Thank God! Someone with a sense of humour ... !

Jeff is a great bass player who teaches great! He has the humility to understand that we all need to start out as beginners, and he never forgets this.

Jeff ... for someone who is severely accomplished as you are I must say that these videos are just manna from heaven. Not too many thin-air musicians who can speak in beginner's tongue. Really hope you can sell some trainings and build that retirement stream.

Wow... This approach to ear-training actually seems a lot more reasonable, applicable and motivational than most other approaches I've found on the internet... I can only assume this will work for any instrument.

Jeff Berlin man, what an excellent player and really cool educator!

I sent a student I’m teaching to your channel, and it’s really done well for him. The biggest thing that he’s taken from it is the mentality, that mistakes are ok, and we all learn slowly. “Take your time, and trust the process, and you will improve” is what really resonates with him, and with me. My take on it is “Hard work + Consistency = Improvement” not ability, or success, improvement, that’s what matters when learning music. Thank you for your contributions to music education.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that, James!

This is the best music lesson I've had in 10 years of playing music! I wish I could hire you as a teacher Jeff, you're a legend.

Great Jeff, brilliant beginner lesson.

As a deaf bassist, transcribing music by ear is out of the question for me. But I appreciate all your lesson posts and the visual aids that go a long way to helping me learn academically. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this lesson. I've been playing classical piano for 40 years and it's only now when I've picked up a guitar that I've realised a whole section of my music training has been missed - ear training! I have been so focused on playing dots on paper that I've never stopped to LISTEN to the notes I'm playing or learn to recognise them. Thanks for your humour and breaking it down to this most simplistic level to show us where to start. I was so happy when I picked up my guitar and was able to do this after only 3 tries! I would love to know how you knew it was an octave, an octave from what? The first note or from the 2nd note but I have downloaded an ear training interval identification app so hopefully that will come.

I’m a pianist (I started bass last year, actually) and I’ve done some transcriptions here and there in the past but I’ve been searching around KZread to find help with transcribing. What a short and sweet but beautiful gem this lesson is!!!

This is why KZread is great.

We are so lucky to have you Jeff..thankyou for all the music.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

How nice of you to say Glenn.

You sound and look like great guy and also great bass players God bless you my friend!!!

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

How very kind of you to say Isaias.

Jeff is an amazing musician and awesome dude. No matter how good he is or how much accolades he gets. He still practices 5-6 hours a day, well when I study at his school that was how he rolled.

Great advice Jeff. Thank you 👍

Nicely done, Jeff!

Beautiful Jeff.

YOUR way of teaching is a Beautiful Thing. I'm a long time fan and really glad that you started this channel. This is a great lesson! Cheers from Brazil.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Aroldo. Best regards from Jeff

Wonderful explanation!

beautiful bass!!

Really nice video Jeff

One of my Bass hero's! 'One of a kind'

Thank you Jeff this helps a lot. Ive know about this but now I'm finally going to try it.

I’m forcing myself away from tab (yeah, I know) and trying to use my ears properly for the first time in years. I have learned more doing this way than from years of bad tab. I guess it’s all part of the learning process. I still struggle with reading notation but my ear has definitely improved.

Basic, but yet rather impressive... Good job Mr Berlin

@evetsnitram8866

5 жыл бұрын

Back in the 70s I used to do this with LPs then tape recorders(wore a few out!).

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Basic fits the needs of new people to learning this way.

This is really great for a number of reasons. For one, you removed the curtain and know how to translate/mimic for us the process a beginner would need to do. You also assure us that this is how pros do it too, there's no secret or trick, it's just doing the work and looping the music. I've been trying to transcribe a song and it's really hard to find the notes, especially in complicated/congested stuff, will keep working on it.

Not a bass player but this is a huge help thank u sir

Thank you so much Jeff! I'm grateful for your videos. :)

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure for me to make them.

I love your videos, I’m inspired by your teaching. Please keep making videos. Thanks Jeff!

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

With pleasure BRS.

Much better than trying to find a tab or transcription. Before youtube and tab books most musicians went through this process song after song after song. learning to read music is a valuable, but a different skill. You can absolutely develop your ear.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

You are so correct! This is a WAY, WAY better to do this instead of tab or transcriptions. In fact, you can't even compare the two experiences in regards to personal musical benefit. Doing what I demonstrated above, hands-down, is a superior way to do this kind of practice.

Wow, you are very encouraging and motivating, very refreshing, had me present at how learning can be fun through appreciation and acceptance

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Great to hear Jose.

Amazing video Jeff. Thank you so much for uploading this video.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

I am glad that you enjoyed it Kubilay.

great thank you

thanks!

Buen profesor

Love it.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Coooooool! :)

Thank you Jeff 👍

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Lauren.

Thanks for sharing

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Paul.

Wow that was Kool thanks God loves you deeply

Splendid. Truly. Very helpful. Encouraging. All "mistakes" are teaching moments, rather than "bad". Banging it out the hard way, the long way, the LEARNING way. What a delight this video is, especially in the current zeitgeist. You, sir, are a gem. :)

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

And, you, Sir, just put color in my cheeks. :) Seriousy, I appreciate your thoughts.

great video, you are a great and amazing bass player

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir

@isaachgbeis

5 жыл бұрын

lumpyjazz you welcome

a real great player shows it, say thank you!

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks to you Wolfgang.

Lovely, Jeff. As someone who went a long way and built a good career [for quite some time] in music doing *everything* by ear, I can double vouch this folks. Now of course, after a hiatus of too many years I'm ba-a-ck having cleared the desk completely with one agressive sweep of the arm, humbled out...and started over at "go" w/o collecting two hundred $$. So this is a reinforcement to moi indeed, to keep on plowing in the right direction even when I don't feel like it. --Cheers, Dion.

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers back atcha Dion.

@palladinwebb6135

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff. Means a lot!

Hi Jeff. You are very "gruoss" (traslate "Amazing" from Neapolitan language...from Naples) 😉

Great lesson, thank you for sharing. Next, for me is to transcribe the intro to Lindsey Buckingham's Don't Look Down. :)

I was never taught note names....ive only learned by ear and this lesson is exactly how i have learned bass. I hope ppl realize you dont need much except your ears...anything else is a bonus.👌

N°1

for guitar e- 10 - 6 -4

Is this called relative pitch=being able to match what we hear?

@sb848

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Dear Jeff, I hear C - unclear slide from C# or C to D - D

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Could be! I wondered about this as well. I took into consideration two things: 1. Miles might have played a glitch. and 2. Since the chord is D-7, a C is a much more logical note for him to have chosen to play. In transcription, occasionally, some notes aren't clear. So you have to use your already developed sense of harmony and come up with the best guess that you can arrive at. Ultimately doing this isn't a negative because you used your ear the best you could and came to the best note choice you could arrive at. Just stick with the harmony (the chords) and you should be pretty OK!

@digitalworkshops7240

5 жыл бұрын

lumpyjazz I agree with you. Knowing the fact that Miles would play whatever note he wants and make it sound good even if it is outside the harmony I was wondering. But you are probably right.

Maybe lern to recognize intervals by ears and then do this?

@lumpyjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Sure. That's a fine idea.