Bass

My Bass:

My bass is a condor bx-12a that was modified to became active or passive by pressing the third knob. It’s my baby that I brought some years ago and since it sleeps in a coffin case it was named: Drácula 💋🩸

How to do I structure my Practices:

There’s some categories that a musician should be focus when studying bass:

• Technique
• Fretboard Knowledge:
  • Chord Tones
  • Scales / Modes
• Time / Groove → Metronome
• Performance → You should always choose to learn a music that you don’t know how to play
• Walking Bass Lines
• Soloing / Improvisation
• Transcription
• Genres / Styles
• Harmony / Theory

Daily Practice Diary:

A daily practice would be best if kept in a diary format with the following entrances:

• How long?
• What key categories?
• Any performance records?
• Thoughts and observations

Its important to remember the Pareto Principe, where 20% of the time will bring 80% of the results

Examples of entrances on the Diary:

📀 ♬ ₊.🎧⋆☾⋆⁺₊🎸 Practice: 24/07/2022

• Time: 30min
• Type: Endurance
• Comments: My fingers are very fragile right now 😞. I’m Very slow too and my hands get in pain very quickly too. So today I just played some random on Rocksmith+

📀 ♬ ₊.🎧⋆☾⋆⁺₊🎸 Practice: 30/07/2022

• Time: 1h30min
• Type: Endurance
• Comments: My fingers still hurts. Today I discovered that “Boris the Spider” from The Who is very cool to play on bass. I’m still too slow for that right now. 🕷️

📀 ♬ ₊.🎧⋆☾⋆⁺₊🎸 Practice: 31/07/2022

• Time: 20min
• Type: Slow + Precision
• Comments: My fingers are still hurting from yesterday. Today I discovered the girl from Måneskin, Victoria De Angelis. I’m really happy with my progress during this week. ｡ ₊°༺❤︎༻°₊ ｡