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What To Do When You Don’t Feel Like Practicing
Imagine you win a competition. And the prize is to go and watch your favourite sports team train. You turn up on the appointed day, as wide eyed as any schoolboy, and the club officials lead you out to a … Continue reading
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How To Get The Most Out Of Bass Guitar Books
If you’re anything like me then you’ve got a library of bass guitar material at home – books, DVDs, old VHS tapes, bass magazines. And there’s bass guitar information available in digital format too – YouTube lessons, bass podcasts, PDFs, … Continue reading
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Don’t Noodle – Practice Instead!
You’ve heard the phrase: ‘Practice makes perfect’ a million times. And it’s variation: ‘Perfect Practice Makes Perfect.’ I bet you’ve never heard this variation: ‘Noodling makes perfect.” What is noodling? Noodling is when your fingers fire off a phrase on … Continue reading
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How To Get Better At The Bass – You Need A System
There’s a lot of people out there spending serious time on serious activities. We’re not just talking about the bass here, but other areas too like drawing, writing, piano, dance, sport. You name it and there are people working on … Continue reading
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What Is Random Practice?
Back in the day when I decided that I wanted to become really good at the bass guitar I went about it like this: I found the bass teacher in London with the best reputation and made the time to … Continue reading
The Feedback Loop
OK you’re at a gig, the rhythm section is kicking, the guitarist and vocalist are wailing, the mosh pit if full, sweat is dripping from the ceiling. Suddenly there’s this ear splitting wail that derails the music. What do you … Continue reading
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The Deliberate Practice Cello Suite Challenge
First of all watch this clip: [youtube jx9Tp8oRu9w] That was John Patitucci playing the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite Nr 1 in G. Pretty cool eh? Who’d like to be able to play that but thinks it’s just wayyyyy too … Continue reading
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A Great Tool To Help You Practice (Mac Users)
When I started the research that led to Deliberate Practice, one of the common sense discoveries I made that really helped with my own practicing was to have a pre-written, pre-designed practice schedule for each day of the week before … Continue reading
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