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Category Archive for: ‘Technique’
Slap bass Lesson – The Secret Triplet Technique
In this slap bass lesson I’m going to show you a technique that I use a lot. I say ‘secret’ because it’s so hard to see what’s going on within slap bass lines sometimess that it’s easy to miss the simple little techniques that are thrown into the mix of a groove to give the bass line that super percussive …
Slap Bass lesson – Breaking the Mould!
Ok… we ALL like slap bass right?… I’m sure when you first heard your first slap bass riff you thought it was the coolest thing you’d ever heard! Well… me too! But – one thing that so many bass players suffer from is only being able to play slap riffs in the key of E. This happens because we rely …
Study Piece – ‘Donna lee’
Donna Lee was recorded by legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius in 1978. It was at this point that the perceived role of the bass guitar was changed forever! And, when I first heard this groundbreaking recording my life was also changed forever! Because the electric bass guitar is such a new instrument, as yet there aren’t really any true ‘study pieces’ …
Slap Bass Lesson – Beginner & Intermediate
Can you believe it? A SLAP bass lesson, finally! I’ve had sooo many e-mails over the last few months asking me to put together a lesson covering slap bass… I’ve finally given in! Some of you were even wondering if I had anything against slap bass! I don’t, really, and I do have fun with it, occasionally. The only reason …
Palm Muting Technique on the Bass
Here’s an new lesson about right hand technique. I’m sure you’ve been in a situation before where the bass you’re playing might not quite suit the ‘vibe’ of the song. You know what I mean… You wish you had a super-modern tone for some songs and a vintage tone for others… Well, I’ve got a trick up my sleeve!… Want …
Right Hand Dynamics on Bass
In this new bass lesson, I’m talking about right hand dynamics on the bass. Many bass players or students coming to me, haven’t got particularly good dynamics –if any, and it’s a very big flaw as we shall see. Don’t worry… looking into my past, I definitely suffered from this as well, which reminded me of a somewhat painful anecdote …
Using a pick (Plectrum) #1
“Is it a good thing or a bad thing to play with a pick?” is a question I’m asked quite often by my students. Perhaps because they haven’t seen me playing with a pick (or plectrum) in any of my bass lessons? ;) The short answer is that it’s neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’: you’re not ‘cheating’ if you’re using a …
Right and Left Hand Positioning
In this tutorial I’m talking about right and left hand positioning: I see soooo many players with a terrible hands positioning… they’ll probably end up with a RSI –Repeated Strain Injury, which is not cool at all and can keep you away from your bass for weeks or months. If you haven’t seen my tutorial about strap height, please check …
How to Build Speed & Accuracy on the Bass #2
This is the second part of my lessons on building speed and accuracy on the bass. So if you haven’t seen the first part… In the previous lesson, we worked on descending the C major scale, breaking it down into chunks of increasing size, adding one note at a time. In this lesson, we’re going into the exact same process, …
How to Build Speed & Accuracy on the Bass #1
Speed… Almost every learning bassist wants to play faster, which is understandable, but don’t forget that speed is something you build day after day and it mustn’t be at the expense of accuracy. Actually, trying to play too fast, i.e. play much faster overnight, can cause mental and physical blocks that will slow down your progress. So, what can you …
Playing Fast Legato Lines on the Bass!
This new bass lesson deals with legato playing. What is legato playing? It’s combining hammer-ons and pull-offs, which implies that to play legato, you first have to master hammer-ons and pull-offs… So if you haven’t already, practice that first. This video will show you what they are, in case you don’t know. Legato playing allows you, among other things, to …
How to Practice Bass Scales
In this new bass lesson, I’m showing you how to learn & use your bass scales, by applying my ‘Linear Harmony Concept’. And, most importantly… how to apply them to create music! Do you know your major scales? This is a question i was asked by one of my past tutors. I obviously said yes… and I really believed I …
How to Practice Arpeggios on the Bass
This important lesson shows you how to learn and use arpeggios on the bass, by applying my ‘linear harmony concept’ and, most importantly, shows how this concept can actually be applied to other areas of music! Ok, we’ve all been told it’s imperative for us to practice our arpeggios and scales on the bass, but what you might not have …
Octave String Skipping – Right Hand Exercise
In this lesson, I’m showing you another good exercise for your plucking hand that complements the lesson on right hand –or plucking hand technique that deals with alternate plucking and raking and also the one on string muting. If you haven’t watched these lessons, please do so before you watch this one: it’s mandatory that your plucking/raking/muting be good enough …
Ghost Notes on Bass (Part 2)
In the first part of this lesson on ghost notes on bass, I showed you three different ways to mute the strings. If you haven’t seen this lesson, please watch it before this one, unless you feel you’re already a professional string muter ;). In this lesson, I’m showing you a little groove in Bb to put that into practice. …
