I don't want him to learn on my expensive dingwall (aside from it being fanned and a fiver). But the only other basses I own are a fretless and an upright.
So I've been teaching him on the fretless.
I was just wandering what your oppinions were on teaching a child bass on a fretless. I think it'll be more difficult, but He's learning pretty quick and catching on to the intonation fairly well.
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02-24-2009, 06:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London | | | long as the info is good, but getting him to play anything besides fretless might be a bit of a challenge |
02-24-2009, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Canada | | | Well if he is catching on moving to a fretted bass should be a piece of cake. As long as he is enjoying himself and not getting frustrated what could be the harm. I wish I had started playing fretless much earlier in my playing career because it has really helped my ear.
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02-24-2009, 07:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: London | | | i ment more he will be used to the sound. going from frettless to fretted id imagine will be easy |
02-24-2009, 07:11 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Millions of kids learn to play violin just fine. I started on cello. Intonation is a hurdle, but far from the biggest hurdle.
If your brother has a chance to learn how to read, the sooner the better. |
02-24-2009, 08:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Antonio, TX | | | Yeah, the only songs and such I'm teaching him are strictly through him reading them. I write stuff out real quick for him to learn. I also have an old Fender biginners video from when I started, but it doesn't emphasize theory as much as I'd like. So I'll only have him watch it for technique and homework. |
02-25-2009, 08:24 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | What a cool big brother. |
02-25-2009, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Antonio, TX | | hah, I'm hoping he'll branch off to a different instrument after he has a foundation. That way I can use him when he gets better.  |
02-25-2009, 08:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Boston, MA | | | Does the fretless have fret lines?
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02-25-2009, 08:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Antonio, TX | | | Yes it does, I defretted the bass last year. You can't feel them and I have him keep his eyes on the sheets when he's reading.
But I don't have him never look at the fingerboard like when I'm going over technique and stuff.
But for the most part, he's not looking at his fingers, which forces him to use his ear. |
02-25-2009, 08:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Boston, MA | | | Well, in that case, so long as you get his ear down, he's good to go.
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