Awesome Slap Bass Riff [RHCP] – Get Up And Jump! (tabs and tutorial)

This week let’s look at 5 awesome bass riffs from the awesome Bob Marley and bass player Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett! Go Flatwound! Before working through the riffs let’s quickly look at a few aspects of sound. For these riffs you’re going to want to get that stereotypical deep, bassy Aston Barret tone. Aston used…

This week we’re looking at Master Blaster (Jammin’) by Stevie Wonder and the tricky instrumental break in which Nate Watts joins the band in doubling that cool Pentatonic line. I’m going to break down the line and give you some tips on how to best play the notes cleanly and with as few position shifts…

Today we’re going to look at one of the funkiest bass lines from one of the greatest bass players of all time. Come On Come Over by Jaco Pastorius from his debut solo record. The bass lines in this song are on the absolute must know list for anyone looking to learn that 16th note…

This lesson is another in the series of lessons on short, popular bass riffs. This week we’ll be looking at the disco classic Ain’t No Stopping Us Now by Mcfadden & Whitehead. As a supplement to the basic lesson, I’ll be analysing the riff and showing how you can use the basic building blocks of…

This week we’re looking at the HEAVIEST  BASS RIFF IN THE WORLD EVER (in my humble opinion!) in the shape of Ace Of Spades by Motorhead, played by the legendary, late, great LEMMY! Ace Of Spades Ace Of Spades is the title track from the album by Motorhead. This song is a great example of…

Jerry Was A Race Car Driver from the Sailing The Seas Of Cheese album by Primus is a masterclass in tapped, slapped and strummed grooves all courtesy of bass phenom Les Claypool. In this bass lesson we’ll be looking at the main riffs in the song and we’ll look at how to play them on…