Click Here To Download the Free Gear Guide! Click Here To Get The FREE Bass Player’s Action Pack Hey, James here! Today’s lesson is quite different from usual. I’m excited to share with you the six albums that had a massive impact on my life and shaped my musical taste. I encourage you to listen to the […]
Jaco Pastorius
YT243 – Is This the Hardest Jaco Pastorius Bass Line?
Click Here to Download the FREE lesson PDF! Click Here To Get The FREE Bass Player’s Action Pack Hey, James again! A couple of weeks ago, we tackled “7 Reasons Why You Should Learn Come On Come Over by Jaco Pastorius”. We received great feedback from that video and a couple of people requested me to break […]
YT240 – 7 Reasons Why Every Bass Player Should Learn “Come On Come Over” (by Jaco Pastorius)
Click Here to Download the FREE lesson PDF! Click Here To Get The FREE Bass Player’s Action Pack Hey, it’s James! Have you been wanting to spice up your bass style? Would you like your style to be more PUNCHY, and MACHINE GUN-LIKE? Then Jaco Pastorius is the answer! Learn how to incorporate 16th note funk style, […]
Learn This Jaco Pastorius Inspired Blues Bass Groove – YT181
Click Here To Download The Lesson PDF Click Here To Get The FREE Bass Player’s Action Pack Hey, James here…Jaco Pastorious & Blues Bass…… Not necessarily two ideas you’d put in the same sentence.Here’s the thing… I’m super passionate about students learning ‘Blues Bass’…… because I believe it’s the ‘springboard’ to playing virtually every style […]
The Chicken for ‘Beginners’ Part 2 – Jaco Pastorius Inspired Bass Lesson – YT105
Click Here To Get The FREE The Chicken For Beginners Part 2 Bass Lesson PDF! In today’s bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to play killer bass fills using the legendary Jaco Pastorius groove from the Pee Wee Ellis Tune ‘The Chicken’. Every so often I release a bass guitar lesson which […]
The Chicken for ‘Beginners’ – Jaco Pastorius Inspired Bass Lesson – YT102
Click Here To Get The FREE The Chicken For Beginners PDF! In today’s bass guitar lesson we’re going to be looking at how to play the song The Chicken For ‘Beginner’ bassists. The Chicken is a funk tune by sax player Pee Wee Ellis but popularised for the bass guitar by the legendary Jaco Pastorius. Strictly […]
3 Important Blues Bass Guitar Fingerboard Shapes
Click Here to Download the Free Resources for This Lesson Hey Groove Masters, James here. Let’s talk about 3 important blues fingerboard patterns for bass guitar. I put the phone down and couldn’t believe what just happened. I’m a funny one, when I was a teenager I never really idolized the big rock ‘n’ roll names of […]
Fretless Bass… For Beginners
Click Here to Download the FREE Resources For This Lesson Hey Groove Masters, James here…let’s talk about fretless bass… for beginners. I didn’t know if I was going to make to the next show. The house lights went down. I was in a dark orchestra pit in London’s West End. Depping (or subbing) for one of the UK’s most […]
Learn The Open String Bounce Method
Hey Groove Masters,Are you looking for that little trick that could kick your bass fills up a gear or two?Today’s lesson comes from a great suggestion from Patrick Foreman who asked me to show some of the bass lines I use in the intro music to the YouTube lessons. Rather than just showing you note […]