When you haven't watched a SBL in ages and confused as hell because it takes you a few minutes to realise it isn't Scott... :D

@a.j.4076

3 жыл бұрын

Man, for a moment I thought Scott had cancer! :O

@keisn2446

3 жыл бұрын

so weird

@mattbratton9516

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, Ian is awesome!

@ganderson87

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattbratton9516 That was never in doubt!

@jibicusmaximus4827

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr weird innit lol.

This guy’s good - let’s keep him.

@henryc7598

3 жыл бұрын

IBL! :O

@citrus4419

3 жыл бұрын

nah he talks too much

@Michael-kx2bn

2 жыл бұрын

@@citrus4419 compared to Scott lol???

This! This is how I trained my ear on guitar (I wish I had someone tell me years earlier because I figured it out on my own.) But singing the scales as I practiced them eventually gave me the freedom to improvise. I mainly can have an idea in my head and play it all over the fretboard. That's the freedom you get from training your ear. It's like the cheat mode.

God I love when Ian takes over. So much positive energy!

@matthewjamieson370

Жыл бұрын

Love IMA. ❤ .....guys a legend

"Nurtured by Love" the book written by Shinichi Suzuki was totally revolutionary approach to learning music based on the way we learn language - listen and repeat back. Memorization is strongly encouraged. Reading music is left till later in a musician's development. The ideas in this video are strongly in alignment rather than in contrast with Suzuki method.

@prestachuck2867

3 жыл бұрын

Just like Victor Wooten teaches. “You don’t teach your children to diagram sentences before you teach them to speak and converse, so why do we teach music the other way around?”

@stephenshoihet2590

Жыл бұрын

@@prestachuck2867 because adults think that learning the rules is a shortcut. Adults do the same thing learning a second language, they try to find rules to map their native language to the 2nd language instead of just using the language over and over until they become second nature. Learning like a child requires you to make a lot of mistakes, a lot of adults don't like that 🙂

@shinninglightministry7050

7 ай бұрын

​@@stephenshoihet2590wow, I never thought about it like that... Adults really don't like making mistakes😅

I hate how underrated this channel is. This Channel really helped my bass playing

@eddiedanielsinga3058

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you man!

I love Scott 2.0! Funny, entertaining, and always on point (without beating the point to death). Ian, I want more of you!!

Loved this guy for years! So glad he’s a more permanent contributor to SBL.

I've been teaching these exact same concepts for years. And people seem to be surprised when I tell them that I don't "think" in notes, but numbers. I've always described it like this (after they learn the basics): The song or scale or whatever you're playing is the "house." It has blueprints. Everything is already made and put together, and is relative unto its different pieces. The key is just the "address." You can build the exact same house on nearly any street. But the house itself remains the same. So instead of referring to the house DESIGN (the song itself) by its address (the key), you refer to it by the numbers (its blueprint). In other words, you learn to "build that specific house" (that song) by default because you know all of its relationships (numbers). Then, you just use whatever key (address) to place it in the "neighborhood" (key) of those who are building the house (playing the song) with you.

Ian is such a great teacher. Love that he jumped on SBL!

"Sing !" - The one word advice, that totally helped me 🥺🙏

As a Brit, I can't take this level of enthusiasm...

@richardgudino7630

3 жыл бұрын

I get it, but as a Mexican, I LOVE this level of enthusiasm :-)

@scottibass

3 жыл бұрын

As an American, it is the right amount of enthusiasm

@adammono1839

3 жыл бұрын

As a grumpy northern Englishman, I LOVE his enthusiasm! All of his SBL vids are great!

@claudelamoreux8543

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if he had ALL his coffee.

@justthegirlnxtdoor

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. You're so funny! :D

This is how I learned the bass parts in songs ---growing up in a farm town with no music teachers. I think I dropped the needle over and over on so many Rolling Stones records that they became unplayable. In 12 minutes you validated what I was doing in 1963 and still continue to do it - learn the bass parts - today.

@devinebass

10 ай бұрын

Yes dude! So awesome 🤘🏻

I love Ian, he is so good

I'm from Ghana. West Africa... I'm enjoying your bass tutorials .... Scot bass lesson tutorials... Keep it up sir.

Hey, nice to see you again, American Scott! Very cool video, too. :)

Really love these videos aimed at newbies. First steps are so helpful!! Thank you.

Super advice from Scott's American twin. A while back Scott had a video about singing scales as you play them and it's very worthwhile. It really helps getting the notes to sink into your ear. Having a refined ear also helps if you ever want to play fretless and it really helps with things like vibrato or bends. Also, even if you're playing with sheet, a developed ear helps hear mistakes when you're playing them live.

Scott, This newer phase of instruction is more to my liking. Your previous presentations were very tutorial and stresses my mind to know every theory. Just PLAY, OKAY!!!

That was extremely helpful and eye opening to where I can learn and progress, he is an awesome teacher thank you guys at SBL so much for helping me improve daily, the guys in the band say they notice the difference since I have become an academy member. Can’t give enough praise

Great lesson, Ian. Simple and highly effective.

Thanks Ian, so easy to watch and listen to full of enthusiam , but thats the prettiest Jazz ive ever seen , if you ever sell , im here !

I use both the numbers for the scale degrees as well as the solfege names. Singing what you're playing is a very powerful tool that improves multiple skills. Ian is correct about ear versus reading. Reading is valuable in some situations. Hearing is vital in ALL situations.

Great video - I was taught in the opposite way - I was taught to read music notation, but in my first years, nobody really talked about listening. So yes, I could sight read melodies, but I could not play anything by ear. I wish somebody had forced me to focus on playing by ear much earlier on. I still struggle with it. And the reality is that when you play in a pop or rock band. Chances are there is no music notation to sight read from. Musical interaction with other musicians is all done by ear.

Brilliant Lesson, Ian! I try to practice this. Thanks! He's just a blessing for SBL! :)

I love the lessons you do on sbl. There's something about the way you teach that connects with me

This feels like Blues Clues but for bass. I love it

@IanMartinAllison

3 жыл бұрын

This made me LOL IRL

@jabez36

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanMartinAllison Ian I love your enthusiasm. I learned so much from your drummer and bassist class on SBL! Keep up the good work!

Great vid! I struggle with playing by ear and this helped. Thanks Ian (and Scott)

Ian is a great teacher! And this content is very useful!

Great beginning ear training lesson! I'm going to use this with my students in the future. Thanks!

Thank you, most bass videos I usually feel dont help, as they are like the artist "step 1 draw circle step 2 finishing touches and bam a face!" But this went through the steps and I actually get it, felt happy when I guessed the note before you said it, showing it worked :D

Thanks Ian !!! You’ve described how I’ve been learning bass playing since my teen years to the present. Still striving to improve !!!

Love this video, so helpful!! I can't wait to implement the techniques!!

Ian, yes please.. we want more of this stuff!! 🙏

Great video. So many great players are not readers, (many are as well) it is great to hear ear training be validated.

Good to see that the comments from 2 weeks ago were listened to and a lesson put together so quickly.

This is spot on! Thank you for teaching me 🙏🏻

This is dope. Thanks a lot SBL

With or without you and The Joshua Tree was where I started my bass playing journey, 35 years ago. Felt my way around the bass by ear in the very way you describe here 🙂

Really enjoyed this video, took a lot from it. I’ve played bass for numerous years but I’ve also felt let down my ‘ear’ so it’s good to work on this.

This lesson is simply correct. In "music school" (the first two years) this is what is taught. Can you sing what you play? Can you play what you sing? Your particular facility with an instrument stops mattering - with some exceptions.

Thank you for suck an inspiring video! I also learn by ear and by patterns. I remember joining the band for a school musical as a keyboard player, and then the instructor gave me a music sheet for Thriller. I told him that I could not read it fluently (it takes some time for me to read it and translate it to the keys) and he responded with "why are you here then?" He then taught me and the pianist some parts, and I learned it quicker, and also remembered it better (because I remember patterns). So he was proven wrong, and you should not be ashamed to not be able to read music sheets that well :)

Thank you so much for the content!

my favorite bass teacher

IAN im so glad you're part of SBL!! Such a great attitude!!

Great Video! much needed. Rock on Brother!

I definitely appreciate this kind of video. Give us more! :)

The most comfortable teacher ever ...thanks man... awesome job

Wow Fantastic lesson. It was really helpful!

Love your SBL content, man!

Thank you! Exactly what I needed to HEAR!

Fantastic lesson Ian. When I first started playing I had to do this because there was no KZread or Ultimate Guitar to get bass lines from. I found since I picked up playing again that I am relying too much on those sites and need to get back to learning songs by ear. Its kind of like my sense of direction which was always good. Now I find I go almost everywhere with the GPS on and my sense of direction has weakened. Time to work out my ear.

@IanMartinAllison

3 жыл бұрын

There is something really amazing about doing the work to figure something out with your ears versus immediately finding the KZread tutorial. But of course we are all guilty of the latter! Hope this was valuable to you!

Thank you so much Ian!!!

This has helped me so much!! Thank you!!

Thank you for this awesome lesson! It has opened up a whole new way to learn music! I hear and know notes better than I thought😅

Top man great lessons

Yes!!!!!!! Thank you....Yes!!!! This is excellent!!!!!!Just started playing the Bass a few months ....after years playing the Alto saxophone!

great lesson! would love more "levels"/further exercises for ear training

Ian is a great addition to the SBL team!

You are an Amazing Inspiration ! Thank You

this is so helpful wow thanks a lot i never would have thought this way. i can recognize the sounds so easily because i listen to so much music, i know the fret notes but i couldn't find a way to hammer it into my head and know what it actually sounds like to translate it by finding those notes on the neck-very daunting. your advice blew my mind!

Thank you for the tips, this was awesome and I started it right away

Extremely helpful!!

Even knowing scales and frasings, its a great exercise. After 2 years playng bass, playing by ear (or trying), i see my technic and learning potencial growing Ps: Sorry for the bad english. Greatings from brasil!

@stevensleconte493

2 жыл бұрын

Your english is great man! perfect sentence with just 3 misspelt words: phrasings, technique, greetings (it's not your fault, english is pretty weird)

@crow3043

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevensleconte493 thanks man!

Thanks , this video was really helpful🤘

Thank you so muchhhhhh for the awesome video man.. out of 10 video this this the only one that's simple and understandable.. Keep it up man 🔥

I like this newbie to SBL...I dig your teaching style!

Killer explanation!

Excellent Cheers Scott

This is exactly what I need, thank you so much! I‘d appreciate more content on ear training.

Great lesson, very useful ... thanks Ian! This is new entry in my personal notebook of practice hints.

Awesome. More please!

This guy is a great teacher ngl

Loved it!

OK, you got me. I got into bass because I kept singing improvised bass lines and thought "huh, there must be a bass player in there somewhere. Maybe let him out." Got a bass, and it was all about fingers, the ears got left behind. I keep trying to pull them back in. I needed this reminder and practical steps. I *know* this is important, but it's so much easier to look at the notes-I have been reading music for decades. Recently I have been learning a song mostly by watching the notation scroll on the screen. I think I can get the rest by ear. It's worth a try. Thanks, Ian.

Thanks so much, Ian. I've been playing by ear for many many years and now after all those years have started to do exactly what you're doing via interval recognition. Because of all those years doing this subliminally or subconsciously, it's made the latter a lot easier to deal with. Thanks very much for the content. Always great! 🙂🎶👌

@devinebass

Жыл бұрын

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Great lesson!

So true... Loved it!!!...

This is a good lesson for any instrument

No clue how to read music but I can work out some songs by just listening a few times and just trying to copy. Exactly what you did in the video, after you get the basics you add the rest like ghost notes, or whether it’s stocatto etc.

Excellent video.....thank you

This was a great video Ian!! Definitely more! Hwhat year is that beautiful Jazz? I really like how u call learning by ear a strength 💪 and singing the numbers im Definitely going to start doing that, thanks again, your the man!!! Bust the stinger out next time for ya boi right here😁

I always read music and last week i told my self i was going to train my ear to learn songs quickly and to get the notes that i wanted. I struggled until i started singing with my bass. 2 days later this video is uploaded.

This is a great video!!! For me before I had to find a pitch, it took me hearing songs where the bass stood out, there was a point in my young life when I couldn’t even hear the basslines, but it started coming to me. Basslines are not always easy to pick out not everyone can do it especially people who don’t play music. This was a great video Ian!! I have a pretty strong ear and not a reader so I appreciate you giving validation to us ear players!! I kinda knock myself for have never learned to read I even tell myself I should go back to school for music just to be more official I guess. I know if I could read I could probably play bass on a more professional level as a session player maybe

Great lesson. Thanks

Great video, as usual.

great tips!

Inspiring!

I'm primarily a singer. Always wanted to learn an instrument. Great info! ❤

I have been practicing active listening for more than half year, I wish I found this channel earlier. Awesome thank you!!!

Awesome! I already have been doing a bunch of this innately from being in choirs. And I played acoustic just from knowing basic chords. But having not played anything for a while I think bass is going to be my next adventure.

Thank you so much!!!

big help thanks

Best explanation ever ❤

Some simple and very effective exercises!

great content!

You are one happy guy 😊

Great insights on ear training. Love SBL's content, and Ian's videos kick major ass. Keep up the great job you guys are doing!

Your a legend sir !!!!!

Love that shirt. Great lesson too!