A big thumbs up from me. I took everything you said to heart👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

this is one of the best resources and videos on getting into reading music with bass, thank you for this 🙏🏻

Preach it Brother Paul! Excellent overview. I’m living proof that a scientist can have a sort of career in music because he can read at a pretty high level. I can’t count the number of gigs I’ve gotten because I could read. Subbing in big bands is a big one. A fun one was a fusion band that had “black page” charts. I worked through them on my own and played the gig without a rehearsal (and crushed it specifically because I could read). I’ve gotten calls to sub with singer songwriters, rock/pop bands and jazz bands playing original music and I could nail it without rehearsal most of the time because I could read. Another point for reading is documentation. I keep the charts I make up for everyone I play with. If I get another call to sub from that person 2 or 3 years later, relearning their material is a snap. Just go back to the chart. And you’re right that it opens up a whole new world of music to explore.

Well said.

I regret only that I can only like this one time.

Awesome video Paul!! Thank you!

I like to thank you for your encouraging words on reading music.I appreciate all of your videos

Perfect explanations.

And yes I love your chanel ! Good energy !

Paul, the Diatonic Etudes link seems to be broken - is there any chance you would be able to upload it again? It sounds very helpful. Thank you for this video! This is just outstanding. I am on a journey to become a solid reader after many years of relying mostly on my ear. For me, the Jeff Berlin reading packages have been a revelation that kickstarted my progress. In addition to those I've been doing a bit of reading in the Charlie Parker Omnibook and Real Book, and dipping my toe in to a little bit of transcribing. The "levels" approach you take here is immensely helpful in helping me organize my thinking about the different common contexts for reading. Thanks again for the phenomenal content of your channel.

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Hey Paul, this is the real deal.. You're really not just a pro but the Dizzy Gillespie our time.. ( a wonderful teacher and motivator ).. And you're right, reading and writing music is not like riding a bike.. Back in the days I played the Simandl book 1 && 2 so easily as well as alot of classical pieces by Handel, Mozart etc... but now so rusty having left reading for over 5 years now.. I need to get back to reading.. thanks for the motivation.

If you have a skill to use your going to use it. Skills can only bring clarity.

Love this lesson just fantastic!

I had an audition recently and was vigorously working on reading lead sheets and improving walking lines because I thought that is what they expected. When I got there they gave me a totally written out arrangement of 500 miles high to sight read! I felt like it went bad but I still got the gig!

This is golden. Just so clear. And the PDF's you provide are exceptionally clear and useful as well. Thank you.

Paul, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passion. I can't tell you how much your lessons have spoken to me during quarantine. One of my personal goals was to come out of this a better reader than I was (especially comprehending rhythmic variations) and this helps big time. Thank you for your time, effort and expertise.

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Hallelujah brother! Every time I hear a (bass player) [parenthetical reference intended] raise the question, "Do you have the tabs for this?" I'm like, "Dude...the time you spend trying to figure out tablature is time better spent learning how to read notations." Thankfully, some have seen the light. 🌅

Good stuff! Do you know Jeff Berlin? I think you guys would hit it off. I learned to read with his books.

Great Discussion. Thank you.

Nice work!

Thank you for tour help

Paul..thank you for this wonderful lesson, on reading music🎼 your a great teacher and an inspiration to the art🎭

Just stumbled on this video after seeing some of your other ones. Great stuff! I'd say I'm a level 1 reader, who can fake level 2. I wanna get past 2 and at least get to 3. I think the big issue is that in rock (my regular genre), reading, unfortunately, isn't highly valued; thing is, I've gotten locked/plateaued into doing only basic stuff, which gets boring. So I'm trying to break out of the rut. Thanks for this.

On point as always!!!

Another cool benefit aquired from reading, say, Bach's partitas for solo flute or solo violin, or the solo cello suites, is that you can learn about phrasing melodies, agogic accents, and analyzing points of tension and release in the written music...and that analytical/interpretive skill can be applied to other styles of written music(when appropriate). Thanks for another excellent video!

Amazing lesson and contents as always, thank you so much! By the way the diatonic exercise pdf is not under the link anymore, is there any way I can get the pdf again?

9:39 - might this be a nod to Will Lee?

Thumbs Up and subscribed! 😊

You have very nice, clear and well explained lessons. Great job! As a small side note, at the 7:59 time mark, the first bar is missing an 1/8 note value.

Nice job as always man! ( Ps. do you do online lessons? If yes, should I contact you through the mail on your website? )