Ever had a case of the ‘fretboard finger fumbles’? Or come up against a bass line that threw your hands into total disarray? Or maybe a lick that moved around a bit and your fingers simply couldn’t handle it? The fretboard finger fumbles are very real, but it’s also something you can deal with – […]
5 Disco Bass Lines (For An Epic Right Hand Workout)
Disco bass lines get a bit of a bad wrap… Was there a good amount of questionable disco music? For sure… But did some of the songs have truly epic bass lines? Heck yes! Will you see me rocking the tighty whitey Travolta-style disco suit at Studio 54 this Saturday night? Absolu… Wait – actually, […]
How To Tune A Bass By Ear [3 Dependable Methods]
How to tune a bass by ear – why would you even need to know this when you’ve got a headstock tuner strapped to your bass as well as a stompbox tuner in your pedalboard. Well imagine this: In between songs, a buddy leans over to you and says, “Hey – can you tune your […]
5 James Brown Bass Lines To Get You “On The One”
James Brown bass lines are PERFECT for showing you how to get ‘on the one’. So what is ‘the one’ anyway? You may have seen Bootsy talk about it… Maybe you’ve heard interviews with Victor Wooten, or Marcus Miller or Stanley Clarke or any number of amazing bassists where they talk about it… At the […]
Duff McKagan: Punk King Of The Bass Melody
Duff McKagan is the king. Specifically the punk-king of the bass melody and is criminally underrated (at least in my opinion). What do you think comes to most people’s minds when you bring up Duff McKagan’s most iconic band, Guns N’ Roses? For most people, it’s probably things like: Slash’s ultra iconic guitar riffs, the […]
3 Blistering Pentatonic Bass Licks
I know I’m guilty of this… I’ll be teaching some concept or idea and say something like, “It’s just the pentatonic scale…” and then play something that I think sounds really cool. But then some students will try to do the same thing and play the pentatonic shape and it just ends up sounding… Un-musical… […]
