Two Ways Reading Music Can MASSIVELY Improve Your Bass Playing!!

Reading music can be great for your bass playing in many ways you may never have considered.

Both your fretboard knowledge (notes on the bass neck) and your rhythm can see significant improvement with even an elementary level of reading.

In this video we look at how reading can beneift these two areas.

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[tshisaa]

I have learned a lot through your teachings. I started with zero understanding but now i can play well. big up my mentor

[mr.wunderful]

I reluctantly hit the "like" button; YouTube doesn't have a "love" button to hit. I'm at the point where I am tired of having to transcribe everything; I want to just read it know and go! Awesome. Thank you!

[zsqdz]

I love that it says talk ass in the beginning

[bustabass]

Reading music is fundamental to knowing music. While it is certainly possible to do something from rote memorization of how to do it, nothing beats being able to read, comprehend, and execute as written, or adding improvisation based on an understanding of music theory. There is no quick fix nor magic formula for it. You have to pay your dues if you want to be a true "musician". Tabs do not a bass playing musician make. Nor does learning the, "killer riff that will take your bass playing to the next level..."👑🎸🎵

[demgolf]

Mark, would your reading program apply to the upright as well?

[liamgoethals]

I know it has nothing to do with the lesson, but what are those weird pickups for on your bass?

[dentoncrimescene]

I can read music but not very fluently. Should I start on your part 1 or just go from part 2 sight reading course?

[scottyshepardthesmoothdeep]

That's is awesome stuff but can learning music and learning to read music, will that help you learn to play completely by ear with out sheet music, or will it cripple a person, that they never can get away from sheet music, if they go somewhere to play and they don't want no sheet music, how would you play music with them, I want to learn music but I don't want to be stuck behind a music stand and chained to it!??? Thank you very much. Sir

[midplanewanderer]

Learning to read music is like carving a limestone block with your teeth, and I'm not dyslexic. Just....slow, eh? About a year ago I chewed through the Adam Neely opening riff (a jazzy oddly discordant, very _slippery_ little number) he sported a video on. He showed the music on the screen, but no tab of course. I slowed it to one half speed and spent hours watching him squonk through the notes whilst reading the music on the screen and locating the notes on the fretboard.

It actually was kinda fun. Got some dopamine out of it.

But I'm just not driven to learn reading because I have no intentions of ever being a professional gun-for-hire, playing tiresome oldies or the latest sonic dreck for the unwashed masses. Ugh. Doesn't interest me. It's just a hobby.

But I get a definite buzz when creating or I learn something new, like when an aspect of music theory suddenly crystallizes from murk into a coherent gestalt. I've a long way to go though...

[malcelinho]

On Mark's last lesson you learn to sight-read *the licc*