I think this is the single most important lesson for us beginners. I’ve been using open strings as crutches because of the stretches I thought were required for legato notes. This will fix it. Thanks Mark! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
He taught the pivoting with the thumb technique in another video when I first started watching, swinging the hand from low register to high register. That was an eye opener and fun to practice.
I really struggled with this too. One thing that really helped is noting where I looked - I would look at my hand (and tense up), but looking at the fret I'm aiming for helped with the tensing and my playing.
Nice to see you doing real Bass. lessons, while SBS has descended into some kind ofmagazine chitchat,Gear freaky rocket science about Bass playing.its all very well but nothing really super informative like here--- Please keep the format don't change it
So agree with you! i have give up with SBS as you hit the nail on the head!, it seems to be more of a channel look what i can do with me mates. Marks channel is the best online for learning 1st class teacher, and as you mention in your post hope he never changes the format of how he teaches.
Wow! Mark what a fantastic lesson as a newbie of only a year since i started, when i found this lesson i started laughing and thought that is exactly the problem i have and struggled to work out this problem even asking my tutor which did not solve this problem but watching and listening intently to your video, it all made sense to me how to do this and have gone to work on it straight away and within a couple of try's i was making progress. I can only thank you for highlighting such a simple problem but annoying problem i have been struggling with and now feel free from frustration. A brilliant and excellent lesson. Again thank you.
Thanks Mark. Good lesson and good reminder for even experienced players. It's nice to be reminded of technique or something you don't really think about as you play, just to make sure you are doing it correctly. And I am digging the new background. Thanks for sharing!
I'm currently learning Hot Water by Level 42 (your lesson) and the shifting in the end of the fingerstyle intro from E to B on the A string is really challenging at the actual tempo. So I think it's better to play the B on the E string so you shift 1 fret less, from B to G on the E string.
I never suffered from this and I wonder if it was because I was playing guitar chords and solos before bass, trying to sound like other seasoned guitarists. On guitar you had to learn to hold down strings because this technique failing would have sounded even worse on the six string instruments.
@@KristonMahr Yes, I’ve talked about this multiple times but always from a different perspective. Plus, I am trying to redo some of the older topics. I always assume people have seen all my vids when coming up with new ones. But there are over 750 of them. I bet there are less than 10 people that have seen them all.
@@talkingbasslessons Well said Mark this video is gold to me as learner thank you, and it is always important to have a refresher course no matter what skill level you are now and then
Hence my use of the term legato. But this video is concerned with unintentional staccato notes or held notes with a tiny pause due to deficiencies in technique. Note duration of any amount should be controlled by the player. It shouldn't be due to bad technique.
You’d be angry too if you’d been held in a green void like this, forced to present bass lessons to the people of planet Earth. One day I will escape and have my vengeance. In this life or the next.
@@DmitryIsc199 no ones forcing you to watch. it was great the way it was. it separated him from the rest of the bedroom teachers who prioritised their set and ego over the informational content.
Digging the background. Easier on the eyes than white.
I actually like the new background now that you have adjusted the color tones
NEW BACKGROND!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this is the single most important lesson for us beginners. I’ve been using open strings as crutches because of the stretches I thought were required for legato notes. This will fix it. Thanks Mark! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
He taught the pivoting with the thumb technique in another video when I first started watching, swinging the hand from low register to high register. That was an eye opener and fun to practice.
I really struggled with this too. One thing that really helped is noting where I looked - I would look at my hand (and tense up), but looking at the fret I'm aiming for helped with the tensing and my playing.
Nice to see you doing real Bass. lessons, while SBS has descended into some kind ofmagazine chitchat,Gear freaky rocket science about Bass playing.its all very well but nothing really super informative like here---
Please keep the format don't change it
Who is SBS?
So agree with you! i have give up with SBS as you hit the nail on the head!, it seems to be more of a channel look what i can do with me mates. Marks channel is the best online for learning 1st class teacher, and as you mention in your post hope he never changes the format of how he teaches.
@@rodoherty1Think he means SBL (Scott's Bass Lessons)
Thank you very much, I will pay more attention to this.
All the best.
Wow! Mark what a fantastic lesson as a newbie of only a year since i started, when i found this lesson i started laughing and thought that is exactly the problem i have and struggled to work out this problem even asking my tutor which did not solve this problem but watching and listening intently to your video, it all made sense to me how to do this and have gone to work on it straight away and within a couple of try's i was making progress. I can only thank you for highlighting such a simple problem but annoying problem i have been struggling with and now feel free from frustration. A brilliant and excellent lesson. Again thank you.
Glad to see a change in background,Everyone does the white background, but honestly,I was just watching the lesson.
Yea, me too. I don’t see the difference between black and white.😊
Love the background ! My burned corneas are healing.
Thanks Mark that was really good. Something I did not know about. The correct note duration. I will work on that.
Thanks Mark. Good lesson and good reminder for even experienced players. It's nice to be reminded of technique or something you don't really think about as you play, just to make sure you are doing it correctly. And I am digging the new background. Thanks for sharing!
Very helpful for this senior bass student!
I'm currently learning Hot Water by Level 42 (your lesson) and the shifting in the end of the fingerstyle intro from E to B on the A string is really challenging at the actual tempo. So I think it's better to play the B on the E string so you shift 1 fret less, from B to G on the E string.
If it sounds the same... or "if the song remains the same." cheers.
God I wish I'd seen this lesson before trashing my hand trying to do the one-finger-per-fret thing. Thank you!
Very usefull Many Thanks
"Ahs and Umms?! Were/are you a Toastmaster?
Cheers and Well Done.
I never suffered from this and I wonder if it was because I was playing guitar chords and solos before bass, trying to sound like other seasoned guitarists. On guitar you had to learn to hold down strings because this technique failing would have sounded even worse on the six string instruments.
Mm having a “Deja Vue” ..
Is this a repeat of one of your earlier ( long time back) lessons perhaps?
Just said the same thing in a comment. It might be to catch viewers up.
@@KristonMahr Yes, I’ve talked about this multiple times but always from a different perspective. Plus, I am trying to redo some of the older topics. I always assume people have seen all my vids when coming up with new ones. But there are over 750 of them. I bet there are less than 10 people that have seen them all.
@@talkingbasslessons Well said Mark this video is gold to me as learner thank you, and it is always important to have a refresher course no matter what skill level you are now and then
Thank you
John Entwistle
That was actually, exactly what I thought it would be.
Oh my god they listened to background comments😭💕
So true 👍
although tbh seems like you are just describing legato vs stacatto
Hence my use of the term legato. But this video is concerned with unintentional staccato notes or held notes with a tiny pause due to deficiencies in technique. Note duration of any amount should be controlled by the player. It shouldn't be due to bad technique.
flying fingers syndrome. no reason to have your fingers anywhere except over the fretboard
"The staccato issue". 🤪
He seems so angry. But good lesson!
You’d be angry too if you’d been held in a green void like this, forced to present bass lessons to the people of planet Earth. One day I will escape and have my vengeance. In this life or the next.
No man hands(Seinfeld) required
No! What is the problem? 😂
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the new background is distracting
please go back to the plain white
vice versa. white was too bright.
I actually like this one better
@@DmitryIsc199 no ones forcing you to watch. it was great the way it was. it separated him from the rest of the bedroom teachers who prioritised their set and ego over the informational content.
distracting lol
i had to scroll up and to see it after i read your comment.
Different strokes, I guess. I much prefer this over the eye piercing white.