There are previous articles in this series you should ideally read if you haven’t already: First there’s the Catch 22 Of Learning Songs: The Catch 22 For Bass Players When Learning … [Read more...]
How To Improve Your Bass Playing When Going Over Songs You Already Know (Part 3)
There are previous articles in this series you should ideally read if you haven't already: First there's the Catch 22 Of Learning Songs: The Catch 22 For Bass Players When Learning … [Read more...]
How To Improve Your Bass Playing When Going Over Songs You Already Know (Part 2)
This series started with a couple of articles. Firstly I talked about the Catch 22 Of Learning Songs - you can read that here if you've not already: The Catch 22 For Bass Players When Learning … [Read more...]
How To Improve Your Bass Playing When Going Over Songs You Already Know (Part 1)
In the previous post I talked about how learning songs can be a great way of pushing your ability level forward if done correctly but the Catch 22 was that if you play in a gigging band then sometimes … [Read more...]
The Catch 22 For Bass Players When Learning Songs…
One of the mantras I've used since I've been teaching online (wayyyy back in 2008) is to learn songs not scales. Now without going into length (which I've done before - and no doubt I'll certainly … [Read more...]
The Weight by The Band – Free Members Tutorial
The next in the series of song tutorials for members of How To Play Bass (which is free) is The Weight by The Band. The bass player for The Band was of course the great and underappreciated Rick … [Read more...]
Under Pressure Tutorial For Free Members
The next in the series of song tutorials for members of How To Play Bass (which is free) is Under Pressure by Queen. I created a simple tutorial with the main parts for this song nearly 8 years … [Read more...]
Need You Tonight (free members only tutorial)
The next in the series of song tutorials for members of How To Play Bass (which is free) is Need You Tonight by INXS. Now the original of this was either played on a 5 string or was played on a … [Read more...]
Practice Quotes 3 – “You don’t have to practice everyday…
...Just The Days That You Eat." Shin'ichi Suzuki Shin'ichi Suzuki is the guy who developed the Suzuki Method of learning for (originally) violinists and pianists. Now there are some great … [Read more...]
Practice Quotes 2 – Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect…
There are several variations of this famous Vince Lombardi quote - and we may cycle back and look at some of them in this series. But for now we're going to look at what this quote means from the … [Read more...]
