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| BASS MAGIC | READING AND RHYTHMS |  | Bass Magic provides a solid foundation in Music Reading. An awesome set of lessons will take you through music reading boot camp. You can actually go through Bass Magic and never have to read a note thanks to the Virtual Fretboard, however, he list of reasons to learn to read could go on forever:
 | The ability to write down your ideas and remember them. | | If you plan on getting work as a professional bass player, you MUST learn to read. Although it may not come up in every situation, it definitely will come up. | | Studio work, jingles, and subbing will all require some level of reading. | | The first time you go on an audition and have to learn a large amount of material in an incredibly short time, you'll be glad you can write down your parts to help remember them. | | |  | The biggest secret to reading is that it's actually pretty easy if learned correctly. It's not nearly as difficult as learning another language. When you break it down, reading music is actually just reading notes and rhythms. We've made an entire section of lessons dedicated to learning the rhythms. That just leaves the notes, and there's only 12 of them. Bass Magic will make learning to read fun by providing you with drum track backing so it will feel more like a real musical situation.  | | Each level of lessons covers reading in all keys and works in unison with the levels in the Rhythm lessons. Practicing rhythms by themselves is a great exercise for bassists. Your rhythm partner the drummer does these kinds of exercises and so should you. It does several things for you. First off, it makes reading easier. If you can read all of the rhythms, you can just concentrate on notes.
More importantly, as a professional bassist, you will often be handed charts with no notes written, just chords and rhythm figures. The rhythm figures are clues for things like accents, breaks, or bass line rhythms to use throughout a piece or section. |
You'll be taken through all kinds of different rhythms and rhythmic figures through different levels of difficulty that will correspond to the same levels in the music reading lessons. When it comes up on the gig, you'll be ready to nail it the first time through.  | |
