These days, I don’t do a lot of in-person teaching anymore, but when I did, I’d get a lot of day-1 beginners coming to me keen and excited about playing bass but they didn’t have a clue where to begin. They may have searched Google or YouTube for ‘bass lessons’ and seen the ever-expanding buffet […]
How To Walk Through 2 Chords Per Bar
“How can you play a walking bass line if there are 2 chords in the bar?” A student asked this on a live stream not too long ago, but I thought it was a great question and worthy of its own dedicated video. Walking through chord progressions with multiple chords in a bar is trickier […]
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 […]
How To Hold A Bass
When I first started playing, I wasn’t really concerned about how to hold a bass at all. I just wanted to play all of my favorite songs with my friends. I just slung it over my shoulder and away I went. This was fine for a while, until I started having pains in my left […]
