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You Can Never Escape Math Class: The Fretboard as a Grid
Another excerpt from “How Do I Bass?”. See also this post about how the fretboard is not a grid. In the actual book this chapter will...
Ethan Bassford
Feb 7, 20144 min read
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Perception Exercise 3: The Sounds are Coming from Inside the Sound
When a string or whatever object vibrates at a constant rate you assign a pitch to it, but there is never only one pitch. The string...
Ethan Bassford
Jan 30, 20143 min read
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Technology, Constraints, and why I love my Scordatura
Another excerpt from my upcoming book tentatively titled “How Do I Bass?” Music is all about constraints. You can’t avoid them, so you...
Ethan Bassford
Jan 19, 20145 min read
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Perception Exercise 2: G = G ^ ~G
Set the EQ flat on your bass and amp. If you normally use an overdriven or “hot” sound, set it to clean. Play an open G. Play it a bunch....
Ethan Bassford
Jan 19, 20142 min read
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Perception Exercise 1: The Whole Hog
This is one of the few exercises you should do without a metronome. You are not aiming for perfect execution, you are evaluating what is....
Ethan Bassford
Jan 19, 20142 min read
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Pitch <> Sound: The Fretboard as an Irreducible Whole That Refuses to Submit to Abstraction Despite
When you’re starting out with a teacher, you are probably told that the fretboard is a grid, but this is only half true. The fretboard is...
Ethan Bassford
Jan 19, 20142 min read
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Fuck Virtuosity: A Healthy Skepticism of Music-For-Musicians
An excerpt from my upcoming book, “How Do I Bass?”, edited slightly from an earlier version posted on Facebook. Lots of modern players...
Ethan Bassford
Jan 19, 20142 min read
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