by There’s nothing more fun than going to town on some shredding bass lines. Most of the time, us bass players leave the shredding and faster playing to the guitars or keyboards, but it doesn’t have to be this way all the time.
There are a ton of cool, fast bass lines that sound really cool, but are a real workout as well. In today’s video, we’ll be diving into some of these shredding bass lines.
We’ll start very simply at the ‘lead bass’ level of shred and end up playing very complex bass lines. It’s going to be a ton of fun, so check out the lesson here:
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Like I mention multiple times in the video, practice each of these lines slowly and really nail them before playing them fast. Playing fast is something you need to work up to, not something that happens automatically.
Whether you use a simple metronome or a drum machine is up to you. The key though, is to start at a reasonable tempo, get everything perfect, and only then, bump up the speed.
Don’t make the mistake of playing something ‘sort of’ correctly at a slower tempo before speeding up. If you can’t nail it slow, then you can’t play it fast.
The overachievers who want to go above and beyond, can actually bump the speed up to faster than the recording. If you do this, then when you go back to playing at the actual tempo, it’s going to feel easy as pie.
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If you’re not ready for this type of thing just yet, that’s totally fine. You can check out some less shred-heavy bass line lessons here:
5 Beginner Bass Lines Guaranteed To Impress
As always, if you have any questions, let me know in the comments below. I’m here to help.
Good luck with the lesson and happy shredding!
Cheers,
Hi Luke,
thank you so much for yours videos, practices, materials and all your awesome work. I´m big bass begginer and your advices and videos are fantastic (mainly videos: 5 top easy bass lines for begginers and How to read in tabs).
My english isn´t good (because I´m lazy and I don´t want to switch between my mail box and google translator 🙂 , you probably find some mistake.
I´m from the Czech republic a your prenunciation is very very good, of course sometimes I need subtitles . In the last time I fight with time for my playing on bass, thanks to you I take and get a little theory but with practise it is bada a I can´t try your tips and benefits, unfortunately.
Again, thank you so much a good luck Mr. Bass Teacher :-).