How To Learn A Bach Prelude On Bass Guitar!

This week I’ll be looking at how you can use the pivot action of the hand, wrist and arm to make certain tricky lines a lot easier! Aligning The Hand Often when playing bass, we tend to keep the hand in line with the neck with the fingers paralell to the strings. Although this is…

Here’s a quick exercise you can use for developing your speed when crossing strings on Bass. Take it slow and gradually build up speed. It’s a circular exercise in that it ends back at the start so you can keep going round and round and round. There’s also a few tips on technique and how…

This week we’re looking at a cool riff you can use for working on your 16th note articulation and your ghost notes. There are also a few tricky octave patterns in there. So buckle up and get ready for a workout!! Let’s Get To Work! This riff is a typical 16th note funk line making…

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…

This week we’re looking at a short and simple bass riff that should help with getting your ring and pinky fingers moving. The weak pinky finger seems to be a universal problem for beginner to intermediate players. Exercise:

In this lesson we’re going to look at a technique that many players find tricky – The single finger sliding trill which I refer to as a shake. Shakes In this lesson, we will be looking at single-finger trills, or ‘shakes’ that can add a new flavour to your blues bass playing. To perform a…