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Know The Two Types of Bass Practice And Save Yourself Hours Of Time

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In a previous bass lesson, I gave some bass practice tips on goal setting that guarantee musical growth in a short period of time.

Goals are great, however if you don’t have a clear vision of what you are setting these goals for, you could end up wasting a whole lot of time.

There are two types bass practice. And knowing the difference between these types of bass practice, is the key to a more direct and focused bass practice. Knowing these two types of bass practice tells you what goals you need to set and what weaknesses you need to focus on.

After all, with family, friends, pets, bills, and other excess drama in our lives, we most likely don’t have a lot of time in our day. As much as we want to become a master of everything in this world, our time is better spent with focus. There is an old saying, “Jack of all trades, master of nothing.”

So, learn the two types of bass practice, decide which type of bass practice you need to focus on for your life situation, and begin your journey toward a path of accelerated learning.

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How Target Notes and Chromaticism Can Simplify Soloing Over Giant Steps Chords

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Soloing over Giant Steps chords can be drastically simplified by focusing your efforts on target notes. Complex sounding lines quickly begin to materialize by leading to the target notes using simple chromaticism.

I shared this simple method in the past, but I wanted to elaborate on it further.

I highly recommend mastering this simple method, for it is effective for creating simple lines that have strong melodic direction with harmonic implication.

Harmonic clarity is very important in jazz improvisation, however, depending on what type of vibe you are trying to create, implied harmony that has strong melodic direction can create a very interesting kind of tension.

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Classical Guitar Position for Bass Guitar

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Here is a simple and unique approach on how to hold a bass guitar in a classical guitar position.

This approach for holding a bass guitar stemmed from exploring the classical guitar position and posture. Ultimately, it became more of an upright bass position for the electric bass guitar.

What I found was that:

  1. my wrists remained in a neutral position
  2. my shoulders remained dropped and relaxed
  3. my elbows also remained dropped and relaxed

This allowed me great access to my fingerboard when exploring solo bass guitar style playing and chordal playing. Also, I found that I could easily switch between finger-style bass playing to slap bass playing without having to adjust any position of my arm and wrist.

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Pep Up Your Minor Pentatonic Scales With These 5 Potent Tones!

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Learn 5 potent tones guaranteed to pep up your minor pentatonic scales!

This concept is extremely simple and can be applied to all of your minor pentatonic scales.

Execute extremely funky results that are perfect for funk jams, slap bass licks, and bass solos over static chords!

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Achieve Musical Freedom In A Fraction Of The Time!

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Achieving musical freedom is less about practice and more about a mindset.

Adopt the proper mindset for playing the bass guitar and musical freedom falls at your fingertips.

Here are 4 easy tips that puts you one step closer to achieving total musical freedom on the bass guitar. It’s time to start playing the bass guitar how you’ve always wanted!

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