160 - Can You Play Bass Without Reading Music? With Scott & Ian

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Reading music is a subject that can strike fear into the heart of many aspiring musicians. It’s a tough skill to learn, but do bass players REALLY need to read sheet music? If your ambition is to be in a three chord punk band then you won’t be too worried. But there are TONS of great benefits, as Ian and Scott explore in this episode.

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0:00.0	Have you got any war stories?
0:09.5	Don't tell me now if you have, but have you got some?
0:12.1	Oh, yeah.
0:12.8	I have one particular war story about reading that I cannot wait.
0:18.0	I love that you call it a war story, too, because it does feel so dire in the moment, right?
0:23.4	It damages going through that.
0:25.1	It really damaged me going through the, I guess, the experience of, do you know, when you just put on the spot and you're just like, oh.
0:35.1	Oh, yeah.
0:36.1	Like, it's grim, isn't it? It's grim. That's so grim. Because you're just like, oh, I can't, like, it's grim, isn't it?
0:38.3	It's grim.
0:38.6	That's so grim.
0:40.0	Because you're expected to, you're expected to know how to do this skill.
0:45.9	They think you can do it.
0:47.3	They think you can do it.
0:48.9	And you've led them to believe that you can.
0:56.1	It's a thing, isn't it?
0:58.5	Anyway, guys, we are, so the title of this podcast is,
1:01.8	do you have to read music, war stories from the road?
1:06.4	So I think everybody can imagine that there's going to be some war stories.
1:12.4	And some hacks as well.
1:16.5	Like I have learned some cool little, you know, tips and tricks.
1:23.4	I'm not sure about you about how to, you know, just get through to a certain extent.
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