Learn To Solo & Improvise Like Joe Dart & Willie Weeks!

If you haven't heard Willie Weeks' famous solo on Everything is Everything or and of Joe Dart's pyrotechnics then you need to stop right now and check out the videos (scroll down).

This lesson will show you the shapes, scales, arpeggios, techniques, and timing tips you need to make up your own bass lines and solos in a similar style.

The free backing track and PDF are under the video.


Willie Weeks & Joe Dart Backing Track



Blues/Soul/Funk Shapes & Patterns

The key to learning this style of bass playing is to memorise shapes and patterns and know how they sound. Download the PDF below and get memorising!

The following lessons will also help:

9 Rhythm and Blues/Soul Bass Patterns

Making Music Using Intervals



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