Poor fella... nobody replying to you lol... anyway I do not have that copy of lesson, sorry, can't help you.

Since this's a theory topic, I'ill ask something then. What's the chord progression for a standard 12-bar blues in... say, E???

Dumb question I know, but I'm stuck at the turnaround. T_T

Same story lol... only thing different is that I started when I was like, 6? Heh...

Gee thanks a lot, time to see what I can improvise with that progression.

I didn't know you *could analyse all those in soooo detailed. LOL!
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FFS WTF!!!!

This post has been edited by led_zep_freak: Aug 31 2005, 04:53 PM

Wow commanderkeen your theory knowledge is impressive!!! I don't think you really need lessons at this pointlar, since you're pretty disciplined and that probably helped much more than lessons.

Anyway I'm not sure about bass, but over here in the guitar world, the dorian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian and of course, ionian are the more popular modes used. I'm still struggling with mixolydian mode as I just can't visualize the damn mode on the fretboard, maybe I should start memorizing the notes?

Solo or not I think learning some modes can help spice up your bass riffs heh. Especially when your guitarist is playing some jazzy 7th chords etc...

If your guitarist sticks to major/minor and powerchords I guess it's ok to stick to root/5th but of course, variety is the spice of life.

Yeah, I have done some but it's hard to visualize you know? Let's say you're improvising, you wanna switch from... say... A Mixolydian to C Mixolydian as the chord changes... it's gonna take more than a year's practice I reckon!

Hmmm, that make sense... Even though your explanation was pretty blurry (World Cup fever ) but I got your point... I'ill give it a try next time I practise me scales...

It actually depends on what you are heading for in the end. Usually a musician's goal if to achieve pure expression, in the sense that you could play what you hear in your head without relying heavily on theory knowledge. Tabs are pretty much shortcuts to play a song, and it does help in training your ears.
But imo, knowing how to play without theory knowledge is like having an ability to speak a language but not being able to write it. Theory helps you understand what you're playing & with a strong foundation, the music you hear would make sense to you. You won't be just hearing a 'group' of notes, you would be able to make sense of the melody, chord progression etc.
Whether it's important or not to improve your playing, I don't know. But imo, never treat theory as a boring thing, think about the things that you would learn from it, the more you know, the more exciting music is to your ears.