Recent content by BahamaBass

do you know your 7 modes in any key? taking each mode has 7 notes...8th being the octave. now to get pentatonic just minus 2 notes in each mode. basically strip each mode down to a box. at least thats how I look at it. if you can see these boxes than you can play pentatonic modes.

good idea. thanks. yes I can teach notation. unfortunately I'm not a reader. but can I still teach simple notation?

looks like I'm going to have to sit down and really figure out my own lesson plan. can't find any guide out there like the about.com one for guitar. for the first lesson (which could take longer than one lesson) I have a rough idea... LESSON 1: 1. the names of many parts of the guitar 2...

I've been using study bass for a while. good site. The Bass for Dummies...got to check it out. Thanks. Very good idea about putting homework in their gig bags. I plan on using teachwombat.com to download chords charts and other material. I used to draw all my stuff by hand. I want to be...

yeah thanks I have that page bookmarked. lots of good ideas there.:bassist:

Thanks.:cool:

I play guitar as well and found these great guitar lessons and plan for teaching beginners: Link Removed as I also teach bass it would be great to find something like this for teaching beginner bass. does anyone know of a site that might have some beginner bass lessons. I've checked...

well I never thought of it that way. thought I was the one who needed to get laid. oh well maybe got wrong way round...always thinking about ME. :lol: I think I'll hang out at Muse songwriting forums.

:hyper::D

sure thing. :lol:

see ya! :bassist: :p

sell your bass. yep thats what I did. well traded it in for an acoustic guitar. :D

different scales produce different sounds and also different sounding chords. you got basically more sound options. The melodic minor is a good example. just by flattening the 3rd all the modes in the scale change slightly and sound totally different and a whole bunch of new chords are...

thanks for the ideas. keep em coning. I got to go catch my flight to Australia now. will check back later. thanks.

I've always never thought my real name sounded like a musicians name....well maybe a country musicians name. I've been using just Gavin K just for now but I need a better stage name. My real name is Gavin Knowles so thats why I used Gavin K some names I have considered... Gavin Johanson...