What Is Lateral Indexing? (and How It Can Transform Your Practicing)

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Change up how you practice those scales and arpeggios! An often overlooked approach, this technique will make you think differently over the same chords and HEAR those same pitches in a new way. #onenote #eartraining #mindtraining
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[@bassoskat]

I’ve been a bass player four about 18 years, had a great improv teacher when I fell in love with the bass, did a BA and masters in repertoire, then put down the bass for 5 years because there’s no orchestra work. I’m doing education now and rediscovering double bass and learning E bass via vitamin P and through your videos. You’re doing great work. Having fun learning to groove again thank you!

[@richtraube2241]

Love it. Thinking and hearing differently. Trumpeter here. I'm going to work this into my routine.

[@HallOfBass]

Thanks for setting me up for the rest of the year!!!

[@davidlopez-white3185]

Another great tip and lesson from pdbass!

[@d36williams]

this is really cool. Wow I will really never run out of stuff to practice

[@heruausetausar]

Thanks, Paul!

[@perrypecoul2342]

Every time I watch one or your videos I get inspired to work on a track. Thank you for your dedication👍

[@doublebasshq]

Great concept, Paul-I love this!

[@bassvibasics479]

Brilliant! I'm looking forward to trying this out!

[@marihinoBass]

what a lesson! Thank you so much.

[@bassocanario]

Another great post!😉😎🤗👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Kinda___Happy]

This is sick, I love it!!

[@ihixulu]

Awesome, incredibly rewarding lesson. Thank you for another great one!

[@sambac2053]

This is wonderful, Thank you!!!

[@mgd9151]

Super awesome advice. Thank you for taking the time!

[@09copperfield]

Great message. It’s unlocked my fretboard. Thanks Paul. X

[@RyanRiley-cn7sv]

Love this idea. Cheers!

[@bassmorpheus]

Great information. Thanks!

[@JustinPanariello]

super cool, great perspective.

[@lushsoundscape]

This is brilliant, I've been playing for many years but never thought of practicing and hearing this way. Can't wait to apply this in the practice room.

[@jamesoconnell7443]

Best case for me. Thanks pd.

[@hajikelist]

oh man I looove this. ❤

[@jimmorrison6039]

Great video, man !! 🍓 Muchas gracias por el apunte 👏💪🎶🌶️

[@jazzbrew68]

Another gem! Definitely something I never considered.

[@vtecyoyo1a1]

Sir, I find your posts both informative AND entertaining. Your delivery is easy to follow and your personality really comes through as well. You are an educator to us all and I look forward to your posts. Thank you very much for the time you put into these videos. Peace, from California.

[@gazicj]

super! you've been helpful to me--much thanks. best to you and yours:)

[@richbrownbass]

This is so ridiculously heavy. Thank you, my brother.

[@pdbass]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@BassPlayerNcl]

Fantastic concept, Bassman! Thank you for sharing 😊🎶🎵❤️🙏

[@jasper2point0]

Wow, that is brilliant, another great video that has changed my perspective completely, I play tuned percussion and I love practising modes to help with my improvisation, I have never thought of doing it that ay though, thank you again for another great video.

[@peterthebassteacher2425]

Excellent

[@TheMrAshley2010]

Dude, thanks for the lesson! I came across this while practicing my trumpet tonight. Now I've got something new to work on.

[@N0B0DY_SP3C14L]

This is such a good exercise! I have used it on and off, never knowing its name. Thank you for the reminder and clarification.

[@jackstonehenge]

I'm primarily a guitarist but there is still plenty to learn from this channel.

[@pdbass]

Thanks, Carl!

[@paulchateauneuf3478]

I've tried this as a way to hear modes. I'm going back to the shed thinking chords. Thanks for the motivation.

[@tonymartucci4064]

This is so hip! Thanks for posting Paul.

[@pdbass]

Thanks, Tony!!

[@MrDanilop45]

👍🏻 great tip!

[@merrill-el-richmond8649]

This is something I've never seen. Great idea for entire course!

[@alexs1408]

Excellent ! Will make the slow (50) half-note 1st position warmup a daily ear-opening, instead of just going 'round the cycle. Thanks Paul !

[@bassomatic6055]

I didn't know this was called lateral indexing. I discovered this on my own when i decided to start with open E and for each note up to the 12 fret play 2 octave triads with the note being the root, then the 3rd, then the fifth. I didn't do augmented or diminished, but you easily could. I find this to be a good way to practice triads with all inversions of major and minor indexed on 1 tone.

[@Alien_Oligarch]

This is how I learned to practice and it was pretty much the only theory I ever learned. I'm not the best player in the world but I can crank out original songs and riffs all day long.

[@polymathing]

Very functional lesson,great work. I was going to subscribe and then you dropped that line on me at the end of the video, HA couldn't click fast enough. You get what it's all about👊✌️😉

[@ajadrew]

Playing the 7 Diatonic modes in paralel uses every note in the Chromatic scale. The Chromatic scale can be harmonized creating a common pot of chords - this is something I've been thinking about recently. This video reminded me of it!

[@SaltyMusicOne]

This works extremely well if you add a drone on the note you want to index

[@kevinkilpatrick7510]

this is tight, gonna use it on sequencers n keyboard

[@geraldhommemusic]

I’m going to do this on sax now. Always did modes but didn’t ever think of arpeggios this way.

[@Oscaraha]

Cool!

[@joaosimao1500]

Just found ur channel , and damnnn u got me as a sub :)))

[@victormusic01x]

..thanks Paul David!..interesting and organic food for thought..stay safe and stay strong..New York April 26, 2022..

[@dtfoel1230]

thanks

[@JohnHorneGuitar]

I’m new to the term Lateral Indexing but guitarists have been big on this for a long time. Gene Bertoncini talks about this quite a bit. Great for ear and fingerboard knowledge.

[@kenkarsh]

Paul, this is outstanding! Well presented and well demonstrated! And it’s also a study in bass faces 😂🍷

[@pdbass]

Ha! Thanks, Ken!!

[@TheFitnessTutor]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stevonico]

Check out these triad patterns Cm Ab/C C+ Am/C C7 (no 5) F/C Fm/C Csus C

[@JamesW-li5oi]

I guess I already kinda do this. I just play my scales and patterns adding sharps or flats until I've gone through all the possibilities.

[@Monkeygroover]

Yes! C lydian, C major, C myxolidian, C dorian, C Aeolian, C Phrygian, C Locrian, B lydian, B major, B Myxolidian,, B dorian, B aeolian, B Phygian, B locrian. That is Lowering 1 note every time, also the Root (From C locrian to B lydian, which is from Db to F# (Gb enharmonically) . after all modes in C and B you've been through all keys, but not all modes of all keys so keep on going: From B Locrian to Bb etc ... AND you are going neatly through the Cycle of 4ths each time. Do it with scales, arpeggios.... fragments...

[@TheDjangojunkie]

Great lesson. Off to the 'shed

[@fretlessman71]

Here's what I got for the exercise that begins around 3:30 : G / Gmin / C / Cmin / Emin / Eb / Gaug / Gdim / Edim/G / C#dim/G / Gsus4 / Gsus2 / Csus4/G 13 unique triad note combinations that contain a G. Did I miss any?

[@pdbass]

🙌🏽🙏🏽💪🏽

[@MarkusBHZ]

Whenever I see modes being played from C to C, D to D, etc, all I hear is an ascending scale. I do not hear the individual modes and their characteristics. My approach is the same as the one you illustrate, play the modes from the same root tone.

[@3LLT33]

Wait... I already do this, up the fretboard (bass and guitar) as warmup.

[@perrygibson8419]

Just finished listening to commons "pops rap". Ooh wee

[@stratopastor_uk]

What was it called again?

[@pdbass]

LOL

[@wolframheldmaier727]

Sorry I didnt understand anything. Do you have some sheets with the notes you are playing. And what about the exercixe with triads? where to start and why are there different combinations? what to use? minor or major thirds? thanks in advance.

[@pdbass]

Try this: from F to F, one octave, how many chords can you figure out and play on your instrument? F Maj F min Bb Maj Bb min Db Maj D min F dim F Aug Gb Maj Endless possibilities on one note. Play and listen hard.

[@wolframheldmaier727]

Sorry, I don’t understand the purpose of this exercise. When the song is in F maj i use the notes from the F maj scale. Maybe I have a different approach. I am amateur in pop and punk.

[@TheBaconWizard]

@@wolframheldmaier727 He explains very clearly in the video what it is for.

[@wolframheldmaier727]

Okay. The. Either my English or my musical skills are not sufficient. Or both. Maybe an animation or a sheet with the notes could help me.

[@dnikoevans9902]

!!!!

[@claudiakramer4516]

after this , there is no excuse for no bake bassline

[@alleghenymusicacademy]

I never want to have to think too much when I practice; I don’t practice scales much, just plug away endlessly on pieces with depressingly slow progress. Maybe if I try getting back to music theory (that I hated in college) and quit being so intellectually lazy, it might improve my proficiency, even though I play classical piano & flute, not jazz. I’ll let you know if it does!

[@pdbass]

Practice is the time to think so that you can perform with freedom!

[@Music71194]

Can somebody tell me who is that in the thumbnail