Real Bass Lessons 167 - Triads

[@CraigMawhinney]

These bass lessons are an absolute treasure and the couple of Jim’s books that I own on sight reading have been so helpful

[@davidcraig1930]

Another fantastic lesson Jim. I know these are not glamorous things to teach, but they are so incredibly helpful and obviously important. Your lessons are a great test for discipline and focus. From the bottom of my heart, thanks, and please keep them coming!

[@realbasslessons9356]

You are welcome David. Glad they are helpful.

[@Carryon392]

RIP, Mr. S. You were the best.

[@norvegicusbass]

Top teacher. Love your lessons.

[@realbasslessons9356]

Thanks. Hope the lessons help.

[@chockbailey8127]

Thank you so much. I love your bass lessons and am trying to do 1 a day. This one was tough for me because I didnt know how to do the correct fingering. But like you encouraged me to do, I worked it out as we went along. Took a dang hour to just be able to play it through once with you. But now I can add this to my warmups and its really helping me know that fretboard in a very useful way. THank you so much!!!

[@dengsiao]

now I'm busy for a week and thank you for your lessons. You are my favourite YT bass teacher!

[@realbasslessons9356]

Thanks. Get to work!!

[@norvegicusbass]

Love the fact you included your mistakes in the lesson. You did so with great humour and without any sense of the notion great players can't screw up. I enjoyed playing along with you and made many more mistakes but it was fun.

[@realbasslessons9356]

Glad you enjoy the lesson.

[@andrewhamilton7864]

This is a fun one! I've already invested an hour working up the first 10 minutes. Next 10 minutes to come. This is a great way to play around the fingerboard when shopping for an instrument.

[@realbasslessons9356]

Glad you are having fun.

[@иванвасилев-х9п]

Thank you alot for your wonderful lesson - simple , but hard enough for practicing ! I`ve plan to do this kind of exercices - relating cycle of forths, using ghost click (VERY USEFUL) + sining the separate snippets with tempo from range between 60 and 100 bpm. My goal is for the nex 5 months to do this routine 2 hour everyday. I feel this concept as a perfect beginner (not only) way to build the solid foundament every bass player need. Greetings from Sofia,Bulgaria ;)

[@realbasslessons9356]

You are welcome. Good on ya. Keep practicing.

[@toyiotawithlove]

thank you for an amazing idea about practicing, I have always struggled with the assimilation of information, it get's in my head but not my playing, same with your ideas about learning to read, I've tried so many times, and failed, but now after hearing you on the topic, I'm encouraged and gonna try again and be patient with myself and practice, practice, practice

[@realbasslessons9356]

Sounds good. Stay foucused. Any weakness can become a strenght with enough repetition.

[@robertham3746]

Great lesson! I really need to get the cycle of 4ths down. It is harder when starting them all on the E string. Thanks for the lesson.

[@jhenderson6469]

Great way to get the inversions ingrained into muscle memory...for me anyway...kept up with you well until about 18:15 😓...going to include this in my practice for while 👍

[@scottyshepardthesmoothdeep3081]

Wow that's awesome lessons 👏👏🙌, you are a great teacher! Can I ask you a question about learning how to play the bass guitar? If I cannot play by ear now at all, should I go ahead and study music and take lessons and learn to read music, people are telling me that i don't need to learn music cause I not a professional, and am not, I just play at church, and garage bands if I can, and I don't plan on being a professional at all, and people tell me all the time that if you don't know how to play completely by ear before you study music and learn to read music! You will never be able to play by ear, you will be chained to the music stand forever!? I just hear a lot of people telling me that stuff all the time, but I thought I would try to get a good solid information about it from someone who knows! Thank you so much for your time and help with me.

[@realbasslessons9356]

Scotty, You NEED a professional teacher of the bass. That's it period. Then do what your teacher tells you, not your "friends." Any advice from someone how is not your teacher, and does not know all the details about your abilities, is not applicable to YOU. That is the prob with "advice," particularly on the web.

[@scottyshepardthesmoothdeep3081]

@@realbasslessons9356 ,wow Jim this is some very solid advise! And I ask questions all the time to people around me! And I get all kinds of answers!!!!! And Jim I am sure you know we're I am coming from on this, at least I hope you do? He said she said stuff!!!!!, And it really keeps me so confused about everything on learning how to play the bass guitar, I not getting anywhere with it! But you have just opened up a door for me on this! Because I believe in you and trust you and your opinion and teaching! Thank you so much for all your help with this matter.

[@chriscookguitar6816]

Jim is there a reason you use the cycle of 4ths over the cycle of 5ths? Thanks for your great lessons.

[@realbasslessons9356]

Yes there is Chris. The movement of up a 4th is more applicable to contemporary music and the bass . I can give you a simple example. Have you ever played a song with an E chord as the tonic chord? (of course you and I and every other bass player has). What was the next chord in that song? ... A. Up a forth on the bass. II-V-I = up a 4th, up a 4th. Do you know the chord progression to the song Autum Leaves? up a 4th, up a 4th, up a 4th, etc. etc. all around the cycle of 4ths. On the other hand, can you think of a song we all play that moves from C, to G, to D, to A to E, etc.?

[@deevanenzo]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@cuevalaua3394]

Thank you for your lessons. Could you please confirm the fingering 214 144 and 121 or 221 ? Thank very much for your help

[@realbasslessons9356]

Not sure. Watch the video. ... a lot!

[@cuevalaua3394]

Real Bass Lessons I’m surprised with your answer

[@ignaciojimenez7899]

😃

[@sbdreamin]

Hi Jim, is it wrong to try to understand, intellectually, what we are doing. I see that from the root, I have a major triad, then from the III I have a minor 3rd, with an augmented 5th. then...? I have like an augmented 3rd and augmented 5th?? I don't know what to call all this. If I were to google this to understand the scale/chord theory what would I call this?

[@realbasslessons9356]

no understanding or theory needed to practice and learn to play it well. ;)

[@sbdreamin]

Real Bass Lessons k I’m just gonna do it over and over and trust the learning process.

[@realbasslessons9356]

@@sbdreamin That's the ticket! That's called practice. ;)

[@cuevalaua3394]

sbdreamin Thank you very much for your help It is kind .

[@jdmarino]

I'm glad you screwed it up. If the master can screw it up, so can I.

[@realbasslessons9356]

Ha! Mistakes are inevitable. The goal is to practice so it is smooth as silk, and you don't screw up. :)

[@simonwood1113]

I find it sad (though not surprising) that this video has less than 5k in views after two years, while a gerbil playing Deantown on a small rubber band would hit 500k in a weekend. This is how you learn to play bass.

[@tkroll]

How many P-basses do you have???

[@realbasslessons9356]

A few. ;)