Funk Bass Groove – Easy In this free bass lesson, you’ll learn how to play easy funk bass groove. In this lesson you’ll practice: Time keeping Laying down a funky groove with the backing track This groove is easy, heck you can play it with just the index finger of both left and right hand! With this one, it’s all about nailing that behind-the-beat groove and hitting notes at just the right time to blend with the backing track and propel it forward. Let’s get into it! Before we get started, make sure you grab a handy FREE PDF and Backing Track package that you can download on your computer ..read more

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How To Sound Confident On Bass You can do things that will dramatically change the way you sound when performing bass lines. It’s not the gear. It’s not the years of practice. This especially applies to you if you’re a beginner bass player. The ideas I want to discuss here will help you sound good even if you’ve been playing for just a month or so. If you focus during practice sessions on the elements I mention here, you should be able to see a more drastic change in your overall playing level. And yes, these are things other musicians and bass players will “judge” you by when listening to y ..read more

How To Write A Bass Line: Connecting Chords In this beginner lesson, I’m going to show you a step-by-step process you can use to write a bass line that smoothly connects chords. The lesson is easy, perfect if you’re a beginner bass player or have never looked into composing bass lines before. Let’s get started! Step 1: Identify the chord progression The first step is to figure out the chord progression. In our case we have the following chord progression played by the band: G – Em – C – D By the way – that’s a powerful chord progression to have under your belt, you can literally play hundre ..read more

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How To Get Better At Keeping Rhythm If you’ve been down the bass rhythm rabbit hole you know how hard it can be to keep a steady pulse. The thing with bass is: it is more important WHEN you play a note than which one it is. This means that if you mess up and play a wrong note – well, hardly anyone will notice. But if you play the note, any note, at the wrong time – everyone is stomped. As a bass player, timing skills are the most important aspect. You can’t be rushing, you can’t be late, you need to be right on time if you want to groove! In this post, I’ll share with you 4 things you can d ..read more

10 Easy Bass Riffs (Songs to Learn) This is a list of songs featuring easy bass riffs for beginner bass players. If you’re a beginner bassist, here are some ideas for which songs to learn, if you’re into learning new bass riffs. Let’s get started! Note: the songs are listed in no particular order. Depending on your geolocation, some of the Youtube videos embedded will not be available at your location. Just search for the song title on Spotify, Apple Music or your favorite platform to listen to the songs. #1 Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know This song is surprisingly fun to play on bass ..read more

Played A Huge Festival Gig On A $120 Cheap Bass AND This Happened I was a beginner, had a cheap bass in my hands. For this one, we need to go back to August 2005. My band was booked to play a major gig at the Belgrade Beer Fest, one of the big festivals in Europe at the time. Needless to say, I was nervous, and for a reason. Even though we were all just beginners, playing seriously only for a couple of years at the time, an amazing thing happened. Two things actually. Before we go into that, I need to tell you more about me and the bass I was playing at the time. My First Cheap Bass: Aria J ..read more

Record Bass At Home – 3 Ways To Do It Bass players can develop super valuable skills outside of, well – just playing bass. One of those skills is being able to record bass at home. This means being able to make an audio and/or video recording of your bass performance with decent sound quality. Technology we have available today makes it super simple to do the home recording with excellent audio quality, something just a few decades back musicians could have only dreamt of. If you’re a beginner on bass, I suggest you learn at least one way to capture bass playing, as it is the number one way ..read more