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Gospel Instruments => Bass Guitar => Topic started by: Gospel Musick Player on April 11, 2008, 12:42:29 PM
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I think you use the tuners to take it to another key but I'm not sure is that correct???? Meaning if I only play Eb and want to take it to Ab.
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A-flat is one string up from E-flat, same fret. For example, on a 5-string bass E-flat is the 4th fret on the B string. A-flat is the 4th fret on the E string.
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I'm not really a bass player, but I would say you should try to stop memorizing songs, and just feel them. Its not always easy, but it you have to do it sooner or later.
I guess you could use a capo, but you would only be cheating your growth as a musician. I suggest You get very familiar with the location of the notes on the neck. if you use a capo, the notes will be in different places, and thats not good for your progress.
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I think you use the tuners to take it to another key but I'm not sure is that correct???? Meaning if I only play Eb and want to take it to Ab.
Never tune up higher on your stings. Meaning don't tune your E string up to an A for instance. This will kill your neck. It will warp. I made this mistake when I first started playing. You can tune down but only a whole step to get a good tone.
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Never tune up higher on your stings. Meaning don't tune your E string up to an A for instance. This will kill your neck. It will warp. I made this mistake when I first started playing. You can tune down but only a whole step to get a good tone.
And couldnt that cause a string to pop?
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And couldnt that cause a string to pop?
Yes it could.
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YOU WOULD GO TO Ab ON THE NECK AND PLAY THE PATTERN FROM THAT POINT.....THERE IS NO TRANSPOSE SYSTEM ON A BASS....UNLESS YOU INTEND TO TUNE THE BASS FOR EVERY DIFFERENT KEY.
SORRY BOUT THE CAPS...IM IN A RUSH! ;D
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I'm not really a bass player, but I would say you should try to stop memorizing songs, and just feel them. Its not always easy, but it you have to do it sooner or later.
I guess you could use a capo, but you would only be cheating your growth as a musician. I suggest You get very familiar with the location of the notes on the neck. if you use a capo, the notes will be in different places, and thats not good for your progress.
A Bass Capo? Never seen one of those, lol...
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A Bass Capo? Never seen one of those, lol...
I thought you could use a guitar capo. I never actually used one, so I didnt know
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I thought you could use a guitar capo. I never actually used one, so I didnt know
just learn the fretboard.
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just learn the fretboard.
Yup. Like I always say, We should know where the notes on the key/fretboard are, just like a singer knows where the notes are in thier vocal range. Our instruments should be an extension of our limbs.
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I'm not really a bass player, but I would say you should try to stop memorizing songs, and just feel them. Its not always easy, but it you have to do it sooner or later.
I guess you could use a capo, but you would only be cheating your growth as a musician. I suggest You get very familiar with the location of the notes on the neck. if you use a capo, the notes will be in different places, and thats not good for your progress.
Wow. Up till now, it never occurred to me that a capo is the exact equivalent to the transpose button.
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Like Uriah is saying....just move to that note on the fretboard.
The beautiful thing about the bass is it is perfectly tuned... If you can play the pattern in Ab, the same pattern applies if you move your hand to antoher position on the bass, so if its in Ab, move your hand to Eb as the root position and the same pattern applies.
You don't have to learn the entire fretboard, just learn scale patterns & Intervals, down to the 4th or 5th fret, and you can find your way from there as you are still learning.
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Wow. Up till now, it never occurred to me that a capo is the exact equivalent to the transpose button.
Capo's essentially makes it as if the capped of notes are the open string position. A co-worker of mines who plays guitar at his church, explained it to me a few months ago, and I had that same Eureka moment... Fingers! The lightbulb came on...LOL!
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Piggy-backing off of what Torch7 said, learn your number system. It will greatly help you. When you learn how everything flows together then all you have to do is re-set your pattern into the new key and go.
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The best way is to know the progression of the song and your fretboard. However, sometimes that doesn't happen. Antoher way is to fool yourself. Start playing the song in the new key while imagining that you are playing in the old key. This technique works well for me, especially if I don't play any open strings.