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I'm Andrew Pouska. Welcome to StudyBass. I love bass, music and teaching it. I have taught thousands of bass players face-to-face for over 25 years. In 2003 I created StudyBass to help bass players everywhere learn.The Latest on StudyBass
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What's New on StudyBass?
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- Introducing the StudyBass Music Dictionary - Video Format
- Active Recall and Spaced Repetition
- Viewing Your Progress
- April 2021 Update
- The Big Update is Here!
- Music Movies Part 7: Other
- Music Movies Part 6: Fictional
- Music Movies Part 5: Music Industry
- Music Movies Part 4: Jazz
- Music Movies Part 3: Bands
- Music Movies Part 2: Bassists
- Music Movies Part 1: Historical
Videos
- Counting Off Songs
- Introducing the StudyBass Music Dictionary - Video Format
- Active Recall and Spaced Repetition
- Common Beat Terms
- Viewing Your Progress
- Simple and Compound Meters; Duple and Triple Meters
- Meter and Musical Accents
- Truss Rods and Replacing a Stripped Truss Rod Nut
- About Music Theory
- Grace Notes
- Slides
- Pull-Offs
- Hammer-Ons
upbeat
the last beat of a measure derived from a conductor's hand movement; one or more notes preceding the downbeat (first beat of a measure), also called a pickup or anacrusis.
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