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On one hand, learning songs on bass can be really hard if you don’t know how to approach it. You just end up trying to remember seemingly random sequences of notes. If you have to learn more than one song at a time, you might find yourself mixing them up with each other or playing part of one song in another. If you ever need to play a song in a different key, you’d need to relearn the whole song from scratch...
Total nightmare.
On the other hand, if you have a system for learning and remembering songs, life is easy. Instead of trying to remember hundreds of different sequences of notes, you only need to remember key song ‘formulas’. Need to change the key? It’s not a problem for you since you learned the underlying structure of the song, not the individual notes.
This also means that you can learn songs rapidly - and sometimes without even having your bass in your hands.
This might sound like a pipe dream, but I promise you, it’s not. Using the methods I talk about in this lesson, you should be able to cut down your time learning new songs by 50% - and that’s being conservative. I know because I’ve done it.
I remember the first time I had to learn a whole gig worth of songs in a few days. It took me almost every waking moment to learn all the songs - and even then I struggled on the gig.
If I did the same thing now though, it would only take me a fraction of the time. Maybe a lazy couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon. That’s the power of having a system for learning songs.
Using this system also means that you can learn a song in one key and then play it in whatever key you want. If you’ve ever worked with singers, you’ll know how fond they can be of changing the key.
If you know the hidden structure of the song though, you don’t have to relearn anything - you simply plug the numbers into the new key and away you go.
You’ll notice that when I went through and learned a song from scratch, I didn’t even play a note until I had figured out the underlying structure of the song. This is deliberate! You always want to think in terms of the bigger picture rather than the individual notes.
This can be tricky if you don’t understand how keys and the number system work though. If that sounds like you, then I’d recommend checking out my Ultimate Guide To The Modes For Bass. The number system and the mode system go basically hand-in-hand.
Each of the 7 notes of the major scale are associated with 7 chords and 7 scales or ‘modes’. When you see past all the jargon, it’s actually quite simple - and that’s what I show you in the Ultimate Guide To The Modes.
It’s 100% free, and to get it, just go here:
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Fill out the form on that page and I’ll send it straight to your email address. You can get started with it right away.
If you have any questions about anything in the lesson, just drop it in the comments. I’d be happy to help out however I can.
Good luck with the lesson and happy playing!
Cheers,
Luke
P.S. There was a bit of a syncing issue with the audio for the track I was learning, so it's consistently a bit late, but the concept was just too good to not share with you.
P.P.S. Here’s that link for the Ultimate Guide so you can master that number system and learn songs twice as fast:
becomeabassist.com/the-ultima...