Originally Posted By: Bass Thumper
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What jumped out to me is reading music. If I could turn back time I would have spent my paper route money on music lessons and learning to read music. That said, I'm beginning to learn TAB now and find it very useful. Maybe some day I'll learn to read sheet.


I didn't have tabs back when I started to play guitar. I learned to play guitar with the only source available at the time, the Mel Bay guitar course. So today tabs without notation is totally useless to me. Most all of the time when I am using tabs with notation I am mostly reading the notation and using a little of the tabs to put me in the right starting position fret wise. I can not play using just tabs. Note that I played the trumpet prior to picking up the guitar so I did have a head start as I could already read the treble clef.

My advice is to start learning to read music today! You already have your fingers working on that bass so all you need to learn is where to put your fingers when you see a note and how long to keep it there. It really isn't that hard.

{edit} This is the course I used when I was teaching bass guitar:

https://www.amazon.com/Leonard-Electric-Bass-Method-Easy/dp/0793563828/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=bass+guitar+books&qid=1686660525&sr=8-4

Last edited by MarioD; 06/13/23 02:50 AM.
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