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Sight Reading Etude #2

January 22, 2020 by Paul Wolfe

For those bass players who want to work on their sight reading but who are ‘meat and potatoes’ bass players (i.e. 95% plus of us!) there’s a lack of sight reading materials that are:

  • (i) based on the kind of lines actually played in the real world
  • (ii) based on real world type chord structures and song structures.

Sight Reading Etude #2 is a 40 bar sight reading etude in a straight 8th note rocky style.  It’s in the key of A and the chord progression is similar to (but slightly different) the chord progression of parts of Crocodile Rock.  I’ve filmed playalongs of the etude at 125 BPM (“performance” tempo) and 85 BPM.  Here’s the 125 BPM playalong:

 

 

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Comments

  1. Levi Garbose says

    January 22, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    Enchanted

    • Paul Wolfe says

      January 22, 2020 at 8:16 pm

      Glad you like it!

  2. skabohedrington@yahoo.com says

    January 23, 2020 at 1:52 am

    thanks for the etude #1 and #2 ,I like them!

  3. adais3520@comcast.net says

    January 23, 2020 at 5:10 am

    I am sorry to advise the .pdf download of the Sight Reading Etude #2 is not working.

    Thanks

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  4. adais3520@comcast.net says

    January 23, 2020 at 5:15 am

    Well it works now.

    Thanks

  5. Southh20@aol.com says

    January 24, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    Paul I appreciate your hard work and dedication making your students well rounded bassist. Is there any tutorial on common bass rhythms?
    Regards
    Bill

    • Paul Wolfe says

      January 27, 2020 at 6:18 pm

      Bill

      I have done something like that in the 80-20 Program with 8th notes…adn there will be a 16th note version in a later part of that program.

      Paul

  6. Niki Powell says

    January 27, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    Sorry, not sure if my computer isn’t showing the music. No way anyone can follow that. I always thought ‘sight reading’ was the ability to translate the dots on the lines to the fingers on correct string as efficiently as possible. Not possible with no music!
    Been sight reading for other instruments for years and there has never been no music. If there’s no music surely it’s just copying another musician?

    • Paul Wolfe says

      January 27, 2020 at 6:18 pm

      Are you logged in NIki?

      If so, you should see a download link which has the PDF with the notes in it and also a couple of backing tracks at different tempos for you to practice along with.

      paul

  7. ssinclair707@gmail.com says

    January 27, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Not finding a PDF download link anywhere. Please advise me about this.

    • Paul Wolfe says

      January 27, 2020 at 8:53 pm

      Are you signed in? If so, it’s the We Transfer link at the bottom of the page…

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