Awesome Ear Training Exercise For Bass Players /// Scott's Bass Lessons

[@Sunflowrrunner]

I played music for years and thought that my ear was just terrible and I'd never be able to pick things out by ear very well, and then I started singing and focusing on the feel of different intervals and my ability to play by ear dramatically improved in the course of weeks. Singing is definitely the key to hearing.

[@FrancoGrimoldi]

as a singer you are an astoundingly good bass player ;) (great lesson, thanks!!!)

[@milliistihbarat5514]

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[@edthejester]

This is probably the single best exercise for any harmonic or melodic instrument and I never did this. I will start tonight when I get home. Thanks Scott, you're the best!

[@trex9907]

that trill at 6:47 so cool.

[@evilcantsing2120]

im literally in tears because this guy just seems SO NICE! LOL. great energy! thanks for your lessons man!

[@samuelrogers8358]

How's your Bass journey?

[@dextermitch9465]

All I heard: "booty booty Buddha booty Buddha"

[@thefakedeal]

rofl

[@gabrielrochamelo8183]

Always good to come back here to re-watch this gold lesson!

[@DrummClem]

Still here in 2021 ;)

[@BruceUlanet]

This lesson reminded me of two things. The first is a bass player from the forties and fifties named Slam Stewart. He was a monster player, and would use a bow on solo's and sing what he played. The blend of his voice with the bass is unparalleled by any other musician I've ever heard. The second thing is when you were playing and singing the ascending sixths it reminded me of a Dizzy Gillespie song named Swing Low Sweet Chariot". He and another guy were using it to sing the word "Heaven". Just hearing you do it put it right in my mind. Thanks!

[@BASSMAN-hu1cv]

I think one important thing every bass player needs is that we all need to enjoy what we are doing, for me all though I'm not very good at it for now but I like songs where the bass is busy.

[@artaud831]

that reminded me to Gilmour on his Wish You Were Here solo. Great lesson

[@gkarjala]

I really appreciate the " Get over ourselves" comment!! Great lesson, you are inspirational as well as a great musician. Thanks for guiding us low-end lovers,

[@karlos_taylor]

Sending Bass Love right back at you Scott. I have been learning Bass for 3 years now and I will always continue to love SBL.

[@fran6david114]

Thank you Scott bass for all you do. All your bass lessons are amazing.

[@jonahcarston9491]

You make the lesson so easy. THANKS. WORKING ON IT TODAY AND FROM HERE ON OUT!!!!!

[@hieuma1993]

I've heard of this method from many famous musicians, thanks for great lessons :D

[@robertosonzogni]

It's always funny hear english people trying to say the notes name :-) Love that

[@93Godsmack93]

E' lo stessa cosa che penso ogni volta che sento qualcuno che lo fa!

[@AwesomeMan2696]

what do you even mean

[@jery3385]

The fuck you talking about it?

[@NoChrReq]

@@AwesomeMan2696 note names do re mi fa sol la si were first given by guido d'arezzo, an Italian. These notes derived from the lyrics of a Latin song. that's why he says (I assume from his surname he's italian) it's funny to hear them from an english speaker.

[@KerryonBass]

Great lesson Scott! Can't thank you enough for your lessons, you've taken me from beginner to now playing in my 4th year. Still a ways to go naturally but with your guidance I at least have direction and a good idea of what to work on to keep improving. Cheers

[@eViolinity]

Simply great lesson!!

[@aminamubeen8978]

Your voice is very calming; I'd listen to this bass playing and the accompanied singing boo doo daa doo dee to help with my sleeping issues. Great tip for training the ears.

[@rinkoshirokane8263]

Lol same it’s relaxing, funny, and cute all at the same time for me XD

[@Prolitiker]

Tough lesson but, as you said, a great way of breaking up that interval-thinking. Thanks Scott! Btw I´m a guitar player.

[@ivelaye]

You express your messages you want to pass very good and straight forward , i was fully able to conect with you and the lesson you wanted to teach Thanks!

[@jakeschneider7846]

Fantastic advice, Scott. It helps to have these skills. If some listeners are skeptical, they should know that it helps with mapping out harmonies as you may not know which one is yours until you get to rehearsal or even the gig! Learn them all and you're better off. As a fill-in bassist sometimes, I'll do the maj3 in one band and the 5th in another, for example.

[@j-new6278]

Great exercise!!!!!!!!!

[@georgecatchings7284]

Scott your bass lessons are really fantastic i have learned so much from you studying your techniques has put no shame in my game playing the bass my bass of choice is the jazz bass & the fender precision my choices of playing is jazz funk,funk slap,and overall my style of playing is mimicking James jamerson ,

[@drsml62]

You are really really good teacher

[@gerardorockerman69]

Great excercise, thanks for sharing!

[@LadyLove747]

Awesome!!!!! Love everything you bring to the table Bro!!!!

[@bswisher52777]

This seems so fundamental. This is brilliant and I can't believe I've never heard of this exercise! Thank you!

[@crmusicproduction]

One majorly big problem, I cannot sing......... period! People say that anyone can sing, Friday just gone, I demonstrated this, after 2 bottles of Newcastle Brown, I got onto the mic. My mates soon realised their mistake.... I had to go back to the keyboards!

[@julianburkert7939]

+chris randell You know, you tend to sing a lot worse when you're drunk.. At least that's the case for me :D

[@Yellow_Magpie]

+chris randell Vocals are an instrument and like all instruments need practice! I know the pain, I get so frustrated with myself not having any control over my vox when I'm trying to sing back tunes or work out intervals but I am getting better over time from trying >_

[@crmusicproduction]

Ah but, I forgot to mention that I have paralyzed vocal cords too

[@JohnBarrylizard]

Awesome teacher, musician and excellent voice. Intervals always confused me. This helps. Thanks!

[@southernimager6256]

Bueno! When I was a child piano student, I had to count out loud. My teacher was sharp enough to have me sing the counting, not the lyric. That set me for life.

[@JCFNor]

Hi, I'm a guitarist and a novice bass player. I've been following the tutorials and found tons of things to work with from the ones I've seen so far. Just need the time. I attended a workshop (Martin Taylor) where this was a part of the programme. It was turned around a bit from the way you presented it in this video. In our case, we sang simple combinations, 2+ notes in a scale, then had to repeat them (wherever) on the instrument. The ultimate goal being to take the time delta between your mind and your fingers to be (next to) zero. The thing is, Bensen isn't singing along with his playing. He is playing along with what he's thinking. (Which is what is what your doing when improvising)

[@jayv6315]

Yoo update?

[@Bassic778]

Great exercise!

[@BlakeNix]

Enough of this free stuff, TAKE MY MONEY!!! :-) Love the lessons as always, this exercise is great. Great exercise for singing also. Thanks for what you do!

[@soñadorado]

I can read music (i.e. "guitar hero") for several instruments, but I can't "play" any of them, and that's all I've ever wanted. If this works, you will have changed my life, sir.

[@LordSesshomaru584]

So, how'd it go?

[@GeorgeSPAMTindle]

I am going to send a link to this to several former band members (6-string guitarists of course!) who thought that I was crazy when I sang like that to try and get them to play what I wanted. When you give up trying to explain it, then pick up a 6-string and show them how it's done, they burst into tears! Bass guitar is of course easier than their instrument because it has fewer strings, a bit like the way a motorcycle, with its two wheels, is easier to ride than a car is to drive with its four wheels. A uni-cycle must be a piece of cake then, if you apply 6-string players' logic.

[@genopierpoint8887]

Thx braw.. Exactly what I needed..

[@thejaxter1995]

Not just an awesome bass exercise, but just as great a singing exercise too! I think I'll work on this just as much for trying to improve my vocal range as well as improve my improvisation. ^.^

[@archivestereo]

Great help!

[@mp9111]

Great Lesson Scott thanks so much... Stay well my friend

[@gabrielbarzen2060]

Day 86, still cant play bass with my ear..

[@BlakeNix]

Neither can I, still doing it with my fingers...

[@squidwardcanbethiccifhewan8633]

Have you tried exercising your ear muscles?

[@rjr.6263]

My ear isn't even as bad as it was when I started playing. I'm just trying to get my ear at a professional level.

[@rjr.6263]

@Notes from the Key of Synchronicity I play most recording by ear. Usually I don't really play all the notes I sorta just mess around and see what other licks I can come up with. But lately that seems to help too just sorta playing every note for note helps tremendously. I just need to practice much more.

[@773Spair]

@@rjr.6263, Gabriel Barzen and the others are joking about using your ear to play bass guitar by brushing the strings against your ear to pluck them, or fretting by pushing your ear against a string against the fretboard. They're not talking about the process of listening. (:

[@WilliamMartinez-lm1sk]

Hello, well explained,great job,Thank you. 🎼🎶🎹🎵🎸.

[@hubertg-blouin8070]

Subtitles say: ''I'll send you loaded basil'' near the end. Hilarious! Great video as always. Thanks for sharing so much of that wisdom Scott!

[@freezo244]

Great exercise! Thanks!

[@MinJerusalen]

I really like your lessons Scott. Tumbs up!

[@robertmzauner7363]

Thanks Scott Something I use to do this years ago when I played guitar. I am going to start using it again with my bass.

[@elaisaful]

do re mi fa sol la si dooooo ....great, finally something in Italian!! :) greetings from Sicily!

[@TheSuperNhox]

maxime tecier Non, c'est originellement italien, mais c'est utilisé par la majorité des langues, d'origine latine

[@Defensive_Wounds]

I do not know how to read music - I only play by ear. Leftie bass left handed or a regular right handed strung bass played left handed, also, love playing drums! :)

[@maxjbg]

This lesson is so great. Thank you very much Scott. Also this bass is amazing, beautiful Sound and tiny tiny string spacing😁

[@TheEmadfouad10]

thanks great lesson from egypt

[@marcbrooks8409]

this is super cool I'm a guitar player and its helping me!!!!

[@ghaleda1785]

thanks Scott... this is indeed a great help!

[@emmanuelk.severeek7869]

Thank you Scott, thanks a lot.

[@tofinoguy]

Starts at 1:50

[@everywhere5]

Thank u sir for this awsum excercise

[@imagin4eva]

awesome!!!!!!!!!

[@seamothboy]

check out major holley and slam stewart doing the scatting with bass thing together - it's brilliant

[@beakittelscherz5419]

this is a brain booster!

[@koston0808]

Great lesson! very helpful!

[@RCAvhstape]

If you watch videos of David Gilmour playing guitar, he does this to himself on stage. That's a pretty strong endorsement...

[@Villentrethenmerth]

+Helium Road or Adrian Smith

[@lozkokaramitev8027]

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[@stevenwilliams614]

Excellent exercise. as usal

[@williamchen33]

Cool lesson!

[@jz1nC]

thanks for this video, it helps a lot for me.

[@crashvanier3642]

5 Star lesson, Scottie! 🙂

[@rachmatardi7596]

wooow thank you very much mr.scott 😊😊😊😊

[@lcr1722]

vc é o cara!!! manda muito bem....sou seu fã scott's.. :D

[@wesfeliciano2247]

not to brag, but i know solfege. Reading notes and writing notes from my head and also singing it. i thought it was some lesson to distinct the low bass notes cos sometimes it cannot be distinct due to its lowness but overall, this lesson is really helpful not just for bass players but for all kinds of musicians. :)

[@reggiereyes1]

Just an unrelated comment. Your hand looks better on the video with the Red glove. Thanks for all the vids. Helped me a lot.

[@maxgabr1]

Grazie scott un abbraccio

[@sofibasso]

lovely, thanks again!

[@riothesinger404]

Wow!!!!! You're amazing!

[@SensualPrayingMantis]

Great video Scott! Can you make a video regarding the bebop scales and how to solo over them more efficiently?

[@zetaminor77]

Thanks !!!

[@awlthatwoodcrafts8911]

Aside from ear training, those are nice little drills for learning the fretboard. Do you explain them in an earlier video somewhere?

[@Bassol2]

so nice clip!

[@pegasus9536]

this vid goatedd frfr

[@metallicbunny9595]

should I try to bend onto my voice cracks? lol

[@LordSesshomaru584]

😂

[@fraga2009]

It's really cold in there? Great video... tks

[@stefaneduard8169]

I played violin for almsot 4 years at my church. I played at church's orhestra by sheet music and i played in the church's band by ear. I can almost play any intermediate level melodic line at bass/violin at a 90% - 98% accuracy

[@audgess]

mad man

[@yorstidilonex9005]

Thanks Scott! Has anyone heard of substitutions for bass songs. For example the 4th note would be replaced by the,.,..... writing this message found the answer to want I was gonna ask ...yayyyy

[@AaronSevilla]

nice=)

[@margaretvera7150]

very good

[@RafaelPicoli]

Thanks Scott! And it's nice that this also works with any other instruments... ! =D

[@cortez8600]

It's my dream to be able to do this, sign of true improvisation.

[@allenlark]

this is more helpful than a lot of people realize

[@hervethervet1117]

C in french !!! bravo monsieur ! ; )

[@jcherw]

Hi Scott - thanks for great lesson. I am planning to really follow through on this exercise, as this 'ear - brain - muscle' coordination has always been a big 'show stopping' issue for me. I am trying to get my head around a practice schedule and how to 'assess' if I am getting it right. For example start for a week with C scale and the 3rds stepping (just for a bit of variation). Would be great if you could give a few thoughts how re. the level of effort (time spent) and how to check if it's going right (for example recording the voice and check with a tuner??? ). Thanks, Joost

[@PhiI93]

3:30 is the scale of the theme for Where Eagles Dare!

[@fabienreignoux799]

This is still hard for beginners, do you have another vidéo wich explain how to deal with bass improvisations ? I've done a lot of guitar, and actually playing bass in a band, i would like to be able to improve some little solo

[@Ultimatecrftfilms]

Hi, I'm a new bass player, bought my acoustic bass not long ago, I played guitar and had a shitty start and I wanna change it for the bass, but I still don't quite understand probably the simplest thing in music theory, intervals, still can't get my head around what are 5ths 6ths 3rds and etc anyone can suggest a video or some place that can explain it better? Thanks!

[@pascaloupas4890]

Hi Scott, I'm surprise I'm belgian who speak french...I hear you at 2.00 singing the notes like we do in french, italian,etc...: "do,ré,mi,fa sol la si do..." I was thinking you do so "C,D,E,F,G,..." Can you explain a little more if it's so and, by the way, do you know how the germans do (with their special H in place of B) All your lessons are geat as usually... Best regards

[@Sickz666]

"Do, ré. mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti), do" is not exclusive to french and Italian, although it has its origins there. It is called solfege, and is used to teach musicians about pitch and sight singing, using different sounds for different intervals derived from the root of the key. I don't think it has much to do with language, rather the school of music you are studying. It is for instance very common for classical musicians to know/practice solfege, while players from an afro-style background might just sing the pitches without giving them a particular name.

[@xxshadowhunter5149]

What is the song at 8:45?

[@kaylaeagle886]

Please can anyone help with what was being played between 4:54 to 5:06

[@davem8687]

This is (I think) doing thirds, fourths, etc, based on the scale tones - so you would be doing major and minor thirds, fourths, etc as you go up the scale. Is there any benefit for going up, for instance, in all major thirds or all minor thirds? Or is this just another mode? I suppose as long as you're matching the finger positions to the sounds it doesn't really matter?

[@MCP1BEME]

Can you use a headphone amp like a VOX AP2-BS or do you need to sing over the amp??

[@SaltyMusicOne]

I think a better exercise is to sing your scales and intervals in contrary motion to the intervals you are playing - so sing the scale descending while playing the. Scale ascending

[@nj5374]

I had the best time laughing at the faces Scott was pulling

[@gregoryhewitt5362]

hello i like the exercise, but how would i apply it on a keyboard ???

[@jamiebrown824]

Gregory Hewitt the same way lol

[@gibsontyjuan]

@Scott's Bass Lessons - What is being played in the intro from 0:12-0:24?

[@carlagers7473]

Could you do a tutorial on joy spring I need to audition for jazz band with the song