Blakesbassstudents, aka "Blake's Bass Students" is a blog intended to feature supplements to my bass students and to provide share information via the forum. Guitar students (mine and others) may also find this fun as well. In this first blog I am going to post a few videos of songs that have interesting, fun, and developmentally important bass lines. These are also a lot of fun, I end up tapping my feet as I show people these songs. They are very useful to learn lines that we will try to apply in other contexts. This helps give us answers to the very important questions that leads us to so many other important questions:
1) What should I play?
2) What do I play when I don't know what to play?
Eventually we will get to this question in it's most important context:
3) What do I want to play?
Our goal is to not be limited by technique or lack of knowledge. This will take a long time but we will have a lot of fun and be able to play interesting things as we progress towards our goal.
Here is the first of the songs that I will use to demonstrate some of these ideas, and others.
For root note applications, listen to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams". Notice the interaction with the kick drum. We will study this further. What notes is bass player John McVie playing for the first part of the song?
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