So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Bass Lessons: Be Your Own Teacher

By Mike Crocker

If you wish to learn how to play bass guitar, then you should know the fundamental facts about the bass guitar. A bass guitar is not a flashy work like the lead guitar or the lead singer. The bass guitar only helps in filling out the sounds of the bands with low-end notes to ensure the rhythmic pulse for propelling the whole music forward.

However, the bass guitar is one of the most important ingredients to any band. The bass guitar is the glue, which holds the music of the band together. As such, bass guitar players are always in good demand in any band. Still, it takes several years of constant and sincere practice to become an excellent bass guitar player.

The first step in your effort to learn how to play bass guitar is to understand its various parts. The bass is a string instrument and a normal bass would have four strings. Each string is normally tuned to a different note, the standard being E on the thickest string, and A, D, and G in the next three strings. The frets divide the strings into different sections.

If you want to learn bass online there are some terrific options available to you, and a few in particular will be discussed here in more detail.

Anyone wanting to play the guitar should know that this is one of the top contenders by far when it comes to online companies offering lessons. They offer online guitar lessons.

As a bass player you must learn to play in time. A newbie guitar player can spend years playing guitar with the tempo and timing all over the place because he does not have to play with other musicians. The bass guitarist's job is to play in a band so the sooner you get any little rhythmic or timing peccadillo's ironed out, the better.

For this you will need a metronome. Type "free metronome" into a search engine, find one you like and bookmark it if it is online, although there are metronomes you can download for free. The same goes for a tuner. There are quite good bass guitar tuners online. You will also be able to find free backing tracks for guitar online.

This is another fantastic option when it comes to getting to learn bass online. They offer lots of information in their lessons, through which you will learn how to tune your guitar by ear so that this eventually becomes second in nature, all finger positions and techniques for different songs, a video of an expert playing each song, and you can even listen to how the whole track should sound or hear it note by note so that you can compare your playing and make sure that you are getting it just right.

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