www.howtolearnbass.com

This is my blog exploring how to learn bass guitar after some time away from playing the electric. I have been playing standard 6 string electric guitars for many years but not really getting anywhere. After stopping playing altogether for a while I decided to start over with the bass to give me a fresh perspective and to try to avoid the bad habits and attitudes that had crept in my playing.

I’ve never been much of an acoustic guitar fan - except 12 string so have mostly owned and played electric. Over the years I have been able to get better and better instruments and even a double neck (which was a big mistake but great to look at!) I finally ended up with two of the best instruments I have ever played but for some reason the desire had gone and they sat around gathering dust.

Something had to be done and a couple of coincidences gave me the idea of trying the bass this time. I had considered getting a Chapman stick or other touch instrument but these were well out of my means so I decided on getting the best value bass I could and see how I got on.

In how to learn bass I will chart my successes and failures along the way so you can hopefully learn from my mistakes and not repeat them. I will also give you what I know to be essential practice techniques even though I may not follow them myself (do as I say not as I do!).

I will post on future topics such as:

• set your goals
• how to learn
• choosing a bass
• tuning up
• getting started
• essential but boring bits
• good practice habits
• bad practice habits
• picking out a tune by ear

I hope that the decipline of producing regular articles for how to learn bass will help me to practice more regularly than I do at present (bad habit No. 1) and give you some practice ideas as well.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 10:56 pm and is filed under introduction. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.