Mark .... thank you. I bought your course 2 years ago, and because of it I can read bass music today I'm not where I should be because of lack of motivation but from time to time when i get the vibes I practice and it feels like I never stopped. *Great course, I highly recommend.*
It's pretty simple, and I think guitar and bass gives you a lot of freedom with the note you choose since I believe on guitar the same note repeats about 2.8 on average on the fretboard. Which note you use depends on the context. I would start off using only the first 4 frets of the instrument to start off with, since that is where you find most of the unique notes. Once you need to read more difficult music, you will have to branch out, but that will come naturally. It all comes down to fingering, as you don't want to play a note on the 4th fret while the second note is on the 13th fret, for example.
@@haverelmink this is a very late reply and i think you already know how this works but ima say it anyways. it doesnt really matter which strings you use to play what notes on, in jazz you mostly play high notes on the G string for the bright tone, but not only that walking bass line can be hard to play that’s why when you play walking bass line you use the notes wherever your hand is. But personally i love playing high notes on the D string bc of the warm tone, like for rock music, playing straight 8th notes higher notes on a lower string gives you a better and warmer tone, but sometimes they want a bright sound playing G on the D string would be a better option for the bright tone. To sum it up it depends on what tone you really want, so whatever is on the page is just what it’s telling you to play.
here's a cool hack for memorizing the notes: take an exercise book for bass. now write the note names above the lines in the book for every note you can find in there. go through the whole book - that might take an hour or so. i promise after that you will instantly recognize them from there on;) Rhythm is another story:D
javajimmy1090 Because it’s a waste of time and in the end, if you practice hard enough you can recognize instantly the notes without reading their name above it. You’ll never learn to read fast if you have to write the notes above it.
Xillany Read through music books and learn to recognize the notes by where the note is placed in the staff. It takes a lot of time and it’s very slow at the beginning, but if you practice it a bit every day you’ll see a huge difference. When I got in college I could barely read music notes and now I can play a lot of things I’ve never practiced just by sight reading. Very useful skill if you plan on playing with other people, accompanying or teaching music. It’s okay to have a reference note and just go one by one, for example theres a notes on the fifth line from down to up, your reference note is the F on the fourth line and count F-G-A. Mastering reading from down to up and vice versa is pretty useful too, I used the french system so it’s do re mi instead of C D E and I had to learn saying do re mi fa sol la si do starting from any notes and say them fluently backwards.
Thank you very much! With your lessons every problem become stair on a ladder :) I bought a bass guitar less than 2 months ago and with your lessons I made some seven-mile-steps!
I start my bass lessons this Thursday, (3 days time) and I learnt how to read tab and can read some sheat due to previous music experience but wanted to touch up before the lesson
Hi Mark, regarding note length names, we in The Netherlands call a whole note a whole note, a quarter note a quarter note, an eighth note and so on. I know some people (like in church music) use the names breve, semi breve etc..
Those notes for bass guitar are written an octave higher than they actually sound. So if someone is using music written on the grand staff for piano, it's also helpful to learn to read all the notes an octave lower, if you want it to sound exactly as it's written for piano.
Great vid. Thx. From my experience - Do learn syncopated rhythms soon as you did some progress as old/new funk, fusion ect. is ALL about syncopation . I have spent nearly two years learning things on strong beats and then was struggling with stuff like lets say "i want you back" jackson 5. Sadly (IMO) all good music is syncopated...
I am a better vocalist than bassist and often hear things like "I can sing an F6 or Sting can hit a G whatever. The open string E, or the B on a 5-string, are they E1/B1 or E3/B3 or what? Also, how do these low (pedal) notes compare to the lowest notes on a piano keyboard or the pedals on a pipe organ?
Mark B ... I saw your comment in Jamie Lewis' "Sight read Sunday"... small world huh? ... I guess there are only so many quality bass teachers online. Mark (this one) is by far one of the best teachers there is... also one of the most under rated. I learned to sight read on bass purely through his teachings. Even with your condition I'm sure step by step Mark's course can get you reading.
You might find this page useful: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/educator/music-and-dyslexia One specific thing that might be worth exploring: use different colour highlighters to group notes together so that you see the colour blocks first. This may help to anchor the notes within each block. Good luck.
Great video, Mark. I've been using your sight reading course for the last few months and I can say, for me, it's definitely worth it. I tried to go too fast (at first) and was quickly over my head so I'm going nice a slow now. Can't build a house without a good foundation unless you want it to sink and/or fall apart.
This guy spends like an hour before the video evenn starts, and on youtube, I've switched off 1/4 way into the fucking 79087097908 hour intro. Talking Bass, l like what you do, but god damn, people don't want to hear talking and anecdotes, show us and talk when in service of the tutorial. Seriously, one of the things that stopped me from signing up for these bass courses, these guys don't know if they want to be youtube stars or instructors.
my mom forced me into band, and my music teacher mainly taught the flutes and stuff and not the bassistes, at this point im gonna self teach and this looks like a cool start! cant wait to start trying to figure out music
You don't 'have' to be able to read to be able to play music. But... reading is obviously great for getting gigs that require reading (90% of the gigs I've done over the past 20 years) and on a more direct level, it helps you learn your fingerboard REALLY well and improves your knowledge of rhythm.
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Mark .... thank you. I bought your course 2 years ago, and because of it I can read bass music today I'm not where I should be because of lack of motivation but from time to time when i get the vibes I practice and it feels like I never stopped.
*Great course, I highly recommend.*
Not for 220 pounds when I can't even afford an amp
I know how to read music, just don’t know how to translate it to my bass guitar
Me too
The bass guitar is a chramatic scale bassicaly
It's pretty simple, and I think guitar and bass gives you a lot of freedom with the note you choose since I believe on guitar the same note repeats about 2.8 on average on the fretboard. Which note you use depends on the context. I would start off using only the first 4 frets of the instrument to start off with, since that is where you find most of the unique notes. Once you need to read more difficult music, you will have to branch out, but that will come naturally. It all comes down to fingering, as you don't want to play a note on the 4th fret while the second note is on the 13th fret, for example.
@@haverelmink this is a very late reply and i think you already know how this works but ima say it anyways. it doesnt really matter which strings you use to play what notes on, in jazz you mostly play high notes on the G string for the bright tone, but not only that walking bass line can be hard to play that’s why when you play walking bass line you use the notes wherever your hand is. But personally i love playing high notes on the D string bc of the warm tone, like for rock music, playing straight 8th notes higher notes on a lower string gives you a better and warmer tone, but sometimes they want a bright sound playing G on the D string would be a better option for the bright tone. To sum it up it depends on what tone you really want, so whatever is on the page is just what it’s telling you to play.
update , did u ever figure it out ?😂
here's a cool hack for memorizing the notes: take an exercise book for bass. now write the note names above the lines in the book for every note you can find in there. go through the whole book - that might take an hour or so. i promise after that you will instantly recognize them from there on;)
Rhythm is another story:D
Marvioo B The first thing you learn in music college is to never do that lol
@@Cubi.Nguyen But why not?
javajimmy1090 Because it’s a waste of time and in the end, if you practice hard enough you can recognize instantly the notes without reading their name above it. You’ll never learn to read fast if you have to write the notes above it.
@@Cubi.Nguyen then what is the way to practice this?
Xillany Read through music books and learn to recognize the notes by where the note is placed in the staff. It takes a lot of time and it’s very slow at the beginning, but if you practice it a bit every day you’ll see a huge difference. When I got in college I could barely read music notes and now I can play a lot of things I’ve never practiced just by sight reading. Very useful skill if you plan on playing with other people, accompanying or teaching music. It’s okay to have a reference note and just go one by one, for example theres a notes on the fifth line from down to up, your reference note is the F on the fourth line and count F-G-A. Mastering reading from down to up and vice versa is pretty useful too, I used the french system so it’s do re mi instead of C D E and I had to learn saying do re mi fa sol la si do starting from any notes and say them fluently backwards.
Thank you sooo much! I just started jazz band yesterday and im playing bass.. This is very useful.
Fuckers wouldn't let me in because I couldn't read music, told me if I work hard in a year I could be in it. Took me a week to be better than everyone
Bro. I’m on scholarship in my university’s jazz band on bass and I’m a guitar and sax player. I’ve never read bass clef before in my life.
@@maxwelledison9954 perhaps if u didn't spend so much time majoring in medicine
Thank you very much! With your lessons every problem become stair on a ladder :) I bought a bass guitar less than 2 months ago and with your lessons I made some seven-mile-steps!
3:57 Well, that gave me a chuckle. You rock, Mark!
Finn V. Arthur good ol' 50/50. I like those odds
I start my bass lessons this Thursday, (3 days time) and I learnt how to read tab and can read some sheat due to previous music experience but wanted to touch up before the lesson
how do yk what string to use on the bass when it’s the same note
I'm a tuba player trying to pick up bass guitar. Your info is great.
Hi Mark, regarding note length names, we in The Netherlands call a whole note a whole note, a quarter note a quarter note, an eighth note and so on. I know some people (like in church music) use the names breve, semi breve etc..
I Play the cello and I was so happy when I saw how similar the straves note orders are
That is a pretty damned good explanation for a short time.
Those notes for bass guitar are written an octave higher than they actually sound. So if someone is using music written on the grand staff for piano, it's also helpful to learn to read all the notes an octave lower, if you want it to sound exactly as it's written for piano.
Great vid. Thx. From my experience - Do learn syncopated rhythms soon as you did some progress as old/new funk, fusion ect. is ALL about syncopation . I have spent nearly two years learning things on strong beats and then was struggling with stuff like lets say "i want you back" jackson 5. Sadly (IMO) all good music is syncopated...
Me at 4 am trying to learn how to play on the bass I don't even have. Edit: Nvm yall I got an electric guitar
What do you do if there are notes on ledger lines below the low e? Does that mean you have to tune the bass lower?
Thank you so much for this!
I am a better vocalist than bassist and often hear things like "I can sing an F6 or Sting can hit a G whatever. The open string E, or the B on a 5-string, are they E1/B1 or E3/B3 or what? Also, how do these low (pedal) notes compare to the lowest notes on a piano keyboard or the pedals on a pipe organ?
Someone's caught the sun! :)
Donnie David either that or I just haven't showered for a while!
i need to learn this for an awesome song i wanna cover but jeasus i am shit at learning this stuff.. lol
The problem i have reading music is that I'm dyslexic and the notes actually jump around on the stave as I'm looking at them.
I have the same problem so I play by ear and hand positioning.
Seems I reverse the last few letters in every fourth word.
Mark B ... I saw your comment in Jamie Lewis' "Sight read Sunday"... small world huh? ... I guess there are only so many quality bass teachers online. Mark (this one) is by far one of the best teachers there is... also one of the most under rated. I learned to sight read on bass purely through his teachings. Even with your condition I'm sure step by step Mark's course can get you reading.
You might find this page useful: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/educator/music-and-dyslexia
One specific thing that might be worth exploring: use different colour highlighters to group notes together so that you see the colour blocks first. This may help to anchor the notes within each block.
Good luck.
thanks Rashy '
thanks Paul '
super chief
Sorry, unintended pun fucking got me laughing so hard even though it was so bad
Baloney! sighting reading comes from continues reading and playing! He's talks about learning to read but nothing about site reading.
my mom told me to keep away from bars........................just kidding
Weird FPS
You're like the bass dad I never had! *sad laughter*
I'm a simple guy. I see "sight read in short time" I click immediately.
I can across your video via Pronto learner compendium - there are plenty more good videos there that will help you
Isn't that the tune Homer played?
lmao ye
I solved the sight reading problem by only being in rocky blues bands where no one reads music and most struggle to write their name
Thanks for this lesson so much, Mark! Please, continue!
Lol I hope this works I have a school concert in a little while and haven’t touched the base
Great video, Mark. I've been using your sight reading course for the last few months and I can say, for me, it's definitely worth it. I tried to go too fast (at first) and was quickly over my head so I'm going nice a slow now. Can't build a house without a good foundation unless you want it to sink and/or fall apart.
Love your explanation ❤
1:52 hell yeah i already know about bars. i’ll drink to that
This guy spends like an hour before the video evenn starts, and on youtube, I've switched off 1/4 way into the fucking 79087097908 hour intro. Talking Bass, l like what you do, but god damn, people don't want to hear talking and anecdotes, show us and talk when in service of the tutorial. Seriously, one of the things that stopped me from signing up for these bass courses, these guys don't know if they want to be youtube stars or instructors.
Taa marky,ive just read my first piece of music, ❤
my mom forced me into band, and my music teacher mainly taught the flutes and stuff and not the bassistes, at this point im gonna self teach and this looks like a cool start! cant wait to start trying to figure out music
Would like to say thank you, been playing since August of 2020 and I never learned how to read music and thought I should since I wanna join jazz band
love being a bass player for 8 years and a tuba player for 6 and still struggle to recognise alternate fingeringd when reading music instead of tab
put myself back in the beginners seat ..so I can read bass music....love that quote thank you.
That E is E1 or E2 ?
I need a lot of motivation to level my earring process to be equal of my sight reading.
That was a E not G
You mean the bottom line of the staff? That's a G.
This is so helpful seriously! Thank you!
you are such a great teacher!
Great sir ....from INDIA
This actually helped a lot
Thank you maestro!
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great lessons sir, any chance that you can make a tutorial on how to play the intro riff of your videos ? thanks
Already done it: ruclips.net/video/egdCU4Z-wUU/видео.html
hey mahn! your lessons are awesome but for a musician why is it important to sight read when I can listen and play well?
You don't 'have' to be able to read to be able to play music. But... reading is obviously great for getting gigs that require reading (90% of the gigs I've done over the past 20 years) and on a more direct level, it helps you learn your fingerboard REALLY well and improves your knowledge of rhythm.
TalkingBass - Online Bass Lessons thanks mahn
love the vid
but this homie looks like gay flea
Come on, don't insult the man, he's doing his best for all of us!
I wouldn't mind that but unfortunately I'm not gay and don't look like Flea. Good idea though. I'll look into it.