The Additive Property
Published: Fri, 01/12/24
As the guy just helping out, I got to absorb these things in smaller doses than my kids did. Also, solving for X is a lot easier when you're not simultaneously writing up a frog dissection, trying to remember why they shot Franz Ferdinand, practicing the second violin part to Telemann's Overture in D Minor and coughing up three pages of observations about a novel as gawd-awful as The Yearling.
In short, it helps to isolate things. In today's Youtube video on adding bass lines to an eight-bar blues, I demonstrate a handful of exercises to isolate the rhythmic challenges syncopated bass lines present. One of the biggest stumbling blocks to getting started with fingerstyle blues is your basic thumb-and-fingers coordination, and these exercises can help you with that. You can find the lesson at the link below:
Adding Bass Lines To An Eight Bar Blues
Today's video is based on the blues classic "How Long Blues," and you can find tab for the complete song, along with dozens of additional steady-bass exercises, inside my Fingerstyle Five membership. Learn more and sign up at www.fretboardconfidential.com.
More soon,
David