Learning how to play bass fast is not as hard as it may seem. Having the ability to play bass fast has many advantages. You will be able to play anything thrown at you and your musical ideas will not be limited by your speed. Unfortunately, most people try to play fast without proper preparation. I am going to show you exactly how to build speed in a way that will give you excellent technique!
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| ictor Wooten playing his bass guitar (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
When practicing bass, you should always play along with a metronome. A metronome will help you develop natural time, which is very important to speed. You can get one at a music store for as little as $10.
To practice speed, we are going to be playing sixteenth notes. A sixteenth note is a division of a beat by four. That means that every beat your metronome gives you, you should play four notes. Just find a pattern that you like to play. A simple scale will work fine. Find a speed on your metronome that you find comfortable and play along with it for a few minutes. Then up the speed by ten BPM (beats per minute). Play with this new speed until it becomes comfortable.
Continue in this fashion until the speed is just too much for you to keep up with. Once you identify your speed limit, try to play at ten BPM faster than your limit. It will be way too fast for you to play with but try it a few times anyway. Then back the metronome back ten BPM. You will find that now you can play at a speed that you could not before.
An important thing to building speed is to practice in this fashion every day. Even if you just practice ten minutes a day, it will do wonders for building speed!
They have a great bass player that I know you can learn a lot from! Watching great bass players will help you a lot so take the time to do so!
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