This is a bass line from my youth. Learning this as a 16 year old, I didn't appreciate at the time how brilliant this bass line is. It's Finley Quaye's Even After All from his 1997 album Maverick A Strike. ...

Rutger Gunnarsson is probably the most famous ABBA bass player, but Gimme Gimme Gimme was recorded by Mike Watson, and it's an absolute stone-cold classic of a bass line. This was actually a joint request from a subscriber and my ...

Fly Me To The Moon is a great jazz standard for bassists looking to develop and learn the walking bass style. In this lesson, I have a sample walking bass line for you, which I'll analyze and use to teach ...

Flea's C'mon Girl bass line is crazy! It's 112 BPM of relentless 1/16th notes and a fantastic technical challenge should you feel brave enough to take it on. In this bass tutorial, I'll show you the main bass lines, but ...

I watched the Danny Sapko Short and knew I wanted to teach this lesson: If the speed and difficulty level of that line scares you, don't worry. I promise that the ideas in this lesson will equip you with the ...

Don't worry if you don't have a fretless bass guitar; you can just as easily apply the ideas from this lesson to your fretted bass. In this bass tutorial, I'll show you an extremely useful pentatonic pattern that you can ...

Learning jazz standards is one of the best ways to grow as a musician — not just as a jazz player, but as a bassist in any style. Each tune teaches you something unique about harmony, groove, and phrasing, and ...

It's so important to listen to great bass lines and learn everything you can from them. No matter the genre or the player, you'll get something from this practice. This week, we'll take a look at Neil Jason's bass line ...

Prince’s Chelsea Rodgers is a standout funk track from his 2007 album Planet Earth. It’s built around a tight, infectious two-bar bass groove that shows off his band’s incredible chemistry. On bass, Josh Dunham locks in with drummer Cora Coleman-Dunham ...

In my recent bass lesson These 14 Bass Tips are GUARANTEED inspiration, one tip was to play along to a song straight through without stopping. One of the songs suggested was the one we'll look at in this lesson: Praying For ...