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@ullarah Bass here. 😊 ā€œShort stubby fingersā€, heh, that sounds familiar. 😁
@ullarah Bass here. 😊 ā€œShort stubby fingersā€, heh, that sounds familiar. 😁
@ullarah Bass here. 😊 ā€œShort stubby fingersā€, heh, that sounds familiar. 😁
@movq I play guitar. Even though you're a bass player I'm sure you would have some handy tips that you could pass on to a learner? Only been playing since the beginning of this year.
@ullarah Ooh, not sure I’m qualified. I started a year ago myself. šŸ˜… Some stuff comes to mind (better practice 5 minutes every day than 2 hours only on Saturday; learn scales instead of songs; don’t forget to practice with a metronome every now and then), but it feels like it’s super obvious. 🤪

Well, maybe this: YouTube is full of ā€œbacking tracksā€. That guy, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLfQ2RI2qoI Have it running in the background and then just improvise over it. Of course, you can’t just hit random notes, so one of the easiest things to do is using a pentatonic scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNZy-pGyIo

I struggle with lots of things and one of those is: I have a hard time *anticipating* how it’s going to sound (and feel) when I play this note, then that note, and so on. This was always my problem, even with other instruments. And I now *think* that the reason is: I never actually *played* nor *explored* the instrument, I just repeated excercises or songs. Improvising to a backing track helps me a lot with this. šŸ¤”

But as I said, I’m just a newbie myself. Maybe all I said is garbage. 😁
@ullarah Ooh, not sure I’m qualified. I started a year ago myself. šŸ˜… Some stuff comes to mind (better practice 5 minutes every day than 2 hours only on Saturday; learn scales instead of songs; don’t forget to practice with a metronome every now and then), but it feels like it’s super obvious. 🤪

Well, maybe this: YouTube is full of ā€œbacking tracksā€. That guy, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLfQ2RI2qoI Have it running in the background and then just improvise over it. Of course, you can’t just hit random notes, so one of the easiest things to do is using a pentatonic scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNZy-pGyIo

I struggle with lots of things and one of those is: I have a hard time *anticipating* how it’s going to sound (and feel) when I play this note, then that note, and so on. This was always my problem, even with other instruments. And I now *think* that the reason is: I never actually *played* nor *explored* the instrument, I just repeated excercises or songs. Improvising to a backing track helps me a lot with this. šŸ¤”

But as I said, I’m just a newbie myself. Maybe all I said is garbage. 😁
@ullarah Ooh, not sure I’m qualified. I started a year ago myself. šŸ˜… Some stuff comes to mind (better practice 5 minutes every day than 2 hours only on Saturday; learn scales instead of songs; don’t forget to practice with a metronome every now and then), but it feels like it’s super obvious. 🤪

Well, maybe this: YouTube is full of ā€œbacking tracksā€. That guy, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLfQ2RI2qoI Have it running in the background and then just improvise over it. Of course, you can’t just hit random notes, so one of the easiest things to do is using a pentatonic scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNZy-pGyIo

I struggle with lots of things and one of those is: I have a hard time *anticipating* how it’s going to sound (and feel) when I play this note, then that note, and so on. This was always my problem, even with other instruments. And I now *think* that the reason is: I never actually *played* nor *explored* the instrument, I just repeated excercises or songs. Improvising to a backing track helps me a lot with this. šŸ¤”

But as I said, I’m just a newbie myself. Maybe all I said is garbage. 😁