Jeff Berlin Shares an Intervallic C-Scale Practice Exercise - Part 1: Ascending

[@brunoraffo6726]

Best of the video is the "mistake fixing" segment. For me (I imparted bass guitar guidance for many years) showing the student that the teacher never stop being an apprentice is the best way to say : "I understand you and your circumstances in the learning process". As always, thank you Mr. Berlin for helping people think.

[@daleford9606]

Invaluable! This guy has enriched the bass world so much!

[@garyoldroyd2239]

So logical but player ready if you want to really LEARN the electric bass!

[@cambridgebasslessons]

I love your lessons Jeff : )

[@mubcustom]

Thank you Jeff, for sharing your knowledge. Great lesson and excellent point about practicing vs performing.

[@vincentm614]

I love that Jeff plays one main instrument. I think online content generally gives the student the impression that they need several basses in order to be effective. This is only true if one wants to be a studio player. I believe perhaps having 2 basses can cover alot of ground in most cases.

[@keith_gregory]

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing

[@FaceBassFieldy]

Great stuff Jeff! As always. Thank you. Simon

[@mkwaterstone]

Jeff, been following you for years...this is the best delivery mode of your advice I've ever seen...thank you thank you for sharing your insights and gifts.

[@alexandredinkelmann595]

Many thanks Jeff

[@mauriciuscastrus]

Couldn't agree more with you! It's a relief to have someone who encourage us to be musicians using our human difficulties into a form of pushing us ahead. Thanks Jeff, you are an inspiration for sure! All the best

[@irishpete5472]

Rock solid approach to teaching 👍

[@jonlee2623]

love the fellow and his approach to sharing and imparting knowledge ..inspiring and enjoyable, thankyou so much Jeff Berlin.

[@chrishale174]

Thank you so much Jeff for what you do I love your playing and your compositions and your lessons thank you again so much man😃🎻

[@garyoldroyd2239]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[@garyoldroyd2239]

Iremember hearing Jeff playing with Pat Martino in Seattle WA. many years ago! Talked to Jeff on a break and I remember thinking about what he said that night. Not just what the man said and OOOOOHHH! how he played! It's certain principals on what he teaches now, 45 years ago!

[@eisenyeo]

Mr Berlin is still kicking ass since I first saw him in 1977 with the Gil Evans orchestra in Singapore. What a gem :)

[@denfinch5694]

Jeff, you are an utter inspiration! You've been at the top of your game right from way back in the 1970s. Well, that's when l first heard you play with Bruford. Already, you were really the foremost bassist on the planet so l wonder what you did prior to Bruford? The incredible sound you had on your old precision with a Bartolini pickup in the bridge position (photos on 'Feels Good To Me'). Your technique somehow gave the impression of you playing a fretless which l don't think you did and I'm not certain whether you ever have! I've been following your career ever since and have all your albums. It's great that l can find so much of your material on Amazon Music with 'Alexa' shortly to be offering CD HD quality. Keep up the good work, Jeff.

[@TheTonyFigueroa]

Musical content trumps flashy technique. Thanks for this gold mine of information Jeff.

[@adviceman5211]

Great lesson, Jeff !!! Thank you, Sir !!!

[@kleberveridianogoncalvesde6293]

Thank you so much !!!

[@manny75586]

Very interesting ideas. Nice way to get the intervallic relationships worked into your head. I know stuff like that really helped me when I started using more inversions of arpeggios.

[@lumpyjazz]

Good luck B.

[@GaryBrunoTV]

Jeff is deep as a player and musician and also very deep and concise as a teacher. As a guitarist I always s listen to what he has to say

[@MichaelBLive]

Good stuff Mr Berlin. Thank you!

[@lumpyjazz]

I am glad that this helped Michael.

[@leafamania1]

You Sir are an inspiration ... thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@lumpyjazz]

This is very kind of you. Thank you leafamania1

[@izethewise]

Great Jeff. How does that make me sound like Robert Popwell?

[@davidbuda]

I love it! I really enjoy when a great musician teacher Creator admits to making mistakes when learning new material it gives us Mortals hope

[@lumpyjazz]

I had to correct my comments. I really don't mess up much at all anymore. Practically never, in fact! But, I do make mistakes when I play something that I never played before. I try not to practice what I film to gpresent my version of the music and get people to see me playing something new. If you notice, my eyes rarely left the page. My hands know where to go for the most part because how I was taught got me to this level. This is why I always try to encourage anyone with any musical or amateur/professional goal to be taught only music. .

[@Josewilliams94]

Can someone explain to me how the different exercises progress? Are they becoming wider intervals? I can't see a pattern

[@narutodirecte]

Thanks you a lot

[@DaveTurnerBassGuitar]

that tone knob is not going ANYWHERE! Love it.

[@lumpyjazz]

It's my thing. If cement worked, I might use it. :)

[@donaldcummings8407]

You da man,Jeff..

[@MrThelonliestpunk]

Hey Jeff love your playing and your approach,why have you taped up the tone control on your bass?

[@tedybear335]

Great Jeff!!

[@reanimator9]

thank you Jeff !

[@lumpyjazz]

My pleasure Reanimator9

[@reanimator9]

Should we sing along or do you think it is too much things to deal with ?

[@basslobster]

Agree! No metronome. I skipped the external metronome many years ago. My metronome is internal and a part of my body 💪

[@andgomez40]

Jeff your a genius, no doubt

[@jojimerc]

I wish I have found this video earlier in my life.

[@miuniverse4237]

thank you!

[@toddfritz7880]

I love your concepts. I’m a drummer that read your articles in bass player magazine ( yes, that long ago) to help improve my drumming. Now, I’m trying to learn to play the bass. You are my first stop for inspiration. Thanks for the great things you’ve done. Can you suggest a good book to start with?

[@kengagnon6192]

good video and on top of his game also funny,.

[@lumpyjazz]

Thank you Ken.

[@billybusty1983]

Great video, I appreciate your lessons they are a lot of help. And I was wondering if you could possibly make a video on how to write sheet-music I have been transcribing a lot of songs all in tab, but I know reading and writing would be beneficial, anyways if you could shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated keep up the good work!

[@manny75586]

Billy Busty if you mean to wish to learn how to read music, then taking lessons from someone who reads or taking a few beginning harmony classes at a local community college can help immensely. If you just want to make your tabs into sheet music for others, then you can put them into guitar pro and print it out without the tab staves (at least I think they still let you do that). Notion let’s you do that for sure but it costs a little more. I started by using the Simandl book on my own (its for double bass but 90% applies to electric bass). You will know how to read and you will know the fretboard like the back of your hand. Then I took double bass lessons and studied in college. Hope that helped a bit.

[@billybusty1983]

BassasaurusRex Thanks for the comment, I actually have the F. Simandl book I can read some of it its just some of the small concepts that confuse me

[@billybusty1983]

BassasaurusRex im relatively self taught to some extent, but like you were saying some guidance would be nice Thanks for the response

[@lumpyjazz]

Hi Billy. If reading is something that you wish to practice, forgive the plug, but I wrote out etudes that address exactly this issue. Writing out music means that you have to already know how to read it. If you have difficulty with writing sheet music, it looks like you might have difficulty with reading. I don't know where you are in reading capability. But, Package One or Two of my reading course would be good for you. If you are interested, go to jeffberlinmusicgroup.com and go to Lessons. Each package contains a LOT of information to work on. Just do it slowly, don't perform, never us a metronome, and take breaks if you get tired.

[@billybusty1983]

lumpyjazz Thanks for the response ill have to try that when I get some money

[@musicworkstujuh8109]

Hi jeff why you put the tape on your knob ?

[@bonzo2106]

Where do I get the chart?

[@raulperales2212]

Respect!

[@tonyinbrazil1]

"Learning and performing are not the same thing." Another excellent insight - oft repeated by Senor Berlin. I'm LMAO while watching the kinder, gentler Jeff. It's a very nice and palatable Mr. Berlin. Yet... at times, I do miss the piss-and-vinegar Jeff who gets fired-up peevish. Maybe Jeff is just holding it all it and is gonna explode on us bass neophytes at some point. ;-)

[@gerioneil1310]

I'd like to download the chart mentioned in the video, but it just takes me to Jeff's home page. What am I doing wrong?

[@gerioneil1310]

Never mind, I read where are are no charts for this and we are encouraged to transcribe them for ourselves. Why didn't I think of that!

[@kevgamble]

@@gerioneil1310 Actually, there is a chart available - go here and look for "Ascending Scale Line 5 Ways": www.jeffberlinmusicgroup.com/bass-lessons?category=JBBE+Charts There are 9 charts on this page, $1 each, most corresponding to videos by Jeff. The playing in 12 keys and with 5 chord types is the part we have to figure out ourselves! Though another chart on the same page, "One Line Played in 5 Keys", is an example of practicing a line through the 5 chord types Jeff mentions in this video.

[@yourboysylas]

Words of wisdom

[@lumpyjazz]

Thank you!. In my opinion, there is no other way to learn how to play the bass than to put our hands on our instruments for musical reasons.

[@edwenzel2330]

Am I remiss in thinking your saying practice the language before you start composing essays?

[@lumpyjazz]

Kind of! Learning and playing are different, but can be developed side by side with each other. My view is that if I don't know the language, then I can't compose an essay. Thanks for writing Ed.

[@naturelullaby631]

Sound like Hanon.

[@bassnmusic4572]

I think its a good way to learn. Im teaching by myself for over 20 years and in my opinion the problem is not to find the right notes. I agree with Victor Wooten- you dont need any notes to make music. The problem of 99 prozent is to play the right note in time, with the right feel, articulation, phrasing, sound, technik. Everybody can play the right notes over giant steps if you play 1 note in 1 minute... im sorry..

[@RyCooder-ri7fz]

X

[@joshuadistacadim4165]

DE BOA BLZ

[@roddil777]

The master has failed more times than an apprentice has ever attempted.

[@lumpyjazz]

I certainly have, which keeps me improving as a bass player. Thank you for sharing.

[@peterdalby8019]

Music as/is philosophy.

[@lumpyjazz]

It is also as factual and specific as being taught how to repair a pipe on a broken sink. I like your comment for the beauty of it, but would add that it music doesn't function that well as a philosophy in the practice room. Cheers, Peter.

[@peterdalby8019]

lumpyjazz I think I should have phrased my comment the other way around, philosophy as music! It was meant as a compliment, I really like you're approach.

[@lumpyjazz]

I took it as one Peter. You did fine. Thank you for sharing. The teacher in me saw an opportunity to make clear a detail of learning and I took it. I loved your thought when I read it.

[@doyrayburn2668]

Are you a Scorpio lol? Keep fighting the good fight brother Jeff.