Beginner bass lines are quite different than beginner guitar riffs or piano licks, right? If you’re a beginning guitarists or pianist, you have a ton of options to choose from if you want to play something that people know, recognize and get excited about. For a guitarist, it might be something riff-y like Smoke On […]
Play Bass By Ear: How To Hear Bass Lines In Your Favorite Songs
If you’ve ever tried to play bass by ear and figure out bass lines from nothing but the recording, you know… It can be endlessly frustrating! It used to be for me at least. I’d pour over these songs I was trying to learn, straining my ears to try and decipher the bass lines, but […]
Advanced Bass Improv – How To Play ‘Outside’ The Harmony
I got an email a few weeks ago from an email subscriber asking about an advanced bass improv concept – playing ‘outside‘ the established harmony. This is very much an advanced topic. If you’re still in the process of learning how to improvise using scales and modes, keep at it. You can even use my […]
Bass Solo: How To Improvise On Bass
Taking a bass solo; improvising on bass – it can be scary, right? Nobody wants to try to take a bass solo and sound like a fool, but where are you supposed to get started with improvising on bass? Should you learn a bunch of scales that you can’t seem to make sense of? Are […]
How To Play Bass With Guitarists Instantly: The Glance Method
Do you know how to play bass with other people? If a guitarist just started playing a song you didn’t know, would you be able to play along with them? Imagine this – you’re playing bass, maybe at a jam session and a guitarist jumps up and starts playing a song you don’t know. They […]
Bass Lessons? Or Teach Yourself Bass? You Probably Won’t Like The Answer…
Should you get bass lessons? Or should you just go it alone and teach yourself bass instead? What’s the right answer? I’ve had a lot of experience with both. I’ve had some incredible teachers and spent a lot of time learning for myself. Both have their upsides and downsides and a lot of people have […]
