What Bass Pedals Should You Actually Buy? 

Jonathan, please activate your camera immediately, or you will be banned from the zoom class!

Beginners learn voice leading. Use choir 3 part voice harmony to start. Though V7-1 candence has most points of resolution Just take a simple chord progression and write note names on paper as stacks of lines to the closest note. That way can see what each voice is doing moving or static. Play each line seperately then choose a diagonal or whatever u like path. Use these notes to create your line or as motif melodic notes over the normal roots or other you are playing. POP:: C G Am F C B C C This gives us our guide tones. Simple riff style: Play | C-C | G-B | A-C | F-C | Obviously there are stylistic concerns but you get picture. OR flip and use the E D E F Leading notes on the start of bar. C-C | B-GB | C-A | C F | Beginner dont displace suspend harmony too much move on end beat 4 and move off beat 1 back to root if G G A A on a more dissonant note. But whatever u reckon fits sounds ok. Use these for melody points PLay scale fragment off each one. C - C blah | G -B blah | etc Or dispense with the Roots and play riff scale solo off each guide note. Point being you need to remember the notes in the chord and what happens to those notes when the chord changes. Am i on the Root the 3rd or 5th? Write the scale out in 3rds and memorise. Note order is same in functional harmony. C E G B D F A: C E G etc CEG DFA EGB FAC GBD ACE BDF easy to remember. Maj Min Min Maj Maj/Dom Min Dim. Just add sharps flats each key later as you go further. G B D F# A C E G D F# etc Go to 4 notes CEGB 7th chords etc after that easier to think stacking triads for extensions C+G = Cmaj9 CEGBD. Now we are already higher knowledge instead of playing C over C we can play Em over C or G over C. Watch register if murky. We aready know this because weve memorised the 3rds CEGBDFAC 1 3 5 7 9 11 13. Just an opinion from school we did choir 4 part harmony which was big help for me. Easy way to deconstruct understand the harmony just write into simple lines like this for ideas.

Any progress is good progress Paul!

Thanks Ammar!

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Thanks Jon!

Thanks Antonio!

@@BassBuzz I'll try to catch your live videos depending on the time zones. I'm a late starter with Bass Guitar, bought an Epiphone Reverse Thunderbird and wanted to try my hand at bass playing as well as acoustic and electric guitar. I'm a lifelong pianist, since I was 8 (I'm turning 60 in January). I'm new to equipment but did lots of research and learning with Kieth at 5 Watt World and also learning things from Scott Devine. I have a Fender Rumble 25 for Bass and the only thing at the moment is my Boss 500 Looper pedal and no effects other than the modeling effects in the Rumble. I have to be mindful of my neighbors so I also have a Mustang Micro so I can practice with headphones. I paid close attention to the pedal you mentioned but here in Germany we have a couple of large music stores such as Music Store Professional, Just Music and Thomann. They all have similar assortments of effect pedals, but the 3 or the 5 are the only available models, should I go with the 5 for my first? Should I invest in a pedalboard or just use them on the floor for the start? Is an expression pedal something I should consider as I noted that a good learning tool uses the Boss EV-1, I have the Boss FS-7 for the RC-500 Loop Station, and I wanted to try the Boss Pocket GT to learn along with RU-vidrs like yourself. Sorry for being a bloody beginner but it's all fun for a retired fellow like me. I'll breeze through your channel over the holidays and maybe you can give me your thoughts. Wishing you Happy Holidays from Berlin, Germany.

That's awesome, hope you dig your bass!

Haha yep, that's definitely a must!

Thanks Todd, glad I could help!

Glad you're enjoying the course!

Agree 100%

1.) Wah-Wah 2.) Compressor 3.) Fuzz

I'd say: 1) Tuner 2) Compressor 3) Chorus 4) Preamp/DI

Almost same here! I'd go Compressor>fuzz>fuzz, just because you can't go wrong with fuzz hehehe.

1. Tuner 2. Compressor 3. Distortion If only 3 are allowed make it 4 or 5 4. Octave 5. Preamp/DI

Haha, thanks Paul, I had spare batteries on hand too. :P

Hey Croc, I'm new to the pedals/sound system part, what is a Dry signal? Is it something I could see in a histogram? Thanks!

@@MorganaDAlmeida Dry signal is just your signal before an effect is applied to it. A lot of bass pedals have a blend feature included. Essentially, your original signal goes in and gets split into two, applies effect to one then lets you control how much original signal and effected signal are blended back together before it leaves the pedal. It's super handy. I highly recommend choosing effects with a blend or wet/dry control.

You have a good sense of humor too 🤠🤠🤠

Typo: and I expect to

Spelling would be a good start.

@purple chili check out @DesmondDoom 's channel. Here's a video titled "How to make Post-Punk in 1 minute ", for bass use Effects and EQ as shon in video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MJE41lyB5PY.html

You mean the Boss pedal? Haven't tried it but it's probably fun! Wouldn't guess it'd be "useful" for most bass playing, but fun is a use in itself. :)

Yeah that's probably what he meant!

In a nutshell, what does it do and how do you use it in your playing?

Glad you're digging the course! No, don't worry about compressors, you can get through years of gigging and jamming and still not really know what they do. Not urgent!

There's a lot of inexpensive yet pretty decent pedals out there. I used have an Envelope filter/Wah called a Weeper. These were around $15 in the '90s and no one really liked them but I managed to get a Stratocaster to sound like an acoustic with one. I'm not too familiar with bass pedals but the same must apply.

Thanks Gabriel!

I have a 2x12 100w Katana mkII that I use for band practice instead of my 100w Orange Bass combo so that I can practice with my bass amp at home and use it for gigs with different bands, my Katana is a guitar amp but I use it for bass in this case. It works great for guitar but I would probably never take it to a gig unless it was an absolute emergency because it doesn’t have the low end range to handle the volume needed there, if the Katana you found is the bass version I’m sure it’s great just based on my experience with the Katana as a guitar amp. I’m pretty sure all Katanas are able to download and use all BOSS effects from their website as well, so if you like playing with effects that can be a plus. If you’re not playing with a group at all and you like how an amp sounds I would say go for it, if you want to play with others I’d recommend at least a 100w bass amp with an XLR out for connecting it to sound systems.

They have Katana Bass amps, a 110 and 210. I have the smaller 110 and it's amazing, and it gets way louder than you'd think.