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Gospel Instruments => Bass Guitar => Topic started by: GWHITMIRE3 on August 14, 2007, 01:58:36 AM
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Hello Everyone, My question is related to learning church songs. What are some accelerated ways of learning the songs in one's church if there isn't much structure within the musician/choir section?
The Organist is new & learning and I play BASS (for about 3 yrs) and I'm still learning due to the variation of songs that either the praise & worship leader will sing, and the songs sang at meetings throughout the different jurisdictions.
Thanks for the advice!
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k.i.s.s. until all are on the same page...progress song wise as a group working through songs until atime comes( and it will) that UNITY is nurtured...progress as a group and you will develop as a BODY.
ps this comes from a music dept. built from the altar of ashes
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I don't know if there's an accelerated way to learn. Certainly practice--musician only sessions--will help. Know your progressions (1-4-5, for example) and be able to play them in any key (in other words, know your neck).
Most importanly, have patience with each other.
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The more you practice together the more you will become a "unit" and things will come naturally. Communicate with each other. Once we did that in my church we really started to click. We began to know what each person's strengths and weeknesses were. Mine was dealing with alot of changes throughout the song because my ear had not developed at the time so my organist and MOM would work with me on that, helping me to understand the progressions and how to identify when a change was coming and to always be thinking ahead. Once we did that our music ministry and my playing personally went to a whole new level. Now when we do a song and the orgnanist or keyboard person decides to go off into left field, I can hang with him and come back to "home base"....
Listen to all types of songs and learn their styles...You can pretty much figure out Israel Houghtons progressions on both his fast and slow songs....Fred Hammond, John P. Kee, Norman Hutchins, etc...As mentioned before know your keys.....the main thing is to learn the progression even if it means playing whole notes and half notes...the fill in stuff with come with practice and time.
I had a bass player ( been playing for 15 years) show me what he does. He will listen to a song several times and just plays whole notes and half notes to get the progression and key changes in the songs. Once he has that down he will then begin to fill in with the licks and flavor..some stuff he plays like the cd and some stuff he adds his own flavor to it but he does that consistantly.
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Make practise CD's of all the songs that you all do, go home and practise on your own.... Have a weekly practise or two with whos ever playing that sunday..
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I know p.u.s.h and f.r.o.g but what is k.i.s.s?
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k.i.s.s keep it simple stupid ;D
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k.i.s.s keep it simple stupid ;D
:o uuhh too late to reiterate...keep it simple simon :D
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uuhh too late to reiterate...keep it simple simon
stupid only in my case. ;)