This series focuses on expanding your bass guitar vocabulary by showing you different bass lines in real life situations. Write better bass lines today! Every groove has a transcription and an explanation why the bass line works with the harmony and the drums. This will surely power boost your bass
Read moreYou need this to start recording bass guitar
Back in the day when you wanted to record your music, you had to go to a music studio, find an engineer and invest a lot of money. Nowadays though, it’s very easy to record yourself at home using only a few things. Amazing productions are created inside tiny bedrooms.
Read moreUsing the pentatonic scales for great basslines
Pentatonic scales are probably the most used scales out there. They are used in every style, whether it’s funk, blues, rock, reggae, jazz, you name it! The reason they are used by every player, is that they always sound good. That’s because the pentatonic scales contain all the sweet notes
Read moreMoving to a new town as a professional musician
In 2014 I moved from the city of Groningen. I was born in that city and had lived there for all of my life. After finishing my studies I was in search of new musical adventures and decides to try my luck in Utrecht. Since Utrecht is located more centrally
Read moreLearning basslines, easy guide to remembering songs fast
It’s a Wednesday night, you hear the noise of your phone vibrating against your desk. You check the screen. The display tells you it’s Tom, that great drummer you met at a jam session a few weeks ago! “I need your help. Can you sit in with us on a
Read moreWrite better basslines: Adding chords to your basslines
As bass players we are usually only playing one note at the same time, unlike our guitarist counter-parts. But adding some chords to our vocabularies can not only spice up our basslines, but also help us in understanding harmony better. In this lesson I will introduce some chord shapes that
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