What if I told you that one of the very first metal bass lines wasn’t played by Black Sabbath… Or Judas Priest… Or Deep Purple… Or even a bassist at all? It may have actually been played by John Lennon. Yep…John wasn’t even on bass duty most of the time, but during the recording of […]
Why You’re NOT Tone Deaf (And How I Can PROVE It)
A few years back, a student told me a story that honestly broke my heart a little. He’d loved music all his life, but had only started learning bass after retiring, but always struggled with one thing: playing by ear. When I asked why, he shared something he’d carried for 50 years. When he was […]
EASIEST Way To Sound PRO Using Pentatonics On Bass
If I told you that these pentatonic shapes were ‘wrong’, what would you say? Just to be clear, these shapes ARE correct and they WILL give you the notes of whatever pentatonic scale you like… But if you look at how bassists like: They tend NOT to use those shapes – at least not in […]
The GENIUS Bass Line That Took 27 Years To Write
In 2023, we got the FINAL Beatles song… Now And Then; a song resurrected from a decades-old recording of John Lennon singing and playing piano. But getting one final Beatles song also means we get one final Beatles bass line. And as you can expect from Paul McCartney this one is utter genius. However, it’s […]
GENIUS Trick Every Pro Bassist Uses
There’s a ‘trick’ that just about every bassist uses that takes their bass lines from ‘OK’ (or even ‘meh’) to extraordinary. And the best part? You don’t need an encyclopedic knowledge of music theory or even to know your fretboard that well. To use this ‘trick’, you only need 3 frets, but those 3 frets […]
227 Beatles Bass Lines: What I Discovered Learning The Entire Beatles Bass Line Catalog
I learned every 227 Beatles bass lines That’s every song in the Beatles catalog (I think…). It was a massive job trying to keep track of all these Paul McCartney bass lines, so I even made a super nerdy spreadsheet to keep track of everything: The Beatles bass lines have a very special place in […]
