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  1. greghagger
    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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    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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