My New Favorite App For Learning Bass - TOMPLAY 

Especially, a loving FATHER!

She's definitely a joy

Yes she is the sun ❤

So true, the best Dad and daughter on RU-vid

Yes, for sure, the prerequisite before watching Ellen's RU-vid channel is to smile and be prepared to learn.

Exactly. She is a delight! And LOVE the interaction between her and her father, she is so attentive and sweet, what a great job her parents have done raising her!

Thank you for responding, it’s rather mundane, the students seem to know much more then me within the areas of o learning utensils, who knew, still very interested in obtaining these or similar software that obtain the same concept

The premium version is $14.99 per month ($119.99 annually) and I don't know if songs are included, but there are 60,000 you can choose from and buy for $2-40 each depending on the complexity.

They are different, Yousician is more for learning how to play an instrument, and Tomolay is more for learning to play your favorite songs.

@@EllenPlaysBass ok I see. Thx for replying so fast. WOW! But it seems like there are some great features in tomplay that you don't get with yousician. Like recording yourself, that's awesome! I'm going to try it out and let you know some other time. Thx, love from the Netherlands.

@@RenanRischiotto start by learning ez songs that will give you easier time. That’s my top tip for anyone starting out. But im sorry to break it to you, without music theory, you will have a very difficult time to learn by ears, im not saying it’s impossible, but it’s a lot harder and takes way longer. From my experience, i would always try to find note by note, since i didnt like learning music theory, I thought it was too hard. and over the years i learned that, knowing the chord progressions for various genres will literally make it 10x easier and faster to learn song by ears. You want to first find the chord progression of the part you are learning, that way it will be easier to find the melody. Since most of the time, the melody is usually around the 5th of the root note (which is whatever the bass is playing) of the chord. You dont need to learn music theory right away, i didnt learn it and focused on my playing skill and then learn it after that. You dont need to go completely deep into it, just know your major and minor scales is enough to learn most classic rock, pop, etc. since modern American music is really not that hard or creative to the point it’ll be hard to learn. But if you’re into funk, jazz, then a lot of theory needs to be learned. Remember, there’s no way you cant find the notes, there are only 12 notes, not including the flats and sharps. Knowing your scale will help you a lot to find notes in a song, since there are only 8 notes in a key. If you can figure out what key the song is in, then it should be very easy to go on from there. I recommend you learning major scales first, this will show the fastest results, there are plenty of scales tutorials on the internet. Major scale have a specific pattern, if you can memorize it, you will know every single major scale. Same with minor scales, they have a different pattern than major, but is still easy to memorize. Once you get comfortable with major scales, you want to find songs in major scales that you are into. You can literally search it up anywhere on the internet like “pop songs that are in major scale” Since you just started, make it easy for yourself, ask what key of the song is in on the internet. This is the starting point, of course you want to challenge yourself after you’re comfortable learning. Then you can start going in blind, not knowing what the key is in, and you have to figure that out yourself. Then do the same for minor scales. Once you’re comfortable with both, do that for songs that are in major and minor, but without you knowing it. Easiest way to tell what songs are in major or minor, is that major is happy, and minor is sad. If the song is slow and sad, then it’s probably in minor key. If the song is upbeat and happy, then it’s probably major. And one final thing is to listen to a lot of songs. Well this is just how i would do it if i could start over with music. I was only into j pop and wanted to play songs that were way too difficult for me to play, i made way harder for myself to learn. J pop/rock have a totally different chord progression, and they always sneak in jazzy chords which is super super unique. Over the years of only learning Japanese songs, i found myself to learn any modern American songs super quickly. pop music would only take me an hour to learn, since they’re super simple. If you’re pretty serious about getting better at it, i highly recommend you listen to jpop.

Very soon, we will announce it here on RU-vid and on other platforms.

Glad to hear it! 😀