Tag: Music

This is an idea I borrowed from Scott at Scott’s Bass Lessons.

When it comes to playing a bass line, he starts with the rhythm, then the chord, then the chord tone (arpegio) and then finishes with the chord scale.

In other words, he doesn’t just try to play a Groove (Registered trademark).

Instead he lays it down, one layer at a time.

You can do the same thing with anatomy or anything that you’re learning.

So with anatomy, start with a stick man.

I’m serious.

Head, legs, arms, stick body…an extremely simplistic representation of a human being.

Congratulations, you know that humans have 1 head (Not two) and 2 arms and 2 legs.

Great! What else can you tell us?

You could then draw eyes, nose and mouth.

Fantastic! Tell us more!

And then step by step you just keep adding layers to the picture you’ve drawn until it fully represents the human body.

The more layers you can add, the more points you get.

But the point of this game is to take away the fear and feeling of being overwhelmed when studying a topic full of minutiae.

You know way more than zero.

And you can learn all the details if you’ll build up your picture/knowledge, one layer at a time.