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What a smart pandemic project! Glad these were useful.

Jeremiah - tell me a little more about what's happening. If you set your metronome (we're talking about etude 10, yes?) on the quarter note = 126 or slower to practice, what is bugging you? Is it sustaining the half notes? Or perhaps where they are tied over the bar? Give me a measure # and more specifics - I'd be happy to help you.

Gaelen McCormick, teacher and composer actually made my instructor happy with the performance of it on my last lesson. I watch your etude explanations as we go through then book. I think I sometimes have trouble reading the syncopation. I hear it or he “gives it to me” so to speak but getting it off the page hasn’t been happening. I hear the play along cd or I watch you play. His challenge was to utilize my eyes more play the correct intervals. It’s probably has influence. Sometimes do instinctual things that are wrong and don’t realize I’m doing them. What I wanted to do was set the metronome half note=whatever number you said but the app won’t let me.

@@jeremiahsalyer7784 oh I understand! All I'm doing when I say to set the metronome to the half note, is changing the # on the screen - so if this was at 126 for the quarter, reset your # to 63 (or half of 126) to work at the half note level. It's not a different setting or anything.

Gaelen McCormick, teacher and composer cool but there are some pieces I want to set half note equals. Even one of the simandl etude says half note equals.

Thank you for this comment. I have wanted to add subtitles, and just did not get to doing it. I will work on that soon. Thank you for asking!

In this video I'm playing a Shen 5/8 model in the gamba shape (they have two shapes for this size). For many players, I recommend Shen instruments for quality and good price point. They also have a variety of woods - some are part plywood and carved, all the way up through fully carved. Hope this helps, and good for you getting your own bass! (here is the site for the local shop, which happens to be the main importer and designer of Shen basses: www.cscproducts.com/products.html)

Nevermind I'm pretty sure this is the other version

It’s been a year since I recorded this, and it’s possible they were either using an arrangement or that the opening has it one way then later the rhythm comes exactly as you described it. I no longer have that particular part to reference -sorry!

Wow - good for you and congrats! You put in the work and it paid off!

Thanks for asking! It is now available at my website www.bassretreat.com/shop in either hard copy or digital download.

Alex, WOW - great questions. Let me try to give you answers one by one. Variations in broken thirds - I’m not exactly sure if I’m understanding you, but here is what I do to use thirds in my scale practice. A) every third is across the string (so you have to shift after each pair of notes and really think about major 3rd or minor 3rd) B) every third is shifted, so no crossing until you can play both next 2 notes on that next string. C) thirds - or any scale practice- all on the same finger. Shift, shift, shift, shift, ... BUT you have to really listen and think ahead to your next spot on the fingerboard. I imagine you could adapt the universal patter for each mode. I mean, each of those modal scales you mentioned has a pattern of whole and half steps. I’m looking to keep the shifts to a 1/2 step to make it compact, and this comes in very handy in faster orchestral playing. I can start on first finger and fly through a scale on autopilot knowing that my pitches are (theoretically) correct. Universal pattern for minors - there must be. I just teach it so much later than one octave majors, that by then I’m usually teaching 2 octave minors. But try this - for natural minor - 1-24 cross -1-24 cross -14. Hope this is helpful!

Thank you very much! I understood a lot of the explanation but I would like a video if possible, because it is something that I consider very relevant and I can not find information about it on any other channel, and it would be a pleasure to watch your lessons here.

Here is a random example of what I mentioned, playing in sequence within a certain key. Is there a method that facilitates the memorization of modes for all tonalities, some standard or universal fingering? Example Link : 2.bp.blogspot.com/-DIfxkRxr48k/VKbRnjadcpI/AAAAAAAANcA/Diglfb9G1KQ/s1600/gre.JPG

Alex J.M.S. - let me think about the modes question. I think my jazz playing friends will have an answer. And I will consider putting up a new video shortly. Thank you for asking really good questions!!