Re: Q for gigging bassists: how do you practice?

I guess... I pretty much got the scale/chord/song connection after the first
couple months of playing bass, but that's me. I also started by improvising
right off the bat, so that may have something to do with my outlook.

Once I realized that Crazy Train was an F# minor scale and an A major scale,
and that they were both the same thing, the lightbulb went on.

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"Boom" <mmm@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:s4hcr1l8n3d82teai94bpd23c8d7201eq3@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:47:25 GMT, "John Shaughnessy"
> <johngoogleplexNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I think you kinda proved my point. You're breaking down the vocal and
bass
> >parts, isolating them into individual phrases *based on scales*,
practicing
> >them that way until you are comfortable with them, then integrating them
> >back into the song. Chances are, the next similar song you learn will be
> >much earier because you took that extra step.
> >
> >Jamming along to songs over and over is fun, sure, but you never get the
> >level of mastery that you do from isolation and repetition.
>
> I see both points here. Kind of a catch 22. You don't get the level
> of mastery that you get from isolation and repetition, but in order to
> get to that point you have to learn how songs are put together. I see
> it as one following the other, with not being able to reach the 2nd
> point without going through the 1st point. Walking before you can
> crawl, if you will. Once you reach the point where you can dissect
> songs to that level, it does become whacking yourself off just to do
> nothing but practice to songs. But how else do you get to that point?
>
> So everybody's right and nobody's wrong. It's just the order that you
> do it.


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