Using Half Time to Learn Intricate Bass Guitar Rhythms

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CASEY CORMIER: Okay. So, there are some rhythms that we can figure out just by assuming what their quarter note is, tapping our foot or using a metronome, and then kind of just feeling where the eighth notes are, where the ties are, where the pulse is. We can even sometimes feel sixteenth notes. One-and, one-and [SINGS AND PLAYS RHYTHM]. So even a triplet right there [SINGS AND PLAYS RHYTHM] we are feeling right there. One-tow-three-four, one, two, one-two-three-four, one, two, one-e-and-a, one, two. But if we have a more intricate rhythm we have to do something different. Say, for example, this is an Afro beat bass line, from the genre of Afro beat [PLAYS AFRO BEAT BASS LINE], and here is the quarter note, one, two three, four. Now there are a lot of ties and dotted eighth notes and sixteenth notes in this that are kind of difficult to just see on there. So, what we do is we assume the quarter note to be twice as fast over the beat. So, we're almost tapping one-and, but we're counting as one, two, three, four [PLAYS BASS LINE]. So if we take it on the metronome. Good. Bring it up to a higher tempo [PLAYS BASS LINE]. Now, that part, [HUMS AND PLAYS NOTES] is quarter notes whereas it will usually be eighth notes, and we can always bring it back by just doubling the time after. So, we know, one-and [PLAYS AND SINGS BASS LINE]. Now, we're only dealing with eighth notes and quarter notes when we play this rhythm and some ties. Then we can take at that, while we write out there and divide it back up, so now quarter notes become eighth notes, eighth notes become sixteenth notes, and now we can just change our measures and figure things out. So, try to utilize the scale like that, taking the tempo twice as fast even if you're not going to write that, if you're just having a hard time feeling what's going on or hearing what's going on, double the tempo.

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