Ever since coming back to the bass after a long hiatus, I’ve realized something I didn’t fully understand before:
The real instrument was my ear all along. Not the bass.
And any weakness in my ear eventually shows up in my playing.
So I’ve been on a different kind of journey lately—not just practicing bass, but rebuilding my ear in a way I never really approached before.
From Ear Training… to Musical Hearing
In the past, I did what most of us do.
Interval drills. Recognition exercises. Ear training apps.
And while those helped me identify sounds…
They didn’t help me make music.
What actually started changing things for me was simple:
That’s where I started to notice something I had been missing