Here's a video showing the bass guitar beginner how to play bass to Uptight by Stevie Wonder: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrZi0WG8HY … [Read more...]
Video Lesson – 25 Miles
Here's a video showing the bass guitar beginner how to play bass to 25 Miles by Edwin Starr: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHU2TODRN4 This tune was originally released in early 1970 - it was … [Read more...]
Video Lesson – What Does It Take (To Win Your Love From Me)
Here's a video showing the bass guitar beginner how to play bass to What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) by Junior Walker. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNqqr9Onco This tune was a … [Read more...]
Video Lesson – Heatwave
Here's a video showing the bass guitar beginner how to play bass to Heatwave by Martha Reeves - the original bass line was played by James Jamerson. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4BQ5yH914 … [Read more...]
Video Lesson – Jimmy Mack
Here's a video lesson showing how to play James Jamerson's bass line to Jimmy Mack by Martha & The Vandellas. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN5OM_7xLIs … [Read more...]
Bass Players – James Jamerson
James Jamerson's basslines were the foundation of the motown sound - full of complex 16th note passages, dissonant passing tones and intense syncopations. Amazingly the majority of them were … [Read more...]
Video Lessons – Motown – James Jamerson
Here is a list of video lessons featuring Motown songs on the How To Play Bass website. James Jmaerson was the bass player on the majority of these but Bob Babbitt and Wilton Felder are also … [Read more...]
Deliberate Practice In The Development Of The Funk Brothers
Stop a passerby in the street and ask them this question: Do You Know Who The Funk Brothers were? And the majority of people you ask won’t know the answer. Yet if you ask them who Elvis was? Or … [Read more...]
James Jamerson Live with Martha Reeves
Here's a great old clip featuring Jamerson with Martha Reeves: [leadplayer_vid id="53CD048597A63"] … [Read more...]
I Heard It Through The Grapevine – James Jamerson And Marvin Gaye
Here's the next in our celebration of Jamerson's genius on his birthday: [leadplayer_vid id="52E9795671524"] … [Read more...]
