{"id":6867,"date":"2015-02-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:43:01","slug":"how-to-be-a-better-bass-player-learn-the-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/how-to-be-a-better-bass-player-learn-the-classics.html","title":{"rendered":"How to be a better bass player? Learn the classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music, that is.<\/p>\n<p>The description of the video states, &#8220;Fur Elise (Ludwig Van Beethoven) &#8211; solo arrangement for bass guitar. For instructional purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Learning classical pieces on the bass guitar is actually a really good way to increase finger strength and getting to know your fretboard (as in where notes are) a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Know that it&#8217;s probably true you&#8217;ll never play classical pieces with an actual band, but in this instance that&#8217;s okay, because if you can learn this (even if just a little bit of it,) it can make the stuff you play with your band a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>Also, one other thing. What you will see\/hear below is this particular bass player&#8217;s interpretation of Fur Elise, as in his arrangement. You don&#8217;t have to play it exactly like he does (especially since he&#8217;s rushing through it a bit.) If you find a more comfortable way of doing it, then by all means, do it your way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XDO7s-xrgc?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music, that is. The description of the video states, &#8220;Fur Elise (Ludwig Van Beethoven) &#8211; solo arrangement for bass guitar. For instructional purposes.&#8221; Learning classical pieces on the bass guitar is actually a really good way to increase finger strength and getting to know your fretboard (as in where notes are) a lot better. &#8230; <a title=\"How to be a better bass player? Learn the classics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/how-to-be-a-better-bass-player-learn-the-classics.html\" aria-label=\"More on How to be a better bass player? Learn the classics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}