How Pro Bassists Learn Literally THOUSANDS Of Songs (It’s Simpler Than You Think)

That is cool your a cool teacher n good Bass player.
Thank you very much 👍

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Greatest doo wop 1-6-4-5 is Two Silhouettes on the Shade

I've been using the Nashville method since the late 1970s, it's the ONLY way to go. I had training in Solfege and learned to hear intervals and identify them numerically. A C to an A I learned as a 6th, etc. I've always imagined the 'method' to be called the Nashville because..... imagine going into the recording studio with Elvis and hearing a song he wanted to cover, but in 'his' key. Or a song demo with 10 different vocalists and each vocalist needing to sing in 'their' key. Having to transpose for every vocalist is ridiculous, and seriously time consuming, in a recording studio that's money...could be lots of money. Thus a method is born...

Why wouldn't you play the same shape c 1 4 5 on A string as on E string? Why are you saying it has to be inverted?

Thank you. Thats help me lots thanks

Love that bass!! What brand is that? I'm new to the bass and in a year or so I'm wanting to buy a really good one.

Simple, yet very helpful and interesting.

Ah, that's why practising at home to rock music is so much easier than playing choruses and hymns in church. The hymns, especially, often don't use these patterns, and where rock chords last a bar, hymn chords can change on or even between the beats. And the keys move around a bit, often swapping between the key in the signature and its relative minor for just one line.

Luke, quick question. How do you remove the bass line in a music, only drums and guitar playing without the bass? Thank you.

The number system is fine, but to become a substitute bass player, every song has a certain noticeable main bass pattern.
So how does one get away with that? does this mean learning every bands song list? That is thousands of songs. Or is there another way/ Please help.

Its a Bass.. You just have to look at a bass and it plays itself..

is that a 80's Specter EU?

I probably already told you, but nevermind... just to make sure you know you're an awesome teacher

far too much talking......

Where do you go shopping?😇

Nashville number system?!?… bro it’s called scale degrees and it been around for at least 4 hundred years!

Math is hard.

“Nashville number system” so... the system used to analyze western music since at least the classical era... hundreds of years before there was a Nashville?

I wish you explained why you go onto lower notes on the E string when you started on the A string

Excelent!

It's called common chord progressions....there aren't that many.

This is a good lesson, but for someone who is trying to teach a system that is about abstraction from the absolute pitch class to a relative relationship between notes, you speak the names of the notes A LOT when you could just be saying "the 1 is here, the 4 is here and the 5 is here" then you switch keys and you also switch note names, which is correct, but not helpful to the system you are trying to teach. Just a thought, in case you ever revisit this topic. Good video though! Thanks!

Great lesson! You are a great teacher for sure for the Bass.

Why do some of his notes sound flat?

Axis Of Awesome reference...you sir, are a legend!

That bass is beautiful

I joined a cover band back in 2001. They have me 2 weeks to learn 40 songs. The tough part was that there were not a lot of old standards in his list. And they had a female singer sot here were a lot of songs they did that catered to that. I pulled it off. I am still not sure how I did it. Lots of learning by ear, tabs, and improv. I hated being in a cover band but I was proud of that feat I pulled off.

Holy shit, 1-5-6-4 is the close encounters jingle. Mind blown! Its never aliens. Just the dang major scale again. 😔

Could barely hear the bass. Voice audio was very high

Great fingering charts. In order to play them exactly like that, I got myself an instrument with a really short neck.😳

Two things. First, a minor one: the Nashville Numbering system is just a simplified version of the system that classical musicians have been using for more than 200 years.

Second, and much more importantly, these are not chord "sequences". There are several words that have been used to describe them, including chord changes, progressions, and loops, and in general, I tend to support the idea that any word that the listener will understand is a correct word, but in this case, it is important not to use the word "sequence" because this word already has a very specific and useful meaning, and most chord progressions are not sequences. A sequence is a succession of harmonies that can be broken up into smaller units in which the chords within each unit relate to one another in a consistent pattern, and are voiced according to this relationship, so that each new unit represents a consistent transposition of the previous. For a good example, the first six chords of the Pachelbel Canon chord progression (D - A - Bm - F♯m - G - D - G - A) are a sequence: [ Ⅰ - Ⅴ ] - [ ⅵ - ⅲ ] - [ Ⅳ - Ⅰ ] - Ⅳ - Ⅴ . If we put this in Arabic numerals and treat the first 1 as 8 (the octave of 1), it will be a bit easier to see the relationship: [ 8 - 5 ] - [ 6 - 3 ] - [ 4 - 1 ] - 4 - 5. In each unit, the second chord is three notes lower than the first (8 - 5 = 3; 6 - 3 = 3, etc.), and each unit is two notes lower than the previous (so, looking at the first chord of each, 8 - 6 = 2, and 6 - 4 = 2). It is also important to note that traditionally, these only count as a sequence if the musicians recognize and follow the pattern in the way that they "voice" the chords. To simplify a bit, from a bassist's perspective, it is important here that the first note must be 8 and not 1, even though 8 and 1 have the same note name and are equally roots of the same chord, because fundamentally, the unit of this particular sequence is a descending unit, and an ascent from 1 rather than a descent from 8 would break the pattern.

I'm sad..

lost me

Been preaching this for years. Not just bass. It’s pretty much how all session musicians i ever worked with, work.

Great lesson. Learning the Nashville numbering system opened up the world of music for my bass playing a few years ago. No more worries about key. Go ahead bandmates… change the key. I can play it!

Amazing tutorial! Thank you.

Many songs don't have a base part . Some obviously have bass as central to the song but in general the bass reinforces the drums and the rhythm guitar or piano.

The direction from the A string to the E string is “down”, why would musicians use spatial terminology to describe the sounds they are making? We don’t argue about “up” or “down” the neck, even though the nut is almost always spatially higher - but calling it that would create a cognitive dissonance when the brain says “move higher in sound” but the brain also has coded the spatial direction as “lower”. Same with moving from string to string. I believe that it comes from many decades of “you put your finger here” teachers that use spatial directions as a shortcut to get a passable result while actually handicapping their students’ musical understanding.

Ooooh! Ok!
I didn't know wth people were talking about .. the 1.4.5 then turnaround.. so it's Nashville number system!
So learn the scales and memorize that, then it's easy.
Why I never got that before I don't know.
Dude thanks

The most useful music lesson I've ever seen. Thankyou.

Yup.

How was the song right there for 20 years with a major publishing company and I will tell you the record company's hire the same producers they have the same musicians and that's why all the songs are the same

I meant they chart the song I'm not really impressed with the Nashville number system Nashville session guys are more interested in Booking their next gig on their cell phones then playing the one they're playing I find very little soul and feeling in their performances. That's why all the Nashville songs sound the same same guys the A-Team same demo singers same songs just redone again and again

Sorry using voice did you get the idea

When I moved to Nashville from LA I worked with some Nashville session guys they sit there and charge the song after listen to it two or three times with this Nashville number system I'd already memorized it and played it just as good as they do I'm not really impressed with the national number system I'm a rock and roll player I think it depend too much on it and lose feel and soul

I don't speak English but I think I understand what you mean 🤔😉👍

So what's the difference between remembering notes or numbers