2 Killer Speed & Shifting Exercises For Bass Players (L
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
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Bass lessons mentioned within this lesson:
How to Play Multiple Octave Scales: bit.ly/2wcle6l
The Most Important Scale You'll Ever Learn: bit.ly/2wcsmzE
Ok, I admit it... I stole this exercise from one of my favourite all time guitar players, Mike Walker.
I was lucky enough to study with Mike years ago when I was really just starting out with improvising, and although over a 4 year period I only sat down with him a hand full of times - those lessons were by far the most important lessons I ever had. Ever.
And, yeah - you might think, "but he's a guitar player... and you're a bass player, right?!"...
Here's the deal. Improvisation is improvisation no matter what instrument it's on. If you really want to study improvisation, by only listening to and studying bass players you're missing out on a huge chunk of the party ;) ...when it comes to improvisation I really recommend studying with as many different instrumentalists as you can - my favourites have been guitar players, piano players, trumpet players and trombone players.
Right, that's enough "Mike love" for now... let's look at this exercise!
If you're playing up and down the neck, whether it's during a bass groove, fill, or solo line, you need to get super focused on exactly how you're shifting through the different positions on the neck. If you don't, you're fingers will literally start tripping over themselves, you'll end up using odd fingering combinations, and the overall result will be messy sounding lines that have no consistency - and for you it will be a case of "sometimes I can pull it off... and other times it just sounds and feels terrible"...
Well, the 2 exercises I'm going to show you in this lesson will help you completely eradicate this common problem from your bass playing.
All I'll say for now is... it's ALL in the shifting!
As always, see you in the shed...
Scott :)
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That lesson was one of the best I have seen for scale/speed and shifting exercises. Two lessons in one! Thank you Scott :)
Another way to practice the slides on a major scale is playing Immigrant Song from Led Zep, check out the bassline in the chorus. It's really easy and helpful :)
Excellent lesson Scott. Thanks for doing this. It has revitalized my interest in the bass and I'm now using my old VOX Sidewinder again and getting the rust out of my fingers. God bless.
Jim
so helpful.
Thanks for showing and explaining somthing i've been trying to figure out for a while now!
Thanks Scott these tips really make a difference. You often add little flourishes of jazz in so please put some video together about these little improvisations that sound so good. Cheers Baz
watch it from 6:30 in 0.5 speed :v
Btw great lesson Scott. Cheers!
Drunk Scott
This is fantastic, the lesson is great, and I'm looking forward to applying these techniques, but this just absolutely tore me apart from laughter
Dead.
pfffFFTTT
pppfffff ccoouurrsee i know ma major scaaaallleesss! i know my major scaaalleess!
Another great lesson - cheers, my friend!!!
I've been watching your vids for like a week, and I've already improved.
I find this guy's tutorial easy to learn. thumbs up!
thanks so much. I practiced these licks for an hour speeding it up with the metronome. my hands are on fire right now.
Great attitude and approach, as always.
You scared the hell out of me at 1:54 when you revealed yourself as a witch by using your powers of sorcery to make those screens appear.
No doubt the word 'Pow' is an enchanted incantation and I will be careful not to utter that particular word from now on.
Witchcraft is outlawed in these parts and you would do well not to venture beyond your own realm, wizard.
Other than that short terrifying part of your video, it was a very good bass lesson.
Carol Stevens yeah Miss Stevens is right on it; watch the devil....I can't see the key board. Still a good tape, Paul
I dont want to bewitch you, just wanna be with you
You go Scotty!! outstanding
Great exercise... thanks scott
Well, since I started watching you, Mr. Devine, as well as several other UA-cam bass teachers, I can proudly say, yes! I almost know my major scales (just a few hazy spots where my old shapes-only approach tries to take over - I have many years of bad habits I'm trying to replace now with proper technique and theory)! As advertised: It has REALLY turned my playing around!
Can't wait to get home so I can practice this. Great lesson, Scott !
Thank you very much Scott, you're definitly a greaaat teacher !!!
I understand more easier with than with many teachers in my own language, craaazy !!!
Things are so clear and so easy with you !!! Thank you !!! ;-)
Very well .. Scott .... thanks for your lessons ----
Really great lesson!
Great video. You play beautifully and that bass sounds stupendous. Thanks from the Fender P Bass dude in NH USA !
Awesome Scott! As usual. Thanks a bunch :)
Thank you very much Scott awesome lesson!!!
Man you are the best and i will join your online school
Thanks alot
Great lesson, so useful. Thanks!
great as always
great lesson again.
Thanks a lot and happy new year :D
Great Scott. You´re an excelent teacher. Greetings from Caracas, Venezuela. Take care
excellent, this lesson helped me a lot to improve my typing speed. Greetings from Argentina
Great lesson as usual, thank you very much Scott!
Same words from me. Thanks again!
Thanx Scott , yr sound is so clean that I ever thougt U were an ET bassist . Now I know it for sure . The glove is all around the body and left hand is martian coloured naural hand . I made good steps forward thanx U
Great lesson Scott!!!! thnks!
Amazing bass player! Greetings from México!!!
You're a legend mate!
Thanks Máster good job....saludos desde Honduras
I don't even play bro but love the sound of the bass. I may pick up the instrument now. You are an inspiration. I saw your q & a about the glove....wow is all I can say. You have a fan in me. Keep on grooving brotha.
Thanks Scott, Never thought of dat!😄
Excellent!
Cool lesson
Very great
Thanks
Great lesson thank you :)
This is a great lesson! It will solve my stretching problems I will add it to my log
These are great lessons, but I have to say the hardest part is pausing the video over and over to try to see the fingering. As a beginner there is no point of reference and assumptions are made about our ability to know/see the fretting. I understand the fingers shouldn't move as a technique, but the first run through could just show this in an exaggerated way and it would be clear. The 1st finger slide is very clear, but the 2nd finger slide or jump is harder to see? Thanks for the lesson!
gracias Scott
super like for the best teacher ever
What a great lesson ;)
good stuff
Good exercise. Next step is to relax the left hand even more and keep it moving to hit the frets as discussed at 4:53.
Oke mr. Scott. i purchased a 5 string bass....i like your video's....keep doing your stuff man thank you...for the lessons.
I really like this lesson. I have my fretless bass. And I gotta say some of that hand stretching i think is pretty tough for fretless 😅
playing 4 notes of scale on a single string, great idea:)
helpful lesson
"95%... for, you know, lack of data" hahaha I have to remember that one
Game changer.
Thank you for the great lesson! Does it make sense to practice other modes and scales in a similar manner?
Ive been playing guitar for 11 years now and i still find videos like this (i do realize thats a bass) are great for a new way of looking at old techniques. Also is that a robotic had? is that why its red?
watch this on repeat for 3 months 0:48, you will be amazed with your progress
Nice
The red gloves makes it really east to follow your fingers but what if you had white gloves but stained red lined down the center of each finger
Also were you just DI but your markbass wasn't plugged or were you running a different amp for this one
I have played bass for 40 years. Love your videos. Makes me realize that we never cease learning. You may have addressed this in another video but what type of glove do you wear on your left hand and for what reason? Thanks.
jimu57 he wears gloves due to medical condition (Focal Dystonia) .
Does Botox help?
jimu57 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_dystonia He's actually mentioned on the wikipedia page for it. It says on the bottom of the page that botox would help.
I had to read up on it. I thought I knew what it was but barely close. I can't imagine a guitarist having to deal with it. Unreal.
Great lesson. I actually had to stop myself from sliding with both my index finger and pinky to begin with!
Hey Scott 👋. Your videos are very helpful, but sometimes I have a problem staying focused.....not sure if you had exercises for that.
*pow....*pow lol. Great lesson!! Thanks man!
Thank you for the lesson. I can't wait to get practicing!
Btw, love the red glove. It's much easier to see your fretting hand finger positions than the gray glove (or even a bare hand, for that matter).
Nice looking Bass, is that Ash? I have been looking at a few Channel about playing the Bass, yours is by far the most informative. I don't own a Bass yet but it is something I have been interested in for a long time. I just never pulled the trigger on it.
Excellent. Francois Rabbath has a book on scales for contrabasse, 120 ways of playing CM in 3 octaves. Same thing. Do I KNOW my major scales? Well, I sure *thought* I did!
Just wondering around the end of the video, how does he play the bass like a guitar? (has a fingering like a chord on a acoustic/electric guitar) Really hope that I could learn that as it sounds awesome, would like to try it out myself! Anyways, great video, learnt a lot from it and still learning from your videos!
Amazing ... how do you do the harmonics harmonics? please i wanna know *-* make a lesson of that technique :D
Major Scales are the "wax on, wax off" of music.
This exercise is basically "paint the fence".
like this video. also, whats up with the gloved left hand.
Could you do a lesson on the licks you play as examples?
Scot your lessons are great, hundred questions about why gloves, but none of it was about bass you play, It has really pure clean bassy phenomenal sound? So what bass is it?
Great video! Can you do a tutorial on speed and control of the plucking hand? I find it much harder to play with 2 fingers rather than 1.
I have the same problem
Dw keep working it until it gets fluent. I myself feel awkward working but my ring finger in my playing. But keeping working it and when you look back you'll wonder how you ever played without it:)
start using pick?
ellgar eclaire I don't like the way a pick sounds all the time though.
This is a very good principle, although I prefer to space the slides less regularly and more comfortably, so I'd do this as E3-E5sE7-E8-A5sA7-A9-A10-D7sD9-D10-D12-G9-G11-G12. Doesn't sound as good in slowmo because of the slides not being equally spaced but it strains my small wrist so much less.
Scott, I think this are great exercises. And I would like to contribute with an input/idea. I would add to the rule that "try to avoid two half step slides". The way you show it here in the 1st exercise, the fingers have to stretch eight frets over the 1st string, with an index finger slide from C to D. Also, when moving from the 2nd string to the first there is a 5 fret jump. When you avoid two half step slides, your left hand fingers would only have to stretch over seven frets max. When playing the G scale, that would happen over the 2nd string. Besides, it is also more efficient when jumping from string to string, in this case, from the 2nd to the 1st string, where there is only a 4 fret jump. It results in a tighter shape and more efficient movements, IMO. What do you think?
Rufus Reed's "the evolving bassist" would suggest that when sliding up use the index finger, when sliding down use the pinky. Try it, it makes more sense.
Funny...just as I hit enter you went over that. So you're suggesting to learn to go up and down by sliding with both the index and pinky in both directions. That's a good idea too. Cheers
always wanted to ask, and today im doing so.. why do u wear the glove? is it for the tone
what's with the gloves? does it mute a little in that hand? also what kind of gloves are they and do they not constantly wear the finger tips out? Thx!
Does sliding with the pinky and index apply with minor chords as well?
Ossum
Sweet :)
i wanted to know about the glove as well but does it affect your playing at all
How did you do that pinky high harmonic the first time up to the 12th???
i have been playing bass guitaar for just 1 year but i dont hav proper exercises about bass will u please provide me those lessons please
How to get other videos please?just for learning other scales as you said
I need one of those in my hand . What is it?
Hi Scott, how do you do that clear and crispy harmonics?
probably a combination of multiple things, like touching as little of the string as possible (especially with higher pitched harmonics where you have to be pretty damn precise), plucking close to the bridge, EQ with a lot of treble and probably even the bass itself, cheaper ones generally don't have as good sounding harmonics as more sophisticated ones
hey man I want to know what amps name you used are?thx,
always mean to ask...what's w/ the glove? Better visibility for the student?
It's because he has a condition where his hand will shake unless it has some sort of contact with fabric.
Great Lesson , bonus of 9:09 (0,5 speed :v) to take another lesson Give thanks!
How about the diagonal fingering?
Hey I've got a 5 string bass, can you do a video on doing scales on a 5 string please
Tanner Michael Ruprecht it's the same thing but with an extra string. Just google the tab if you need to, but the exercise is the same
I'm a guitarist thinking about starting playing bass, which of these videos should I start with?
No video. Just fiddlin with your bass and finding your comfort
+Legendary Custer i just got a bass a week ago. just focus on the way you play with your right hand (plucking) its the hardest thing to get used to. you'll be able to figure it out once you get used to the plucking
+Legendary Custer I did the same thing 5 years ago... In retrospect, the best thing I did right from the beginning, was forcing myself to learn how to play bass fingerstyle, instead of just using a pick like I had been using for ever on guitar..
Where can I get a glove like that?
is it easier to play with a glove?
Kind of curious... what kind of glove is Scott wearing on his left hand. Does it help or hurt with sound. What is the advantage or disadvantage?
+Kevin Wolf kinda reduces the buzz during movement on the strings
Bullshit, sam. It's because of focal dystonia.
hey i'm from Brasil , i don't understand your language, but why do you use that in your left hand ,
dude turn up the heat in that place
I was praticing "All falls down"- Kanye West today and was struggling on the run on the 8th measure.
going up with the index slide you start on 2nd finger
going up with the pinky slide you start on the 1st finger
nice (Y)
This topic is one of 2 areas which opened up my playing. A QA discussed smaller hands and you showed that you can get the low down F# in time when even if being up there. So I checked some small hand players like Tal Wilkenfeld flying over the board. It's that fast 1 inch movement and no stretch or being stationary.
As a consequence of starting to move all over, the coin dropped that I can play the same thing anywhere instead of playing one thing in 1 place only.
Btw:) does she outplay you or not? ua-cam.com/video/P-8SO0kEUjs/v-deo.html