Struggling to know what to play if you only have 5 minutes to play your bass? The tips in this lesson will help you to build a life changing-practice habit. This is a follow up to this lesson: 10 Creative ...
It's true, you don't normally play chords on bass guitar. BUT, you can compose, jam, improvise, learn harmony, and just have so much fun with them. One cool thing to do is to play a chord progression into a looper ...
Have you ever sat down with your bass in hand and had no idea what to play?These ten five minute bass practice ideas will give you plenty of inspiration:Technical ExercisesBass Chords12 Bar BluesPentatonic JamNoodle - just have fun!Harmony - Mode/arpeggio/chordE ...
In this bass guitar tutorial, you will learn how to play three different pentatonic bass lines in three different rhythmic feels. This bass lesson goes hand in hand with my last two lessons. These heavily feature rhythm - the life ...
My last bass lesson took just four notes through seven different rhythms. Here's the lesson in case you missed it: 7 ESSENTIAL Bass Guitar Rhythms This week, I thought I'd expand things a little. We're still using the same rhythms ...
In this bass lesson we're going to perform a kind of musical alchemy by taking a single pattern and playing it in seven different rhythmic feels. The pattern is a very common and simple root - 5 - b7 - ...
I love modes but remember being extremely confused by them! The moment I started to understand them was when I started to hear them in bass lines. Everything changed from that point and I use them all the time now. ...
These four bass technique are absolutely crucial for you to master: Fretting Plucking Muting Shifting You may think you know how to do all of this already but do you?? There are a few subtle things you need to look ...
This bass lesson came from a great question from a bass player wanting to know actually how to craft music from bass scales. He said: For example, when an instructor in a video says, "Now that you know this scale, ...
There's no doubt that the following bass guitar techniques make your playing sound more sophisticated, more soulful, and just more professional: Hammer-ons Pull-offs Bends Slides Ghost notes Vibrato Your favourite bass players use them and so should you. Scroll down ...