Marvin Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 [quote name='REDLAWMAN' post='1076073' date='Jan 3 2011, 09:45 AM']Marvin: not sure what you mean by MM's Bootcamp- did you mean to post a link? Thanks Pete; I've checked it out and there's some really helpful stuff there. Not sure what Tux & Guitar Pro are (PC software, I presume), but great material. Apologies Greyparrot for thread-jacking![/quote] Yes I did mean to post a link, sorry - my addled brain Here it is [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78653"]Major Minor's Boot Camp - Creating a Walking Bass Line[/url] Tux and Guitar Pro are incredibly useful pieces of software I find. [url="http://tuxguitar.herac.com.ar/"]Tux Guitar [/url] especially with this site [url="http://www.911tabs.com/"]911 tabs[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaxxyBass Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Thought I'd pop in this thread and say hi as I am said student looking forward to those other exercises when you do them, Yesterday I did lots of major/minor/blues scales to try and learn my fretboard notes you'll be pleased to hear! I got some Blues playalong books in which the chords are given - very useful for giving ideas (on a non-standard 12 bar) for those interesting linking notes in the walking line - was playing for 1.5 hours yesterday poor Sax didn't get a look in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDLAWMAN Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Greyparrot- apologies; I hadn't seen your post with the vid clip of Elvis' guitarist. That'll teach me to post before my 4th coffee and 10th B & H..!! What a great vid: exemplifies the kind of music I took up bass to learn to play. Really lovely offer and thank you, but I fear you may be just a little too advanced for me. I only started playing this Summer. I know the major scales and chords, understand the root/5th thing (and the odd 3rd) and I can play my way through just about anything I've got the chord charts for in this simple, non-connected way, but I've only just discovered the diatonic chords and I'm only as far as connecting I-IV-V in 'C' with a lot of concentration and very, very slowly!! It's joining the chords up- 'Walking', I guess you call it, that I'm trying to master now. Nothing fast or flashy: really just slow stuff like 'He'll Have To Go' and 'Help Me Make It Through The Night', where you've got the 3 tones that either go up or down at the end of the lines (that is a musical term, right...?? ). Thanks Marvin- I'll check those out. I find stopping and starting songs in iTunes a real nightmare! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyparrot Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) [quote name='REDLAWMAN' post='1076097' date='Jan 3 2011, 10:33 AM']Greyparrot- apologies; I hadn't seen your post with the vid clip of Elvis' guitarist. That'll teach me to post before my 4th coffee and 10th B & H..!! What a great vid: exemplifies the kind of music I took up bass to learn to play. Really lovely offer and thank you, but I fear you may be just a little too advanced for me. I only started playing this Summer. I know the major scales and chords, understand the root/5th thing (and the odd 3rd) and I can play my way through just about anything I've got the chord charts for in this simple, non-connected way, but I've only just discovered the diatonic chords and I'm only as far as connecting I-IV-V in 'C' with a lot of concentration and very, very slowly!! It's joining the chords up- 'Walking', I guess you call it, that I'm trying to master now. Nothing fast or flashy: really just slow stuff like 'He'll Have To Go' and 'Help Me Make It Through The Night', where you've got the 3 tones that either go up or down at the end of the lines (that is a musical term, right...?? ). Thanks Marvin- I'll check those out. I find stopping and starting songs in iTunes a real nightmare![/quote] hey no worries, well im going to do a slow walking bass line / blues one for her too, maybe later today, and also a little octave song aimed at starters, so ill post them any way on this tread ;-) you sound like your doing well and playing the right stuff. You can play to faster stuff rnr using the 1-5. and joining root-4 n root to 5 with some notes from the major scale you are in. say your playin in c, then use d/e from the major scale to link to the chord change from c-f. ill do this vid later, you will see what i mean. but yeah, do it slow, speed will come. ;-) Edited January 3, 2011 by greyparrot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDLAWMAN Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Really kind of you, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyparrot Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 [quote name='REDLAWMAN' post='1076114' date='Jan 3 2011, 10:54 AM']Really kind of you, thank you.[/quote] no t problem, will be tomorrow i guess, keep looking mate :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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