Jeff Berlin Shares an Intervallic C-Scale Practice Exercise - Part 1: Ascending 

Best of the video is the "mistake fixing" segment. For me (I imparted bass guitar guidance for many years) showing the student that the teacher never stop being an apprentice is the best way to say : "I understand you and your circumstances in the learning process". As always, thank you Mr. Berlin for helping people think.

Invaluable! This guy has enriched the bass world so much!

I love your lessons Jeff : )

I love that Jeff plays one main instrument. I think online content generally gives the student the impression that they need several basses in order to be effective. This is only true if one wants to be a studio player. I believe perhaps having 2 basses can cover alot of ground in most cases.

Thank you Jeff, for sharing your knowledge. Great lesson and excellent point about practicing vs performing.

Jeff, been following you for years...this is the best delivery mode of your advice I've ever seen...thank you thank you for sharing your insights and gifts.

love the fellow and his approach to sharing and imparting knowledge ..inspiring and enjoyable, thankyou so much Jeff Berlin.

Couldn't agree more with you! It's a relief to have someone who encourage us to be musicians using our human difficulties into a form of pushing us ahead. Thanks Jeff, you are an inspiration for sure! All the best

Great stuff Jeff! As always. Thank you. Simon

Mr Berlin is still kicking ass since I first saw him in 1977 with the Gil Evans orchestra in Singapore. What a gem :)

Jeff, you are an utter inspiration! You've been at the top of your game right from way back in the 1970s. Well, that's when l first heard you play with Bruford. Already, you were really the foremost bassist on the planet so l wonder what you did prior to Bruford? The incredible sound you had on your old precision with a Bartolini pickup in the bridge position (photos on 'Feels Good To Me'). Your technique somehow gave the impression of you playing a fretless which l don't think you did and I'm not certain whether you ever have! I've been following your career ever since and have all your albums. It's great that l can find so much of your material on Amazon Music with 'Alexa' shortly to be offering CD HD quality. Keep up the good work, Jeff.

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing

Musical content trumps flashy technique. Thanks for this gold mine of information Jeff.

Thank you so much Jeff for what you do I love your playing and your compositions and your lessons thank you again so much man😃🎻

Jeff is deep as a player and musician and also very deep and concise as a teacher. As a guitarist I always s listen to what he has to say

Very interesting ideas. Nice way to get the intervallic relationships worked into your head. I know stuff like that really helped me when I started using more inversions of arpeggios.

Rock solid approach to teaching 👍

Many thanks Jeff

Great lesson, Jeff !!! Thank you, Sir !!!

"Learning and performing are not the same thing." Another excellent insight - oft repeated by Senor Berlin. I'm LMAO while watching the kinder, gentler Jeff. It's a very nice and palatable Mr. Berlin. Yet... at times, I do miss the piss-and-vinegar Jeff who gets fired-up peevish. Maybe Jeff is just holding it all it and is gonna explode on us bass neophytes at some point. ;-)

Good stuff Mr Berlin. Thank you!

I love it! I really enjoy when a great musician teacher Creator admits to making mistakes when learning new material it gives us Mortals hope

You Sir are an inspiration ... thank you for sharing your knowledge

that tone knob is not going ANYWHERE! Love it.

Thank you so much !!!

I love your concepts. I’m a drummer that read your articles in bass player magazine ( yes, that long ago) to help improve my drumming. Now, I’m trying to learn to play the bass. You are my first stop for inspiration. Thanks for the great things you’ve done. Can you suggest a good book to start with?

I wish I have found this video earlier in my life.

Great Jeff!!

Hey Jeff love your playing and your approach,why have you taped up the tone control on your bass?

Great Jeff. How does that make me sound like Robert Popwell?

You da man,Jeff..

Agree! No metronome. I skipped the external metronome many years ago. My metronome is internal and a part of my body 💪

thank you Jeff !

good video and on top of his game also funny,.

Jeff your a genius, no doubt

Great video, I appreciate your lessons they are a lot of help. And I was wondering if you could possibly make a video on how to write sheet-music I have been transcribing a lot of songs all in tab, but I know reading and writing would be beneficial, anyways if you could shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated keep up the good work!

Thanks you a lot

thank you!

Respect!

Hi jeff why you put the tape on your knob ?

Where do I get the chart?

Words of wisdom

I'd like to download the chart mentioned in the video, but it just takes me to Jeff's home page. What am I doing wrong?

Am I remiss in thinking your saying practice the language before you start composing essays?

Sound like Hanon.

I think its a good way to learn. Im teaching by myself for over 20 years and in my opinion the problem is not to find the right notes. I agree with Victor Wooten- you dont need any notes to make music. The problem of 99 prozent is to play the right note in time, with the right feel, articulation, phrasing, sound, technik. Everybody can play the right notes over giant steps if you play 1 note in 1 minute... im sorry..

DE BOA BLZ

The master has failed more times than an apprentice has ever attempted.

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Are you a Scorpio lol? Keep fighting the good fight brother Jeff.

Music as/is philosophy.