How to Use Ballads to Change Your Bass Playing. Lesson with Scott's Bass Lessons
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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Using ballads as a practicing tool can be a very effective way to expand you're knowledge of harmony upon the fingerboard. We're all so often caught up in playing fast, which scale to use, is my technique clean enough and such thoughts that we're often our own worst enemies. By practicing at slower tempos it strips much of that away and leaves us with questions such as, are we using space effectively within our bass line? Are we playing dynamically? Are we representing the harmony well enough with our bass line as the chords pass by. Essentially, it gives us time to think!
I don't think I can express how important this was to my progression as a bass player and musician and I urge you to use this approach in your own practice time. Whatever chord sequence you're working on, try it at a slow tempo for before you start to play it up to speed. I usually work on things for around 1 week before cranking up the speed.
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I am a pianist / synth player but because of these lessons i have bought a Bass, learning playing the Bass is so cool… :-)
This was really useful, thanks a lot, Scott.
Love your lessons. I realize this is a video posted a long time ago but if I could make one suggestion it would be this: When you play with a backing track, please turn the bass volume up a bit more or the backing track volume down a bit. Thanks!
I really appreciate these lessons
mate, You're brilliant, I know water seeks it's own level so to us both ;) I love my Bass and I look so forward to seeing a new lesson in my email, really do, takes me from 44.875 yrs old to 16 in an instant. Loving life, all while holding my Bass guitar, best of all to everyone, Warmest Regards, Ed
Thank you for this very important lesson, hope you will make other lessons about ballads
Great ! Thank You !
As for ballads, I usually prefer using a fretless. 80s style ;-) Now THAT's a great tool to toy around with dynamics!
Great tutorial! I am not a bass player, but as a synthesist/electronic composer I love trying to get my tracks to sound as authentic as possible, and these really help me approach my sequencing and playing bass on a synth more dynamically and more realistically. Thanks!
I love the melody dude. This is what I want 😊
Excellent lesson, thank you.
Wow. Great. Thanks.
just awesome mate
Erik Scott is the master when it comes to using the bass in different ways. Being with Alice Cooper, Signal, Sonia Dada, and so many more, you will be very surprised on his solo albums. It's like Nu-World or something. When ES plays, people know it. Just saying. This is nice too.
Thank you for this. I have a ballad that I try not to overplay but this gives me a lot of confidence to explore new ideas. Thank you.
Dude those short notes are fucking amaizing
The thirds and sevenths just killed me. Thank you....
That damn bass sounds GOOD
Brilliant lesson, Scott! I think I've learned the most as a bassist from playing really simple tunes. Make each of those notes count and it allows you to build a stronger foundation for more complex or 'showy' stuff as well. Really digging being back into your lessons after some time off :-)
Ottime Lezioni
Thanks, Scott! This lesson along with the previous ones (about the scales all over the neck and different positions of scales) have been really helpful. Still, I think I've got to spend some more time getting familiar with this stuff...
You rock, Scott. Informative, entertaining, and enjoyable. It's obvious that not only do you know your stuff, but your true passion for music comes through. Can't wait to check out more of your videos!!
Fantastic lesson-learned a lot!!
Q: What do you play when the singer is singing? Should you be "less busy" and stick to root-5th and kick it up when they stop singing? Thanks!!
I guess it depends on what they are singing.. you dont want to drown out the vocals... Check out Jaco Pastorius performing "coyote" with Joni Mitchell
you can be super basic and just add little melodic decorations in the silent moments of the melody. (if there are not other instruments doing it too much already)
Sweet!!
yes
Excellent!
90 % of what I play is 130 beats and under. I do a lot of ballads and slow smooth jazz.
This video has given me another way to look at my own work and incorporate some of your ideas.
Thank you Thank you
are there already some urban myths on what your left hand looks like :D
i have a hard time hearing the bass when its way down in the mix. ughhh
Thanks, always challenged by your ideas. Appreciate your teaching style too. Easy to follow, yet, more than meets the eye, ear and heart.
You make it looks so simple ! hope i can reach that point in my life... Thanks for theses lessons Scott they are really helpful
I tried to play the backing tracks,but my windows media player doesn't support the file,how do i change the format,or what should i use to play these backing tracks?
hey scott, i subscribed to your site, went to the backing track library but can't find this backing track anywhere?
I've been looking for the backing track you mentioned that is available 'down below'...I can't find it - could you let me know where to find it? Thanks.
Scott, I know you mean well and you are putting a lot of effort in your videos, but I have no idea what you are playing. You move around the fret board so fast that it hurts my head. Please slow down and give more detail. Dean
Good lesson but lower the volume for the keyboard as it is overshadowing the bass.
really great besson
where can I find the hacking track please
Think you so much for your lessons
Phil
Great Lesson! And the Workbook and Action Plan are really nice. This is the kind of thing I can work on for a few weeks and try to internalize.
Scott you are my BEST Coach Bassplayer sorry i speak french and to listened english is hard for me i try a solution to work
saxophone to this track would be so sexy.......nice work bro
Well I guess you can do this just by using ear. With time you get experience and you need less and less time to achieve the same effect as if you learn arpeggios.
Are you the guy from "Split"?
Everything got a bit more porno when you added that space. And that's a good thing.
You probably always get this question but what size gauge are your strings?
I'm new to playing bass, what order should I watch these lessons in?
This was probably the best lesson I've seen in a while. The best example of this in a song I can think of at the moment would be Micheal McDonald's "I Keep Forgettin'". Louis Johnson really dials it back and locks in, making for a sterling track altogether.
Hey Scott, when is your OW J-bass coming out?
How did you get that tone!? 🙌
im prettt new to the channel so this might have already been covered, but why do you always wear a glove? buzz reduction, easier on the fingertips....?
He has Focal dystonia, a neurological condition that affects a muscle or group of muscles in a specific part of the body causing involuntary muscular contractions and abnormal postures.
Great lesson as always. I've been following your channel videos for more than a year and, man, here comes the time for me to admit - you're a HUUGE help in my bass playing. You're not only a great music teacher but really inspiring person too! Cheers! Keep up the good work, fella! :)
You are a blessing dude.I know how lucky I am to learn to learn from such a great bassist who is such a good honest person with incredible teaching skills.You touch on things that really help and got me to enjoy working on your lessons 24/7.I might end up with a divorce.Just kidding.Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us bass players...
Sweet lesson...as usual...You're a great teacher with incredible talent (practice? LOL)....Great video presence too!
Super lesson... a new refreshing lesson of exercises and techniques for bass players. Great job Scott. Thanks a lot!!
Hay Scott love ya vids ..Tip for listeners is use cans if watching on a laptop as bass is hardly audible when playing with keyboard backing due to limited frequency of laptop speakers .
Great video! You sound great when just playing roots! I'm so mechanical and lack the feel?.. One question I had was when you played the thirds instead of the root? I thought that was taboo?.
Great lessons but i think that at some point you've gotta give for granted that the student already knows chord tones. You've got a lot of lessons going through the chord tones (btw, in the key of C..) and for the ones that already went through them, kinda holds them back.
Dude it's like 2 extra minutes he takes to explain them..
Very useful lesson! Thank you.
what's up with the green paw? just curious...
Nice lesson Scott, I learn and improve a lot my bass playing thanks to you.
Greetings from Spain, you are awesome dude!
The lesson I've been looking for!
Pity the backing track is too loud.
Thank you for all your wonderful work. You share such gold nuggets. You are a gold mine of knowledge. Cheers 🙂
i read the story behind your gloves on your web page! i hope you will be playing forever! great sound, nice feeling and a fine warm tone :)
What can I say... being a good player and a good teacher are abilities light-years separate, and you own them both
Man, I love your sound. Wish I didn't have to play through a crappy guitar amp.
very good, thanks
Brilliant lessons..thx scott
Amazing lesson, Scott. Thanks so much for sharing your gift!
Great, GREAT lesson.
I have subscribed !!!
Which monitors are there? KRK?
You bring a lot of joy to a lot of people - me included. Thank you for your great lessons
Thanks for this lesson!
What's the glove for....love?
Scott I love your videos, but i have a hard time hearing your bass over the musik
Marlowe Dk,and Scott, are for me the best bass teacher´s on youtube.
This lesson is awesome, made me remember why I love bass in the first place. =D
What exactly is so bad about him wearing a glove? Is that unacceptable in the world of string instrument players?
Focal Dystonia.
corrda1993 No, I understand why he wears a glove. I was asking why everyone was getting so uppity about him wearing it.
corrda1993 I thought that was a name of a band ;)
***** he doesn't use the glove to get a certain sound from it, he uses it because he has a condition called Focal Dystonia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_dystonia)
Wow I love your inversions
What's with the glove?
like it...thanks Scott
niiiice !! Thanks man
You are a legend mate !!!
Muito bom... ótimo combinação de sequencias entre os intervalos...
i love that Jamerson's mood! oh yeah baby uuuuuuuuu!
Very good lesson.
That's such a nice tone. I bet that thing plays like butter. Anyone know what kind it is?
overwater basses really nice tone
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Scott is always great. Thanks, man.
Great lesson!
OUCH... I thought I was good on ballads....
Super...........
Another awesome lesson! Thanks Scott :)
I'm sorry, I just can't take you seriously with that glove on.
www.scottsbasslessons.com/odds-and-sods/the-gloves
That is really serious of you. '-'
..einfach Klasse - Respekt !
solid
gracias scott!
thanks
cool bro
amazing
Hi
cool
Muito bom , aprendi muito com ele . vou treinar isso , muito bom
this was just what i was looking for thank