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I'm a bit lost

#21
Thank you all for so many wise advice. I have to be more realistic and stop being angry and frustrated every time I have some difficulties. It was a big mistake not to learn at least basic theory. My friend discouraged me saying that if I learn theory I'll be a 'generic' bass player and won't be able to compose music without thinking about theory. How stupid was that(?) Yesterday I went to the library and took a book about music theory in general. Also, I'll get Bass Method Complete Edition after I sell my shoes. By the way, does anybody use this book without CD? I won't be able to use a CD 'cause my computer hasn't got a CD-ROM.

I'm so excited!!! Life is beautiful again.
 
#22
Ladyland said:
Thank you all for so many wise advice. I have to be more realistic and stop being angry and frustrated every time I have some difficulties. It was a big mistake not to learn at least basic theory. My friend discouraged me saying that if I learn theory I'll be a 'generic' bass player and won't be able to compose music without thinking about theory. How stupid was that(?) Yesterday I went to the library and took a book about music theory in general. Also, I'll get Bass Method Complete Edition after I sell my shoes. By the way, does anybody use this book without CD? I won't be able to use a CD 'cause my computer hasn't got a CD-ROM.

I'm so excited!!! Life is beautiful again.
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The audio helps me, but, it may or may not be that important to you. Depends on your learning style.

Don't let that stop you.
 
#23
Just like anything else there are different levels of Theory.

Simple to overtly complex.

I would learn the very basic Theory stuff to start with.

How to play the major scales,

Familiarization of where notes are on the neck,

Popular rhythms and tempos,

Popular chord progressions used in a multitude of pop songs....(believe me, pro songwriters do this all the time....same old chord progressions but just carefully disguised enough to sound "new")

The most important thing to me is the " finger grid layout" on the bass guitar......

I just can't over-emphasize this enough. I really can't.

Finger position scale layouts on the bass guitar neck are so repetitive it isn't even funny.

As I said before.......if you can play C major scale off the E string (about half way up the neck) using E,A,and D strings........you automatically can play 98% of the scales off the E-string because the finger positions are exactly the same.

Try it......play the C major scale off the C-fret on the E-string......and then slide down to the G-fret and play G-major scale doing exactly the same thing.

But it doesn't stop there..........finger scale structures repeat themselves all over the neck/frets.......if you know one you know 98% of the others because they are all exactly the same.

You can drop down a key or go up a key without batting an eyelid.


This is where you simply get to play in a key without worrying how many flats or sharps are in it.

Unlike the keyboard ....where learning scales is tougher.
 

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