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Hi! It is Paul Wolfe from how-play-bass.com. This is a short video today. The sixth lesson of my virtual DVD on how to play the bass for beginners. Okay, in this lesson we are going to talk briefly about practicing. If you head over to my website and find loads of info onto the bass practice tab. Now, the most important things about practice I want to make sure it is regular to make sure of the material about your practicing is helping you obtain the goals if you have set for yourself and that you showed your regular times to review what your doing to make sure that you are actually progressing.
Okay, let us start with regularity. If you got five hours to practice in a week or you decide that is the amount of the time you can spend you get far more out of it. If you split that into five blocks in an hours or seven blocks of 15 minutes it is even better than do it in one go on the Saturday afternoon. From the scientific point of view the more you repeat something the more the neuron pathways from the processing part of your brain to where the information is stored are strengthened. Also no matter how busy you are everyone can make an out for themselves everyday even I am able to do that and I am manage three bands and I have got two small kids and a wife they all want big chunks in my time.
Anyway, after scheduling regular practice session each week is vital to make sure that you are actually practicing material that is moving you forward. Nudeling around with the chord rhythm that you already know for ten minutes is not practicing. Now, I have got nothing against nudeling around on your instrument for fun but just do not make the mistake of confusing that with practice. Check out the material on my website about goal setting. If you were align what you are practicing with, with what you are trying to achieve you are going to increase the chance of succeeding ten fold or even more.
Okay, the final thing I want to talk about is really important. Now, this is something I been guilty of down there is and the only recently I have become aware of it and started to correct it but you absolutely must do and have sometime set aside to review the material you are practicing. Work out how to record your own playing or even better film it with the webcam or cheap camcorder and regularly listen of what you practice session. Often when we practicing we concentrating so much on what we doing and where the fingers of our left hand go or right hand techniques, etcetera, etcetera that we neglect to critically assess exactly what we were doing.
If you spend your 30 minutes so the end of each week you will not only discover areas that you thought you nail but it will give you material to work on for you next week to practice schedules. Be ruthless on yourself when analyzing. Mostly few people do this, if you get in to the habit of doing it now it will help pure your progress as a bass player. Other set it was start. This is a short lesson. There is less more stuff on practicing at the website to check out and I am on the middle of writing already detailed book of practicing for the bass. Look out for that around early March 2009. Look out for the next lesson, lesson seven where we are going to be looking at the bass line for do not back an angle and I will see you next time.
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