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great song!!!! groove is most important thing here in terms of making the music "feel" right..and Aston Family Man Barrett is the bass player most recognized as being reggae bass, so you are learning from a master, the master... He plays many instruments, piano, guitar, produces, writes, and is...

Teachers vary, all with different pedagogy in place.Pedagogy is the art of teaching. Liking this thread as the study here should be music study with an emphasis certainly on how to play bass, how to learn to function as a bassist, and how to integrate music as a language to your bass skill when...

Hi Shaun, besides the ideas mentioned above, and seeing how you play guitar and now bass, I know for me when I switched from being a trumpet player to bass, i re-listened to lots of music that I thought I knew, and subsequently had many an epiphany while listening to specifically what the bass...

Traditional counterpoint would have you go in an opposite direction. Take the bridge to George Harrisons "Something". Melody line goes up, bass goes down, landing on the 3rd of the IV chord or the II major depending on how you look at it. Melodically speaking for the bass the 3rd is a solid and...

having taught music for decades and seen results in this area, the key seems to be in making the connection from single note on the staff, to recognizing the significance of the note in a sheme of notes, a musical idea, or phrase. To do this requires you to take a step by step approach and...

tooooooooooooooo good..ok....how'bout Roberta Flack's Reverend Lee...I mean if you want to bring out the top shelf stuff...haha..too good!

They are awesome... I regularly play TI's and they are 15 years old on a 65 P bass..they sound warm and beautiful.. One of my students put on a set of the green wound Fender flats. They've been on 2 years now. I have to say , they are incredible sounding. Have the same warmth as my...

Along with all the hip ideas above, I would recommend listening as an ingredient to your musicianship skill set that can be honed and also becoming the catalyst to finding the magic , the secret as you say. Often times as players we become myopic, focusing on ourselves, our bass parts, and while...

Learn songs...lots of em...get your groove on...learn to tap into the groove, the rhythmic pocket of the song...the rhythmic acumen necessary to play with bands is something that comes with experience..as far as learning the modes...they are a way of codifying the notes, the pitches...yes they...

learn everything you possibly can about music theory, and don't play a note of it!

Learning music is one thing..learning bass is something else...they work together, yet bass has its own vernacular ... As students we never cease to discover new ways to approach musical situations.... And everyone has their unique swagger and gift... That being said, the role of bass in musical...

Chords and chord color being built from the bottom up suggests that when the bass is playing the 4th degree of the scale , the chord sound and chord quality adjusts to the 4th suggesting a new root.. CMin 7 with C in the root is just that. Change the root note to an F , now you have F7 sus 4 add...

Nice Goin' Whousedtoplay!!!!!

try left hand muting...any kind of muting technique will mold your electric timbre into more of that "woody" upright sound you are looking for...experiment...try improvising a technique that will get you that magical sound....another thing often overlooked is note length aka a form of...

Take the 3rd above the octave. Now you have a 10th. Think of the intro to Lou Reeds Walk On The Wild Side. How about Chuck Raineys bass intro on Steely Dans Peg. Paul Jackson on the Headhunters' Watermelon Man. These are all classic examples of using 10ths in bass lines. The sound is gorgeous...