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How To Play Bass Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Funk Jam
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There are lots of ways to strike the strings on your bass to get different sound. Pulling with your fingers, using a pick, and using your thump to slap the bass and pulling your fingers up from underneath the strings to pop them. The slap and pop techniques are a fun way to get that unique sound, so in this segment Ill show you the basic techniques needed to play in this style. When slapping, the idea is to hit the string from the top/side and with your thumb and then to get it away so that the strings can freely vibrate. When popping, youve got to learn to use your wrist to open up your hand, and by doing so have your fingers pop the strings to get that sounds. We end with a couple of exercises using octaves in an E minor pentatonic scale and introduce the bounce technique to get a double hit with your thumb.
Duration : 0:7:32
How to Play Acoustic Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Strumming Chords Pt. 2
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Welcome to Acoustic Guitar For Beginners with Rich Maloof! Time to dust off your guitar and start strumming. You won’t be bogged down in this course by tedious exercises or music theory. Instead, we get straight to the mechanics of chords and strums so that you can pick up a piece of sheet music (or find some online) and start playing songs that you know and love.
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How To Play Bass Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Open Strings
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In this section I will introduce you to the wonders of written music, starting with the most basic things to play on your Bass, open strings. I strongly urge every beginning Bassist to learn how to read. Not doing so will only shut you out of a great deal of information and knowledge. So the best way to start is to get used to looking at the music while you play some very simple exercises. Well learn to understand what the differences between whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, triplets and sixteenth notes are, and how to establish good practice habits to familiarize yourself with them. Ill also talk about the need to learn how to mute the strings that you are not playing and give you some tips to start working on. I will also give you some tips on right hand technique to help you get a nice consistent tone out of your Bass.
Duration : 0:6:59
Changing Your Guitar Strings
Spend thirty seconds playing a guitar strung with old, corroded strings and youll never want to strum on old strings again — unless youre strange and lazy like me. I havent changed the strings on my acoustic guitar for over a year. Every song Ive ever recorded was tracked with crusty strings. Every song Ive ever recorded sounds like crap, too, but lets not get judgy.
For those of you who dont know or dont want to admit you know, there is a sort of black soot that leaches onto your fingertips when you play really old, dirty strings. It smells like pennies with chicken grease. Strings have a good shelf life in the package but once you play them the metal reacts with your own sweat and filth and skin cells. I was working my way through 50 Acoustic Licks on my acoustic the other night (Petes Best) and in a freak accident I blinked one of my eyelids inside out and, as anyone would, I tried to pry it loose again, but with a sooty finger. It burned for a long time.
Beyond the health risks, crusty strings have a characteristic anti-tone. Part of the fun in playing the guitar is hearing the incredible timbres and upper harmonics, and those sounds arent so incredible when theyre bubbling through year-old finger muck. A lot of guitarists find new strings too bright and brash, and I know Eddie Van Halen has said that worn-in strings were crucial to his brown sound tone. But theres a difference between worn-in and dead. And after the strings go dead, they start to decay.
At any rate, I think Ive made my point. Playing old strings is terrible and potentially dangerous and I dont know why I do it. I chalk it up as one of the many terrible cross-over habits from my youth; guitar strings were expensive when I had to buy them with leftover milk money. So I only changed them when they broke. Simply put, my acoustic strings arent broken yet.
Im working hard to change those habits. In fact, I have several packs of fresh strings in my drawer right now. But mostly Im more careful about touching my eyes.
Duration : 0:0:53
How To Play Bass Guitar – Lessons for Beginners – Introduction
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Bass players lay down the foundation in practically every style of music by bridging the gap between the strict rhythm of percussion instruments and the melodic domain of lead instruments and vocals. Todays bassists must not only lock-in with the drummer to serve up the all-important groove but are now also called on to step up front and treat the audience to a searing and melodic solo from time to time. Good bass players are in high demand and can easily find gigs, making the instrument an attractive proposition for aspiring musicians. But once you decide to play bass, you still face the question of where to begin and thats what Bass Basics is all about.
Laying down the foundation for freshman bassists, Bass Basics follows an innovative and very effective contextual approach to accelerate the learning process. Youll play your way through the course, learning all of the fundamentals of the instrument from tuning up to nailing that first audition. Bass Basics walks you through each of the lessons in an easy, hands-on fashion without requiring you to struggle through tedious examples and exercises. Better yet, the material is presented from the point of view of a very accomplished musician, who worked his way up from novice to top pro and is willing to share information that hes gathered from decades of top-level stage and studio experience.
This musician is none other than Stu Hamm, bass player extraordinaire who first came to prominence after playing on Steve Vais Flex-Able disc. Going on to become the bassist of choice to lay down the low-end for virtuoso guitarists like Frank Gambale and Joe Satriani, Stu has continued to hone his already considerable chops, both on stage and in the studio. Fortunately, Stus teaching skills match his musicianship, giving you a rare opportunity to learn from one of the very best bassists on the planet.
Bass Basics starts at the very beginning, teaching you journeyman-level bass chores such as the proper way to change and tune strings. You will learn the instruments individual parts as well as what to look for when shopping for a new bass Stu even gives you a guided tour of his latest Fender® signature Urge Bass II! He shares tips on tone settings for both the bass and amplifier and how to use these controls to get the sound you want.
Stu demonstrates the essential left and right hand techniques developed to build strength and endurance. He teaches you the language of music to help make quick work communicating ideas at jams and auditions. Bass Basics equips you with a solid foundation of techniques, theory, rhythm patterns and bass lines, all of which can applied in any style of music. Stu even shows you how to read tab and follow a chart as well as teach you the essential theory required to take your playing in any direction you choose.
Never before has a bassist of this caliber shared such vast knowledge in such a comprehensible and accessible way. If youre serious about learning the bass and want to enjoy the journey, let Bass Basics be your guide. You won’t go astray!
Duration : 0:1:41
