Members snd4c Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I'm getting bored of scales! What do you guys do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OneBassNut Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I'm getting bored of scales! What do you guys do? If you're bored of scales, then practice chords! Sorry, not to be an ass... If you have also the chance to form a little band, you can explore other possibilities with the instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassman1956 Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 About 7 different riffs from different practice books, a couple of LZ and DP songs, a few other rock songs, lot of noodling with blues patterns, and just having fun with rhythms and/or scales. Once in a while, I make sure I learn a new tune, explore a rhythm, or something odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members snd4c Posted July 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 If you're bored of scales, then practice chords! Sorry, not to be an ass... If you have also the chance to form a little band, you can explore other possibilities with the instrument. I'm already in a band I'm practicing on my own I want to get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members basschick22 Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 when i practice, i mark it as a red letter day on the calendar. It usually means that HC is down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I'll generally do a scale workout that I have and then jump into another aspect of playing, either working on my jazz, slap or soloing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpaceGhost Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I'm already in a band I'm practicing on my own I want to get better. That lame boring stuff in practice never feels like anything unless you use it in a band. I'm pretty much the same way in that straight practicing gets tiresome but it increases my musical vocabulary in a band which makes it easier to play from the heart instead of having limitations. Repetitious practicing helps ingrain everything you are learning. If you are learning a scale or mode, write a song using that particular mode. Walk some changes and learn some sax or trumpet leads. Learn songs by ears. Etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragon9666 Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 Learn songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bigfiddle Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I turn on the drum machine and jam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassred Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 Go to youtube, type in the name of a song you like but dont know howto play, then learn it! or type things like 'jazz bass' or 'funk solo' and try to do waht they are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members baracuda2004 Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 Put a little KY between the couch cushions and pump awa... I mean scales.. I play scales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members snd4c Posted July 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 Go to youtube, type in the name of a song you like but dont know howto play, then learn it! or type things like 'jazz bass' or 'funk solo' and try to do waht they are doing. Thats a great Idea idk why I didn't think of that. Btw Is there such thing as finger stretching or any sort of physical thing I can do before to increase endurance? I figure I can google it but I rather get tips from you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 Pick a new song and learn the bass line. Works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members justinbass Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 95% of my time practicing is spent playing/learning songs, making up new lines to songs I already know, and soloing over funk tunes. I'll run through a few scales to warm up, but I get bored if I am not playing along to music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sunburstbasser Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 For finger stretching, warm up a bit first. Once your fingers are getting nimble, try stretching intervals on the same string. With practice, you can pull off a stretch from frets 1 to 5 without moving your hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Death Hands Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I've been doing a lot of rhythm stuff and PLENTY of fretting hand exercises. Lots of half steps, using each available finger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roguetitan Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 If you're bored of scales, then practice chords! when you get tired with chords work on arpeggios which is basicallty strucrures of chords played one note at a time. youcan also combine a mixture of scales and arpeggios to make up bass lines just think creatively while you practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachoff Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I just play. Sometimes I try to figure songs out. Sometimes I try to play the same {censored} over and over, faster and faster until I eff up. Sometimes I try to improv over a 12 bar blues scale. Just depends. In general... I just play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassred Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 On my upright I just play nonsense.. I wnt on vacation and didn't play her for a week, so I've got to get my fingers back up to gig worthy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Captain Fathead Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I'll just pick up my bass when I'm watching TV and noodle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Davito Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 Scales, chords, and so fourth are pro'lly the best stuff for "skills" (faster fretting, opening your musical perspective--especially with scales you've never even heard of), but what I am doing increasingly is simply runnin' 'ole iTunes and turning the bass all the way down on my stereo... the bass just ends up sounding like another guitar, and then just jam with your new band, with whom you wish you could jam with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members basste Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 work with cds i like; trying to play everything i ear. Bass line, guitar chords, sax solos, guitar solos, vocals melodies, drums (with slap thing) ... very funny sometimes, but never boring. Actually i work on Johnny Clegg best of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spikemullings Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 All of the above. Do you sing? If not then do! Practice singing along with lines that you know - either lead line or harmonies. Really helps your melodic sensibilities and your ability to be a good band player. Also always helps to have the ability to add harmonies if you are not the main singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mytola Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I usually practice like this: First, I noodle around playing scales or whatever in increasingly rapid tempo, as a warmup. Then I Play songs, often while listening to the original song on my mac. Jamming to a drum machine is good as well. When I practice with the band, we usually just rehearse old songs and write new songs. Me and the drummer usually noodle around for 10-15 minutes just the two of us, when the guitards take a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Perfessor Posted July 19, 2007 Members Share Posted July 19, 2007 I do a warm up stretching my fingers on the fretboard to the 6th fret. Then some warm up riffs, then I read some music. Near the end I play the toughest written music and at the very end I play the fun stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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