Great bass playing isn't about playing more notes; it's about playing the right notes with great timing and feel. In this lesson, we'll work through six practical grooves designed to improve your internal pulse, strengthen your sense of pocket, and ...

Learn five 1/16th note ghost note patterns plus a cool bass line in this bass tutorial. Used sparingly, ghost notes add a percussive flair to your playing. In this lesson, I'll show you how to play them cleanly, in time, ...

Follow along as I take you through a number of easy-to-grasp concepts to play awesome funk bass grooves. In this funk bass lesson, you will learn: What notes and scales sound good 1/16h note rhythmic grooves Repetition Funk bass techniques ...

There's no finer feel to jam in than 12/8. It's a close cousin of the more popular 4/4 time signature, where each of the four beats in the bar is split up into two 1/8th notes. In 12/8, four beats ...

It's incredible how different a bass line can sound just by changing the rhythm and feel. In this bass tutorial, we'll take four notes and run them through nine different rhythmic feels. To avoid boredom, I'll show you how to ...

A French student of mine was hungry for more funk rhythms and came up with this idea. He wanted some essential funk bass rhythms to mix and match and so this lesson was born, The focus is on rhythm and ...

I write this lesson the week before Christmas and I have a present for you in the form of five live drum loops for your practice sessions. If you've followed any of my previous lessons, you'll know I give away ...

This is a simple method to make your bass lines lock with the drum kit. As an essential part of the rhythm section, syncing your groove with the drums is a non negotiable. One way of easily doing that is ...

Mastering rhythms is essential if you want to become a good bass player. Sixteenth note rhythms (semiquavers) are found in loads of styles, especially funk and rock bass playing. Some of the coolest bass grooves contain them. In this lesson, ...

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 ...