How to practice 16th-notes on Bass Guitar the RIGHT WAY (beginner lesson) 

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This is a great lesson! I was struggling so much with sixteen notes and this is the first exercise that has helped me to feel and play sixteen notes. Greetings from Mexico!

I just bought my bass last week and started practising watching your videos, they are so good and they help us beginners to feel motivated and happy with learning the first steps!! You're awesome. Cheers from Barcelona!!

Awesome, teacher! I love your videos, they're always useful. You not only teach how to play the bass but music theory in practice. It provide us the independence to create grooves by ourselves. I'm really improving. Thanks and greetings from Brazil.

Hey, great videos. I’m from Germany, 51 years old and after 30 years started playing bass again. Your videos helping me a lot. Keep up this great work and stay healthy.

I play by ear having focus issues and no problem playing gigs for many years. I will practice this and a big thanks to you!

Absolutely brilliant lesson. Your explanation has helped me massively. I started to learn the bass a few months ago and the 16th notes were really bashing me. Thanks to your superb lesson I got it right now. Thank you so much, Yonit.

Thank you, Yonit, for the generosity of your time, talent and expertise. Your videos are very inspiring

Thank-you Yonit for this clear and well presented lesson. You have no idea how poorly done and glossed over most lessons on time counting are. I have searched dozens and dozens of videos and yours is the only one I've come across where you explain EVERYTHING! Most others assume far too much of the student, leave basic (but important) things out, and fail to tell you "why" something is important to learn. Thank-you again - I have subscribed and am looking forward to learning from your videos. 😃🙂

As a long time dummer/guitar player, I’ve never put much thought into my bass playing. I’m also a long time beat buddy-ist. Really gonna spend some time with what you’ve shown us.

Beautiful bass! You're a great bass player. Thanks for sharing all of that with us.

It felt like the first exercise unlocked something in my playing, thank you!

Hi from Australia Yonit, always love your videos they are always appreciated.

Yeah, playing super slow is as hard as super fast, it's then that you find out how anxious you are by hitting the first beat too soon

Great video Yonit! You've taught me a lot in a short amount of time watching your videos. I am forever subscribed...Thank you! ~ Steve

Your lessons are jam-packed with useful ideas- thank you! I struggle with pedalling 1/8 and 1/16 notes and your idea of starting off by just playing on measure at a time helps a ton!

Thank you so much for this as always start nice and slow and just staying on the root so the notes are all sounding the same. Cheers

As stated in other reviews this lesson is fantastic. I struggle big time with counting. I can typically look at the music, figure out the rhythm and get it right most of the time. If I try to count it while playing its a mess..............a big mess. I really get into Motown and there is so much syncopation in that great music the counting while playing seems way too much to bear. This lesson was really good on how to count better. I typically would count the 16th beats and hold the note for (as an eight note) two of the 16th counts. I felt doing the 1 & ah for the two 16th notes in the first quarter note would be wrong but my senses told me other. After seeing your lesson I will correct my thinking and see how much I can improve. More lessons with this kind of thing would be great!! Even more in depth information on the fumbling most who are learning how to play will encounter would be very very useful. Love everything you do!! Thanks so much!!

Yonit Thank you for producing so much great content and lessons like this that you make really easy to understand!

would love to see a version of this filling in beats 2 & 4. Sounds very different. Really enjoy your work.

Thank you yonit רואים שמדובר במקצוענית ,עזרת לי מאוד .

I really like your lesson. The rhythm count out exercises then follow by a bass demonstration is helping in my progress. Thank you Yonit for this excellent video. I have watch this video many many times. Really good stuff!

Thank you for the time and effort you put into making these videos. I have learned so much and I am very grateful to you. 😀 I wish you all the best.

Been struggling with that for a long time. Thank you very much!!!!!

Love you personality im getting better im really trying to stick this teaching in my head,cause I like smooth funk on bass,learning bass lines with this methodology helps thanks

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Greetings from Brazil! I love your videos!

Honestly, - i was going trought all your stuff ( and since i know where you came from/ bc of an interview ) i want to say----- your teachings are an important message/ and i like your Energy Level. God Bless You

That was definitely a great lesson. Essential tips I needed to know

beginner here! thanks for this. needed a very basic training!

Thanks Yonit! Beautiful and talented Bass Mama Queen!!

Love it! I just got started on playing 16th so this is perfect for me! :D

Your teaching is simple Yonit.I like it. Rhem Malaysia. Am a solo n a bassist dear.

i salvaged/saved 3 basses and 2 electric guitars... they're all set up to manufacturers' specs now: i learned about action, relief, intonation, fret leveling, pots... now i'm building courage to start learning how to play them :}

Bravissima ottima lezione, ho intrapeso da poco lo studio del basso e mi sei stata utilissima, spero di vedere altre tue lezioni. Ciao!!

Thanks Yonit!Very well taught lesson!

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Great content, perfect lesson. Keep it coming!!!

Thank you Yonit for that special tutorial.

Thank You! Great Lesson...Excellent Explanation!

Thank you yonit for this class today, from here Venezuela

Very clear and easy to understand. Thank you for this.✌️😷

Thanks so much for your video, I just bombed a 16th note progression in a song called TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD....and because of your video I have a means to be more successful next time

Thank you.

Thanks for this helpful video! 👍

Very helpful, and an overdue smash of the subscribe button from me!

Thank you so much for this very useful lesson today Yonit... 👍👌

It helps me a lot

Excellent lesson... Thank you a lot for the effort

Yonit! You own it. Great video!

This was very informative!! Love your lessons!!

Thank you very much. This makes a big difference. Now for some work to get to on the bass :)

Great counting trick. I was having trouble playing Chic: "I want your love" with my fingers - this helped. Enjoyed your lesson. oNe LovE from NYC

Very helpful I will start practicing this!

This was very good video for me. THX!

Thank you for the vid. Really well explained. Subbed.

Loved this! It was be nice if you showed the fills you added

im a beginner bassist and the other day I was listening to drum beat and confused myself because I was counting 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, then I realised wait a minute, I can also count 1 2 3 4 to this same beat? and I was so confused because usually I thought it depending on the tempo of the beat. Today I was wondering how to keep track when counting out 16th notes, and I found this video, now it makes sense, I was ONTO SOMETHING THE OTHER DAY!! Thanks for making this so clear!

Thank you so much! Love your playing

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Your playing is super in the pocket! Great job! I would love to hire you to play on one of my projects!

this means a lot!thank you very much

LOVE your lessons!

Very well explained lesson

Thank you Yonit 😊 Godbless and Stay Safe,

Love your bass - awesome color too

I know I've said this before but and I'll keep saying it....Damn you are the best teacher ❤.

This is a great content! Really helpful! :)

That's a good one. Thanks Yonit

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Excellent exercise, thank you!

Perfect. I am fighting to get the feel of sixteenth notes. Just what I need. 😃 I was just alternating bars of quarters followed by bars of eighths followed by bars of sixteenths. This much better.

I will practice more with this method

Yonit, I love your videos and I find them really helpful. Could you help us with descending arpeggios exercises? Ascending is easier and immediate descending too (work memory); but if you just want to descend from anywhere is tricky...

Very good lesson Yonit!

Thanks for this tutorial, Yonit :-)

Nice instructional vid. Long live Rocco Prestia, in all of us.

Always great lessons. Curious.... what do you use those earplugs for I see on your desk??

I'm a professional bass teacher. Excellent lesson 👍

Hello Yonit, Falling apart is my favorite song and also video. Question, perhaps I misinterpreted one of your videos with regards of not playing open notes. say for example, the bass part of the song "all my loving" by the Beatles, it has a lot of open notes and on youtube specially the Ed Sullivan performance Paul plays the song with a lot of open notes, would you suggest to look for the same open notes he plays and find them and play them on the fretboard? Please excuse the question if it appears to stupid, i am a begginer.

That is so useful... love it. Richard

Yes! useful information but a challenge for me love those pickups 👍

thank you

Good one. Thanks.

Great info. Thx.

wow thanks beautiful .How do you playor practice triplets ,4ths ,10ths or 6ths or 8notes or 32 notes 16-notes using arpeggios triad s,/major 7 arpeggios and scales plus incooperating the inversions on the entire fret board? Question 2. How do you incooperates Arpeggios or scales in your grooving or playing or coming up with licks or riffs using Arpeggios or Scales on the entire fret board?

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I left info on spirit of the radio into riff from rush It has 1/16 notes I believe. I wrote out my short hand thinking or long hand as I was trying to figure out what scale. here's my correction or short story version He's utilizing notes using the 3rd position E natural minor the c# not in it they use ITS THIRD POSITION E NATURAL minor JUST THE NOTES IN IT FROM A AT THE 5TH FRET GO A,B,C D,E,F#,G,A,B.C.D THE C ON THE E STRING IS NOT USED IN RIFF THEY ADD A C# to the third position their using the ladder method and twice back up the riff I broke down in three parts I found out if breaking the 1 riff down into 4 parts uses THIS IS COOL ( each section of the one longer riff) keeps adding 1) 3 notes 2) 4 notes 3) 5 notes 4) 6 notes section 3 and 4 the back up on the ladder couple rungs to make it seem longer to get to the end and third positon E natural minor a 7 note scale is the same as G natural minor (7 note scale) using the 2nd position instead of EMajor 3rd positon of moving up or down 3 fret to get a scale you already know

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Top ! Merci ! Encore !

Love your lessons so much! And your Mustang bass sounds so good! Never seen one in this colour before! So it’s like a parts Stang. Do you put it together yourself? Looks like a vintage Musicmaster bass neck, but a Mustang body and bridge? It’s so pretty! But I promise that I am still focused on the lessons not just the pretty bass 🙏😸

Im fronteira Brazil. Thanks

Interesting. I learned 16th notes as 1-uh-and-uh-2-uh-and-uh ... etc.

Awesome!!

Can I purchase some base line strings from you in a 120 bpm?

I expected good reply I love bess guitar

Hello yonit do you us a amp if not what is your set up like