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Mastering the Bass Fretboard | ||||
Superior bass skills with the Absolute Fretboard Trainer
Here are two questions that can reveal what kind of bass player you are. They are very simple and go like this: Question 1: Tell me, quickly, what is the note on the lowest open string of your bass? Now please make a mental note of exactly how fast you answered and how difficult it was to answer. Question 2: Put a finger at random on the fretboard and tell me, quickly, what note it is. Do it again three more times in different positions. Make another mental note of exactly how fast you could name those notes. Now, compare the speed of your first answer (naming an open string) with the second (naming random notes). Unless you are an absolute beginner, I'm sure you answered the first question immediately and effortlessly. In other words, you “just knew” that note. But what about the second question? Did you also reply immediately and effortlessly? Did you “just know” all those notes too? Or were your answers much slower because you had to "think", count frets, use some other familiar note as a reference, or do some other kind of mental acrobatics? If this is a good description of your experience, it obviously means that you don't know the fretboard very well... ...and in that case many other areas will suffer as well: following chord charts, creating good bass lines, improvisation, avoiding errors and recovering from them when they happen, using scales and arpeggios — progress in all these areas is limited and frustrated by lack of serious fretboard knowledge. On the other hand the good news is that: 1. It's actually easy to develop absolute fretboard knowledge — knowing every note and position instantly and effortlessly — with a good method and a bit of practice. 2. As soon as you have absolute fretboard knowledge your progress in all other areas will immediately and drammatically accelerate. What this really means is that investing some time and effort in learning the fretboard extremely well is one of the most powerful things you can do to massively improve your playing. These are some of the benefits that you will get if you simply learn the fretboard extremely well: As you can see, if you are serious about playing bass and if your fretboard knowledge is still weak, there are many good reasons why you should make it a priority to improve in this area as soon as possible. And if you decide to go for it, you should also know that a well designed training tool can make a huge difference in the time and effort you will need to achieve your goal. The Absolute Fretboard Trainer (AFT) is an interactive multimedia software course sigle-mindedly designed to achieve one goal: to give you the ability to know each and every note on the fretboard instantly. This goal is achieved through a series of special exercises and requires an average of 20 minutes a day of practice for a few weeks. You can download AFT Lite, the free version of Absolute Fretboard Trainer, and see for yourself how the method works. Then, when you are completely satisfied that the program can help you develop absolute fretboard skills quickly and effectively, you can buy AFT Professional and complete your training. You can also read more about AFT in this web site, especially the method and software pages. Whether you will use AFT or not, I sincerely believe that you should make it your goal to develop absolute fretboard knowledge. Seriously, how can you ever hope to kick butt on the bass if you don't even know where the notes are? Come on. One way or another, do learn the fretboard extremely well and your playing will improve immediately and drammatically. One last thing... Absolute fretboard knowledge does not develop automatically, even after years of playing. You will only develop it when you focus on it with specific training. To understand why, consider this more familiar case: touch typing. Most people never invest a few hours to really learn the layout of the keyboard and spend their whole life typing with two fingers while looking at the keyboard all the time. The result is a lifetime of painfully slow and frustrating typing. Meanwhile, others decide to go for it and learn touch typing once and for all. The result, after just a few weeks, is a lifetime of fast, effortless and enjoyable typing. Similarly, you will only develop absolute fretboard knowledge when you decide to go for it and give yourself specific and dedicated training. Without such training you will always remain the musical equivalent of a two-finger typist. I invite you to download AFT now and experience how easy and enjoyable it can be to develop truly superior bass skills: |
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