Easy bass solo: If you’re a beginner, it almost sounds impossible. How can taking a bass solo be easy?!?! But imagine this: You’re at a gig, on stage, bass in hand, and things sound amazing! You’re standing next to the drummer, both great big smiles on your faces. Song after song, you’re grooving hard, locking […]
How To Solo Over Chord Changes
How To Solo Over Chord Changes On Bass: It’s one of my favorite topics to talk about and there are so many ways to do it. You can just pick the key of the song and go crazy with the pentatonic for that key, you can improvise based on the melody of the song; you’ve […]
The Antidote To Boring Bass Solos
Why are so many bass solos just so dull and boring? There are plenty of reasons, but one of the big ones is that bass players don’t give the audience any reason to pay attention to their bass solos. And when nobody is paying attention, what happens? People start to talk when the bass solo […]
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 […]
