What to PRACTICE EVERYDAY on BASS

Here is a daily practice routine that you can try on the bass.

0:00 Intro
0:48 Stretching
1:13 Technique
3:54 Rhythm
6:01 Ear Training

I hope its helpful!

I'm a professional bass and guitar teacher just trying to make my way in youtube.

[degreelobwedge]

For beginner ear training, I recommend the first few Ramones albums. It's very easy to hear the chords as the bass and guitar are playing the same thing, the songs are almost always composed of 2 or 3 simple chord progressions/riffs with no more than 4 notes or chords, the songs almost never follow a straight major or minor scale and often contain a key change or a weird chord in the bridge which makes it a little trickier than the songs initially appear.

[mateyo]

after feeling stuck on my bass progression after playing songs that I like, I searched on how I could improve and this has helped a lot

[Antonio-iqyj]

Carol Kaye in her very old book "How to play the electric bass" says that playing along tunes is the best practice you can have, even better than playing live with mediocre bands. What do you think?

[Gorlung]

That Major/Minor 10 trick is a gem. Thank you!

[seantang]

That maj 10 min 10 trick is brilliant! Great video

[Livemusic]

Cool videos man. Just subscribed. I try to practice daily atleast for about 3-4 hours While also staying up to date on the guitar, drums, and acordion. 😊

[francoishudson]

You are great I want to learn bass from you

[Antbaca]

The song he ear trains to is called “A Whole Lot Better” by Deanz Feat. Astyn Turr

[patrickdehertogh]

thanks for video going to try your metronome app looks easy to use and like the disappearing part to find if you can keep in time, have many metro apps but just frustrate me. I only got a GED. again thanks.

[LuisNavarro]

Thank you very much, excellent video, it has helped me a lot to start my daily practice.

[DanCourtemanche]

There are a lot of "do this x minutes a day" videos. As a level 0 beginner, if I add up all the minutes, I have little to no time to practice a song, which is the goal, and hopefully not a distant one. What should a noob focus on, also considering that we want to play real music? 30 minutes a day is the best average I can give you, 60 at the outside.

[richardnnarhsackitey]

hi Tom this is my very first time watching your video and am very grateful but I actually don't practice regularly but when I play at church i can hear myself good and bad sometimes. what i really need here is how to figure out the major keys and the minor keys because I do play all right but may not know what am really playing. RICHARD FROM GHANA

[csmith]

Hi, just want to say that your videos are very helpful;, the only problems im having is i just dont know which finger to use on each note and i don't want to practice it wrong. i watched other videos and they all use different fingers. or does it really make a difference. Please respond because right now im stuck. Thanks

[andressssa]

great video! very informative and entertaining 🙂

[MrStrings]

great common sense advice. Is that a Yamaha TRBX you're playing there? Very nice looking, and sounding, bass. I'm considering a Yamaha TRBX604 or BB434

[cesarcobain]

What's the name of that metronome ?
Thanks for all your videos

[bocobocoboco]

Hi Tom that tune sounds like F lydian ? because the 2nd chord (G) also sounds major ?

[dikoman]

Why do you have to open your mouth in the thumbnail?