Expanding the Slap Bass Vocabulary with Ray Riendeau – Groove #1… Hello fellow bassists! As a teacher for many years I’ve found that creating a “vocabulary”...
Including Your Third Finger Into Your Playing Style by Kilian Duarte… As bassists, we have a difficult challenge of at times performing the same lines at...
Free eBook – Blues for Bass, a 12 Step Crash Course… This free eBook begins at a basic blues in E (using root notes), then we...
Jaime David Vazquez – BASS LINES: Famous Bass Intros – Part XII – Green Day’s “Longview”… Hello bass player and fans of bass playing! This is...
Miki Santamaria, Dangerous Tapping Part – by Rajoe {Video}… Are you into something cool, fresh and musical which can even be referenced to classical music? Here...
Jaime David Vazquez – BASS LINES: Famous Bass Intros – Part XI – Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night In Tunisia”… Hey bass players and fans of bass playing!...
Introduction to Secondary Dominants by Josh Needleman (Excerpt from Getting Around The Bass)… You can’t always rely on Mixolydian when you encounter a dominant 7th chord....
Bass Lines: Famous Bass Intros – Part X – Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”. Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This is the “Famous Bass Intro” of the...
HI MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUES, IT’S REALLY COOL TO BE HERE AGAIN! I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE THESE IMPROVISATION TECNIQUES LESSONS. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT...
Bass Lines: Famous Bass Intros – Part IX – Pink Floyd’s “Money”… Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! The Famous Bass Intro is right...
Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! We’re back with the Famous Bass Intros… This time we have the song that is credited as Queen’s best...
Bass Line From Jaco Pastorius’ Okonkole Y Trompa… Despite Jaco having left innumerable mind-blowing and beautiful pieces of music as a legacy – including Donna Lee,...
Bass Line From John Patitucci’s ‘Got a Match’… Wow, it took me some time to learn this – sometimes it is surprising even for myself how long...
Major Triad Hills… A while back, I shared my five triad positions chart from “Getting Around The Bass” with you guys. This month I want to...
HI MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUES, IT’S REALLY COOL TO BE HERE AGAIN! THANK YOU FOR THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT MY LESSONS. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER...