Steve Bailey Fretless Bass Lesson Part 3
Hello friends of “the Hub”!
We’re back today with the third installment of Steve Bailey’s fretless bass lesson series. This piece is a bit less impactful as some of those to come, but it does do a good job of running over a couple of useful concepts. Check out the cliff’s notes of what he discusses below.
Video Contents
- Quick Jam: The video starts off with the conclusion of the jam at the end of the previous segment.
- Intonation: Steve stresses the importance of intonation when playing the fretless bass. He jams a little on a sweet looking acoustic fretless bass at the beginning of this section.
- Unit Three: Fourths – Fifths: Explanation of what fourths are and the two ways to finger it. Depending on how it is played, he makes a good point that you have to use your ear a lot in keeping in tone. Steve shows off different ways of actually fingering the notes and making transitions with multiple riffs.
- Just a comment: Dude throws in artificial harmonics like it’s no big deal. His technique is crazy!
- Sheet Music Placement: He states a case for why it’s better placed on your left side (for right handed players).
- Exercise: Steve illustrates how to use a mix of fourths, fifths, and octaves in a jam session with the drummer
- New Instrument: Bailey then switches to his blue 6-string fretless, showing off an additional exercise for mixing up octaves, fifths, and fourths with a D-string droning underneath. I’ve personally used a similar technique and it sounds outstanding live.
- Unit Four: Thirds and Tenths: Steve quickly explains what these are. He goes off on a tangent about running over his own bass around the 8 minute mark, so you may want to skip ahead to the real stuff around the 9 minute mark.
- Unit Four: Exercise: Steve then exhibits how to mix in thirds and tenths in the start of the Unit Four exercise.
Hello friends of 'the Hub'!
We're back today with the third installment of Steve Bailey's fretless bass lesson series. This piece is a bit less impactful as some of those to come, but it does do a good job of running over a couple of useful concepts. Check out...
Tommy
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thanks a million for this Tommy,and please thank Steve for this too!!!.I play a fretted 4-string,and fretted 6-string,you’d be surprised at the fact that many of us also play these out of tune too,(it’s harder but it does happen),so thanks for the tips,& exercises.Please tell Steve that the “boring” exercises are always the ones that develop & maintain good,sound technique and playing habits,and contributes greatly to familiarity with the fret board,once again thanks a million for this,i learnt a lot.