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    Posted: December 14 2010 at 03:58
I these days i am learning how to play Bass guitar so i need some good tips to impress my music teacher. If someone knows that please share with me.
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

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Can you spin the thing around your body while you play?

But seriously and you may not be at the stage where you can pull it off, but some original improv.  This is something you can't likely do through a tip.  It has to come from inside you.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 14 2010 at 06:32
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Learn your scales.
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Originally posted by janealex janealex wrote:

I these days i am learning how to play Bass guitar so i need some good tips to impress my music teacher. If someone knows that please share with me.


First, don't try to impress your teacher.  Practice what you are taught at least 30 minutes each day.  Learn all the notes of the fretboard and how they interact (i.e., learn scales).  Practice with all different kinds of music because the skills in various genres can carry over into one another.
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Learn some theory (if you haven't already) about root notes, intervals like 3rd and 5th, and the role the bass guitar plays in a band or ensemble. Then simply apply it to the fretboard.
 
Applying it is the hardest part!
 
Practise something until you know it, then practise doing it with your eyes closed, then at double speed, etc........ so that you always have something to improve upon.
 
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Learn your scales.


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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by janealex janealex wrote:

I these days i am learning how to play Bass guitar so i need some good tips to impress my music teacher. If someone knows that please share with me.


First, don't try to impress your teacher.  Practice what you are taught at least 30 minutes each day.  Learn all the notes of the fretboard and how they interact (i.e., learn scales).  Practice with all different kinds of music because the skills in various genres can carry over into one another.

This, plus improvise a bit, play around with the instrument and try to "make it your own".  Most of all...enjoy whatever you do end up playing, since it's such an excellent instrument. Approve
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Sell it. Leave music to the pre-1989 pros.
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another thing, don't slap or pop your strings Angry
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by janealex janealex wrote:

I these days i am learning how to play Bass guitar so i need some good tips to impress my music teacher. If someone knows that please share with me.


First, don't try to impress your teacher.  Practice what you are taught at least 30 minutes each day.  Learn all the notes of the fretboard and how they interact (i.e., learn scales).  Practice with all different kinds of music because the skills in various genres can carry over into one another.


That just about says it.  I've never taken any lessons or anything (and it shows LOL), but I'd imagine the best way to impress your teacher is through a willingness to learn and be open to exploring new avenues of music. 
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Come on people.  His teacher has likely heard scales so many times to be bored to tears with them.  Pick your strings with your teeth and then set your bass on fire. Tongue

It's weird, but when I recommend improv, no one joins in with me on it.  Scales are for fish...
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

another thing, don't slap or pop your strings Angry
Ignore this, there are many techiques that can get a veriety of different timbres out of the bass guitar. Employ as many of these techniques that you enjoy and feel compfortable with.
 
Thats like saying don't play picked guitar or don't tap. Stylistic choices can be employed to the advantage of the player and each player should find their own blend of sounds.
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Originally posted by Proletariat Proletariat wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

another thing, don't slap or pop your strings Angry
Ignore this, there are many techiques that can get a veriety of different timbres out of the bass guitar. Employ as many of these techniques that you enjoy and feel compfortable with.
 
Thats like saying don't play picked guitar or don't tap. Stylistic choices can be employed to the advantage of the player and each player should find their own blend of sounds.

Larry Graham disagrees with not slapping or popping your strings.



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I teach piano lessons to kids and you know what really impresses me? When they listen to me and practice what I ask them to practice. I am not impressed by them trying to show off songs that they claim to have written or improvising when I am trying to talk.

As far as musicianship goes though, the best way to learn is to imitate others. Put on some records with prominent bass parts and try to learn the lines by ear. Then improvise over some chord changes. That is how you learn your instrument inside out, by constantly playing it and trying to discover new things.
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Coming from someone who takes music lessons (for drums, though not bass, but I feel I can still give some advice), I would say to try not to impress your teacher so much. Just listen to him or her and soak whatever they say in. Try to gain as much knowledge as you can and try to practice as much as you can. It would also help to listen to a lot of bass-heavy work (always go with Jaco Pastorius, and some Victor Wooten and Larry Graham wouldn't hurt either) to try to gain some influence and inspiration.

Bottom line: listen to what your teacher says, study hard, and try to do some extra work. Also, it wouldn't hurt to learn a thing or two about music theory. That is all...

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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I teach piano lessons to kids and you know what really impresses me? When they listen to me and practice what I ask them to practice. I am not impressed by them trying to show off songs that they claim to have written or improvising when I am trying to talk.

As far as musicianship goes though, the best way to learn is to imitate others. Put on some records with prominent bass parts and try to learn the lines by ear. Then improvise over some chord changes. That is how you learn your instrument inside out, by constantly playing it and trying to discover new things.

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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I teach piano lessons to kids and you know what really impresses me? When they listen to me and practice what I ask them to practice. I am not impressed by them trying to show off songs that they claim to have written or improvising when I am trying to talk.

As far as musicianship goes though, the best way to learn is to imitate others. Put on some records with prominent bass parts and try to learn the lines by ear. Then improvise over some chord changes. That is how you learn your instrument inside out, by constantly playing it and trying to discover new things.

Couldn't agree more, man.

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