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  1. greghagger
    Do you want to improve your walking bass lines? Here are five techniques that will add style and swing to your lines. We aren’t dealing with note choices in this lesson, but you will learn how to use techniques such as muted notes, triplets fills, and pedal notes to make your walking lines sound more exciting. Also learn why we should be thinking ‘linear’ with our walking lines. Click the link to view the lesson and pick up the free PDF.
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    Just started to have a listen to this. Thanks for sharing, this is great collection so far!
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    Yes you are right, there is loads of Reggae influence on The Police songs. I do love the Reggae style bass line in the chorus for this song though.
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    Learn the bass line from The Police classic, ‘Message In A Bottle.’ The main riff is so fun to play and I love the Reggae inspired chorus bass line. There is a free PDF with the video lesson. Choose between standard notation or Tab versions. https://youtu.be/y24bQzreHyQ
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    Interesting post. As musicians, we can all benefit from a mentor. This is a more accurate word than teacher in certain situations. I have taught and played professionally for over 25 years now and I still have a mentor that I go and see from time to time. There are always things to learn and having direction is so helpful. It's the feedback that we all need. Online courses are great to a certain point. I have now started making them too. The perfect solution for a lot of players learning online is taking a course and then having some coaching afterwards. In my opinion, the coaching part is just as important. When learning with a teacher, it is very helpful to know what you want to achieve from the lesson. Sometimes communicating what this is can be difficult though! The quicker we learn to take criticism, the better. Although like you say, sometimes this isn't given in the most positive way. Good luck with your further development.
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    Hi, just letting you know about a new video from Greg’s Bass Shed - Learn Five Essential Bass Rhythms. These five rhythms appear time and time again in bass lines from many styles of music, including Rock, Pop, Blues, and Jazz. Find out out what these rhythms are, and also how to read them. Free PDF with the video which includes the five rhythms and also information to help you read. This video is suitable for beginner to intermediate players and any others looking to learn to read rhythms.
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    I started playing bass when I was 14 years old. I was already playing trumpet and piano to a fairly high level. I was also playing rhythm guitar in a school band, but our singer was so bad at playing the bass, that I decided to have a go. We did a gig, and I absolutely loved it! I still love playing the bass as much now as then and I have been playing professionally for over 25 years. There is so much still to learn, but for me, that learning is striving for a higher level of musicianship, rather than particularly nailing technical elements of playing. I love the subtleties of bass, but equally how you can really change the harmony or vibe of a song with a small change.
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    Learn a Rock shuffle groove Learn a killer Pentatonic fill Learn a rockin’ Doobie Brothers Tune Download the free pdf transcription Jam to the backing track In the video lesson, I show you the above by teaching you the bass line from a lesser known Doobie’s song, ‘Down In The Tracks’. This is a great bass line, and I’ve got two fantastic musicians to help me make the backing track. Enjoy!
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    Good rhythm, and true 😂 It is useful to learn ‘key notes‘ at first, to help you to learn all the others. For example the middle line, D was a useful one to learn first. When starting to read leger lines on the bass guitar, I found that learning C (first line above the stave), and G (third line above the stave), helped me initially.
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    That’s very true, you do have to maintain any skill you learn. You have reminded me that I better start some practise! 😂
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    That’s a shame. There is still time though. At least that sounds like you’ve been playing the bass for a long time though, which is great!
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    If you systematically learnt how to read music, you would be fine with any piece of music someone threw at you, key changes included!
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    Don’t use these for bass clef!
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    Good point, apart from possibly reading a few melodies from jazz standards, you aren’t going to need these rhymes for bass clef!
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    I think it would be more accurate to say good players don’t necessarily make good teachers and vice versa. Some are great at both.
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    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!
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    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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