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Originally Posted by JonahTheAmazing  I have been playing bass for a few months now, and my skill has gotten to the point where I need to take lessons professionally. I have no job, and no means of somebody paying for lessons for me. My school has auditions for scholarships, but I'm not sure if I can meet the criteria. I need to know all major scales, and sight read a single piece. I have almost no knowledge of reading bass music and playing it, and I only know some scales.
My question is, how do I go about learning this basic knowledge?
Also, I have a very limited time span to practice and work on my ability, so recommending practice is a given. |
buy a used method book and practice reading.....there is enough info on line and the tab forum guys here are usually great about supplying dots for practice.....
learn your chord tones....there are lots of threads here,and imho it is better to work them out on your own......the scale tones will be apparent as you work through the chord tones......start with Emaj,F#min,G# min,in other words all the triads of E major,then add the sevenths,ninths,the rest of the diatonic keys,the diminished,pentatinics........etc.....there's a good six months/year work right there and you can work on that while saving for a good teacher....avoid any teacher that wants to show you songs/tab and find one that will teach you music....
