This month we will cover how to throw down a walking bass line… The Walking Bass Line… With all of the mania for chops, chops, and...
In this issue we are going to cover how to create amazing basslines and progressions with modes. Modes are a very simple and effective way to...
This month’s Bass Lines, Pete Rodriguez – “I Like It Like That” Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This is it… Welcome to Bass...
This month I cover Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name Bass Playthrough, along with play-along tabs.
Groove Deconstruction… Underneath any knuckle-busting groove is a pulse that provides a solid foundation for everything that happens on top of it. But what do you...
This Month’s Bass Lesson: The Double Chromatic Approach In my previous article entitled “Guide Tones” we learned how to create lines using guide tones that resolve...
In this handy video lesson, bass legend Nathan East offers his tips for playing with feel. You can also win a trip to meet and jam with...
Remember that great bass line you keep coming back to year after year and yet it’s still not where you want it to be? Your fingers...
Hey guys! How’s it going? This month I’d like to share this awesome 16th groove etude, based on the track by the great Stevie Wonder, as...
Learn how to do a hard right-hand attack with flat wound strings.
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This is it… Welcome to Bass Lines! I hope that you can enjoy this and learn a lot...
Being bass players, we are often renegades of a sort. Many of us learn to play when a friend or a cousin or uncle puts a...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This is it… Welcome to Bass Lines. I hope that you can enjoy this lesson! What is Disco...
Learning to put ostinato lines into your practicing is a very effective way to focus your energies, play great bass lines, and to develop musical skills...
As a professional musician, the goal of developing and building upon your groove and solo vocabulary should be a life long endeavor. Both aspects of playing...