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One of the things I encourage all of my brand new beginner to intermediate students to do is learn blues bass guitar, when they join my Bass Lab PLUS training program. Blues is hugely powerful because the 12 bar blues sequence is found in virtually every style of popular music—Rock ‘n’ Roll to 70s Classic Rock, Walking Bass / Jazz to ...
In this bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to learn rock bass guitar in less than 10 minutes and share two fundamental approaches to creating rock bass lines. Click Here To Get The FREE Learn Rock Bass Guitar In Less Than 10 Minutes PDF Get The Backing Track I highly recommend also grabbing the backing track used in ...
In this bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to learn Walking Bass in less than 10 minutes using a jazz standard all bass players should know. Click Here To Get The FREE Learn Walking Bass In Less Than 10 Minutes! PDF! This lesson is inspired by one of my Bass Lab PLUS Students called Dave who is ...
In this bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to take the humble arpeggio and use it as a device to create useful and above all cool sounding bass lines. We’re going to cover a simple yet extremely powerful device called ‘The Bass Guitar Arpeggio Slide Hack. Click Here To Get The FREE Bass Guitar Arpeggio Slide Hack ...
In this bass guitar lesson ‘Blue Bossa For Beginners’ we’re going to discuss how to play the legendary Latin Jazz or Bossa Nova Tune “Blue Bossa” which was originally made famous by sax player Joe Henderson. Click Here To Get The FREE The Blue Bossa For Beginners PDF! If you’re in the early stages of learning how to play jazz ...
In today’s bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to play killer bass fills using the legendary Jaco Pastorius groove from the Pee Wee Ellis Tune ‘The Chicken’. Click Here To Get The FREE The Chicken For Beginners Part 2 Bass Lesson PDF! Every so often I release a bass guitar lesson which has that ‘little bit of ...
In today’s bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to simplify the Eric Clapton version of ‘I Shot The Sheriff’ into 3 core ideas. Whenever I learn a new song I’m always looking to identify and breakdown 3 things very quickly:The key signature, chord sequences & basic song structure.A fundamental bass groove or feelAny unison or musical phrases that ...
In this bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to make the Circle of Fifths a valuable and above all useful part of your practice routine. The Circle of Fifths is a great device which will help you understand how chord sequences to many of the worlds greatest Jazz, Show & Pop Songs are created… but it can also ...
In today’s bass guitar lesson we’re going to be looking at how to play the song The Chicken For ‘Beginner’ bassists. The Chicken is a funk tune by sax player Pee Wee Ellis but popularised for the bass guitar by the legendary Jaco Pastorius. Strictly speaking, this isn’t a ‘beginner’ bass line… but this tune is often played on Jazz Jam ...
In today’s bass guitar lesson I’m going to share with you how to play Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison without tab or tablature. First of all, I want to make it clear that I'm not ‘anti-tab’ - it can definitely be a very useful tool. However it does come with limitations. I’ve played this tune 100s on 100s of times ...