'The One Thing' - Awesome Practice Tip for All Musicians!
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In this lesson, I share with you a great tip that can be applied to your practice routine. It's suitable for all musicians wanting to maximise their practice time and get extraordinary results.
It's taken from a book on called 'The One Thing' by Gary Keller. It's a business book on productivity and I think the premise behind it can transform how you spend your practice time. I explain all in the video and if you want to learn more about the book you can check out the website here: www.the1thing.com
Best of luck with all your practice!
Cheers, Geoff
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Great question! It took me almost 5 years to realize and understand the correct way of studying. For me personally, I believe there's 3 vital things that every musician has to do everyday. 1: Playing scales, arpeggios, chords on the scale, in all possible positions. 2: Playing etudes! 3: Transcribing great players. These 3 things in the end give you almost all the tools needed for anything that's thrown at you. Great lesson as always :)
Greg Makamian Thanks Greg, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I would 100% agree with your process too, great points... they kind of work together and feed each other. I think of the same kind of process with lessons-practice-gigs...they all feed each other and help to the musician make the most progress.
Hmm, perhaps #1 is a great thing to do if you have the luxury of time. But when you don't have infinite time, and you have a repertoire to work on for playing with your group/band/jam/gaggle then 'just-in-time' scales, arpeggios and chords are good: i.e. do the scales&arps&chords specific to the tricky pieces you'll be playing. I throw in an etude as warm-up for many practice sessions.
@@KokowaSarunoKuniDesu definitely, 100% agree. Also, no need to play all the scales/arpeggios everyday. We can pick a few keys a day:)
I think working on weaknesses is good and learning new songs. New songs goes out of what we know and force us to think instead of playing subconsciously.
Your video on cycle of fifths/arpeggios _really_ helped me. I got the domino effect.
Also, thumb technique. But sometimes, it’s taken an old seasoned pro teacher to tell me “relax, use shortcuts” and suddenly i see i have tried “perfection”, over function and playability
That's amazing to hear! I'm so glad you enjoyed the lesson. :-)
Excellent video, Geoff ... and a fine metaphor for "The greater your vocabulary, the richer your expression..."
Awesome advice!
Great advice 👍
Thank you, that really helped me become more realistic about my goals and practice routine! :)
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching :-)
Excellent points! This really helps to blow away my procrastination from those aspects of practice that I may not enjoy as much haha
Wyatt Rydlewski Thanks and that's a great way of thinking about it... also the sooner they are done the sooner you can forget about them and move on :-)
Thanks so much for this lesson. I need a good push to get back to practicing. I spent a couple of months in the hospital, then moved and can't seem to get back into the routine. This makes so much sense! Thanks again!\
Lana Pettey Hey Lana, sorry to hear about your stay in the hospital and I hope you can back into the routine..It's not easy to start it up again after a break. One thing that helps me is to have the bass out of the case and easy to get at so I can just pick it up and play a few mins here and there. Also finding a topic which really excites you so you are motivated to get playing...perhaps something you have always wanted to work on but not had the time. Best of luck and have a great weekend, cheers Geoff
Good tutorial
Play at every jam nite within 5 miles.
Done. It's more fun playing with great players, but you'll learn way more playing with bad ones.
If you drum, Buddy Rich snare, page 14. Basically, put kick on one and play accents in different places to metronome at 40 and then at 120 with a bounce. 4/4 and 3/4
Two weeks at 8 minutes to get through this page. You'll see.
Metronome stuff. That's where I'd go otherwise. You don't have to be Buddy Rich. Just play *you.*
Can never hurt to do rudiments, at least a few basics: Single stroke roll (Achille's last stand, that snare thing is a fairly closed single stroke roll), double stroke roll, paradiddle, and 5 stroke roll, moved around the kit.
Move things in different places than normal. Put the snare on 3= Hotel California. Give the high hat a triplet feel will be the other thing that defines that song. Don't complicate the fills. Let em breathe.
If you put snare on ands, you get either punk or country. If you put high hat on ands, you get dance music, sometimes disco or funk.
If you put the snare hits on 1,2, 3, 4 to uh 1 e, uh 2 e...it's very different.
if you put snare on just the 2. You get I want you by Marvin Gaye. (the practice video not the end disco product, which sounds dated today).
and different styles and types of beats like Bo Diddley beat, typical rock, rock and roll (old rock is like simple big band music. heavy on ride, not high hat), shuffles, both normal and half shuffle.
Make an effort, listen to your bass player, and do what he does. He's the driver. Drummer is the wheels. You have no idea where the driver wants to go otherwise.
Feel is very valuable. You can learn chops (skill). Might not be possible to learn feel. Jury is out.
Feel is how you can tell what guy is playing by how it sounds.
Great advice!
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The circle of fifths is the most fundamental bit of knowledge (all 12 notes) that every musician should know by instant recall and practiced muscle memory to play and hear the cycle without thinking, ascending (major) and descending (minor), along with the chromatic scale (again, all 12 notes) across the entire range of your instrument. Enjoy!
cool video. focus on the most important things and get a free mind. most difficult seems to find out wihtout a teacher to find out the ONE thing :-)
bassic bass +1 I think you're right.. some feedback from a teacher would be really valuable on this.
Whereas this is: *The One Thing At A Time* you need to address. When the one thing is the notes on the neck, you focus on that till you've conquered it. Then the one thing becomes your sight reading ('frexample), so you focus on that till you've conquered it - except that's a much bigger learning curve to conquer. After that, there'll be another "one thing" and on and on.
I demand a Psychobilly Lesson!
Psychobilly yeah!
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Hey so I have owned my own bass for about half a year now, but the strings that came with the bass are complete poop. Im going to start playing Jazz so I need strings that will produce an excellent plucking sound (rich sound), but also sound okay for bowing. (Bowing isn't so much important to me as plucking.) Can you recommend any strings(BTW I have a 3/4 bass). Thank you!
Rachel Thibodeaux I use and love Pirastro Evah Pirazzi weich strings which I think are the best hybrid choice out there. Also D'Addario Zyex are a great set and worth checking out. Good luck, I'm sure it will make a big difference when you change them :-)
So I've been playing bass for a few years now and I would say I'm good.......but there are a lot of things I don't know and have never been taught....I was taught how to play bass by a strings teacher that for one actually went to college for band and two plays violin and has never played bass really in her life......I really want to get better but idk how if she can't teach me.......and another thing is when I play long and fast songs my left hand begins to get stuck and cramp I've tried TH-cam videos to ask for help but it never works pls help me!
Jenna gregory Hey Jenna, it sounds like the key issue is one of technique and I would suggest going right back to basics and assess your posture, left and right hand technique. The best possible thing would be to get at least a few lessons with a bass professional and I would expect that would make a huge difference. Also review the lessons here and see if there's things you have missed. If you are having hand cramp it sounds very much like that would be a good course. It's hard to tell without knowing more about your playing but I think this lesson of mine would also be worth checking out: www.discoverdoublebass.com/lesson/left-hand-thumb-technique-for-double-bassists-l58/ Best of luck with your practice, cheers Geoff
@@DiscoverDoubleBass I agree. I don't know double bass but I know drums. Case in point: Rush's Peart.
Amazing how he got the sonic results with such tight-looking form. No shock his body is cashed after decades of that.
I can't understand your spaking. I play this video repeat and repeat and repeat. And I Turned On subtitles and tranration from English to Japanese, But it tranrations has severe bug transrating ['] to ['] , it called "escape sequence problem".
Please explain this Gary Karr's "The one thing" with your some play or very simple english.
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Wood Bass Hi, I'm sorry it's not clear. I've had subtitles made for the video so you should be able to turn those on in the YT player, but I'm afraid they are only in English. Sorry I can't help. If you want to check out the book I'm referring too it's called 'The One Thing' by Garry Keller.
This is poignant