Orchestra bass tabs. Bit confused here...

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, TimR said:

 

Do you know the fretboard (or at least all strings up to 7th fret) inside out.

 

If someone was to say play C# could you immediately put your finger on it (or them) without thinking?

 

If not, then that's the first thing you need to do before even looking at the dots. Using tabs won't ever get you there.

 

I think music teachers will try and teach you "this dot is this fret on this string", which I think might not help you. 

 

 

 

Err... yes. Of course, I know the fretboard. I know lots of scales and modes, and I know lots of intervals, chords and their inversions. All makes me a better player. Not sure what the dots would do other than make it easier to play from notation.

 

Doesn't help with the dots.

 

Thank you for your helpful guidance.

[Downunderwonder]

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Err... yes. Of course, I know the fretboard. I know lots of scales and modes, and I know lots of intervals, chords and their inversions. All makes me a better player. Not sure what the dots would do other than make it easier to play from notation.

 

Doesn't help with the dots.

 

Thank you for your helpful guidance.

With that much theory you are streets ahead of me. But I can read dots.

 

I don't actually read the dots though. I think this may be where you are at a disconnect.

 

I read the accidentals and the rhythm pattern. The accidentals tell me I have work to do to escape the scale finger pattern and follow the funky chord.

 

A good teacher should be able to take all your known theory and use that to help you see the patterns in the dots. I reckon you would become a reading machine once the penny drops