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  @gianniconti6944 минут бұрын

  I agree 💯

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  @tonydevosmusic2 сағат бұрын

  great for lead guitar as well

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  @pickinstone22 сағат бұрын

  The issue with putting the click on 2 and 4 is when that's translated to teaching students to tap their feet on 2 and 4. Professional musicians know EXACTLY where the downbeat is--they feel that big beat in their GUT. However, many students of jazz that tap on 2 and 4 will inevitably lose the DOWNBEAT (that was me for a while). If you are taping on autopilot and not aware of the downbeat at ALL times, you are doing everyone you are playing with and playing for a disservice. My current teacher--a bandmate and close friend of the late Barry Harris--taught me to tap on 1 and 3 on one foot and 4 with the other foot. No matter where I put the click for the metronome, that's where I tap my feet. I train the downbeat every time I pick up my guitar. Jeff Berlin is a famous pro for a reason. No matter what we play--triangle, bassoon, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone--everyone who plays music has a responsibility to keep time. Whether the downbeat is explicit or implied, you gotta KNOW where that downbeat is at all times. That goes for ANY genre of music, free jazz included.

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  @AdamKnorrКүн бұрын

  Well, i'm a 2/4 guy because i just hear it like a snare in my head, and i cant toggle this off. So what i did was to make myself a a drum track with only hihat and snare, the hihat is humanized, the snare is straight dead on. No bassdrum. Thats my metronome for the last 10 years 😆

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  @ImpulseGeneratorКүн бұрын

  the off beat bass lines sound totally different to me. Maybe it's interesting to record the same bass line twice. Once with the metronome on 1 and 3, other time on 2 and 4? With the click just in your ears, so the recording does not have it. I prefer to hear things that do work instead of what doesn't work... Yet everyone gets their time to get things across, and I respect the perspective.

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  @arizonafuelmanagement3573Күн бұрын

  I agree my man. Time comes from within. The proof is that I think one and three swings more. That's just me...

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  @PjRjHjКүн бұрын

  I'm confused, at 2:17 Jeff says "practicing on 2&4 on s Click, gets people to play better". So is this an accidental contradiction, or an awkward continuation of 2:10 "the 2&4 is sort of more an elusion..."

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  @JeffBerlinMusicGroup11 сағат бұрын

  @@PjRjHj The comment was that practicing with a click gets people to play better......with a click. 2 and 4 or 1 and 3 click track practice doesn't translate over to live ensemble playing. Nor does it improve your bass playing because the music that does improve players is never mentioned. I hope that this clarifies things.

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  @normalizedaudio2481Күн бұрын

  You guys are a bunch of squares.

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  @normalizedaudio2481Күн бұрын

  This is where the white guys hang out.

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  @normalizedaudio2481Күн бұрын

  I like to read on 1 and 3. So sue me.

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  @ianmackenzie686Күн бұрын

  😂same here

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  @hugo2-jz4unКүн бұрын

  I think the concept comes from upright bass where the difference is a lot more pronounced

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  @hugo2-jz4unКүн бұрын

  I could definitely hear a difference, but I think you're right that in a band context it would be difficult

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  @adviceman52112 күн бұрын

  Agreed. I currently don’t own a metronome and haven’t for many years. I DID own and occasionally use a drum machine but NEVER used it when learning songs. I’d learn the piece first, then use the drum machine to flesh out ideas, work on note durations, etc. I found this much more helpful than trying to keep up with a mechanical device while trying to figure out which notes to play. As an aside, I was never a slave to the drum machine either. Since I played with many fine drummers and they were all a bit different, I had to learn to adjust, slightly, with different drummers. NO metronome OR drum machine will ever teach a bassist how to do that. We, SIR, are blessed to learn from your many decades of wisdom. Thanks.

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  @burtreynolds29693 күн бұрын

  Yes. I always default to E when I pick up the bass. Gotta get out of that rut.

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  @harryblue95024 күн бұрын

  2 minute video = Hours of 🎶 🎵 exploration Thanks as always JB !!x ( That is actually a pretty cool " riff " 😅 )

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  @jefferyfournier62644 күн бұрын

  Truth !

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  @38bass4 күн бұрын

  Thanks Jeff for everything you that you do for the community! On a side note, I’m totally bummed out over Cort not seeming to offer a lefty version of the Rithimic Bass. 😕 I’m quite happy with my current axe, Sire M7, but am feeling the need to bolster the arsenal and the Rithimic seems like an obvious choice.

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  @harryblue95024 күн бұрын

  Am looking for an importer of the Cort Rhithmic 5 string here in the UK 🇬🇧...Any chance someone stocks them here?

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  @ericbortega7 күн бұрын

  The algorithm wins again. I am going to add this to my guitar practice as well.

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  @ianmackenzie6868 күн бұрын

  I noodle on these regularly when the other band members are working out part.

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  @gssong71119 күн бұрын

  CAGED for bass

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  @SDRockman9 күн бұрын

  E. Always the best.

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  @abrahamjaber431810 күн бұрын

  If anyone can do a tab of this, I would be very thankful.

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  @soxodue11 күн бұрын

  Great recording quality, just the bass solo, surely great, is inaudible under the piano. It would be worth remixing.

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  @kiru_r12 күн бұрын

  My experience learning bass has made me appreciate this point: the biggest difficulty hitting notes on time is often the speed at which my brain can process the notes and aspects of technique. All of these are learned by going extremely slowly. After that, playing with a metronome is quite easy and doesn’t require much practice in itself. Small caveat: some subdivisions and syncopations I find hard to hit and need some practice but it is impossible without all the rest already pinned down first.

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  @AlexOumanski12 күн бұрын

  Hi Jeff, this is all good, but this is a transcription of the top notes (in this case Trumpet). And top notes are the ones that you here and can sing. But how about bass, when it is played with other instruments, especially walking bass, which you here the worst and also confuse when singing with the Top voice? How to transcribe bass played in a Jazz trio? Thank a lot for your help, Alex

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  @KaltOhm13 күн бұрын

  My goodness! This is wrong in so many levels. Jeff is a great player but he certainly has no idea how learning and how our brain and body work. If you really think what he is saying is right, ask yourself why do ballet dancers use a barre to practice? Playing music is an extremely complex human activity, and requires a lot of different skills. Some of these skills most certainly require a metronome, others maybe don’t. Statements like this one on the video really show that being able to play doesn’t mean being able to teach!

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  @Fender7347213 күн бұрын

  I know we have to know the notes on our fretboard we should learn to count without a metronome And we need to know the bass clef and the notes on the staff….

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  @colasfalon647013 күн бұрын

  Jeff, as usual you are a master at crushing strawmen. If you could, please STEELMAN your oppositions argument. (Because I'm doubtful that you can.) Or even more simply...just articulate any valid reason for utilizing the metronome as a tool in any way (as it relates to musical instrument practice). You seem to be lacking an accurate understanding of why others regard the metronome as a worthwhile tool for facilitating specific types of development. And in general, you do a very sneaky job of intertwining disputed premises with undisputed premises (though I do not necessarily think you do this consciously). There is so much value in the positive/suggestive advice you give ("try this" "practice this" etc) but very little value in the negative/prohibitive advice you give ("don't try this" "stop practicing this"). Plus the vast majority of strawmen you've knocked over were down 20 years ago. Now you're just kicking the remnants decaying on the ground.

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  @samuelbrainsample13 күн бұрын

  You all can work this out yourselves, but I've transcribed it and punched it into Guitar Pro (ssshhhh, with tab not necessarily following Jeff's fingers position-for-position). If anyone wants it, how can I get it to you and in what format?

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  @ronj944813 күн бұрын

  Why is it so much easier to practice with a drum machine or other rhythm pattern vs the evil metronome? Seems unnatural.

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  @jbass618213 күн бұрын

  It's 2024, we're STILL dissing on metronomes? I don't know of anyone who always practices with a metronome. It's just a helpful tool to use when working out a difficult technical/rhythmic passage or to measure if you are increasing in your speed on a passage. That's it. All musicians, classical and non-classical, have used it for this helpful purpose. To blame it as the reason people can't translate what's in their head to their instrument is just a shibboleth (Jeff will understand that term). We don't improve because we don't learn to speak the language of the great artists in the genre we want to play; we just get caught up in tricks and gimmicks, i.e., slap and tap, etc. rather than just ol' solid melodic soloing, i.e., Charlie Parker, Brecker, et al.

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  @hugo2-jz4un14 күн бұрын

  Well it's not just bass players that use metronomes, so do you think this advice applies to other instruments as well or is bass special somehow?

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  @TaboraMusic14 күн бұрын

  I would like to say two things in regard to the metronome discussion: 1. Mr. Jeff often extols the classical music didactic approach, as opposed to the autodidactic. Well, metronome use is pretty widespread in classical music learning. You certainly don’t want to always play metronomically, rubato is very important in classical music, but the metronome has its place in the practice rooms of many classically trained musicians (myself included). I’m not saying all, I can’t speak for all, but most serious musicians I know have some use for a metronome. 2. I agree with the point of this video in that it is harmful for a beginner to be rushed along by a metronome. But the metronome doesn’t need to be set at an uncomfortable pace. In fact, as I’ve matured as a musician, it seems more and more the case that the best use of the metronome is not to get your tempo faster but quite the opposite, to discipline you to play slow enough to play well and with expression and good tone production on every note. So the metronome doesn’t have to be a carrot on a stick urging you onwards, it can be more like a weighted vest that helps you ensure proper form. That’s not a perfect analogy… God bless you, Mr. Jeff. You are a world-class musician. My disagreement with you in the metronome issue does not in the least diminish my admiration for you as an artist. All the best.

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  @bobbmodels14 күн бұрын

  Yes. First get the fingering down and learn (internalize?) the bass line, then use the metronome to incrementally get up to speed.

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  @goetzschaeffer995114 күн бұрын

  😊

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  @antoniopizarro767014 күн бұрын

  He's right.

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  @kennonmoen442414 күн бұрын

  Hi Jeff, I totally agree with you that listening to music (without your bass in your hands), would be exactly like listening to people talk without ever trying to speak (like leaving your vocal cords in a jar by your bed). People learn to talk by listening and watching and imitating, and if someone is engaged with the learner, getting feedback. They hold a ball, say the word ball and the learner says, “ba.” The teacher says, “b-a-l-l,” slowly. The learner says, “ba.” They go back and forth, and then the teacher switches gears and says, “la, la, la, la, la.” Once the learner has the basics of language, they can begin to communicate. But they may not be an eloquent speaker. That takes deliberate practice and may involve using certain tricks and tools. I see the metronome as a tool to hone one’s ability to match an external rhythm, which I think is a critical skill. But, that alone would leave the learner as a cold, mechanical tone generator. Once they’re able to precisely place a note “on time” they need to be able to get their rhythm from the heart of the music. The metronome is just a tool, and all tools can be used inappropriately. I love listening to your lessons and your passion for music. You speak from the heart.

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  @paraguacumarinho805614 күн бұрын

  Muitas vezes me sinto preso , tocando como metrônomo, mas para melhorar a técnica sei de sua enorme importância, parabéns pelo material nós vídeos

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  @mrbungle758614 күн бұрын

  Spot on, totally agree with you. 👍

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  @NelsonMontana123414 күн бұрын

  To a degree, we're all self taught, and to a degree, we all learn from others. To suggest that people are either entirely on their own or totally universtty trained is simple not true. You know that Jeff. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.

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  @45kellygreen14 күн бұрын

  You are correct Jeff. In many ways self taught can be harder because you don't know what you don't know.

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  @arizonafuelmanagement357314 күн бұрын

  Concise

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  @NelsonMontana123414 күн бұрын

  Well, sure , but there are lots of ways of gathering that information.

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  @jefferyfournier626414 күн бұрын

  God Bless you Professor 🙏

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  @NelsonMontana123415 күн бұрын

  Maybe so, but when people are just starting out they're more likely respond better to techniques used in the style of music they like.

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  @arizonafuelmanagement357316 күн бұрын

  Thanks Uncle J!

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  @tribalflute389516 күн бұрын

  I saw a knuckle so I think you're using your right hand? Fantastic my friend. Comfortable and smooth..

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  @arizonafuelmanagement357316 күн бұрын

  Less ceiling and more right hand please... Fantastic to hear you Jeff!

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  @arizonafuelmanagement357316 күн бұрын

  I'm of the common belief that right from the start that something physical has to be achieved. Be it any instrument. I encourage 30 days of finger Independence before you even play any scales or think of note arrangement. I call it light switch training. Getting the fingers to obey the mind with as little thought as possible. That breakthrough makes learning an enjoyable discovery. Thank you, Jeff! Had the pleasure of sitting down with you back in '89. And thank you for all the exciting music over the years

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  @standarddisclaimer17 күн бұрын

  I assume that someone somewhere has created midi files of the Slonimsky material. Any idea where I might find something like that? Thanks!!

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  @standarddisclaimer17 күн бұрын

  I assume that someone somewhere has created midi files of the Slonimsky material. Any idea where I might find something like that? Thanks!

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  @TheMusicmak3r18 күн бұрын

  Keep it up! 👍