Parisienne Walkway by Gary Moore - with Phil Lynot on bass and vocals) is another relatively easy song for beginers and a good introduction for beginners to songs in 12:8. There are 5 parts to … [Read more...]

Learn songs not scales
by Paul Wolfe
Parisienne Walkway by Gary Moore - with Phil Lynot on bass and vocals) is another relatively easy song for beginers and a good introduction for beginners to songs in 12:8. There are 5 parts to … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
Stir It Up by Bob Marley is a relatively easy song for beginers - there are 3 parts to learn (though the two bars you need to play in the intro are also present in the chorus!). I class this as a … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
Wild Thing is a relatively easy song for beginers - there are 8 parts to learn (though you could get by with learning less sections and eliminating some of the variation in the original line). I … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
Stand By Me is another beginner's bass line that's comprised of just one secton that's repeated over and over throughout the tune. This section is 8 bars long. I think it was originally played on … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
Here?s the next in the series of isolated bass lines that I?m posting.? This is the bass line to Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4LkYuxK8lE … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
Here?s the next in the series of isolated bass lines that I?m posting.? This is Garry Tallent's line on the Springsteen classic Born To … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
There are a lot of isolated bass lines that you can hear via YouTube and so on.? But there are a lot of isolated bass lines that are floating around the Interwebz that aren?t on Youtube. So I?m … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
There are a lot of isolated bass lines that you can hear via YouTube and so on.? But there are a lot of isolated bass lines that are floating around the Interwebz that aren?t on Youtube. So I?m … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
My favourite Bass line Quiz Show is back with Season 2 - see how many of these low end beauties you can guess!!! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbWejtMaHVk … [Read more...]
by Paul Wolfe
In the 1994 movie ?Forrest Gump? there?s a scene where Forrest is running and steps in dog crap.? Someone asks him if he knows that he?s stepped in dog crap and Forrest replies: ?It happens.?? The guy … [Read more...]
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