Semper Fi. Wish I was playing bass when I was in. Definitely would've passed some time. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, now hurry up and wait!!

@@nunyabidness2143 Semper Brother 🤙

Absolutely!

Yup. I used this exact method for working on Donna Lee when I first learned at music college (in 1993). Been doing it ever since!

@@talkingbasslessons Good to know and will continue with this! I appreciate you, your website, videos and lessons! Thank You for ALL that YOU Do!!

It also helps to develop your ear training!

This is so true! I always sing the line before playing it.

😅 My sentiments exactly! Black Sabbath also😂

Absolutely fantastic lines by Jimmy. I understand why you compared it to YYZ. The interplay in Brother To Brother is very similiar.

My wife asked if I'd done a lesson on You Can Call Me Al about one minute before you wrote this message! Yes, I'll do a breakdown.

This method is for learning material you can’t play (from a skill perspective) or memorise. Whether you acquire the notes from sheet music or by ear is irrelevant. For example, you might have seen my performance of Solfeggietto by CPE Bach. It’s very difficult to play (more difficult that pretty much any rock, pop or jazz bass line) and I made a Facebook live streaming diary of learning it in about 12 days. Yes, I had the music. But learning it is not a case of just starting slow. I used the method here of breaking it up into tiny chunks and building each up to speed. That diary can be found at the website. Did you learn the Parker lick shown by the end of the lesson? If you haven’t learned it, try playing it then review how you learned it. The method I outline might make more sense to you at that point. Learning by ear is a totally different thing. That’s all about aural skills. It has nothing to do with your “bass skills”.

@@talkingbasslessons Sorry, I was just trying to share what one fan of the channel is interested in. I understand, that's not the point of this video, having watched it.

@@marshallcierovola376 If you want to develop your ability to learn by ear there's no better way than to just get in there and start transcribing. Big tip though... bass lines are sometimes tricky to hear under all the other instruments. Instead, transcribe melodies. I used to work out the melodies for anything I heard. I'd watch TV and just try imitating what I would hear on adverts, theme tunes etc. Learn vocal melodies. Sax melodies. Anything. Just start easy. Sing the line to yourself and work out each note in turn. If you can sing it then you can work it out. It doesn't matter how long it takes for you to work out each individual note. Take your time and as you do this more and more you'll get better and better until you're recognising a variety of melodic phrases like arpeggios/scales etc. Then when you learn bass lines, it will be way easier to do, you'll just have to listen more intently to pick them out. Also, as another tip. Try singing the lines you play as you play them. Whatever bass line you learn, sing it as you play it. That helps to create a bond between your musical 'mind' and your hands.

@@talkingbasslessons Those are great tips! I'll have to start doing that while I watch TV. Always nice to get something real out of tv time =)

Hi there. Did you send an email or was it in the intercom chat on the site?

We like to tease that occasionally in jams. Gotta a have a great keyboardist tho 😊

Ba doop...Ba doop.... Ba doopy doopy Doo Ba Doopy Doooooooo, Yabba Dabba Doo

Enfield Lionheart. I've done a video review of it too. You'll see me using a few of them over the years aside my Jazz, P Bass and Ibanez. I've got about 20 basses but those 4 are my main ones.

Keep at it. Slow things down and work on it in small chunks like I showed. You'll get it.

No you can't

Technically, only if you have an acoustic electric. It'll be audible to you if you're practicing. But if you're performing with other musicians, the bass will get lost in the other instruments. Solid body instruments that have passive pickups, or even active pickups, are not meant to be heard without an amp. It has to do with the physics of how the string vibrations are turned into sounds you can hear. In physics, we call it the Faraday effect.

With something you can easily play...yes. This is intended for learning things you can't play yet.