{"id":223,"date":"2017-07-06T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T23:08:56","slug":"im-learning-the-bass-guitar-here-are-my-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/music\/223\/im-learning-the-bass-guitar-here-are-my-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m learning the bass guitar &#8211; here are my goals for 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Music Goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Short Term Goals (next 60 days):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To play in <a href=\"http:\/\/taxmexico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">church <\/a>without chord sheets<\/li>\n<li>Successfully finish the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottsbasslessons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SBL<\/a> &#8220;Study Piece&#8221; challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Record Study Piece and publish on YT<\/li>\n<li>Record 4 songs (family jams or practices) and publish on YT<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottsbasslessons.com\/courses\/the-essential-blues-bass-deep-dive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start the Blues course from SBL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Medium Term Goals (by the end of the 2017):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start and finish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Music-Theory-Bass-Player-Hands\/dp\/0996727604\">Ariane Cap&#8217;s Bass Theory book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BZ_TgnvNRVk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learning all X Arpeggio positions<\/a> (Major, minor, Dominant, minor flat 5)<\/li>\n<li>Finish the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottsbasslessons.com\/courses\/the-essential-blues-bass-deep-dive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues course from SBL<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Song key transitions on the fly<\/li>\n<li>To recognize chord sequences (i-iv-v, ii-v-i, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>To recognize what the keyboard is playing on the left-hand<\/li>\n<li>Smooth walking bass lines<\/li>\n<li>Start piano lessons (self-taught)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Long Term Goals (Within 2 years):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audibly recognize intervals between notes (2nds, 3rds, 5ths, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Get a mixer board and mics for the house recordings\/jams<\/li>\n<li>Learn to Slap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Goals: Short Term Goals (next 60 days): To play in church without chord sheets Successfully finish the SBL &#8220;Study Piece&#8221; challenge. Record Study Piece and publish on YT Record 4 songs (family jams or practices) and publish on YT Start the Blues course from SBL Medium Term Goals (by the end of the 2017): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}