Bass Mistakes That Are SLOWING You Down
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Stop wasting time in the shed - shave years off your practice by avoiding these 5 common bass mistakes.
You can’t unsee this lesson - by the end of it you’ll know how to:
- Stop repeating mistakes
- How to practice bass more efficiently
- Structure your practice to avoid time-wasting
- Stay out of panic mode on a gig
- Recognize patterns that help you remember songs and bass lines
- Learn songs at the right level for you
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Gear used in the video (not affiliated):
2016 Squier Vintage Modified Jazz with Audere preamp
GruvGear SoloStrap Neo 4”
Noble DI
Audient iD 14
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Adding timestamps for my own reference (and maybe yours too!):
0:21 Mistake #1: Practicing Too Fast
3:18 Mistake #2: Starting with Noodling
5:34 Mistake #3: Not Planning Fingerings
9:33 Mistake #4: Not Knowing Theory
12:44 Mistake #5: Trying to Learn Jamiroquai Songs (JK Super Hard Songs)
Thank you for the quality advice as usual Josh!
thank you!
Bonus tip: when everything else fails, don't forget to smile and move rhythmically as you play. Just remember that 90% of people doesn't even know how the bass sounds or would be able to identify it anyway
Yuuup truth
Grow dreads, people will just assume you know what you’re doing
@@andreaholcock8992 totally.
@@andreaholcock8992 or that you ignore basic personal hygiene
😂😂😂😂
My old band director said practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent. Always appreciated that advice.
Ooh I like that
now he is going to use that in a video i'm calling it
All credits go to Mr. Jeff Slepak, he’s a pretty nasty trombone player too
perfect practice makes perfect:)
That's hands down the best advice I've ever heard
I'm autistic and just picked up a bass 3 days ago. Thank you for explaining (while also showing) the "why" along with the "what" and then also repeating the same idea using different words. 🥰 Yours is the first music related RUclips video I've been able to finish. 🤩
I'm autistic too, been playing bass since I was 17. Your description made me understand why I like Josh's lessons, and I'm sure his soft, kind demeanor helps me too.
Samesies! I’m about to buy a bass myself and these lessons are helpful for preparing
@@Readydaer omg do it! 🤩 I got songster app for the tabs to kinda see what's up with the fingers and strings. I'll have to write down the tabs to remember them. RUclips let's you slow videos to 75%, it's choppy but works. Then I bought songster to get BT audio and speed reduction. I totally love my Ibanez bass... Everyone who hears it say it's the cleanest bass they've heard. You're welcome to follow me and ask questions on my newb bass stuff. I probably won't know what but I can at least say what I did.
@@iflifewaseasy I see, thanks for the info!
im autistic too this is exactly why i like his videos omg!
You are very understandable for non-English speakers even without use of subtitles. Thanks for your lessons!
Good to hear!
Just some different perspectives on a couple of these points: While watching live footage of the bass player of whatever song you're trying to figure out is helpful, keep in mind that they aren't necessarily the epitome of technique just because they are in a band. Also, often times performers will compromise good technique while playing live for the sake of an entertaining performance.
Barring your finger is the last resort on bass! The chorus on Hysteria for example, would be more comfortably played with your index and then middle finger. Josh has bigger hands, so it's easier for him to barre. Barring is very straining for most people, especially across multiple strings on bass, and lower on the fretboard. Do what is comfortable for you.
Nice progress on your video content Josh! They feel much more refined and smooth
Lots of thoughts in my mind right now. But this one might be one of the best, mind-blowing, mind-expanding videos I've seen to date. Honestly, as a 'forever beginner', I ENJOY challenge too much. Which doesn't mean I always succeed, and here you've just explained to me exactly WHY. So, thanks for this, it's an excellent guide to start correcting bad habits! I still have to learn how to play slap in a few weeks, so I'm still in deep dip, but now I know I can make a plan. And that's a start.
Glad this was helpful Manuel!
Understanding music theory massively speeds up my learning at the moment. I often find patterns whilst learning the bass because of it. That helps a lot and it helps me find my way about the fret board. For example finding the roots when playing/learning the minor pentatonic scale over the entire board
I appreciate your content so much, josh!
I purchased your beginner to badass course back in 2021, got about 70% of the way through it, and just fell off playing for the last couple of years. I'm just getting back into it, and I've been doing all of this!
As a self-taught-bassist, who has felt so lost trying to learn an instrument on my own, your content has given me structure and tips that have helped me more than anything. I consider you my teacher, and you have taught me so much. Thank you for doing what you do!
Glad you're getting back into the course! 🤘
this is for everyone who says playing bAss is easy xD
School of Rock made it look easy
@@davidapodaca6827 aye that’s facts
I wish😭
Yeah, it might look easy, but try and play like Jaco Pastorius!
The way I see it bass is much harder because it has to be perfect. You can slop around on guitar and get away with it easy. Bass has to hit firm, and correct, every time.
For #2 I consider starting noodling for a few minutes as warmup. Agree100% with finger patterns. Plan ahead makes songs easier - especially when you can roll on a 1/5 sequence. Another great video - thanks!
Yep, a few deliberate noodles can definitely work as a warmup! Thanks David.
I agree with noodling first. If you’re not warmed up enough to do a familiar noodle, you’re not ready to take on something unfamiliar yet.
Fingering consistency is key. I also never struggled with BUT I recently injured my pinky and have been using just three fingers while it heals. I've straight up gotten the yips and forgotten how to play songs that I know cold, all because I tried to switch to a new fingering.
I'll be so glad when my picky gets back online! 😂
Josh you are the best bass explainerator in the universe! Many thanks for making it fun to learn bass on many levels!
I finished reading "the talent code" not so long ago and I found it a fascinating and practical book that has definitely changed the way I practice
Totally! He's written a lot of great stuff.
You quickly are becoming my favorite instructor! Just beginning on the bass. Seems to be too many that think they can teach or ones that go so fast you can't keep up. Thank you Josh and crew!
Thanks Yota, welcome to the bass family!
My wife caught me slacking off in here on You Tube but once she realized I was working on bettering my fingering technique, all was good. :) - that aside, you have the #1 best Bass videos on YT.
Hey, just wanted to let you know that you're a great teacher and that these lessons are on point and invaluable! Just like you, I was lucky to have a great bass teacher when I started playing bass so all these concepts are not new to me but it's good to have a memory refresh once in a while. I've reintroduced some of your basic exercises into my practice sessions again and it helped me to a lot to achieve much higher consistency in my playing.
I feel so good about your mentoring in this video. It's been very helpful
Watching this video, I realized I've been avoiding most of these mistakes because of singing in choir all through school (my conductor in high school...the football players would have rather been at practice), but then getting the fact i'm not pushing myself to advance beacause what I'm doing is fillilng the needs of my band.
Yes, it's important to go beyond the needs of the band. Some stuff stays personal but now and again you can bring something to the band that you wouldn't otherwise have thought of. Even if it's an "only play what's on the record" covers band you could still bring new songs that the others might not have thought of.
You mentioned learning something from every song even easy ones, and one for me that I learned about how much of a difference muting notes makes that some of my other music loving friends don't seem to be as aware of was Sunshine of Your Love like you mentioned. He lets those last few notes ring sometimes and sometimes he mutes them pretty quick and realizing how big of a difference that makes for the feel of a song really helped me learn the place a bass often takes in rock music in particular but how feel as a whole is perceived in music
Thank you for always motivating me to practice bass just with uploading another video! :D
I shall follow this path, sensei, because You know it well and show it well.
HOW to learn is key. Great job Josh!
Thanks Rory!
Josh you are the best! You make learning this chunk of strung up wood and metal to a 60 year old newbie a lot less stressful! Your channel is awesome and thank you! You funny man!😂😂😂🎸
Thanks Michael!
Hi can I have Bach tab
That transition at @3:18 is impressively well done and smooth 👌
I find it comforting to realize I was doing all of these from day one without even thinking about it :))
Like most beginner bassists nowadays, I subscribed to a handful of RUclips channels to try to learn how to play the instrument. Of all the channels I've subscribed to, yours has been the most helpful. You are an excellent teacher. And the extra mile you go to make the videos entertaining helps keep the leaning fun. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. You're a household regular, lol. If I ever run into you I'm shaking your hand and buying you a beer. 🎸
These videos always put things in such great perspective for me, and make me so excited to get back in the practice room so I can play better! Thanks Josh!!
You're welcome, glad they're helpful! :)
Oh man, mistake 5 hit hard. During my first year of leaning bass, I tried to learn some parts from Dream Theater's Metropolis 1 and it took me years playing them consistently since it was way to complicated and my mistakes just got wired in...
one better from primus and higher ground rhcp is what i did this on, i got ok playing the chorus of them before i quit playing but man did i waist a lot of time lol. So baked in now though i don't think i could ever forget them.
Thanks for all the things you bring to the bass teaching world. 🙏
You're welcome Chris!
I love how you keep/increase the quality of your videos man. Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷
Thanks Guilherme!
This video, I think, is one of the best things for any novice bass player to invest 16 minutes into. I've learned two other instruments before and found everything to be valid and crucial.
What a value, these are such great pieces of advice! Even while knowing this just being reminded helps solidify how important it is!!!! Thank you
Josh you're amazing! Ive made more progress with your videos in three months than I have the last two years :,) thank you! I learn something new everyday
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
From Brazil 🇧🇷
Excellent video. Students can often jump ten bears at a time but it's student dependant. You've given them the best advice.
Thank you for good contents!
Super helpful 😆
And super funny😂😂😂 I really love your sense of joyful delivery
Picking up the bass again after a trying to learn it a year ago and all of these videos are awesome! You've really sparked my interest in the bass again. Thank you for being an awesome teacher! Keep up the great work!
Me: *takes a break from bass for a few months*
Me: *comes back to bass*
Josh: *still making top tier bass content*
Thanks, welcome back to bass!
Watching a Jamiroquai cover 5 years ago inspired me to pick up a bass for the first time. And I have made EVERY ONE of the mistakes you describe 🤣 and I'm thinking, it's been 5 years...where is my progress?? SO, I bought your course! Wish me luck un-learning some of these hard-wired bad habits!! 😉
Hope you dig the course Frank!
The crazy thing is I wrote down some bass chords and all the notes on the bass.I've had my bass for 2 years. I feel like I unlocked a whole new world.
My current trick re noodling is that i make myself do it without using the index finger on my fretting hand. It forces me to stretch and to use my weaker fingers, especially (as Francine Smith says) my pinkie
As someone who hit a plateau, this was one of the most helpful bass vids I’ve seen!
Great tips! Also, RUclips has made it 1000 times easier to learn songs than back in the day when we had to keep rewinding the tape and trying to hear through all the other instruments in the song to figure out what we were trying to learn. No excuse these days to digging in and learning songs.
When Josh talks bass I listen
👏👏👏👏👏👏 ahhh this is what i tell my guitar and piano students all the time!!!!
hey, I've been playing bass for awhile and I've never had any training besides these vids, now I've got a band and can play hysteria. thank you.
I wasn’t expecting to fall in love suddenly with a funny, humourous, smart and talented youtuber. Just came here to get some bass tips 🥲 Now I have to be very busy for watching all his videos just to have some more tips.
I love this, I recognize everything I used to do and all the subjects you touch are subjects my teacher has spent so much time on with me over the years. Pretty cool stuff and a great video!
I'm on a two week trip away from my bass and your vids feel like watching cooking videos at midnight
Great video. Looks like I'm gonna have to buckle down and change some of my practice habits.
good point. getting back to my Fender Fretless jazz and getting accurate is my goal.If I try to fast accuracy suffers.I wish ya did a fretless lesson.
One thing that my teacher in music school made me do to get my bass broccoli was to keep a practice planner and journal. It helped keep me focused.
Totally, practice journal is super important!
honestly I was coming into this thinking it was a joke, but it was actually helpful
So many bassists play dirty while plucking due to bad fingering technique. You however always play clean AF. Best tip today if you ask me. 👍🏽
Will you eventually post an original composition maybe on your personal channel? These lessons are the the best on RUclips, but sometimes I just want to see you play.
I would like to! It's been too long.
I've only JUST started playing and this is my first time playing a string instrument with the intention to actually learn it. A mistake I've made in my first four days of practise was not learning how to PLAY the instrument, I started and I was picking the strings with my thumb and only using one finger to play the frets, BIG mistake because when I learned that, that is not a amazing or easy way to play I had to re-start and re-train my brain :( But all is well I am still trying and binge watching beginner tutorials such as the ones on your channel :)
i know sunshine of your love but ill try learning the last song, also thanks for opening my third eye of mistakes it really helped me when playing the bass efficiently
Dude, thank you SO MUCH for making these videos! I’ve been learning quite a lot just by watching and practicing some of the things you say. Practicing slower, getting my muscle memory, and then progressively quickening my tempo, I’m learning pretty quickly. I got a bass only two weeks ago and I am in love with the feeling of this instrument. Your help is definitely making a difference for me and it’s so inspiring to feel myself growing into this. Thank you again, man! You put a lot of effort into these and man does it pay off. I hope you’re off to a great 2023!
So on point 👍 👍 keep up the good work.
THIS VID WAS FANTASTICALLY HELPFUL thank you xx
From a way to much Doodling guitar player I have been stuck on my progression on guitar. I picked up the bass today (it's been sitting for around 8 years and collected dust) to actually try and play some bass. So totally fresh on bass but with a bit of guitar knowledge that hopefully will benefit me.
Thanks for the video, I'll keep dropping by. :)
Glad you're dusting off the bass Jon, welcome to the dark side!
The Forrest Gump ice cream scene had me 🤣🤣🤣 Well played sir.
Great tips! Only thing I do differently is that I always spend the first 5 minutes or so noodling to warm up mi fingers.
WOW this vidéo is right on time i finished your course beginner to badass 2 month ago and i loved it so much and this vidéo will help me to structure my practice cause i was noodleling.. well thank you. you change my vision of bass player and you alow me to play a instrument. Dont stop believe it !!!!
Thanks Marc-Olivier, glad you dug the course!
GREAT VIDEO….thanks for the education
Super dig the Tony hawk reference 13:38
This was an experiment for me. My older brother played bass as well as Jaco Pastorius all by ear. He was ahead of his time also, he just didn't compse or read music either.
That So and So Silhouette IS my fave bass player!
a tip for learning modes. if you take the basic C major scale C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C OR 1,1,1/2,1,1,1,1/2. take the first interval and move it to the back and start on D you will get the next mode. so D,E,F,G,A,B,C OR 1,1/2,1,1,1,1/2,1. keep shifting and you will run through the modes. once you know the pattern it becomes easier to shift.
Thanks for the video it really helped!
Thanks for another awesome vid I always look forward to your stuff mr bass man 👊🏻❤️
Wow, some really great and practical advice Josh. I've been playing for many years and there is always something to learn by watching your videos. For me, I noodle a lot. I will make a more conscious effort to practice something, rather than noodle. Or if I do noodle, just name all the notes I am playing to stay familiar with the fretboard.
I also love your idea on learning some theory, even if you just play along to other people's songs. I know my basics and it's always helpful when recognizing patterns or trying to play along, even if it's just knowing arpeggios, and major and minor scales.
Thanks!
Thanks Thomas!
Thing I love about this channel is it seems like clickbait (too good to be true) but every time I click I learn a bunch of useful things
It's not clickbait, it's a whole click meal. 😜
Great tips.
Love your videos, you helped me get back into playing bass after ~10 years off. Thanks dude
Random question - what software do you use to edit your videos? Looking to up my game 🤘🏽
Thanks
Thanks, very useful and not just for bass.
Thanks Jeff!
Just received my Badass cds and can't wait to get started..thanks for putting that together!
You're welcome, enjoy the course!
What helped me is to just focus on rhythm and having fun instead of becoming fast and cool.
Jamming out, having fun, dancing around a bit as you play really goes a long way
Production quality keeps increasing with each video! Nice job, guys! (also: sweet hair, bro)
Thanks Reggie!
Trying to do songs that are too hard, yeah that's been an issue for me, ie trying to do Yes songs or singing and playing Police songs at the same time! I will generally have a go at these at the end of a practice session when I've warmed up and will run through them slowly and then a little faster and leave it at that. Some songs have taken a long time to master this way but I prefer that instead of battering myself against them and doing damage. I recently conquered Travels In Nihilon by XTC on a P bass no less (My tip, learn to do it at the bottom of the board not higher, that might seem wrong but it's actually physically easier), that's something I've wanted to do for over a decade, so I'm proud of myself. I don't mind taking the time over it, I'm a patient guy and there's lots of songs to learn.
youve saved me so much frustration and time dude thank you!
Great video. Thanks
The Matrix comparison really got me. Well done! "He's beginning to believe!" lol
This video made me realise that I extend my ring finger way too much, when I could use my pinkie. I never would have considered using it for a 3rd fret, but it makes sense why my fretting hand gets tired after practising.
Totally! More on that here - ruclips.net/video/XdrDozdlEWc/видео.html
Thanks for this post. Even though I’m a novice beginner, there many points I “knew” but needed to be reminded of.
I enjoy learning music theory, as long as presented in doable chunks and not fire hosed.
Glad it was helpful!
@@BassBuzz An other question. Do you think knowing the riff of a song is the same as knowing a song.
There are about 9 parts to the song Money, and I can play them all, but not all the parts together with the band.
In terms of my advice at the end of the vid, I meant full songs, not just riffs.
Noodling LAST can also lead to happy accidents (cool riffs, interesting melodies or chord progressions, you name it) because you're noodling with warmed up fingers and improved technique from the previous exercise session. 😎
Totally!
Good lesson josh
I taught my son some very basic guitar when he was 5 ...now at 15 he is teaching dad (I'm proud)
I am now addicted to palm muting and plucking with my thumb, i have forgotten how to finger because of it lol.
I think you should definitely add "Old Josh" to the mix of characters 🙂
that mark guiliana album is amazing
Right? So sick.
That Bach, transpose to C major, et voilà. Bach's other suites for lute are great, such as BWV 995 for instance
Your videos are allways interesting from an educational point of view, and very funny too. By the way, Good edition work!!!
Thanks Diego!
BassBuzz uploads, i click, i happy
hurray
Merry Christmas
Bass MUST know music theory. Period.
The 4th Matrix movie was amazing!
I like it even if Im a more than 20 years bassplayer..one thing I see now: my 2 first and only teachers (in reputed european schools) , knowing that I was a total beginner, would made learn "what is hip", "chromatic fantisy"...and others..lol it was pointless at the time...the best teacher I had was not a bassplayer but a guitarist teatcher owning a bass..he taught me blues, simple riff, fingering, position, scales, modes, chords..in one year..at the end I had 2 years and a half of courses wich where very good, especially one in a jazz school ..in this school I learned the most was with the ensebke class and the teacher was clarinetist/sax player and he brought lot more to me than the bass theacher in the same school who had made open show for Jaco in the mid 80's and stole my bootleg "modern electric bass" cdrom that I I had so much pain to find on the web a the time..like he neede more lthan me..i never saw my cdrom again...