Bass Tabs – if you’ve spent any amount of time on the web trying to figure out how to play your favorite bass lines, you’ve almost certainly come across them. They’re the (sometimes confusing) lines splattered with a ton of numbers and frequently, weird symbols. When I first started playing bass, I wasn’t a fan […]
How To Make Your Own Bass Lines Instantly
Being able to make your own bass lines at a moment’s notice is one of the most useful skills you can learn as a bass player. Think about it – if you can do this, then you’ll have no problem: Nailing songs you haven’t ever heard Landing gigs or studio work (there’s always demand for […]
5 Beginner Bass Lines – Guaranteed To Impress
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 […]
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 […]
