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Learn Bass Guitar – A Beginners Guide
Once you’ve decided to take on the task of learning bass guitar, remember to not get discouraged! It can take a considerable amount of time learning bass. Learning to play bass can take years of practice, so patience is important. By following this guide, you’ll be able to establish a basic understanding to help learn [...] Continue Reading
Online Bass Lessons – Read This Before You Take Online Bass Lessons!
If you would like online bass lessons then you’re in the right place. There is much confusion and frustration for most people when they try to learn bass. Should you hire a private teacher? Perhaps you should take online bass lessons? No matter which option you choose you must take some kind of lessons to make [...] Continue Reading
5 Quick Beginner Bass Guitar Tips To Improve Your Playing
1) Try to practise your bass guitar every day – Picking up your bass daily is a good habit to get into. 2) Play with your bass in tune! – Not tuning your bass is going to train your ear incorrectly and also you’re going to sound pretty bad. 3) Learn the bass guitar notes of the [...] Continue Reading
How to Learn Bass Guitar Scales
For a while now I have been pondering the correct way to go about learning bass guitar scales. I’m in two minds about how best to approach it or even if learning bass scales is necessary at all. I have always taught people the basic bass scales as I feel they do give a good foundation [...] Continue Reading
Bass Solo Tips – Quick Tips To Improve Your Bass Guitar Solos
Playing a bass solo does not have to be difficult. There are a few key things you need to know that will allow you to quickly make your bass guitar solo sound so much better. By following these few fundamental tips you should quickly see a great improvement in how good you sound. Rather than not [...] Continue Reading
Step Bass Guitar Technique
Step Bass Guitar Playing: Advanced Technique Step bass playing is a mixture of slap with different percussive techniques. I found this video on PlayBassNow.com and was blown away. This takes slap to a whole new level. It reminds me a lot of what many acoustic guitarists do with the percussive hand slaps over the fretboard. The [...] Continue Reading
Bass Guitar Lessons
Taking bass guitar lessons sure can be a lot of fun. Yet they can also be very confusing if you are just starting out. It’s tough to know what you should begin with and what direction you should take. When I was a beginner I struggled to get started on bass. I found it really difficult [...] Continue Reading
Bass Guitar Scales
Learning bass guitar scales is a vital part of being a bass players. Scales play an important role in the wonderful world of music and knowing them can open up your range of options and musical ability. Some people believe that scales for bass guitar are not necessary and boring. They can however greatly improve [...] Continue Reading
Online Bass Guitar Course?
There are many advantages to taking an online bass guitar course. One of the biggest reasons why you should is because they are great value for money. A private teacher costs thousands of dollars a year. Online bass courses only cost a fraction of this. Bass courses online also have the added benefit of convince. [...] Continue Reading
Happy Halloween!
The offer in this video has ended. Click here for my online bass lessons I hope you all have a great Halloween and enjoy this Halloween bass lesson. Please leave your comments below and if you’d like to take online bass lessons, click the link below the video. Tags: Halloween bass tab, Happy Halloween Continue Reading
Beginner Bass Songs – 5 Easy Songs For You To Learn
Here is a collection of 5 easy beginner bass songs. These are all songs that are great if you are just getting started on bass guitar. Some of them are slightly more difficult than others. when starting out on bass it can be tough to know which songs to learn first. Often you have an idea [...] Continue Reading
Bass Guitar – A Quick Guide To The Electric Bass
The bass guitar really is an amazing instrument to learn to play. At the foundation of any good band a bass provides the low-end notes. The word “bass” is pronounced “base” rather than “bass” like the fish. With similar looks to a regular guitar, a bass is in fact a modern version of a double bass. [...] Continue Reading
How To Play Bass Guitar For Beginners
Learning how to play bass guitar is something that is so much fun. Today I’d like to share with out a few tips on how to get started on your path as a bass guitarist. When first starting out bass can be a pretty daunting instrument. It’s pretty large, especially if you have small hands. [...] Continue Reading
How To Play Funk Bass Lesson
In this how to play funk bass lesson, Bootsy (a famous funk bass player) shares a simple but effective way to play some funk bass lines and grooves. This video is nice and short and gives you what he calls his “funk formula”. You simply play the root note on the one beat and then play [...] Continue Reading
Bass Improvisation – Getting Creative In 3 Simple Steps
Coming up with your own original bass lines and licks is a lot of fun and doesn’t have to be complicated. Today I’m going to share with you 3 simple ways you can get some creativity flowing so you can take it to your bass and let it loose. Step 1 – Get inspired Getting inspired is [...] Continue Reading
Bass Chords Chart – Learning Bass Guitar Chords
Many bassist who are just starting out think that as a bass player they need to learn how to play chords. I’m not sure if this is because many people start out on regular guitar first or not. Chords are played on bass but much more often single notes are played. As a bass player it’s [...] Continue Reading
The Importance Of Creativity On Bass Guitar
Bass guitar sure is an interesting instrument. Or more being a bass player is an interesting thing to do. There are so many possibilities that just open up when you have the skills to play a musical instrument. Having a way to express yourself is one of the main reason why I started to play bass [...] Continue Reading
Learn Bass Guitar Online
Can you really learn bass guitar online? In this video Paul Wolfe looks at the question and suggests lots of very good reason why you can in fact learn bass guitar online. I think that the most important thing for any bass player to do is to take bass lessons of some description. Online or offline [...] Continue Reading
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