Recent content by Onlyhestands

Coming as somebody who learned to play keyboard prior to learning Bass, when I was learning the fretboard I found it helpful to imagine the fretboard as a keyboard, with the white and black keys side by side and arranged on 4 levels. Even though I've been learning for almost a year I still...

Try doing some practice with a metronome set to play 2 and 4. Make sure you practice playing all sorts of tempos too. Personally I find it much harder to feel and play on a very slow speed, so I spend a lot of practice time with a metronome as slow as it can go.

I tend to avoid them, unless fingering would become very awkward without them. Personally I don't like the tone from open strings much.

"Sorry but you suck, you need to practice more and more seriously" From a very good and very blunt instructor "Practice enough so that you instinctively know the fretboard and the notes. That way when you play you wont be focused on this (points to the fretboard) and instead you can play from...