How To Get Hired: A Creative Approach to Session Bass Playing with Ian Allison
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Summary
Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to create and record bass lines as a hired studio musician? In this course, Ian Allison takes you through 11 tracks with an array of artists to demonstrate his thought process for coming up with great parts, the perfect tones, and how to go beyond the traditional thinking of how to support a song.
This course, for the intermediate to advanced player, is all about ideas on how to be creative with the instrument on many different levels.
You’ll learn:
- How Ian prepares for a studio session.
- His process for creating bass lines on the fly
- How to find the right sound for a song
- The importance of being open to suggestion
- Why serving the song is the most important thing
And so much more…
As a bonus, all of the songs demonstrated have been transcribed in the included workbook, so you can learn Ian’s amazing bass lines as he’s recorded them!
Below is a spofity playlist so that you can play along with the tracks featured in the course. Please note that only 9 of the 11 tracks featured in the course are currently available on Spotify.


