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The “M2F Frequency” And Why Every Bassist Wants It!..

Posted in Bass Tips, Bass Guitar Articles/Lessons, The Bottom Line by Alex Sampson on March 8, 2006.


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…To be able to tune into that special frequency I call “M2F” at will.

“What’s the M2F frequency,” you ask?

Simple…

It’s the ‘link’ that allows you to CONSCIOUSLY and ACCURATELY transmit sounds you hear in your Mind directly 2 the Fretboard.

Mind 2 Fretboard = “M2F”

I mean think about it… Imagine if you could solo on your bass with the same fluency and ease as you can talk…

Because most of us would openly admit that many times we hear pretty decent bass lines… A lot more decent than some of those we play.

Well, while that takes some people years of training and costs others hefty chunks of moolah worth of ear training dvd and books and special tape-sets, most people would admit that it is an ultimate goal worth the price tag and time burden.

(Sidenote: This is not a discussion on absolute pitch. If that’s what you’re hearing you’re missing the point.)

Because when it all comes down to it that’s what it is all about right there… Being able to reproduce something you hear in your head on the fretboard…

Well I’ve discovered two things about this whole M2F Frequency deal…

1) First off, most of the time almost all the active work needs to be invested in fixing our ‘broken’ receivers…

See, so long as you consistently spend time listening to good music your mind automatically starts building up this awesome database of ideas for you just by auditory osmosis, mixing and matching and fine tuning.

So to some extent **just through passive listening** after a while, your mind will consistently start automatically suggesting lots of great ideas, for your bass lines while you play…

And those ideas will probably start getting better and better with more and more quality listening and directed practice. Problem is most times our fingers never consciously *receive* those ideas.

2) And secondly there is a way I know (both from research and my own experience that) is foundationally sound to help strengthen the conscious link between mind and fretboard.

And no I’m not talking about getting all meditational and listening to subliminal tapes to open your mind or any of that rhaccus-craccus.

I’m talking about a simple but sound method a lot of successful musicians know… One that steers you square in the eye and dances around right under your nose.

Unfortunately this is where we now cut for commercial and announce that;

“…You need to tune in next week for the conclusion of this thrilling episode when all of America finds out if Aaron really did die in that car crash or if that was all some sick plot to marry Heather, his mother’s best friend…” (Opps!… Sorry wrong announcement… Let’s try this again…)

“…Tune in next time to find out just what is this simple and obvious missing link that will substantially improve how well you play what you hear in your head!”

Post your guesses in the comments box below if you will… Hint, hint… I’m not just broadly referring to ‘ear training’.

I’m talking a specific two step exercise you need to make part of who you are as a musician.

Stay groovy and see you soon with the next part…

- Alex


Don’t let this trick make you buy a lemon…

Posted in Bass Tips, Bass Buying by Alex Sampson on January 19, 2006.

Hey here’s a simple little tip I picked up from a friend who works at a music store that’ll save many of us some immediate headache when we’re bass shopping…

** Always use an electronic tuner to make sure the bass is you’re testing is tuned to standard pitch before you make a decision.

Here’s the deal.

One of the things that some people are naturally attracted to in a bass (or guitar for that matter) is the ’speed and softness of the action… Meaning (basically) how easy the instrument is to play based on the natrual grade of the neck and the height and tautness of the strings from off of the fretboard.

Well the down low is that some less than scruplous music stores attempting to slide a bass off on you as one with a very fast action will actually de-tune the instrument down a half step effectively making the action ’seem’ softer and faster than it really is.

See most people testing a bass in store will assume that the bass is tuned to standard pitch if all the strings sound in tune in relation to each other… Big mistake!

So there you shell out your dough, rush home all excited, change the strings, polish that baby up, tune up and,

“Hmm… Something’s not quite right… This sure feels a lot tighter and stiffer than it did in the store… What gives?…”

…Heck, it may even now show up a ‘warped neck’!

So rather than get taken, don’t assume a bass is in tune. Always ask for an electronic tuner and make sure she’s in tune before you start testing and before you plop down those dollars ;-)

Stay cool

~ Alex

 


“Repetition Will Always Trump Strength…”

Posted in Bass Tips, The Bottom Line by Alex Sampson on January 13, 2006.

I was listening to a friend of mine who happens to be a professional speaker talk a few weeks ago and he said something I’ve been saying for years, that just got me all charged up and ready to tell the world again…

And as simple as it sounds on paper, when you really get what he’s saying it’ll blow the roof on your bass playing, (or anything else you apply it to for that matter)

Here are the two simple statements… See if you can find the goal in them…

1) “Habit is more powerful than desire!” and
2) “Repetition trumps strength!”

Now I’m not gonna spend a long time yakking but I do want you to really stop for a minute and just think about that…

And really think about the words, “Habit” and “Repetition” and how they should apply to your bass practice time.

Then check any of the following that describe you;

[] I simply pick up the bass whenever feel like it and practice a few licks…

[] I turn on my favorite CD/loop player/drum machine/sequencer and play along to a few songs whenever I can get around to it…

[] Outta the blue I practice intensely sometimes for for an extended crazy time frame and hope it makes up for not having done anything in the past month…

[] Alex I know what you’re getting at and I’ll confess right now — Yes I’m guilty :-)

Habit and routine will always beat out ‘desire to be an awesome bassist’ and strength (or in this case exhaustive once in a blue moon practice).

And that’s key right there.

You need a daily, weekly, monthly **routine** that you actually do stick to if you’re going to improve.

One that says, “Today I focus on the major scale and all it’s modes… And that alone for the length of my practice time…”

“…Today I work on arpeggios over static chords forms and that alone…”

“…Today I’m working on dexterity and finger strength.”

Blindly running around practicing a few songs, a few licks and jamming to a few songs will never get you good because habit will always be more powerful than desire and repetition will always trump strength.

Again it doesn’t need to be a 3 hours per day routine…

But even if it’s 20 mins, it does need to be ROUTINE otherwise chances are, you’re spinning your wheels in the mud.

So do you have a habit of scheduled practice?

If not you need to develop one or find one and use it.

Just something to think about.

Keep it groovy…

- Alex


Breakthrough Techniques for Expertly Playing All Over The Fretboard…

Posted in Bass Tips, Bass Guitar Articles/Lessons by Alex Sampson on October 29, 2005.

Here’s a fantastic exercise you can practice to help get accustomed to using the entire length of your neck rather than just playing in one position all the time.

It’s a bit long and detailed to print here, so I’ve made it a full PDF article by itself… You can download the article here… Right Click Here to Download this New Lesson!

(Right Click, then select SAVE TARGET AS)

You’ll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the document. If you don’t already have it you can download it here for free… Download Adobe Acrobat.

Well that’s it for today… Hope you enjoy the article. Leave me any comments or questions you have about it in the comments section below.

Keep it groovy,

- Alex

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Sneak Peek “Spy Photo” of Bass Guitar Secrets!

Posted in Bass Tips, Bass Jam Room by Alex Sampson on October 19, 2005.

We’re Almost Ready to Rock and Roll!!!

Since pulling down my old website, in the past four months I have received **literally** hundreds of emails and a few telephone calls from bass players (and would be bass players) just like you, who have been foaming at the mouth to get their hands on my all new “Bass Guitar Secrets!” home study course…

When some of them found out I was working on it and couldn’t wait any more, they even wrote in and impatiently offered to pay for whatever I had ready at the time.

I am not kidding… One gentleman in particular visiting the old website where I mentioned what I was working on, called all the way from England trying to get the unfinished course that very same day…

And now after four long months of spending every waking moment focused on getting everything ready (yes what started as an update, ended up being a *complete* and total rewrite with 250+ pages of ROCK solid, hard hitting content, several fantastic new and custom designed software programs that you CAN’T get anywhere else and several CDs worth of sound files that I promise will be the breakthrough many of you are looking for to ignite your bass playing…

And looking back at all the effort I invested in putting together a course that is the first of its kind I am 1) Extremely proud of it 2) Convinced that it will be an instant best seller!

I am jealous of you, because if I had something like this when I was starting I would have been an exponentially better bassist in far less time!

Right now I have a software development company putting some final touches on the last of the proprietary pieces of software I’m releasing with the course… As soon as that is done and fully tested (I’d say within a week) the new website for “Bass Guitar Secrets!” will be announced.

But before that I just wanted to post a sneak peek picture showing some of the components of the course so you could get an idea of how it’s ‘built’ to be totally different from any other ‘off-the-shelf’ book on learning to play electric bass…

Feel free to drop me off any comments or questions you have about the course right here and I’ll be sure to get them for you.

For now I’m back to work and here’s that ‘photo’… Enjoy! {smile}

Oh yeah… If you want to be the first to find out about when the site is up and grab a special discount here’s the page you need to vist now… There’s an announcement list there that you need to be on… http://wwww.bassguitarsecrets.com

- Alex

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The Elusive Holy Grail of Electric Bass Playing That Will Put In At the Top of Your Local Music Scene…

Posted in Bass Tips, Bass Guitar Articles/Lessons by Alex Sampson on October 17, 2005.

If you currently play as part of a band or want to some day belong to a band here’s one rock solid piece of advice so potent I promise you it’ll make you a bassist other members of that band feel like they simply can’t play without…

It doesn’t matter if it’s a church band, heavy metal band or alternative group… It doesn’t matter if you’re just jamming in a basement or if you want to become a gun for hire doing session work for a respectable price…

Here’s exactly how to become **in demand**…

*** Spend as much time as possible learning ‘the secret of the groove’ ***

…Not more scales, not more book riffs, not more technique… Sit your butt down and invest time in deciphering a groove perception, where you hear songs and your mind instantly starts analyzing them on a level several steps higher than the casual listener, so that at the flip of a switch you are ready to connect with and amplify the underlying hooks that form the groove.

A bassist who can groove is the one who is missed anytime he can’t be present to play… He is the one who can take a loose, ratty sounding band and give it an undeniable form and presence so that they sound like pure gold…

Now so far it may sound like I’m stating the obvious… Well it’s only obvious if you really do know what ‘the secret of the groove’ is.

And when you do, it’s not hard to notice scores of actively performing bassists who really don’t have the slightest clue about what grooving is…

And what’s even worse is that 90% of the time they don’t know that they don’t know… They ‘think’ they are grooving just because (and tell me if any of this sounds familiar)…

…They are staying in the background…

…They are playing simple lines that don’t stand out much…

…They are playing root notes that mirroring the kick…

LOL…

That’s the same thing as saying that Sully is a pelican if he straps on a pair of wings, a beak and glues some feathers to his body.

Because we’ve all heard and dreamt to be the bassist who is groovy as heck and still isn’t ‘a boring side kick, playing ambient noises in the background’… Whose lines sometimes don’t at all mirror the kick…

So learning some scales, identifying the root notes and playing in time doesn’t make you a grooving bassist any more than Sully’s twisted feather fantasy makes him a bird.

A grooving bassist is far more than that… And the way I like to think of it is that he is perhaps the one of the few members of the band with unrestricted, direct access to the subsconscious switch that, when flicked gets people moving — And that’s why I also refer to him as the band’s ‘Puppet Master’…

Are you a puppet master?

Can you pull an audience’s strings, and infuse a piece of music with an eneregy and life that is magnetic on a subconscious level?

If you think that knowledge of a few scales, digital-like time keeping skills and a memory card full of ‘licks’ make you a ‘Puppet Master’, you really need to record yourself and listen to what you play…

One thing that bothers me a little is seeing people relagate the bass guitar to ‘band bozo’ where you’re the dinky little side kick of the flashy guitarist doomed to spend your life in the mirky shadows of the band…

The other thing that bothers me is seeing a bassist who thinks he’s a lead guitarist… Or one who thinks that to groove he has to be a popcorn machine… (Slap/pop half time show)…

Here’s what people don’t realize… The electric bassist should be about discovering the silent triggers in a song that can always be used to instantly activate an energy the band and listener is craving to feel!

I’m getting ready to expose a truck load of secrets about playing bass like a ‘puppet master bassist’, the exact step-by-step methods for uncovering and really locking into the ‘not talked about’ aspects of the bassist with the golden groove and a no-fail formula called “CG-X” that will ignite your bass playing like NAPALM on a hay stack…

*** Trust me… You want to stay tuned to this blog for the next few days and watch it like a hawk… Something big is about to happen here that will probably revolutionize your bass playing.

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to post more regularly to the blog… I have been in the dungeon working on this project and I’ll tell some more about very soon. I’m more available now so the posts will be more often.

But until then, think about you’re present playing, (even if you’re at level ZERO) and think about where you want to be as an electric bassist… Then remember then start dreaming about what it would be like if you did have the abilities you crave.

I’ll be back in a bit.

Peace out for now.

Alex


“Why Some People Will Continue To Suck No Matter How Much or How Hard They Practice!”

Posted in Bass Tips, Bass Guitar Articles/Lessons, The Bottom Line by Alex Sampson on July 12, 2005.

“…Exactly How To Get Up to Get Up to 20 – 70 times more value out of EVERY practice session!”

If you’ve been practicing like heck and the growth in your bass playing isn’t coming fast enough, I’ve got two pieces of advice for you today…

First of, be patient! You might become a monster bassist overnight… But believe me it’ll be a loooong night ;-)

That said, here’s a guaranteed way to get up to 20, 30 or 100 times more value out of each of your woodworking sessions without increasing your practice time. (Yup this is the second piece of advice….)

There’s an old adage that say, “Practice makes perfect”… I personally say… “Yeah right!.. What a load of crock!”

Practice does NOT make perfect… Practice DOES however make consistent! (Big difference) Practice is very much like programming a PC… You can only get back results based on what you put in.

So if your woodshed time is spent consistently practicing puke, you’ll get pretty darn good alright… Pretty good at consistently playing puke.

The only practice that makes perfect is practice that is perfect!

So you determine what you want. If you’re an underachiever and you want to shoot for being “pretty darn good”, then the type of practice that will make you “pretty darn good” is… [Drum roll please]… “Pretty darn good” practice sessions.

See what I’m getting at?

Basically I’m saying, “Garbage in Garbage out.”… “Gold in… Gold Out”

And without noticing it that’s a very-easy-to-fall-into trap I know a lot of well meaning bassists get snagged by.

We run off to the woodshed all excited after just seeing a fantastic performance by Bill ‘The Buddha’ Dickens… Oh the speed… Oh the fireworks… Oh the melodic solo lines and glistening bald head… (Hey I ain’t judging nobody… I is just saying…)

So naturally in our excitement we program a progression into the drum machine and start to blaze… Subconsciously setting our minds to play as fast or as stylistically as the Buddha…

But here’s the tiger at the end of the tail…
If you’re not yet in a position to execute what we heard, 9.999 times outta 10 you end up spending our woodshed time practicing error-filled versions of what we should be practicing.

And of course by now you know now where that leads you…?

[Drum roll again please]… To error laden performances, feelings of gross disgust and self hatred and bloody self mutilation sessions spent knocking our heads against brick walls ;-)

So what’s the key? Do you stop trying to play music that stretches your comfort zone?

Heck no. You gotta stretch, to grow. You gotta try new stuff, make mistakes and learn along the way, but there’s still that catch 22 of spending time practicing the wrong stuff.

So how do you increase the effectiveness of your practice session so that you don’t have to end up beating your head into a bloody pulp?

Simple… (Something I learnt from the guitar-wielding wizard, Steve Vai… I’ll paraphrase)…

“You’re a knucklehead if you don’t spend practice time practicing slow and gradually increasing intensity and speed only as your execution gets as near perfect as you want.”

That’s the key right there!

It’s all about breaking a riff, a technique, a groove down to the smallest, slowest most digestible chunk you possibly can and practicing that chunk till you can pull it off as cleanly as you want to be able to, before upping the ante.

Don’t get all that jibber-jabber? Here’s the knocked down version…

“Slow the heck down buckwheat! If you want to get more value out of your session, GO SLOWER.”

When 5:30 comes around and you spend 2 hours in the woodshed, if 1 ½ hours of it was spent randomly running around trying to impress yourself by doing a piss poor job mimicking a technical Victor Wooten groove, you’re in a mess cause 9 times outta 10 your playing is filled with little leaks that are killing your execution.

What you need to do no matter what you’re practicing is too slow everything you’re doing down to the point where it’s literally TOO easy… If you’re doing it and thinking, “Goodness gracious me, this is child’s play” and you literally have to struggle to keep playing it slow, you’re usually on the right track.

Only after you’ve pushed past that hurdle of wanting to go faster solely because you are bored, and you’ve truly conquered one level to the point you know you want to be able to replicate it at only then do you earn the right to VERY gradually speed it up/build it’s complexity. That’s the key…

I call it the “Slowest Common Denominator” (SCD) method to better bass playing.

The point is to trick your brain into thinking that you’re doing something that you can ‘literally’ do with your eyes closed and gradually sneak up on it to do a little more!

Slow down your metronome exercises… Slow down and make less complex your grooves… Slow down and ease up on the hipness of your solos.

…Focus on playing what ever you’re playing as darn near perfect as you can, because what you continually practice in the woodshed will become a consistent and often permanent part of your playing.

The way I started doing it is to keep a daily practice log of what ever riffs I’m practicing along with the perfect-tempo I can REPEATEDLY do them at. And by repeatedly I want to be able to do them even if I’m in a coma. When it’s so deeply a part of me that I can pull it off at *any* of the previous tempos I worked on, then I move on… Just a wee bit.

Now admittedly it can be boring and it can ’seem’ like the long way around the hill… Trust me. It ain’t!

On the contrary, it’s perhaps the shortest most direct path to improving your practice sessions and getting better faster.

The way I see it, “If you’re storing skills up in your skills/chops database shouldn’t you work at just getting those chops to the level you want now rather than later?”

Peace out,

Keep readin’… Keep groovin’ and let me hear your comments! Use the box below your groovy beast you.

- Alex


Heeereee We Go!

Posted in Bass Tips by Alex Sampson on June 14, 2005.

Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking… Our flight attendants have decided to take the day off so I’ll be doubling and filling quite a few roles today… And quite honestly I can’t quite remember all the snazzy stuff she usually says, so I’ll keep it short…

This entire ‘trip’ is about playing better electric bass parts and having some fun.

I started the BassGuitarTips.Com blog for a few reasons. One of them is because I kept getting booted out from other boring blogs (:cough: :cough: political and financial related ones etc,) soon as I tried to spice them up a little by posting a few electric bass related comments…

First the blog owners were just plain ole confused and wanted to know what ‘keeping it tight and in the pocket’ meant… Then after a few little posts (10 or 12 ) they started getting flat out nasty like you won’t believe! So I thought… “Hey you know what? I’ll start me own blog… You guys are all boring stiffies anyways! ;-)

The second reason I started this site was because I’ve been playing for a while (a few bands, church worship groups, session gigs, hired live performances etc.) and I’m actually pretty confident that there’s probably few things I can actually teach some of the young graz-hoppers that stumble across this, my humble abode, *AND* likewise LEARN from you guys as well as I fully expect to have some pretty slick bass minds come sniffing through here as we go along.

Your in-flight today movie will be about bass playing… The magazines in the seat back ahead of you are about bass playing… Heck, we’ve even replaced the life vest you’d usually find below your seat with a bass catalog. (Great deals on page 19!)

So if you somehow found yourself on this site (er.. flight) and you’re not looking to;

1) Have a good time collectively learning from and sharing with each other while drastically improving your bass playing skills…

2) Have a good time collectively learning from and sharing with each other while drastically improving your bass playing skills…

— BOY DID YOU EVER TAKE A WRONG TURN!! —

But it still might not be too late for you…

If you’re a guitarist for example, under the age of 90 we here all pray that you soon someday see the light, come to your senses, turn from you wicked ways and start playing bass ;-) I’m jus kiddin’ of course…

…We bassist need guitarists, keyboardists et al to provide backdrop music for us to groove over right? :^) (That one little joke almost got my lynched, burned and buried under a pile of rocks at a few guitar forums and blogs as well for your own safety don’t go about saying stuff like that in public…

On the other hand, here at BassGuitarTips.Com we bass players are flying the rig now baby, so if you really love the instrument, feel free to shout it at the top of your lungs!

So once again, welcome to all you hella-cool guys and goyles. Thanks for flying with us…

As we’re about to take off, please ensure that you seats are in the upright position, tray tables properly stayed away and axes properly tuned… We’re about to get this party started in a big way!

Keep it groovy!

- Alex

P.S. We run an open door policy here… Feel free to walk right up to the captain’s cabin and use the comments section below to introduce yo-self and say hi to all the other bass freaks on this site.

P.P.S. You probably already have it but if not, you really need to check out the free gift we’ve stocked in your over head compartment… It’s called the BGM Groove Station and if you’re looking to blow the roof off your groove skills you have simply GOT to check it out NOW and tell all your friends about it too! >> http://www.bgmgroovestation.com

P.P.P.S. Hey we’re friends with and appreciate all musicians here so don’t take our sometimes fanatical bass comments too seriously as you’re passing through.