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So, I'm old, but really enjoying starting to learn bass properly. I have no illusions about ever getting to play in a band again, so I am doing my grades instead, and have just started on Trinity G4. I'm trying to play Riff Raff, which is one of the technical grade pieces. Its 197BPM or so, though its pretty simple, and also one of my favourite songs. I'm trying to play quavers on one note only at the start, with some semblance of feel for time and dynamics. But it really just feels like I'm making random ballistic attacks on the string. Its really only when its about half speed that I have any sense that I can feel the pulse properly, and have any control

Am I really going to get to double the speed and feel like I have control? It feels like my nerves just don't fire quickly enough to have the slightest chance.

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Start at half speed and work up. There is nothing that cannot be achieved using this approach. One of the first fusion LPs I bought was Land of the Midnight Sun by Al Di Meola. There is a track called Suite: Golden Dawn which has this killer guitar riff in it. Impossible to play. After years of playing it slowly, I can now do it. Took me 30 years but I can do it. It's all possible if you start slowly.

Now I can work on the third bar....

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