Videos
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...
All About Tone
We hear this word all the time on bass forums, in Facebook comments and everywhere in between; TONE. What is it? How much does it cost? Where do we get it? Allow me to answer these questions for you a...
How and When to Change Your Strings
It’s something you’ll have to do eventually, so here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know (and perhaps more) about how and when to change the strings on your bass guitar.
Essential Music Theory to Know
It’s a scary topic; Music Theory. But Trust me, it’s much easier than you think! Though I’m not going to teach you everything about music theory in this lesson, I’m going to gi...
Learning the Notes on Your Bass Guitar
How hard could it be? There’s only 84-150 notes on your bass, right? Actually, it’s much easier than you’d think. I’m going to teach you how to do it and the easiest/fastest wa...
What Does the Bass Actually Do?
We’ve talked about a lot of the fundamentals of bass playing over the past few videos – but one thing we haven’t touched on yet is what the bass ACTUALLY does in an ensemble. Well to...
The Most Influential Bassists of All Time
If you’re new to the bass guitar you may not know much about its history of the founding fathers. Allow me to introduce you to some iconic names that change the way that you look at this instrum...
Improvising with Pentatonic Scales: 12 Bar Minor Blues
It’s time to wrap up this little mini series on pentatonic improvisation with one last real-world playing scenario; the 12 Bar Minor Blues.
Improvising with Pentatonic Scales: I to IV Jams
Let’s keep developing these tricks in some real-world playing scenarios. Today we’ll talk about some cools ways to utilize this stuff over I to IV jams.
