Boring Bass Lines Fixed (With 1 Simple Walkup Trick)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ธ.ค. 2020
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Inject life into your boring beginner bass lines with these simple (but legit) walkup patterns - no theory required.
It actually doesn’t take in-depth theory knowledge to play interesting bass lines.
In this video I’ll show you some easy bass patterns you can use to avoid ploddy, run of the mill bass playing.
We’ll start with a classic 2-note walkup pattern, modeled for us by Kim Deal of The Pixies on “Hey”. I’ll break down how this pattern works, and later you’ll practice sticking it on your own bass lines.
Then we flip the pattern on its head and look at some walk *downs*, with the help of John McVie’s bass line on Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman.”
We can put these together in the same bass line too - I’ll show you how Verdine White did it in “Can’t Hide Love” by Earth Wind & Fire. (dance moves not included)
Now you’ve got the basics - it’s time to apply these directly to a boring bass line. We’ll try out a few of the many versions of a walkup/walkdown flavored bass line, and I’ll give you a troubleshooting hack to make these patterns even more foolproof.
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Another way to give a bassline more umph is to do a slide to nowhere. Just start an octave or so above your target note and slide down while starting slow and getting faster and lessening your grip on the string so it becomes a dead note. Then play your target note immediately after. This is good to use just before a big power moment in the song and Ghost do this a lot. Something you can do in a more riffy bassline to add interest to it is to slide up or down a half step to a note from a scale from a note that is not in the scale so that the note that doesn't fit in can only be heard for a really short amount of time. This can be heard in the Peter Gunn theme in Blues Brothers where the bassline seems to double the guitar riff.
Noo man, Boring French Josh looks like Joe Dart with the sweater and the glasses 🤣🤣🤣But Joe Dart is not Boring, he is a Funk Bass Beast
I'm French and this accent was sooooo realistic 😭
The guy thats supposed to look like a boaring french bass player looks more like Joe Dart, shirt, shades and all. But Joe Dart doesnt have boaring in his vocabulary.
I thought French josh was supposed to be joe dart.
"hey" is the reason I got a bass!
Great video
PIXIES FOREVER!!!
"I think I'll go on a walkabout"
Josh, are you ever going to tell the story behind the godawful banana tattoo?
emo josh cant hurt you, he isnt real
Best online bass teacher, hands down. There are many good ones out there, but no one does a better job making the concepts simple to understand - even for the musically challenged - and having a laugh in the process.
This made me play my bass again
This is very well structured. I know my music theory pretty inside and out and you did an excellent job of explaining how to switch a chromatic walk up to a diatonic one without having to make it more complex.
A French nihilist Beginner to Badass course part 2 would be great!
You really have a gift for communication. I’m doing a lot of these transition things right now and I like to mix it up with dead notes. Feels like a cool way to compensate for lack of skill with creativity.
From a guitarist turned bass player, I appreciate your knowledge sharing and lesson style. P.S. I bought a used Fender 1966 P-bass for $375.00 in 1982 even before I thought I would try to learn bass ,,, got lucky for sure. Thanks again, keep your lessons coming. Bassman
I am pleased to see your acting skils improving as you help us to improve our bass skills. A true 'growing together' feeling.
I used to play bass in a church band a while back and, though everyone was impressed by how good I was as a beginner who had only played a couple months, as a musician of at least a decade I felt like my playing was so empty. This is video is very helpful in just adding a little spice the monotony of my bass playing.