#132 - Fingerstyle Ghost-Notes Exercise
Added 2024-12-06 21:00:05 +0000 UTCMy fellow bassists,
The winner of this month's poll was funky fingerstyle exercises, so here's the first one! This exercise focuses mostly on practising ghost notes, which are an essential part of many funk bass lines.
There's quite a lot of syncopation in this one, so you might want to look through the tabs first and try playing some of the more complicated sections before you play along with the whole video/track.
Also, I tend to use some raking to play those groups of three ghost notes starting at bar 17 - feel free to do the same or use alternate fingering in the right hand throughout the entire exercise - up to you!
As always, let me know if you have any questions or comments and I'll make sure to respond ASAP. Thanks for coming here and practising with me, have a great weekend and I'll see you in the next lesson!
Comments
Nice Exercise! thanks
DeadFatjai
2024-12-28 14:08:55 +0000 UTCSorry, I don't know how to fix this. By the way, I know a website called Soundslice, which can create interactive tabs for teachers and students. Maybe you can check it out. It might help to create more practical learning tabs.
Sean Hu
2024-12-17 04:39:29 +0000 UTCI can do that but I need to figure out a bug... Whenever I export musicxml, then when people try to import it, everything is an octave down. That means most of the tabs end up showing 0 on the E string. Let me know if you know how to fix that! I use MuseScore
Charles Berthoud
2024-12-13 19:42:56 +0000 UTCHi, Charles. Is it possible to share files like MusicXML? so I can put it into Guitar pro and slow the tempo down for practice.
Sean Hu
2024-12-13 16:06:23 +0000 UTCSuper funky! Great mechanics! Another one I’ll try and nail down! 😎🤘🎸
Sean Sydnor
2024-12-13 01:27:44 +0000 UTCFinally got every note at full speed, but sloppy. (Took almost a week of practice every night for me) Thx for this lesson Charles, this is something I was really excited to work on. Looking forward to the next lesson. For now, I'm happy to get this cleaned up. Just saw your crazy practice warmup video on YouTube. I was surprised to see that you use some of the simple exercises you made for us. Seems like something like that Double-Thumbing beginner exercise is pointless after flawlessly playing something Crash or Elevated. As much as it can feel boring to play through Scales, I can see how valuable they are in the long-run. Are these simple rudiments similar? Wouldn't it be better to work on something more complex, like Classical Thump in exchange for a chromatic double thumb exercise?
Ralyks
2024-12-13 00:01:42 +0000 UTCMy goodness is that rhythm change in Bar 17 hard to follow. That is such a WEIRD count to me. Can't seem to internalize that. Anyone got any recommendations?
Ralyks
2024-12-10 04:48:12 +0000 UTCWhichever you find works best for you! The goal, of course, is to play along so whichever method gets you to that point the quickest is perfect.
Charles Berthoud
2024-12-07 14:00:56 +0000 UTCNice ideas, I'll make sure to include some of those!
Charles Berthoud
2024-12-07 13:59:37 +0000 UTCGreat stuff Charles. How about excerpts from Jaco (Come On, Come Over), Francis Rocco Prestia (Squib Cakes), Doug Johns (pocket full of Nasty), etc. The sky is the limit here.
Denis Rondeau
2024-12-07 02:00:08 +0000 UTCNice!
Matt Tracker
2024-12-06 23:37:16 +0000 UTCWhen first learning something like this would you suggest counting 1 E & A throughout or listening and go more with trying to feel the grove? Great post btw.
E. John Stone
2024-12-06 21:22:34 +0000 UTC
