Here's all of the How To Play Bass Song Tutorials that I have on the How To Play Bass website arranged chronologically - newest first! … [Read more...]
Funk Soul Disco Groove 1
Have just added a new bonus to the Funk Soul Disco 30 Day Challenge - this will be a collection of grooves specifically written to go hand in hand with the devices and rhythms that we'll be studing in … [Read more...]
Octopus’s Garden by The Beatles (members only tutorial)
1. Intro … [Read more...]
Is This Love – Members Only Tutorial
1.Intro … [Read more...]
Playing Bass With A Harmonic Metronome Part 2
In the first part of this short series we did some work using an example based on a simple quarter note bass line in the style of Dance The Night Away by The Mavericks. To remind you if you've not … [Read more...]
This Love – Maroon 5 (members only tutorial)
1. Verse … [Read more...]
Playing Bass With A Harmonic Metronome
Before we get started I just want to let those of you who like to know these things into the origin of these exercises. Back in the day at a gig I was talking with our regular drummer Roger and we … [Read more...]
We Can Work It Out – Stevie Wonder (members only tutorial)
1.Verse 1 … [Read more...]
Statesboro Blues (Live At Macon)
For a short period after Brother Duane passed away, the Allman Brothers toured as a 5 piece. The best recording of that period (IMO) is the Live at Macon Auditorium album and we get a tantalizing … [Read more...]
Sight Reading Etude #2
For those bass players who want to work on their sight reading but who are 'meat and potatoes' bass players (i.e. 95% plus of us!) there's a lack of sight reading materials that are: (i) based on … [Read more...]
All Your Love by John Mayall (members only tutorial)
1. Intro … [Read more...]
