The Backing Track Library
Practicing scales, arpeggios and modes all day is great... but you must never forget that they are just the tools that we use to compose and play great bass lines and solos. That's why jamming every day is so important to your progression as a bassist and musician.
To help you do this we have put together a backing track library so you can jam along to many different styles of music and grooves. This is to make sure that you're actually applying what you're practising into real music!
On this page you can also find links to the free lessons from which these tracks were collected.
See you in the shed…
Scott :)
Downloads
- How To Play multiple Octave Scales- Like A Bad-Ass! (L#147)
- Bass Technique... A Crash Course (L#127)
- Why You Need to Protect Your Hearing! (L#119)
- The One Thing That Turned My Bass Playing Around (L#115)
- One of The Funkiest Techniques I Know! (L#113)
- My Best Phrasing Exercise Ever (L#111)
- Breaking The Rules To Create Awesome Grooves (L#109)
- Teen Town by Jaco Pastorius (L#107)
- Locking in With the Band (L#106)
- How to stop flying fingers (L#105)
- Exploring The Bossa Nova (#104)
- The Importance of Ballads (L#103)
- Awesome String Skipping Groove (L#102)
- Want More Gigs?... Watch This Lesson (L#101)
- How to play out when soloing on Bass (L#100)
- Unhappy With Your Technique (L#99)
- The Technique Trap (L#98)
- Are You Playing The Changes Yet (L#97)
- How to change strings on your bass. (L#96)
- Are You Holding Your Bass Playing Back? (L#95)
- Awesome Funk Groove Breakdown (L#94)
- Running out of soloing ideas? Try these substitutions! (L#93)
- The Secret to a Great Bass Tone (L#92)
- Stuck In One Area Of The Fingerboard? (L#91)
- Are You Playing Live? My One Huge performance Tip! (L#90)
- Jaco Pastorius Style groove Breakdown (L#89)
- Double Your Speed (L#88)
- Bass Tip #3 - 3 Things You Must Do When Playing Fretless Bass (L#87)
- The Pino Palladino Double Stop (L#86)
- 2 Ways To Make Your Bass Solos Sound Awesome (L#85)
- Slap Bass Lesson - The Secret Triplet Technique (L#84)
- Slap Bass Lesson - Breaking The Mould (L#83)
- Bass Tip #2 - ear Training (L#82)
- Bassists Soloing Bad Habits (L#81)
- Bass Tip #1 - Eye Contact (L#80)
- Shape Shifting Over Chord Changes (L#79)
- Major Scale Improvisation Exercise #2 (L#78)
- Major Scale Improvisation Exercise #1 (L#77)
- Awesome Subdivision Exercise (L#76)
- Study Piece - Donna Lee (L#75)
- Awesome Chromatic bass Lick (L#73)
- Palm Muting technique On Bass (L#72)
- Using Simple Shapes On The Bass #2 (L#71)
- Using Simple Shapes On The Bass #1 (L#70)
- Internalizing fingering Positions On Bass (L#69)
- Funky Bass Groove 2 (L#67)
- Funky Bass Groove #1 In C7 (L#66)
- Walking Bass - Beginner #2 (L#62)
- Walking Bass - Beginner #1 (L#61)
- Using a pick (L#60)
- Using triads to create bass lines (L#57)
- Chord Tones Only/One Position exercise (L#42)
- How to expand and develop your bass lines (L#31-32-33-34)
- Jazz Phrasing Bass Lesson #2 (L#29)
- Jazz Phrasing Bass Lesson #1 (L#28)
- The P Bass Of Doom
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