How to Learn Difficult Music on Bass

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Күн бұрын

We all come across things that don't immediately fall under the fingers, and this video will help you with an approach to learning difficult music that I've used for over 30 years!
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Key 1
2:18 - Key 2
10:04 - Key 3
14:37 - Outro

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@derricks_groove_garage 18 күн бұрын

About 30 minutes into it I thought I was doing pretty good, until I went back to the beginning to hear the phrase up to tempo. Probably gonna take quite a few more hours to nail this one. Thanks again for the great instructional!

@alexanderednie1205 Ай бұрын

That bass sounds sounds so freakin good. I used to see Rodney Holmes play all the time in the early 2000s with a guitar player named Steve Kimock. He is consistently mind blowing

@richshields6692 Ай бұрын

Fundamentals are so important. You're the man bro !!

@veganstew7954 27 күн бұрын

Brilliant teaching. Thank you.

@derricks_groove_garage Ай бұрын

Another great instructional from Janek! Just about one year ago I started using this method. It has allowed me to learn many things that I thought were beyond my abilities. Just a few weeks ago I finally learned the lick in the middle of "Gaslighting Abbie". It took many hours of repetition to be able to play it cleanly and up to tempo. Next on the list is "Smoke on the Water".

@LateShowBottomEnd 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for the valuable tips, brother! I have to admit I don’t know how I played that song in real time (on a big fat Precision neck) when we did the Brecker record, and every time we’re about to do a gig, I shed the the shit out of that song and it kicks my ass. Then, it often doesn’t make it to the setlist, as what happened with you (but if it ever does happen, we’ll be ready to slay it, right?) 😂

@WCruttenden Ай бұрын

This was a well timed video for me. Thanks.

@Ilovereharm Ай бұрын

Thanks janek !

@BartoHomy Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@Vagner_Bass_Andrade Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot,Janek 🎶💪🏽🎵!

@larrylefebour9324 Ай бұрын

thanks! This is super-helpful, and reassuring that my approach to transcribing is on the right track. Your exercises are part of my daily routine

@jamesgrant3343 Ай бұрын

Super cool behind the scenes footage of that outdoor concert! Would like to see more!

@bezuglich Ай бұрын

I know it's not the point of the lesson, but I love your right hand, Janek: straight wrist, no tension, play at 100 mph the whole gig!

@rgkism 18 күн бұрын

Dear Janek; once again you are answering very clearly a question that I have been asking myself: should I include the repetition of fundamentals into my daily practice routine? Now I know. Thanks once again for sharing your knowledge and for radiating inspiration...

@blousug Ай бұрын

Thank you for this video! It really makes me think I am on the right path. I can read music in treble and bass cleft. And am very comfortable with scales and shapes in all the modes. The song I am working on is Like a Prayer. So fun!!! I want to learn the piano next to write melodies 😊

@ShortFuseFighting 24 күн бұрын

Never cared much for double p configurations but damn that thing sounds good in your hands....

@mugrex 15 күн бұрын

amazing video and great keys! also thanks for discovering that track for me. Not to be pedantic, but just a wee correction: 2nd group of semiquavers isn't a descending major diatonic scale, but a pentatonic one. So not A-G#-F#-E but rather A-F#-E-D (checked the original tune but you can still hear it in your video's intro) Again, thank you and i hope i dont come accross as a d1ck :P

@user-ux8no2tq5f 23 күн бұрын

Spot on

@skepticsinister Ай бұрын

Thank you for being a wonderful bass-brother and for all that you share! 👏

@KozmykJ Ай бұрын

Nice tone on that bass 👍

@aaronl7669 Ай бұрын

repeatable - i love that. thanks

@russellzauner Ай бұрын

When people ask me what my striving for knowledge gets me, I respond that it lets me ask better questions when I do run into an expert I want information from. It's really about building the vocabulary over time that allows you to have good interplayer communication; productive learning, doing the right things while wasting as little energy as possible on inefficiency or aspects unnecessary to the conversation; conversations at higher levels foster flow because everything prior has been internalized and is now as removed as possible from conscious thought, deleting the latency of those synapses. Well now I figured out how reverb works at a neurological level, or not. What is the decay of a thought's transit?

@russellzauner Ай бұрын

does a thought persist because neurons regenerate it, much like sustain and echo...a buffered signal? When you stop thinking it, where does it go and what state is left behind?

@aidanriess4946 Ай бұрын

Hey Janek, not a question directly related to this video. But I was wondering what chair you use to practice? I've tried a few different things and haven't managed to find something ideal. Thanks a lot!

@janekgwizdala Ай бұрын

I have a chair made by a company called "Emerge". I did no research, there's not special about it at all, I just bought it one day when I saw it in a store. There are much better options out there.