Oh no, I have to Cancel my Lesson! I get it, you had all the best intentions since the last lesson, but just didn’t get
Hey, Ari, can you play that again a bit slower? Totally! Found some new tools… check it out! Ever watched a video and would have
Why do you place so much emphasis on learning the intervals, Ari? Hi Ari, I have your book and you spend quite a bit of
I love borrowing from classical music for the electric bass – especially in the technique department! Classical music looks at hundreds of years of teaching
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
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
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
Root – Five – Root – Five… it is a kind of signature bass line – and it works! In country, bluegrass, folk music, as
“May I have a large container of coffee?” This handy mnemonic never made it to my German speaking classroom back in high school, but it
Ah, sus chords! Sus means suspended – what we are suspending here is the third of the chord, so a sus2 or sus4 chord is