Bass Guitar Technique

Today we’re going to look at the ultimate finger exercise for bass guitar. This exercise is easy to learn and will develop all the fingers of the left hand (fretting hand). You’ll also be able to work on your picking technique across strings, muting, your fretting hand technique, your stamina and strength. I guarantee that…

In this lesson we’re going to work on two areas of technique that will clean up your playing and add massively improved fluidity. We’re going to look at improving your economy of motion in both hands with a combination of joint barring in the fretting hand and raking in the picking hand. All this with…

In this lesson I’ll be showing you a method for learning ANY bass line, fill, solo and absolutely anything else on bass regardless of the difficulty. We’re going to breakdown a difficult Charlie Parker line from the song Warming Up A Riff in order to apply all of the concepts covered. By the end of…

This week we’re going to look at the picking hand and 10 aspects of fingerpicking that might be causing you problems or that just generally suck. I’ll break down the common hurdles and give you some technical tips for fixing any bad habits you might have acquired. 10 Reasons Your Fingerpicking Sucks… And How To…

Today I’m going to give you a quick tip on something that I hear bass players complaining about time and time again. The stretch or hand size required for playing a regular long scale bass. In this lesson I’m going to show you that not only do you not require large hands, for 99% of…

This is a short and simple Etude in F Minor that will help with many aspects of your bass technique. I’ll be breaking down technique in both the picking and fretting hands as we work through the line in simple steps. The exercise is taken from the upcoming Bass Technique Builder course from Talkingbass. Etude…

This is a simple scalar exercise designed to help you navigate around the fretboard, develop you position shifting and many other aspects of bass technique. The exercise is taken from the upcoming Bass Technique Builder course from Talkingbass. Technique Building With Short Exercises So we’re finally finishing up 2021 and moving into 2022 and this…