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![Practice an A major scale on bass | Sounds great!
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These scalar drills not only get your fingers moving and that scale embedded in your mind, they also sound really neat! Hear me use them in a musical context...
00:00 Better way to practice scales
00:21 Using Thirds
00:54 Variation 1
01:21 Variation 2
01:56 Mixed Motion variation
02:28 Mixed Motion variation
02:44 Musical applications
Transcription
Scalar practice tip with Ari.
When you practice the scale, break it down in the various intervals.For example, Im starting with the easiest interval, thirds. Heres an A major scale. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ] Im going to extend it to include all of the notes that are part of the scale in this area. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
Now, Im going to break down the scale in thirds [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
Essentially you can think: start the scale, skip a note, go up two and go back to what you just skipped, And you weave that through the scale. Now, I recommend you do that on your own rather than read this transcribed.
There are several variations of this you can do. Im playing ascending thirds up through the scale. I call this variation ascending and up and when I turn around and go back from the top I call it descending and down, because were now playing descending thirds down the scale. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
The formula now is two back, one up, two back, one up, two back, one up, two back, one up. Heres a variation, You can switch the starting point. Rather than going up a third, I can start by going down a third and weave that up the scale. Now were calling that descending and up. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
And turning it around it becomes ascending and down. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
Try to make them nice and connected because as you go down, you notice you have a lot of these shifts. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ] ...that are not so easy to get clean.
Now when you have both of these variations under your belt you can combine them. I call these mixed motion. Up a third and then down a third and now you weave that through the scale. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ] These are ascending, descending up. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
And theres another way you can do this.Turn around the starting point. Rather than going ascending/descending up, try descending/ascending up. [ π΅ Ari plays scale π΅ ]
Musical applications [ π΅ Ari plays several examples π΅ ]
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![Back in Black Short Version Nail the Rhythm, Nail the Riff!
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Here AC - Ariane Cap - is showing you how to effectively practice the main riff of AC/DCs Back in Black on bass. Nail the rhythm nail the riff. Nail the technique and you are rocking!
00:00 Introduction - Back in Black Riff
00:18 Technique - Pivot Permutation
00:31 Rhythm - Groups of 3
00:55 Feel it in half-time
01:18 Training wheels off
01:39 Double time for the win!
Transcription:
Had a student the other day who was struggling with this:
[π΅ Back in Black riff π΅]
First of all, watch the technique. If you have ever practiced my Pivot permutations, thats where they pay off: one-two, one -three, one-four (almost). Lets look at the Rhythm for a second. These are mini groups of threes: 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
The rhythm det-da, da-da, da-da. What I recommend for you to really feel this rhythm is not so much to break it down in its quarter note components, which is also something you could do, but this one really thrives of being a group of three being moved over a straight groove. Dont touch the metronome - just feel it in half time.
Groups of threes [π΅π΅π΅π΅] and then you take out the training wheel [π΅π΅π΅π΅]
Just feel that note that you just played with the training wheel [π΅π΅π΅π΅] ... and without [π΅π΅π΅π΅] Double time [π΅π΅π΅π΅]
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