now i can learn the riff in his intro

Thank you for this. I swear I’m tone deaf😢

@thomasfioriglio

4 жыл бұрын

lol, me too

This is amazing mate! I can’t believe this is free on KZread, your the best KZread bass teacher

I have been accused of being tone deaf, at the age of nine, by my guitar teacher and my mother, but I'm pretty sure they just didn't understand me, really. :)

@AnitaLife27

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a terrible thing to tell a 9 year old!!! They’re s-heads! We all can learn and improve.

I think learning bass first is more important than the guitar

Thank you so much for your work! Quality content, can't wait for the next one!

@BecomeABassist

5 жыл бұрын

No worries Csaba! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for the help! I'm not a bass player nor do I even have a bass myself, but I always feel more comfortable knowing the bass - especially to my funk/soul listening.

Great lesson, many thanks.

Very helpful thank you.

Great lesson for developing an ear for tone. Singing or humming the note really helps train the ear for pitch. I have used “Transcribe” for several years both for bass, and for guitar (chords, and lead guitar parts). I consider it a must-have application for any musician learning songs by ear and/or creating their own tabs for songs. Two features that I use often for identifying bass notes when they’re somewhat buried in the mix, is the EQ function to isolate the bass frequencies, and the “Show notes” option from the View drop down menu. Used together, those two features of Transcribe makes learning the bass part of a song, without having sheet music or tabs, a breeze.

Strasbourg St. Denis ("It's a fun town.")! Love it! This is one of my favourite tunes, Luke. In fact, it's the ring tone on my phone!

this is pretty epic, gotta try it myslef today

Hey, thanks again, LUke. I got the software, tried to use it - came back here for the key info on how to hear the bass. THe line is a lot more complicated than what I was able to hear on my own. I found the right notes, but couldn't at all pick out the number of repetitions in the rhythm, the details. Thanks for this helpful vid.

Thank you !!

thank you so much. yeah. This was very helpful. yeah. Keep up the good work. Yeah.

Now I can learn the intro of careless whispers

@BecomeABassist

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect! Let me know how you go.

@detlevgebers

5 жыл бұрын

A great song! ;-)

@onutube6392

3 жыл бұрын

lemme know when you start playing it everywhere you go and get kicked out of stores for playing it.

Great lesson mate, thanks very much :-)

You're awesome, Luke! :)

@BecomeABassist

4 жыл бұрын

YOU'RE awesome @Debra Wagar!

1: whenever I try humming I always unintentionally sync my voice to the note im playing rather than having the note im playing synchronize with my voice 2: whenever I do sync the note to my voice its always as a D, I hear an some note then i hum it but I hum a D instead of the actual note it is

What your explaining is a trait that people have that comes natural for some, and some people can learn it, some just never will. Most won’t, it’s kind of a gift you ether have or don’t.

@BecomeABassist

2 жыл бұрын

I would have to strongly disagree @Raymond Fink. From my experience, playing by ear is a *skill* that can be learned - not a 'gift' that some have and some don't. Does it come easier to some people? Absolutely - just like any other skill. But unless someone suffers from amusia (medical tone deafness), it's possible to learn to play by ear. I've even got proof from some of my own students who thought it wasn't possible for them to learn to play by ear, but they did. Here are a few of them: becomeabassist.com/luye/alastair/ becomeabassist.com/luye/chuck/ becomeabassist.com/inga/ I'm curious though Raymond - where do you think you sit on that spectrum you mentioned? Does it come naturally to you? Can you already do things by ear? Or is it much more difficult? Do you think it's not possible for you to learn to play by ear?

@raymondfink9580

2 жыл бұрын

My son for example has the gift, he naturally can listen, find each note after a bit and put it all together, he’s always been able to. I get lucky sometimes but more often than not can’t.

@BecomeABassist

2 жыл бұрын

I'd suggest that if you can figure things out some of the time, then it's just a matter of *practice* to get it right more and more often until you can do it just about all the time. Like I said, it's not a gift - it's a skill. P.S. Are you talking about playing by ear or are you talking about perfect pitch because they are very different skills. Perfect pitch actually IS something that many people agree can't be learned later in life. Playing by ear though can be learned at *any* age - the case studies of my students I sent in my previous comment is proof of that.

I do like the idea of using your voice to mimic the notes.

i can transcribe songs on an instrumental, but i want to learn how to do it normally but i cant figure it out over the lyrics

How did you hear the note and figure out b# as a reference and work your work up from there? That's the part i struggle with, I'm unable to identify a reference note to start off

@BecomeABassist

Жыл бұрын

That's a super common problem @Lilchange13, but I think this video may be able to help: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWauprFrebfTptY.html

I'm still waiting for the Bass Line

This is one of those things that can't especially be taught. You're either able to recognize pitch and transcribe or you're not. If you can hear a note, hum it and name or match that note off the top of your head, you're incredibly gifted.

@CG10CG20CG3

5 жыл бұрын

Once you find the first note, the following notes would be easier to find. At first I also can't recognize a note by just hearing it, I just practice singing it then find it i'm not gifted at all. :).

@jetfranks1634

5 жыл бұрын

@@CG10CG20CG3 some people are tone deaf and can't pick a note out on a fretboard.

@CG10CG20CG3

5 жыл бұрын

Ok if u think so

I've always found that if a person has been in choir & actually learned that transcribing is a bit easier

What brand of bass guitar is this in the video?

@leecreel3316

2 жыл бұрын

Probably a Spector

I reaaalllyy hopes this video will help me out because I can not for the life of me figure out the bassline to “I’m broke” by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears. It sounds so simple but it’s just not happening.

I want tabs for Better When I'm Dancing so bad I am trying to figure out how to play it by ear and its not going well X_X

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

The first song/riff/lick you learn by ear will almost always be the most difficult, but if you can crack one nut, you can do the whole barrel! The recording of that song I just listened to was in the key of D major, so hopefully that'll give you a structure to work around. Good luck @Hakim Durand!

@hakimdurand8427

3 жыл бұрын

@@BecomeABassist oooo didnt expect hints!!! Nice ty! I will definitely continue trying

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

@Hakim Durand - did you give it a crack? How did it go?

I can now learn how to play Curly by Naaki Soul

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Let me know how you go with it!

@someonesomeone7423

3 жыл бұрын

how’d it go

How about dream theater songs?

@BecomeABassist

4 жыл бұрын

You can use the exact same process - it’s just going to be more difficult because that music is trickier

Only half way through I realized that he was transcribing the trumpet and not the bass 🤦

can you play mp3 files in transcribe?

@BecomeABassist

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

For my taste you don‘t come to the point as fast as it is necessary. I can‘t watch your stuff but I sincerly want to, because your content is superb. People got way shorter attention spans. Maybe you can think and read about it. I think you could be very successful this way.

@BecomeABassist

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Pascal - I appreciate it. I have people say this to me sometimes, and others say I always get straight to the point. It seems to depend on the individual. But I'd rather make longer content if it means I can answer all the questions that come up around whatever topic I'm covering, even if that means losing some people with a short attention span. It sounds like my approach doesn't work for you, and that's totally fine. I hope you find someone whose teaching style does work for you though.

@jakelaroche2762

4 жыл бұрын

Pille Palle there is no shortcut to bocoming a better player. I think he does a great job of getting the point across

@billybobby320

3 жыл бұрын

Jake LaRoche yea exactly why it’s not his fault that these generations have no attention span or patience to actually learn

This guy show less of the bass lesson, and Runs his mouth over and over

@BecomeABassist

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you’re looking for someone with a teaching style that works better for you @Miguel A. Ventura. Hope you find what you’re looking for.

if you couldn’t hear bass line in a song, might as well do random notes, nobody will hear it anyway.

You talking too much