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  1. greghagger
    Ha! Brilliant!
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    Did you steal that trick from my lesson 😜 No, I haven't watched it but I am pleased to see it here.
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    You can use the rhymes or memory aids to work out leger lines. Just start them on the top line or space. I explain about this in the video lesson. The rhymes are great to help find any note, but only practising reading leger lines will help you to eventually know these notes automatically.
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    Plenty of practise helps with this.
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    ‘Green Buses Drive Fast Aways’ works though!
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    Excellent advice. This is exactly where the rhymes help. I agree that lots of patience is required when learning to read music. My video lesson and the PDF will help explain some of this process.
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    Interesting reply. I’m not sure how well thought out it is though. As a couple of comments have illustrated, initially you have to have a mechanism to work out the notes. Or how else can you ‘recall’ the notes? You mention that you have to ‘learn how to recognise each note.’ Learning these rhymes is a tried and tested way to do this. I’m interested if you might have a different system to do this? I do appreciate that for some people, it is difficult to remember the initial process that they went through when they were a beginner. But learning to read music is a slow process to start with. I’m assuming that you don’t teach with a comment like ‘how hard can it be?’ If you have a different approach for a beginner to learn the notes then please share it with us.
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    Good one, haven’t heard that one before. I was wondering how the rhymes work in foreign languages!
  9. greghagger
    What if I told you that if you learn two simple rhymes, you can quickly work out the name of any note on the bass clef? This is not a trick. It’s what anyone learning to read music uses. Find out more in my free video lesson.
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    Hi everyone, Some of us had a really great discussion on here a while ago about the need for more resources to help with learning to read music. Many of you expressed frustration with not being able to read, while in some cases, being advanced players. Since then I have researched, planned and made a video course called, ‘Learn To Read Music For Bass Players.’ This course deals exclusively with learning to read music, but without beginner bass playing instructions. The course starts with the very basics of reading music, and throughout the course you will learn all the skills needed to be an advanced reader. The link below gives you more information about the course. I am happy to offer a 10% discount for anyone on Basschat. Just send me a message and I will let you know the code. I hope many of you find the course useful. https://gregs-bass-shed.teachable.com/p/learn-to-read-music-course-for-bass-players/
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    Hi everyone. Following on from starting this thread a good while ago, I have finally completed and published a reading music video course. It is called ‘Learn To Read Music For Bass Players’ and is aimed at at lots of you who replied to this thread. In the course I teach exclusively about how to read music, without beginner bass playing chapters. So it’s not a how to play bass guitar course. You don’t need any previous experience reading music for the course as I cover from the basics right up to advanced level reading. I’m happy to give a 10% discount and you can private message me on here for the code. I will publish a new post about the course but thought you might also get an update when I leave this message. I hope the course is useful to many of you, and please ask me if you have any questions about it. https://gregs-bass-shed.teachable.com/p/learn-to-read-music-course-for-bass-players/
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    Learn the best sounding walking bass lines for a Texas Blues. In the video lesson I show you a Boogie line, the famous shuffle groove and other techniques to help your walking bass playing. There are four exercises to take away and a Texas 12-Bar backing track for jamming too.
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    No problem. Just hitting video number 100 tomorrow so should be plenty of lessons to choose from!
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    Pentatonic scales are great to use in your bass fills. Here is a video lesson showing you the Pentatonic shape and how to memorise it around the fretboard. I also give you five Pentatonic fills to use in your own bass lines and show you how to use them in a chord sequence.
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    I agree with you. I love the basic sound you can get from the SpectraDrive and it’s particularly good for EQ, boost and DI. I find it works just as well for my active & passive basses. If any of you are looking for a pedal with a lot more ‘toys’ then go for something else. I would also recommend finding a separate Drive pedal that suits your needs.
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    Cheers, I had forgotten about the Clean Boost. I’ll have to try that again.
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    I think trying at volume will obviously be useful. I tried a few different drives once at a soundcheck and got done feedback from the sound guy. I mainly use this pedal for gigs that I don’t use an amp and also use a little bit of drive to boost the sound for certain parts of the gig that I need a lift in volume.
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    Bluegrass is a style that needs a bass player with great feel and a solid sound. Traditional Bluegrass would be played on upright bass but it does work on electric bass too, with the right approach. Learn how to put this into practice with pivotal bluegrass bass techniques. In the video you also get to listen to a full Bluegrass band covering a Union Station song.
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    Thanks, glad you liked the video. I mostly use the default Drive and one called ‘Natural’ I think. TC could come up with better Drive TonePrints in my opinion. But I mostly use a clean sound and I love the pedal for this. Perfect to boost my passive P-Bass and also sounds great with my Active J-Bass too.
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    In the lesson I give you techniques to help play and create your own Walking Bass Lines for Shuffle Blues. There is also a Backing Track For practicing and a bit of Blues history. This is suitable for anyone wishing to start playing walking bass over 12-Bar Blues.
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    Learn techniques to help play and create your own Blues walking bass lines. These walking lines will work for any Shuffle Blues and are transferable to other styles too. Free PDF with Standard Notation & Tab plus a 12-bar Blues Backing Track in E.
  22. greghagger
    I agree with that. Which subject do you lecture in?
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    I love this, especially the sentiment surrounding the video. Great song and love your singer’s style. Brilliant you got a retweet from Madness. Check this out folks, it’s great!
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    That band sounds like fun and yeah of course be great to see some performances. I’ve got another Ska video lesson you might be interested in too if you are making up your own bass lines. https://youtu.be/NVp-oc4ajIc
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    Interesting question. Some good answers too. I tend to agree that players express themselves in many different ways. In my experience of playing professionally and teaching for over 25 years, I hear ‘emotionally charged’ playing from all standard of players but there isn’t really one particular way this is expressed visually. The question you ask about whether technique and theory gets in the way of playing is often asked by players inexperienced in these areas. Once you have a good understanding of these two areas, you know that they always enhance your playing. That said, mastering these areas doesn’t always mean you are a great player. The short answer is learn as much as you can, play as much as you can, and don’t worry about other players and their musician journeys.
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