How To Improve Your Groove On Bass: Guaranteed

If you want to know how to improve your groove on bass, you’re in the right place!

If – at the altar of music – using bad rhythm is mortal sin, how can you guarantee that your rhythm is rock solid every time you pick up your bass?

Do you even know if you’re playing perfectly in time? Do you know if you have a tendency to rush or drag? 

I know when I was starting out, I thought I was playing everything perfectly in time, and everything felt good to me while I was playing it. 

But then I’d hear a recording of a rehearsal or a gig, and it didn’t feel or sound nearly as good as when I’d been playing in the moment. 

I even had some Whiplash-esque teachers drill me on the whole ‘Are you rushing or are you dragging?’ thing, and let me tell you – it’s not fun.

So how are you supposed to diagnose your own groove issues without someone telling you, without a Whiplash ‘teacher’ hurling furniture at you and without forcing your bandmates to have a potentially uncomfortable conversation with you?

In today’s video, I want to show you a groove and timing test you can do by yourself that will let you see, in black and white, with your own eyes if you’re rushing or dragging and by how much.

You’ll learn:

• The criteria for ‘passing’ the test
• Where and when to intentionally ‘fail’ the test
• 2 essential features in your software that you need for this to work

Check out the lesson right here:

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For this to work, you do need some kind of free recording software (like Garageband if you’re on a Mac or Apple device or Audacity if you want something that works on Windows) and if you need help with exactly how to record yourself, you can check out these old videos of mine:

How To Record To Your Computer (For Less Than $100)

How To Record To Your iPhone (Even Cheaper)

Try this out and let me know how you go! If you’ve never tested to see if your tendency is to rush or drag, I’d be super curious to know. You’ll see what my tendency is in the video.

Good luck with the lesson and happy grooving!

Cheers,

Luke