What is the most challenging thing to learn right now on bass for you right now - technical or theory-related or otherwise?
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Hardest Thing About Bass Right Now
- Thread starter Dark Star
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soloing on jazz standards using nothing but chord tones and 8th notes..no chromatic passing tones or triplets allowed. an exercise I learned from Jeff Berlin. It's a lot harder than it sounds.
- Oct 18, 2012
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Honestly, nothing. I have always had a natural ability to pretty much play anything that I wanted to. I have an Ipod with more than 10,000 songs on it. Everything from old jazz and Big Band standards to modern music. I sometimes just put it on shuffle and play along with whatever song happens to come on. I can almost always figure the song out the first time through. It has gotten to the point where I am bored and have started playing guitar again just to challenge myself.
This for me too
Me too, never learned them well on the guitar (tab laziness I guess), but now I have to on bass because of the way I am getting music to play for church. But at least there are two less strings.
Finding the time to learn all the stuff I want to learn. I know my weak points, but putting in the hours to do it while working 10 hours a day, doing a side job and a band, plus the whole kid thing makes it hard.
Just for a workout, I've been trying to nail Jaco's solo on "Port of Entry" (I have what seems to be a pretty accurate transcription). The tempo is just insane, and it keeps getting faster!
Standing on stage for an hour or more and having my right leg hurt and go numb from having a boat anchor strapped on my shoulder. Twenty years ago I had sciatica, but a series of trips to the chiropractor took care of that. I've got a funny feeling it's coming back.
Stopping spending all my time on TB and actually practicing.
Seriously though filling the gaps on my knowledge of theory. And getting better at playing more intricate bass lines while singing.
Seriously though filling the gaps on my knowledge of theory. And getting better at playing more intricate bass lines while singing.
I'm new to bass, having played guitar for a long time. I'm having a blast with it but still struggling with right hand technique. I'm a long way from being able to play fast and clean finger style.
I'm working my way through the Ed Friedland book and realizing my music reading skills aren't where they should be, but that's coming along too.
I'm working my way through the Ed Friedland book and realizing my music reading skills aren't where they should be, but that's coming along too.
Improvising melodic fills that don't rely on fancy semiquaver triplets to sound flashy (a technique I'm overly reliant on) - and getting the 'thumb through' Victor Wooten slap technique. I'm fine with double thumbing because the 'up thumb' feels natural but just playing single slapped notes the 'thumb through' way instead of the flea way tends to throw my timing, which makes the first section of classical thump quite hard to get down.
