Saturday 25 July 2009

Bass Video Lessons: Improve Your Playing

By Kelly Stover

The most important ingredient to getting a good bass sound is the player's technique. No matter how advanced, expensive, or high-tech your bass rig is, if the player you're trying to record has substandard technique, you really should be expecting to get a substandard

Whether you want to learn flashy new skills or maybe even just learn about bass scales, it's possible to do everything you could have ever wanted. There is a great number of different skills involved with playing the bass guitar that it would be nigh on impossible to master everyone but having fun is surely the most important issue.

If one grasps the notes of a regular guitar through his ears, a bass player grabs the notes of a bass guitar through his chest. The bass guitar pounds on the heart and gives it feelings through the depth of the music. Learn the notes (single chords) on a regular guitar.

Choose a bass guitar and familiarize yourself in holding it. The "waist" or the slope of the body of the guitar would fit perfectly on your thigh while sitting. Regularly exercise the flexibility of your fingers by alternately tapping each on a flat surface so that strumming the notes will not be a problem.

So, now you've got to actually LEARN. There are basic techniques that will help you to achieve success in a few steps, so don't over look them. You should be open-minded to properly learn ALL that you can.

Now that you already know the really basic stuff, you should take a quick peek on other important topics. Scales, techniques, learning songs and lines is the next step for a starter.

Time spent practicing is rapidly rewarded in the early stages of learning an instrument. And the electric bass is not as difficult to get a sound from as many other instruments (provided of course, that you have an amplifier!).

Hope that this helps you take the first steps in learning bass. You should be able to express yourself, of course. But without this information, there are no elements available for expressing yourself!

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