I had my first bass lesson yesterday...

Noshtero · #1 12-12-2007, 09:43 AM

...and I'm hooked!

I went into the lesson having never touched my bass, and now I can play the intro to Smoke on the Water

along with assorted scales and whatnot.

It helps that I played piano for 20 years. It also helps that my bass teacher is a cool guy.

I think I'm going to enjoy this. Now I just need to get about 300 Watts behind my Smoke on the Water.

BillMason · #2 12-12-2007, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Noshtero

...and I'm hooked!

I went into the lesson having never touched my bass, and now I can play the intro to Smoke on the Water

along with assorted scales and whatnot.

It helps that I played piano for 20 years. It also helps that my bass teacher is a cool guy.

I think I'm going to enjoy this. Now I just need to get about 300 Watts behind my Smoke on the Water.

You should be ready to gig by tonight!

Just kidding, it's an old bass player joke...

Noshtero · #3 12-12-2007, 10:12 AM

Ha!

DUN DUN DUUUNNNN
DUN DUN DUN DUUNNNNN

Thank you good night!!!

bkbirge · #4 12-12-2007, 10:22 AM

That's funny and cool that people still teach that as a beginner's riff. I wonder how many of us on here started with that one, I know I did. The second one I Iearned was the Barney Miller theme song.

BillMason · #5 12-12-2007, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by bkbirge

That's funny and cool that people still teach that as a beginner's riff. I wonder how many of us on here started with that one, I know I did. The second one I Iearned was the Barney Miller theme song.

Even funnier because that's the guitar riff! The bass part is more like dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh, dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-DUNHHH-de-dun-dun-dunh.

Noshtero · #6 12-12-2007, 11:37 AM

He says next on the list will be the guitar intro to Crazy Train. Don't worry though, I'm learning bass riffs as well. It's just that these single note guitar solos are awesome for teaching your fingers how to move.

stabbicus · #7 12-12-2007, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Noshtero

He says next on the list will be the guitar intro to Crazy Train. Don't worry though, I'm learning bass riffs as well. It's just that these single note guitar solos are awesome for teaching your fingers how to move.

+1 to that! I'm sure I'll get a few chuckles out of someone when I say that I find the guitar riff to Papa Roach's song "Last Resort" to be quite a nice little warm-up.

** For the record, I don't particularly like Papa Roach. **

andrew_over · #8 12-12-2007, 12:38 PM

My first lesson was scales and smoke on the water. Then it was crazy train......then it was enter sandman. ha! i guess great minds think alike

BillMason · #9 12-12-2007, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Noshtero

He says next on the list will be the guitar intro to Crazy Train. Don't worry though, I'm learning bass riffs as well. It's just that these single note guitar solos are awesome for teaching your fingers how to move.

If you want your fingers to move, get him to teach you Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder. I play metal too, but that has got to be the toughest song I've ever attempted! Lots of finger movement there!

Tapout73 · #10 12-12-2007, 04:25 PM

wow! total clash of styles from my teahcer tho. He's into teaching music reading and traditional scales, i just had my 2nd lesson. Course this is pretty much what I told him my objectives are, I'm not really into learnin g tabs or songs right now, just some ground theory, then go from there.