A Year in Bass - Week 4

I've just learnt first hand the usefulness of scales. I've been practising scales and arpeggios over the past few weeks. This week I've been learning Midnight Hour and have been able to apply this learning directly to this piece.

If you are just beginning to learn or would like to take on a project like this I'd love to hear about it in the comments below.

The bass recording is much improved this time courtesy of an M-Audio Fast Track USB Audio Interface.

Show Notes

The fretting hand exercises I have been doing can be found on active bass - look for lesson 12692 - Playing Melodic Metal. New exercises to follow next week.

For the scales/exercises I have been doing I've set some daily metronome speed targets as well.

I've done a transcription of Midnight Hour which is available below for registered site users.

This coming week I'll learn another piece - suggestions always welcome

Music for this week:

From the Friedland book I'm going to use the 10 standard progressions at the back of the book and try to apply what I've learnt so far to these exercises.

From Fingerstyle Funk I'm moving on from the simple picking exercises to some of the more difficult (but more tuneful) exercises.