If there's one thing that can elevate your playing and make you sound more like your bass heroes, it's using articulations or expressive techniques.
We're talking bends, slides, shakes, hammer-ons, and pull-offs. They're especially used in funk bass playing, and in this lesson, we'll explore them all.
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Funk Bass Techniques - TAB/Notation & Pentatonic Shapes
Work without a metronome at first, but realize that to make this sound good, you need to play with good feel and in time. Once you have the basic mechanics down, you can use a drum loop or metronome.
This recent lesson contains a drum loop you can download:
Funk Bass Course
If you like funk bass playing and you're serious about getting your chops and groove together, I have a book and a course you may be interested in:
100 Funk Grooves for Electric Bass
Funk Bass Course
40 funk bass grooves teaching groove, timing, feel, techniques, and the genre's common theory and patterns.
