Month: October 2017
Pesky Mordents for Finger Strength (Talking Tech)
I love borrowing from classical music for the electric bass – especially in the technique department! Classical music looks at hundreds of years of teaching and working out getting the
Please Don’t Call it the “Cycle of Fourths”
My last post on fifths (when not to play the perfect fifths) and the one before on the forgotten fifth are hopefully still fresh in your memory because there is one additional
When you should not play the perfect fifth…
The Perfect Fifth is always safe to use, right? Yes. Except when it isn’t! Related, in case you missed it: The Fifth – Why it is the bassist’s best buddy
The Forgotten Fifth (Have it Under Your Fingers?)
Fingering a Fifth You probably know it as a “1 by 2”: one string up, two frets over, like this (the numbers are fingering options for fifths): According to my
The Fifth – Why it is Your Best Buddy…
Root – Five – Root – Five… it is a kind of signature bass line – and it works! In country, bluegrass, folk music, as well as in bossa (where
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