Bass practice the Leslie Charles way
Hello,
I’ve been asked to share with you some of the tricks of playing the bass. Honestly speaking, the only trick I use is practice and the only tip I can give you is to ask you to practice. Since an hour of practice a day can make a huge difference for any musician I’ve come up with a simple plan for beginners. All it need is an hours time.
Pick a scale, arpeggio and technique that you want to work on. Concentrate on only these for the week.
5 min – Warm up – simple chromatic runs over the fretboard to get your fingers moving.
20 min – Scale & arpeggio exercises – Practice playing patterns of these different positions of the fretboard
15 min – Technique – Pick one technique and try to apply the scale and arpeggio.
15 min – Learning a bassline of a song – try selecting a song which applies the scale/arpeggio and the technique learnt previously.
5 min – Planning next day’s practice – Note down the things that can improved so you can work on it the next day.
Dedicate this one hour exclusively for practice. This works best when done without any distractions. Practice with patience, develop clarity and always ALWAYS USE A METRONOME. But most importantly keep listening to music. 90% or practice is just listening to music.
“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.” – Louis Armstrong
Peace. Leslie.
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