Sir, you are simply the best bass guitar teacher on youtube. There are many great channels and players, and i watch a lot of them. But your lessons are just the most helpfull and intelligible. Thank you!

Great lesson! I’m still a beginner so this will really help me learn the fretboard! Next stop, circle of 4ths 👍

Amazing. I am suffering learning the fretboard. Now I have really a very awesome way to learn the fretboard and with it I learn the arpeggio notes! You are great!

Thanks for explaining a better way to learn note placement.

Outstanding lesson! It seems so simple, yet I’ve never approached it this way. I can see the value in this. Also, I can attest to just simply playing patterns. In the long run, you will be hurting yourself because you don’t know your instrument the way you should. You never cease to amaze me. You give so freely and I’m grateful.

Great lesson Mark! Thanks so much for your service to the bass community! You always make the lessons interesting and fun!

Great lesson. The Cycle of 4ths is one of my favorite lessons. Applying arpeggios to it will take it to another level.

Great lesson, we’ll explained. Thank you

Thanks a lot, Mark!

Thanks Mark

Great Lesson! I'm going to review The Cycle of Fourths Lessons, and combine them with this one, (I can almost feel my musical brain growing just thinking about it)! THANKS

I love you and your lessons... hi from Israel much love

@Solomon.Y_Music

3 жыл бұрын

Super Br

@pierpaolonistri6874

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Likeaforest

3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to buy some courses... but I'm afraid I'll not be able to understand it all in English ... sir , dear lovely teacher,,,maybe U du it with an Israeli voice over??? So in Israel I bet you'll have plenty of students Much love to all

Super Helpful - Thanks

Thats what I have been looking for! Thanks a lot, I will restart learning bass now!

Very good lesson thanks Mark

i have been looking for an online bass course for a long time and actually tried 1 before..but I got lost in confusing content..then started to search again...as a beginner I need simple,easy but useful tips and lessons....I watched lots of free stuff from Mark's KZread and today I cancelled my other online course and bought "Starter Pack" in Talkinbass ... I can't wait to arrive home and start to practice and I can comment about the course if it helps lads here who consider about Mark's courses..By the way I owe a thank to Mark..I live in Turkey and it's not easy to find online stuff with such quality here..I can't say that I have a perfect English but I can understand every single word even he has some northern accent😉....Just a joke... I hope I can develop myself in playing bass guitar and will share something with all bass lovers here...

Great lesson. I'm not a beginner. I'm a hobbyist that aspires to be a working professional; this is exactly the type of thing I need to get me there.

Thank you! I love the detail of your lessons.

Yes. Nice way of looking at all of this. Much appreciated.

Hi from southern California! This is a great tutorial. Thank you! Big fan of your lessons.

Thanks Mark! Extremely helpful

Great lesson Mark! Thanks so much

Great exercise and lesson material...Thanks Mark

Great lesson Mark, thank you.

Thank you Mark! Good stuff, very helpful exercise. I can use this.

Beautiful explaining Tq..

Great lessons! I too am new to this instrument relatively have played guitar for a long time but this is a different animal very good teaching method how you set up the notation for the cording well explaining it take some work like you said you got to work it out, practice, I think that's one of the biggest things is just practice. By the way what kind of bass is that? a good way to keep your chops up and it's as though you're playing in the band turn some music on your sound system stereo whatever and try playing along to it with a notes that you know because you got a sense of the Rhythm and the muscle memory of where the notes are you got on the groove. Thanks man you're a great teacher.

@Likeaforest

3 жыл бұрын

I believe you @

Good shit. Awesome lesson.

Great content!

:) thanks

Well I know what I'm doing this weekend

I know my fingerboard very well by note name but can't memorize all the note names of all the arpeggios,esp away from the fingerboard.Must be an age thing.So if I'm playing a B major arpeggio,I'm not thinking or naming in my head B-D#-F#-A#,esp if playing with any speed.I'm thinking B-3-5-7 and I know where all those notes are on the fingerboard.I should mention that I am not a professional musician and do not read or write notation.I do know what a chord chart tells me though.Great cord tone essentials course Mark.

Yeah, that's the question: how do i get from G to G4 on my Jazz Bass? Maybe if i grab the G string below the neck using pliers with my left foot standing on the right leg...

There's an easier way... The CAGED system applied to bass yields ALL arpeggios up to 12th fret for any given key. No need to memorise all notes, which I find impossible, just can't remember them. That's five arpeggio shapes, automatically available for any given key. Lots of people misunderstand CAGED system, but once you get it, it's an epiphany, aha-moment, satori, enlightment, whatever you want to call it :-)

@talkingbasslessons

3 жыл бұрын

That’s patterns. I have a whole course dedicated to the pattern side of stuff. But this is about delving deeper and improving your musicianship. Ask a pianist, saxophonist etc. the notes in a Db7 chord and they will tell you immediately. When I started music college some 30 years ago I realised I was musically inept compared to the other musicians. I knew scales and arpeggio patterns all over the neck. But could I answer a simply question about a simple chord without relating it to the neck? No I couldn’t. Try your hand at orchestral composition or arranging while thinking about fretboard patterns and you’ll immediately realise how limited you are. Also, as I pointed out in the lesson. This isn't about making things easy. this is about making things as hard as you possibly can in practice. If your practice isn't pushing you and uncomfortable then it's not good practice.

@foshizol

2 жыл бұрын

@@talkingbasslessons Just like working out at the gym.

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stoner doom metal fans were getting as high as they could on the bass way before this lesson was recorded

Dont search the pattern, noteds!

Please take an Hebrew voice over please..... I'll take care to do for you promotion in all Israel

Sorry to disagree with everyone, but this doesn't really help you to play the bass better. For example, I know where to place my fingers without knowing the name of the note. Knowing the patterns of the scales is much more useful. Everything is this vid is also applicable to the guitar. If you want to read dots & play bass like a guitarist, go for it, but I don't.

@talkingbasslessons

3 жыл бұрын

You’re thinking patterns. That’s ok for very elementary stuff. But many players want to develop ‘musicianship’. Would Bach have written chorales based on fretboard patterns? Did Stravinsky consult his bass shapes when he wrote The Firebird? Does the average bar pianist not know the notes in an Ab7 chord? I’m fully aware some people don’t want to study music. That’s fine. Keep doing what you’re doing. But don’t think that learning patterns over notes is ‘better’. And you’re right. Everything in this lesson is applicable to any instrument. How is that bad? Ps. I 100% guarantee that understanding a major and minor arpeggio is infinitely more useful to a bass player than learning scales (and this is coming from the guy that wrote 2 books and a giant course on scales)

@paulbennett772

3 жыл бұрын

@@talkingbasslessons Thanx for your reply. I didn't say any method was better, simply that this tutorial helps with dot-reading rather than specifically the bass; Pino Paladino doesn't read. Of course, reading is better for a reasonable income, but it'll never make you an innovative player. Understanding rhythm guitar inside out is essential to playing innovative bass in a band setting, whereas your method seems to prioritise soloing. Knowing scales & shapes enables you to play innovative lines within songs, rather than mere follow-chording (Squire, Lee). That's the kind of bass player I've been for 50 years. I should perhaps add that I have always used 5ths tuning (DAEB), long before Fripp's NST.

@talkingbasslessons

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulbennett772 You might be misunderstanding the value of chord tones. I didn’t mention anything about soloing or reading. This is purely about musicianship. Chords tones are the foundation of every single bass lines ever recorded.

@humanidrome

3 жыл бұрын

I like to sometimes put my usual thinking aside and approach topics from a new perspective. I like this exercise, for it is arrhythmic, distanced from playing actual music, mathematical. It helps me getting a new look on the neck.