When bass players are learning new material it?s a common practice technique to play along with a slow drum groove or metronome once that material has been learned, and then to work whatever it is … [Read more...]
How To Effectively Learn Song Riffs Using ‘Slow Down’ Methods
Using The ?Slow Down? Features Of The Tascam Bass Trainer (or other software) To Learn A Song The Tascam Bass Trainer is one of my favourite pieces of hardware.? It?s a practice amp, tuner and … [Read more...]
Video Lesson – Wonderwall
Here's a video lesson teaching the main parts of the bass line to Wonderwall by Oasis. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VShRton72E … [Read more...]
Book Review – Ultimate Slap Bass
Ultimate Slap Bass is a 206 page book - with two CDs - that aims to be a definitive guide to the slap bass technique and ALSO aims to be for all levels of player, from beginner to … [Read more...]
Book Review – Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
Standing In The Shadows of Motown deserves its place in the library of every bass player. Subtitled 'The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson' this unique book is both a … [Read more...]
Book Review – The Hal Leonard Bass Method
When I decided to start teaching this is the first book that I bought - my thoughts were to use it as my teaching 'master text' - it's actually 3 volumes bound together into one edition. I've got a … [Read more...]
Book Review – First Bass
I?m always on the look out for new books to add to my collection - for teaching, for my own personal learning, to learn songs, etc etc. I?ve been meaning to check this book out for a while and … [Read more...]
Book Review – Building Rock Bass Lines
Now this is a topic that's not well represented in the literature available to bass players wanting to know how to play bass. I can remember my first couple of rehearsals with bands back in the day - … [Read more...]
Book Review – The Bass Tab White Pages
The Bass Tab White Pages is published by Hal Leonard - who seem to own the publishing rights to about 65% of all the songs ever published. They publish a stack of guitar tab books - but not as many … [Read more...]
Book Review – The Pop Rock Bass Bible
I reviewed the Bass Tab White Pages last time out - a good relatively inexpensive source of pretty accurate bassline transcriptions. As well as the White Pages, Hal Leonard also publish a series of … [Read more...]
