Technique
Basic Right Hand Technique
Whether you play finger style, with a pick or with your thumb, you’ll need to know what good form looks like in order to avoid developing bad habits – which can lead to pain and injury dow...
Basic Left Hand Technique
Just like your right hand, form is everything for the left hand as well when playing the bass guitar in order to avoid developing bad habits.
Muting
What is muting? Why do we need it and how do we do it? Muting is actually one of the most important things for a bassist to do, so don’t skip this lesson! I promise that this information with ei...
Playing Ghost Notes
Ghost notes have nothing to do with Halloween, ghosts or goblins, but rather is an amazing technique that sounds awesome when implemented correctly. In this video I’ll show you both how and when...
You Have to Move with the Music
I don’t care who you are or what kind of music you play; if you don’t move with the music then 1. your groove is suffering and 2. your band is bored with you and 3. your audience is too.
Develop your clock: Internal Timing Exercise
This is perhaps my FAVORITE exercise to work on with my private students. It starts out pretty easy but gets pretty intense relatively quickly, so enjoy!
Rhythmic Accent Displacement
Are you good at 3rd grade math? If so, then you’ve got what it takes to do what I’m going to show you in this video.
Rhythmic Syncopations
Syncopations are the best! It’s one of the best things to do in music and it’s also purely magical when it happens between the band unintentionally. And once you’ve finished this les...
Introduction to Arpeggios
Arpeggios may seem difficult given the fancy name, but I promise you that there’s nothing to them and I’ll tell you why in this video.
