14 Tips for Learning Bass Lines | How to Play Bad Moon Rising

Do you ever feel like you’ll NEVER be able to play a bass line? Sure there’s lots of stuff to learn, but in this lesson I’ll take this simple song and teach you 14 basic but essential principals that will not only help you play this bass line, but will open the doors to countless others. Once you understand these principle, they can be applied to every bass line you play.

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0:00 Lesson Intro
0:44 Cut Time
1:14 Fingering Numbers
1:22 Muting Upbeats
2:50 Closed Position
3:35 Getting a FAT Sound
3:58 "Mute to Change"
5:03 LET'S START THE PLAY-THROUGH
5:30 Feeling the Phrasing
6:50 Little Notes?!
7:36 Taking the Repeat
8:38 "Side-By-Side" Fingerings
9:55 Position Changes
10:59 "Side-By-Side" Barring
5:13 Playing Staccato
16:10 The Fermata

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