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TOK:
Extreme newbie looking for guidance.  ;)

My daughter is very young, but fascinated with keyboards. I'm thinking about getting her lessons in about a year. In the meantime, I thought I'd try to start something and bass is most appealing to me. If I could lay down a bass line while she's smashing the keys, it'd be fun for both of us. Haven't really thought about lessons yet because I'm a rank amateur. I've been watching the Dave Marks lessons on Youtube, since they go nice and slow and show bass lines for specific songs.

Just wondering if anyone could recommend some books/videos (web or DVD) that I could watch. I'll consider lessons after I the very basics down. All I'm concentrating on now is not starting off with bad habits like a bent wrist.

I can play Stargate, I should have the coordination for this, right?  :laugh2:

ChadTower:

Get some superglue.  You'll need it.

mpm32:
I play a little;

Lutus:
I moonlight as a studio musician.  Been playing around 12 years or so.  I play 5 or 6 instruments.

I would suggest looking into learning how to play the "nashville number system".  That way you wouldn't have to learn how to read the notes in music, and when the song had a key change all you would have to do is play the same exact patterns but the starting "root" note would be in a different key.

Very simple.  That way it is all about the fun and not about struggling to learn to read music.

Simple little overview.... http://www.charlierichjr.com/music_articles/numbers/

TOK:
Thanks Lutus. When I went to the page, I remembered this thing being on an infomercial years ago. You know what sucks? I actually learned to read music in middle school. At the time I didn't really care and have pretty much forgotten all of it.

I'm reading up based on your suggestion now, thanks.

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