7 Essential Tips To Maximise Your Practice Time /// Scott&’s Bass Lessons
“To make a real difference to your development as a musician and bass player you have to practice your craft.”
That statement sounds like common sense, right?
Well trust me, most of the time common sense is not common practice!
I’ve been a professional bass player for many years now, and as a bi-product most of my best friends are also professional musicians. That’s who I spend most of my working time with, and most of my down-time too.
Now, what do you think one of the most commonly discussed topics between musicians is?…
You’ve got it – practice!
One of the most common things I hear from my friends is “Man, I need to practice more – I’m just not making any progress right now”.
Now bare in mind that these guys are already making a living from playing music – but still, they’re struggling to get in the shed and do some serious practice to push their playing to the next level. OPEN UP ON THIS POINT.
So, what’s my point?
That wherever you are in your progression as a musician and bass player right now, the only way you’re going to make a big difference to your playing is getting in that practice shed, knuckling down and putting in the hours. This never stops, even if you’ve been playing for 20, 30 or 40 years – if you want to make that big difference, you’re going to have to dig in and make it happen.
Sounds like a lot of hard work, right?
Well, the truth is – it is!
But, I believe the reason that many players struggle to practice is that their not maximising their practice time effectively – and therefore end up demotivated, and even worse stop practising and enjoying their practice time all together.
It doesn’t have to be like that!
Spending time with your instrument, working on things that are tough, trying new things – these should all be enjoyable. In fact, they should be more than enjoyable – you should be looking forward to getting your hands on your bass every minute of the day.
Now don’t get me wrong, it can still be hard work – a lot of hard work. But with the right mind set, systems and strategies in place – it can be fun, and you can take your bass playing to the next level with a smile on your face, not a frown!
In this lesson I’m going to share 7 essential tips to maximise your practice time.
As always, see you in the shed…
Scott 🙂
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I like to compare it to a child learning to walk: as soon as it’s capable, a child will focus on turning over, then crawling, sitting up, and eventually standing. ONLY EXHAUSTION, FOOD, & PUPPIES CAN DISTRACT THEM. Learning an instrument takes the same sort of persistent absorption in the process and focus on the learning itself.
Ditto language acquisition, as you say…SO MUCH great stuff here – time to make notes!
So true, I’ve started doing this with backing tracks I’d play guitar to
New player here. Started mid December.. 1.5-2hours a day. Sometimes more. At least 6 days a week so far.
I fail , I get a Coke , and then I pick it back up again
Great video. But man that chirping smoke alarm. ????
does anyone "transcribe" walking bass lines. I mean they literally change for the whole song so it feels so laborious doing it. with riffs and solos and pop music it makes sense but for jazz bass it seems insane!
Thank man really enjoy you cheers
lmao, listening to scotts breathing during the intro ???? Although, breathing is an essential part of playing
*CHIRP!…
Your 7 tips are great for all instruments!
This is brilliant ❤️???????? thanks Scott
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Scott Devine’s SBL course is a total waste of money for a beginner.
He is a show off who loves the sound of his own voice.
I wasted $400AUD on his course, so you if you’re a beginner save your money.
He’s a shocker!
That's a really nice J bass
The one which really rang a bell for me was the analysis one: I went to music college (for the flute and piano) and I have been taught the classical way. Then being asked to play what comes into your head, to improvise or to play that blank lead sheet with a couple of chords over the top – AHhhh… “what do you do?’ It took a long time to unlearn that kind of mindset. Now I love bass (James Jamieson was one of the best) but I am such a beginner with this instrument. This is great stuff!!
Really interesting.
you're a great teacher! thank you!
I love how philosophical this got hahaha
Hi Scott, thank you very much for all the videos you upload. I have been following the youtube page for years and they are all excellent. In this video you talk about transcribing but, at least on YouTube, there are not many videos of you in which you talk about perceptual audio and how to develop it from scratch to higher levels. If you could give us a hand, for people like me who are hard of hearing, I would really appreciate it. Greetings from Argentina
Change your smoke alarm battery!
More on the analyzing tip, I read this linguistics paper that showed that children apply grammar structures outside of the explicit example of the structure that they’ve learned. I really like the idea of learning music like you learned your own language!
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my problem is ill get funky with drum tracks for a few hours and not remembering anything I just did.
I know this lesson is three years old. But I must confess when I get discouraged I go back to this Video to get me back on track. Thanks Scott appreciate all you do to helps others grow as a bass player.
Awesome video. I have at the least 15 mins a day. The most 60-120 mins(if I’m lucky). There’s so much to take in so it’s nice to hear how to make practice time efficient
No. 2 is missing some details; I wouldn't want others to get the same injuries as I got.
TLDR: 30 minutes, 5 days for a beginner is good, but more may be bad if you're not well informed.
I started with 4+ hours every single day for 1 year straight, but since my left hand technique was horrible I started getting infections in my tendons due to some lubricant not being produced. I gradually found ways to adjust my bass (lighter string gauge, lowest action, straight neck) and learned how to develop technique and lighter touch (thanks scott) to lower the tension in my hand. had I practiced less in the beginning, I might've not developed such a recurring injury.
I thought this needed to be mentioned, as enthusiasm (frequency) and ignorance (technique/ergonomics) don't go well together.
There should be a balance in the learning curve; gradually play more when you know what to look out for.
Same for No.1: failing a bassline a 1000 times could also lead to permanent injuries. (for beginners)
Of course No.1's goal is devoloping muscle memory, I understand that.
P.S. I didn't get a teacher, I just studied other bassists like you, and preferably those who play other genres.
I mostly cover J-Rock basslines at 170+ bpm (Tomomi Ogawa – Scandal)
I started out with some of their more difficult songs, which I shouldn't have done…
Great tips, thank you!
Why the glove
I was fortunate to have spent some time with one of the great trombone teachers back in my college days. His mantra was "Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." His intent with this was not to say that you can play things perfectly from the beginning. It was a lesson about paying attention to each and every note and getting it right by breaking things down and slowing to a speed where you can play a passage accurately. We cannot just simply put in the time if we are going to slop through our work. If you practice things wrong, you will play them wrong later on.
Secondly, I like to use an analogy between athletics and music when it comes to practicing on a daily basis. Both have an intellectual component, musical scores vs playbooks for instance and the rules of the game. Both disciplines have a physical component. In sports, it is about building bulk muscles, in music the muscles being developed are smaller but no less important. In both, you have to do the reps to build accuracy and endurance.
Thank you much Scott for your videos. I might be a sixty-something old musical crumegeon
imo you repeat a little too much what you said and makes the video too long
Scott, please replace the battery in your smoke detector. That little chirp in the background is annoying af
y u breaf so hard
and of course, exercise your musical imagination. Great video Scott.
Lot of good advice there!
What do you practice in an half an hour as a beginner ?
RIP Vine
Had to show the first part of this video to my girlfriend. I have been learning some electronic music stuff and my statement to her was "and now I get to continuously fail for several months" and I got a bit of a WTF? in response. She totally accepted my explanation that like learning anything I was going to experiment and suck at it, and it was great to find this and be able to say 'look, another person who expresses learning in terms of failing until you get better!'
Enjoying what I'm getting out of your lessons, always happy to back someone willin to share disregard won experience of knowledge. Typhus is what the internet was made to do. Educating the world, remembers that 90s vision of the internet in 10 years.
Love this guy. We are sooooooo lucky to have something like this for free
True master , a true teacher.
you keep saying "transcribe" , what do you mean ? how important is that? are there great bass players that don;t "transcribe" ?
Learning music is indeed like learning a language: imitation precedes understanding.