Playing the Bass guitar has an important function in a band. Its sole purpose is to provide rhythm along with the drummer. Often you see the bass guitarist and the drummer communicating together as their goal is to sync the rhythmic patterns of the song with each other.
In this post I will go through basic rhythms and show you how they are played on the bass guitar. Your aim is to develop an even and consistent sound and when you are playing your bass guitar.
To get started you need some understanding of note values. Outlined below are the basic note values - Semibreves, Minims, Crotchets and Quavers.
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n this post we will look at the types of notes bass players play.
Every song that we listen to are built on chords. Chords are made up of three notes from their scale.
For example in the scale of C - CDEFGABC - The C chord uses the 1st note (root), 3rd note and the 5th note. That means chord C= CEG.
When you start off learning bass you usually play the root (1st) note of the chord. Once you start building your skills you can start adding variations. The following exercises will show you how.
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Solarcoaster is an Indy rock Australian band, based in Sydney. They have just released their new song Seattle.
One of the band members, Jarrah Purcell-Smith , spoke to our students about the process of songwriting and the challenges when releasing an album during lockdown.
What are the Steps?
Write
- Get your ideas down. - Lyrics, chords progressions, musical ideas.
- record or jot down all you musical ideas and lyrics
- In this instance sharing those ideas with other members of your band so then it starts developing into a song that you are all happy with.
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In this Orchestral piece I have been playing with Spifire Audio free loops.
Here is some music to enjoy at home XX
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It is Cerdon College’s 60 year anniversary.
Here is a short video we put together singing the school song In All Things Christ.
Happy Birthday Cerdon!
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Well here it is…the video of the Rollin’ project. Thank you to every one involved. You all sound Great!! And I really enjoyed bringing you all together where we all share our love of music.. So enjoy!
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