How To Figure Out Any Bass Line/Lick/Riff You Want - By Ear
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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For a free trial of Transcribe! - the software I use in this video, click here:
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Today, let’s talk about how to transcribe on bass. In case you don’t know, transcribing on bass is just the process of figuring out the sound of something and then playing that thing on your bass.
Think of the implications of being able to figure things out for yourself though. No more hours of trawling through questionable tab sites. You could even write your own or correct the incorrect ones you find all over the place. You also wouldn’t have to ask someone to tell you the frets or show you how to play something you didn’t know.
The best part, is that you don’t just have to transcribe bass lines. You can transcribe anything you want. You like the sound of a guitar lick? Transcribe it and play it on your bass! Like a vocal melody from a song? Once you can transcribe, you can learn it and play it for yourself!
That’s exactly what I want to you be able to do after going through the process in this video. It’s one of the most useful skills any bass player can have.
The methods that I show you in the video though take things super slowly. Seriously - you don’t need to figure out everything at once. You only need to figure out one note at a time, and I’m sure you can do that.
By the way, I use Transcribe! all the time - it’s a great tool and I use it all the time so I’m happy to recommend it using my affiliate link above. Have some fun with it and let me know how you go.
Good luck with the lesson and happy transcribing!
Cheers,
Luke
P.S. Here’s the link to the software I use in the video:
bit.ly/2GQb8dT
Just click on the ‘Download’ button and select your operating system. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux, so you’re covered no matter what kind of computer you use.
P.P.S. The video I mention in this lesson about specifically transcribing bass lines can be found right here:
becomeabassist...
now i can learn the riff in his intro
Great lesson for developing an ear for tone. Singing or humming the note really helps train the ear for pitch. I have used “Transcribe” for several years both for bass, and for guitar (chords, and lead guitar parts). I consider it a must-have application for any musician learning songs by ear and/or creating their own tabs for songs. Two features that I use often for identifying bass notes when they’re somewhat buried in the mix, is the EQ function to isolate the bass frequencies, and the “Show notes” option from the View drop down menu. Used together, those two features of Transcribe makes learning the bass part of a song, without having sheet music or tabs, a breeze.
This is amazing mate! I can’t believe this is free on UA-cam, your the best UA-cam bass teacher
Thank you for this. I swear I’m tone deaf😢
lol, me too
I have been accused of being tone deaf, at the age of nine, by my guitar teacher and my mother, but I'm pretty sure they just didn't understand me, really. :)
That’s a terrible thing to tell a 9 year old!!! They’re s-heads! We all can learn and improve.
Strasbourg St. Denis ("It's a fun town.")! Love it! This is one of my favourite tunes, Luke. In fact, it's the ring tone on my phone!
I think learning bass first is more important than the guitar
Hey, thanks again, LUke. I got the software, tried to use it - came back here for the key info on how to hear the bass. THe line is a lot more complicated than what I was able to hear on my own. I found the right notes, but couldn't at all pick out the number of repetitions in the rhythm, the details. Thanks for this helpful vid.
Thank you so much for your work! Quality content, can't wait for the next one!
No worries Csaba! Thanks for watching.
What your explaining is a trait that people have that comes natural for some, and some people can learn it, some just never will. Most won’t, it’s kind of a gift you ether have or don’t.
I would have to strongly disagree @Raymond Fink. From my experience, playing by ear is a *skill* that can be learned - not a 'gift' that some have and some don't.
Does it come easier to some people? Absolutely - just like any other skill. But unless someone suffers from amusia (medical tone deafness), it's possible to learn to play by ear. I've even got proof from some of my own students who thought it wasn't possible for them to learn to play by ear, but they did. Here are a few of them:
becomeabassist.com/luye/alastair/
becomeabassist.com/luye/chuck/
becomeabassist.com/inga/
I'm curious though Raymond - where do you think you sit on that spectrum you mentioned? Does it come naturally to you? Can you already do things by ear? Or is it much more difficult? Do you think it's not possible for you to learn to play by ear?
My son for example has the gift, he naturally can listen, find each note after a bit and put it all together, he’s always been able to. I get lucky sometimes but more often than not can’t.
I'd suggest that if you can figure things out some of the time, then it's just a matter of *practice* to get it right more and more often until you can do it just about all the time. Like I said, it's not a gift - it's a skill.
P.S. Are you talking about playing by ear or are you talking about perfect pitch because they are very different skills. Perfect pitch actually IS something that many people agree can't be learned later in life. Playing by ear though can be learned at *any* age - the case studies of my students I sent in my previous comment is proof of that.
Thanks for the help! I'm not a bass player nor do I even have a bass myself, but I always feel more comfortable knowing the bass - especially to my funk/soul listening.
1: whenever I try humming I always unintentionally sync my voice to the note im playing rather than having the note im playing synchronize with my voice
2: whenever I do sync the note to my voice its always as a D, I hear an some note then i hum it but I hum a D instead of the actual note it is
Now I can learn the intro of careless whispers
Perfect! Let me know how you go.
A great song! ;-)
lemme know when you start playing it everywhere you go and get kicked out of stores for playing it.
this is pretty epic, gotta try it myslef today
You're awesome, Luke! :)
YOU'RE awesome @Debra Wagar!
This is one of those things that can't especially be taught. You're either able to recognize pitch and transcribe or you're not. If you can hear a note, hum it and name or match that note off the top of your head, you're incredibly gifted.
Once you find the first note, the following notes would be easier to find.
At first I also can't recognize a note by just hearing it, I just practice singing it then find it i'm not gifted at all. :).
@@CG10CG20CG3 some people are tone deaf and can't pick a note out on a fretboard.
Ok if u think so
Great lesson mate, thanks very much :-)
I do like the idea of using your voice to mimic the notes.
Great lesson, many thanks.
How did you hear the note and figure out b# as a reference and work your work up from there? That's the part i struggle with, I'm unable to identify a reference note to start off
That's a super common problem @Lilchange13, but I think this video may be able to help: ua-cam.com/video/K2zDO2ITmvs/v-deo.html
I'm still waiting for the Bass Line
Very helpful thank you.
thank you so much. yeah. This was very helpful. yeah. Keep up the good work. Yeah.
I've always found that if a person has been in choir & actually learned that transcribing is a bit easier
Thank you !!
I reaaalllyy hopes this video will help me out because I can not for the life of me figure out the bassline to “I’m broke” by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears. It sounds so simple but it’s just not happening.
Only half way through I realized that he was transcribing the trumpet and not the bass 🤦
i can transcribe songs on an instrumental, but i want to learn how to do it normally but i cant figure it out over the lyrics
What brand of bass guitar is this in the video?
Probably a Spector
I can now learn how to play Curly by Naaki Soul
Let me know how you go with it!
how’d it go
For my taste you don‘t come to the point as fast as it is necessary. I can‘t watch your stuff but I sincerly want to, because your content is superb. People got way shorter attention spans. Maybe you can think and read about it.
I think you could be very successful this way.
Thanks for the comment Pascal - I appreciate it. I have people say this to me sometimes, and others say I always get straight to the point. It seems to depend on the individual. But I'd rather make longer content if it means I can answer all the questions that come up around whatever topic I'm covering, even if that means losing some people with a short attention span. It sounds like my approach doesn't work for you, and that's totally fine. I hope you find someone whose teaching style does work for you though.
Pille Palle there is no shortcut to bocoming a better player. I think he does a great job of getting the point across
Jake LaRoche yea exactly why it’s not his fault that these generations have no attention span or patience to actually learn
I want tabs for Better When I'm Dancing so bad I am trying to figure out how to play it by ear and its not going well X_X
The first song/riff/lick you learn by ear will almost always be the most difficult, but if you can crack one nut, you can do the whole barrel!
The recording of that song I just listened to was in the key of D major, so hopefully that'll give you a structure to work around. Good luck @Hakim Durand!
@@BecomeABassist oooo didnt expect hints!!! Nice ty! I will definitely continue trying
@Hakim Durand - did you give it a crack? How did it go?
can you play mp3 files in transcribe?
Absolutely
How about dream theater songs?
You can use the exact same process - it’s just going to be more difficult because that music is trickier
This guy show less of the bass lesson, and Runs his mouth over and over
Sounds like you’re looking for someone with a teaching style that works better for you @Miguel A. Ventura. Hope you find what you’re looking for.
if you couldn’t hear bass line in a song, might as well do random notes, nobody will hear it anyway.
You talking too much