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Online Bass lesson feedback wanted

Rajoe

Rajoe

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May 6, 2014
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www.digthatbass.com
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Hi Talkbass'ers,

I would like to ask for some feedback for my project. Any comment, criticism or advice is greatly appreciated and welcome.

I started making minimalist, concise bass lessons on youtube about a year ago - the aim was to focus on "real-life" musical excerpts and not do much of longish talking.I basically slow down the actual piece to half speed and I demonstrate it with a metronome while the tabs and standard notation are also displayed in the video itself. A guitarpro files are also freely available for the lessons for personalized home practice. All other details and facts concerning the given piece are included in the description which is optional to read (if you want to dig deeper, you read it, otherwise, you can just listen and practice).

Over the past year, I have experimented with different formats - some videos are a bit sloppy, some are better, in the first few, i talk, but then i completely removed it from the videos.

So i would like to ask to take your time, browse through some of the lessons, and provide me some feedback: whether this approach is any good, useful or clear in your view, whether the realization could be better or changed in some ways - anything you might comment on and it would make the lessons better in your opinion.

Thank You!

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OldDirtyBassist said:
Site looks great! Welcome to tb. If you could get Bill Dickens to explain some of the techniques he has, is my only request.

Don't buy a Darrin Huff bass.
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Thanks for the feedback :) Bill is a monster, on YT, there is some good stuff about/with him. Here, he talks about his rope theory, and this old school instructional video also contains some cool infos. Anyway, i will soon have a guest teacher who is a slap-master in TM Stevens kind of stuff, i am sure it will be helpful to learn the machine gun slap method :)
 
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Clef_de_fa said:
It is well made and all but in the end what do you learn ? I mean the point is to learn how those musician played their thing so you can cover them ?
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first of all, thanks for giving feedback!

in short, the point should be to learn new vocabulary through these lessons, open your ears a bit and get inspired by the musical expressions of other players. while this, your technique skills are also challenged, thus, there is a double benefit.

sure, the process should not end by learning what's in the video: it is up to you whether you just learn and copy other players and become a copycat or really work with the acquired phrases to amalgamate them into your playing and make them your own - i decided to leave out references about that aspect from my individual videos but that is something i address on my homepage Invalid Link Removed and Invalid Link Removed.

for a longer answer, there is a blog post about transcribing i have recently found - if you have the time, it is worth reading and to my mind, it answers your question in a way.
 

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