danny-79
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Today I been mostly playing HHSR
Productive day ! Mojo is back ! Happy Dan !
Just saying
Productive day ! Mojo is back ! Happy Dan !
Just saying
I have this and have worked through the book a few times. Its not the end all be all, but it's damn fine and the play along stuff is fun.
Bass Aerobics | Hal Leonard Online
Practice.....STRUCTURED practice is years ahead of just doodling. The lessons are really quick and you can get back to doodling..but do this every day for 3 weeks and tell me if you feel a difference.
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I found that book to be a great practice companion. The play alongs are just good clean fun. Enjoy!
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I'm due for a brush up myself. I'm going to try that Bass Aerobics book. I like that it has the online feature so I can use my laptop and work along with it.
I usually do this about every 5 years or so and always come out with new tricks and motivations.
I got the book last week and was able to spend about an hour on the first workout but being on rotation I had to spend more time on learning the new songs for the week.
This is a good book. It's more than just a brush up for me but I intend to go through it and take the time to learn all the chapters.
It's a bit of a challenge to stay on it so wish me luck, lol.
I took the time last Sunday to nail down Workout 1, lol
After moving on to Workout 2 I realized the most productive way for me to learn them fast is to break them down into sections with similar patterns.
Workout 2 has 8 measure sections so I spent just a few minutes on sections 1 and 2.
Truth be told, this book has me way out of my element. Being a church musician I'm used to working with chord charts that have just the key changes and I learn the rest by playing along and making up my own bass lines. I rarely work with sheet music and have never worked with tabs before so using the tabs is another step up for me. I can definitely see an advantage to tabs because I can use them to write down the bass lines I create and want to formalize in certain situations. I'm an old dog learning new tricks here but I've wanted to work into some new disciplines to expand my toolbox so I'm going to keep on working through this book and have some fun with it.
The biggest thing for me so far is that it’s a good exercise to strengthen my fretboard hand but also I have a habit of using only three fingers on a step down and moving one to the 4th step. These workouts are getting me to practice using all four fingers and stretching my hand to cover the four frets. After doing a workout a few times over I can feel it in my hand muscles.I have to agree it’s not what I’m used to, and has stuff I will possibly never use in a musical setting, or will I with out realising it ?
Exercise two is the same pattern forwards, backwards and mirrored. Definitely a good warm up for anyone if nothing else. I will be sticking this book, best one I have come across in a long time
The biggest thing for me so far is that it’s a good exercise to strengthen my fretboard hand but also I have a habit of using only three fingers on a step down and moving one to the 4th step. These workouts are getting me to practice using all four fingers and stretching my hand to cover the four frets. After doing a workout a few times over I can feel it in my hand muscles.
�������� all good stuff. We are all students our whole lives. Like the great Neil Peart did when he took lessons from the great Freddie Gruver after 30 years as a premier drummer....we can always learn.
The pic is added is what Gaddy Lee wrote to me when I met him at one of his meet and greets for his book. This pretty much sums it up for us all....
My inspirations are my basses - been playing blueburst 93 today - but they all inspire me, and none more than my two SR Specials
It was humbling to meet such a down to earth guy who, only late in his career as a bass player, really took the deep dive in to learning the history of his instrument.Life Long Student of Bass.
That just about sums it up. I like it !
(That’s another book I really should get a copy of)