I’m a huge fan of the blues scale on bass. It can work nearly in so many different situations, it sounds great, and it’s pretty easy to get started. However, it’s also super easy to sound horrible using it, even if you use the ‘right’ notes. How can this be?!?! Well it turns out that […]
“Minor Scales On Bass – Which Ones Should I Use?”
Aeolian, Dorian, Phyrgian, Locrian, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor – there are so many options when it comes to minor scales on bass. Which ones should you use? And more importantly – WHY? This can be an endlessly confusing and frustrating question if you’re just starting out. Even if you do understand how the modes work, […]
How To Make Solo Pieces On Bass
When you’re a bass player, most of the time you’re at the back of the stage, out of the limelight, supporting everyone else and making everyone else sound good. Not that there’s anything wrong with this at all. I spend most of my gigs doing this exact thing and it’s a ton of fun. Every […]
The #1 Strategy For Rapidly Improving Your Bass Playing
What if there were something you could do today that would give you a noticeable and virtually instant improvement in your playing? Would you try it out? Of course you would! Usually, I’d say something like this would be too good to be true, but in this case, there is a simple strategy you can […]
The ‘Machine Gun’ Bass Tapping Technique
Bass Tapping – What Exactly Is It? You know, most of the time, as bass players, we’re very much in a ‘support‘ role. We stand in the back, out of the limelight holding the band together. Not that there’s anything wrong with this at all – it can be a ton of fun and endlessly […]
How And Where To Use The Modes On Bass
If you’ve checked out the previous lesson all about how to play the modes on bass, you would have learned how the modes work and that they’re all related. But what now? You might be wondering, “If the modes are all the same set of notes, why bother with them at all? Won’t everything just […]
