TShakazBlackRoots Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 After more than a year of 'ducking out' of learning atleast some notation, I started some today. I was in the library getting some Miles Davis music, when I saw this 'Learning to play bass' book that I'd seen months ago but just flipped through. Today, I looked at the tabs and notation, then asked myself, 'what do I have to lose by attempting to study this stuff?' So I got the book out. I'm glad to inform you that I now know the bass clef and most of the scales, and can fill in all the notes on the stave (Go But Don't Fool Around...GBDFA right? ) I'm also playing the Miles Davis 'Best Of' double cd. I played the intro to his famous song 'So what'!!! I'm enjoying myself...watch out Jaco, Miller Wooten and the rest. Yeah right It Began In Afrika. https://www.facebook.com/BlackRootsUNLIMITED/ https://www.facebook.com/TanquerayAllMusicSafari/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gord -B Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Cool, Miles is the man Gotta watch out though he's got a very diverse range of material out. Him and Zappa are currently taking up a large proportion of my cd collection all on their own. Derek Smalls: It's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water. http://www.myspace.com/gordonbache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TShakazBlackRoots Posted May 5, 2004 Author Share Posted May 5, 2004 I'll try to get as much Miles Davis as I can. Gonna get John Coltrane from the lib today. So I'm listening to Fourplay, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and the like, alot. Just imagine a combination of earth thundering Reggae basslines and drum patterns with the smooth flow of Jazz & Blues... PRICELESS It Began In Afrika. https://www.facebook.com/BlackRootsUNLIMITED/ https://www.facebook.com/TanquerayAllMusicSafari/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mound Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 (Go But Don't Fool Around...GBDFA right?Actually, I always think of "Good bassists do fu**ing awesome" and for the spaces in the bass clef I think "all cats eat garbage" and the treble clef lines are "every good bassist does fine".. the spaces I just think the word "face" and the order of sharps in the key signatures, well, this is horribly un-politically correct, but it's what shoots through my head "fat chicks go down and eat chocolate" my acronyms are dirty I guess, that's just what was planted in my head way back ;-) -Paul "You look hopefully for an idea and then you're humble when you find it and you wish your skills were better. To have even a half-baked touch of creativity is an honor." -- Ernie Stires, composer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Good for you! Congratulations on taking the step to reading standard notation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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