How many hours to learn bass?

[P. Aaron]

Whats your guess?

BTW, this article says it takes 10,000 hrs to learn to play sax.

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How many hours to learn bass? All of the hours you can spare.

 

[singlemalt]

Rest of your life!

 

[Fat Freddy]

The answer is blowin' in the wind.....

 

[Biggbass]

are we talking clock hours, semester hours, deep space hibernation hours?

 

[devnulljp]

And the more I know, the less I understand.

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like...and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

 

[rufus.K]

It takes six or seven hours.

 

[Jay2U]

Too many hours!

 

[wmhill]

 

[lfmn16]

Few to learn to play poorly, many to learn to play well.

 

[IamGroot]

An empathy lesson for bass instructors teaching beginners.

Flip your bass into the hand you dont fret with and try playing.

 

[klejst]

How many hours to learn bass? I feel like it's something that is on-going personally.

 

[Leo Thunder]

Strings tuned in 4ths. Plucked or bowed.
The rest is leg work.

 

[Altitude]

FWIW, the 10,000 hour “rule” is bunk. And I like a lot of Gladwell’s stuff.

As always, the answer is: “it depends”.

You're opposing the meticulously supported conclusion of a guy whose career is spent on such research, a conclusion itself backed by some thousands of hours of observation, with your own sofa hypothesis of "it depends" probably arrived upon between beer burps. You have nothing to offer in opposition to Gladwell's theory other than that you don't like it, and you offer your own alternative as an equal.

This is what the internet has done to us.

 

[Nev375]

Take your IQ divided by the desired level of achievement multiplied by the mean number of minutes per day devoted to focused study factor in the coefficient ratio of X where X is the variable which makes this equation work divided by the tension of the strings in lbs over the ratio of average callus thickness in microns. Also figure in double bonus points for practice during full moons when you have reached the recommended daily allowance of vitamins K,C,B12 and ginko biloba minus the average number of hours of quality REM sleep per night times 3 over your age in months. After all that then find the number of days to nearest cusp of your neighboring astrological sign and draw that many playing cards from a deck shuffled no less than 7 times. If it is the 3 of clubs, do not pass go and collect $200. If you found this formula helpful in any way, please gift 25 cents via paypal to [email protected]. You're welcome and god bless.

 

[murph7489]

without reading anything other than the first page, I have been playing bass for about 20 years on and off. I don't practice nearly as much as I did when I was younger and new to it but then I think that is always going to be the case. When something is new you are hungry.

That said, I think there is a difference is learning how to play an instrument and learning how to play music..If that makes any sense..There are a lot things that come along with learning about playing any instrument other than the nuts and bolts of playing notes or chords and songs..There is learning how to do certain things, like digging in, or not digging in..learning ways to get different tones out of the bass by plucking the strings differently or in different spots..dynamics, groove etc..Once you learn how to play the instrument only then can you learn how to become a musician on that instrument...I think they are two different things...or, a player, vs. a seasoned player...two different things..

It takes years to become "seasoned" at your craft..You have to play in bands, get experience, find your tone etc. all that stuff takes years..I don't care who you are or what your talent level is..you can't shortcut experience and as we all know there is no teacher like experience..that takes time..

 

[Knavery]

You never stop learning... Anything.

 

[CenTexThumper]

If you stop learning, find something else to do.

 

[2BitHack]

Take your IQ divided by the desired level of achievement multiplied by the mean number of minutes per day devoted to focused study factor in the coefficient ratio of X where X is the variable which makes this equation work divided by the tension of the strings in lbs over the ratio of average callus thickness in microns. Also figure in double bonus points for practice during full moons when you have reached the recommended daily allowance of vitamins K,C,B12 and ginko biloba minus the average number of hours of quality REM sleep per night times 3 over your age in months. After all that then find the number of days to nearest cusp of your neighboring astrological sign and draw that many playing cards from a deck shuffled no less than 7 times. If it is the 3 of clubs, do not pass go and collect $200. If you found this formula helpful in any way, please gift 25 cents via paypal to [email protected]. You're welcome and god bless.

so 42

 

[WashburnAB95]

For some one with some music talent and reasonable dexterity you should be play a few songs reasonably well in 10-20 hours 20-30 hours if you don't have any back ground.

Bass is incredibly easy to learn... but you will spend and entire life trying to make it sound good.

 

[LowRick]

10.000h is a standard people hang on to. For instance, if an athlete has clocked 10.000h in training hours, it is assumed he or she masters the techniques etc of that sport. This is all very nice and useful, but it doesn't mean he or she will win every contest out there. Maybe someone with 100 hours will outdo this person. And that, i think, is awesome.

Lastly, 10.000h, like any standard, is chosen as a result of many averages. It says something about a group, but little about individuals.

Don't get me wrong, when someone finds the drive and puts in all the effort to go for 10.000 hours of bass practice, i think thats admirable to say the least. I practice an hour a day so it will take me 27 years to get there. which means i'm halfway there. As soon as i've lost fun in playing, i'd stop immediatly. whether i have 20, 9000 or 20000 hours.