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little groove inspired by and dedicated to a great source of inspiration – the very musical,humble and enthusiastic janek gwizdala

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drum backing tracks
slower version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pXrYbmJQg
normal tempo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0kO8uRBvuU

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Tablature available on my website

Tips on Technique

Right Hand:

• Playing this style with a pick allows for a more aggressive, bright and precise attack than playing with fingers. Plucking the harmonics back closer to the bridge enables the harmonics to ring out more easily. Work on alternating up and downstrokes with the pick until you settle into a comfortable pattern and pluck harmonics hard enough to make them ring out.

Left Hand:

• Practice a curled, one-finger-per-fret left hand technique using your thumb as a pivot point in the center of the neck.
• Curled fingers and fretting with finger tips as opposed to collapsing the hand will allow for the harmonics to ring out and sustain above the line.

Begin by plucking the natural harmonics that occur above the 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 12th frets until you find the optimum place on the neck where they ring the clearest (every bass is different). Once you are comfortable with making the harmonics happen, work on making them sustain above a root oriented bass line/progression. Direct message me for more questions and tips!

Have fun!

NP

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Tablature available on my website

Groove in 5/8 – G minor scale (G A Bb C D Eb F G)

Tabs and backing track are available in my website (Fingerstyle page)

Bass guitar funk slapstyle groove. I used my Fender Jazz bass 3TS and Tech21 NYC SansAmp VT Bass recorded directly in LineIn.

Bass guitar groove with harmonics part 1.
For tabs mail me at mcrtchan@mail.ru

What can happen if you change the start point of your pattern…..

In this video i tried to get shuffle feel. I pushed each even 8th beat closer to next odd.
Then added some slides, dead notes, rake… For tabs mail me at mcrtchan@mail.ru.

Small funk jam…
Tempo 100 bpm
Key of E-minor
Drum machine – BOSS RC-2 loop station
1st track – fingerstyle groove
2nd track – tapping lick
3rd track – something like slap
4th track – slap with doublethumb
5th track – little solo lick
St. Petersburg

There are many rake notes, harmonics, hammerons. For tabs mail me on mcrtchan@mail.ru. Have a nice playing! )) (St. Petersburg, Neva-river)

During the groove i use palm muting on all strings  - I put my righthand on strings in between bridge and bridge pick-up and play only with my thumb. Then i rake with thumb on A and D- strings and add some left hand muting to it.  Tempo 110 bpm. Key of  D-minor.

Funky bass groove with muted (dead) notes in Am.  It used thumb, index and middle fingers,  vibrato on 7b (note G on d string)

Here are some bass lines from a few Big Sir songs. If you are unfamiliar with Big Sir, you may recognize the bass player as Juan Alderete from The Mars Volta. If that still doesn’t ring a bell, I urge you to check out both groups and buy all their music.

I’ve selected four great bass lines that display Juan’s great facility on the fretless bass (I hope I’m doing him justice!). His lines are lyrical and very groovy. You can dance to and sing these bass lines easily. They support the tune, the vocals, and are quite catchy. That is melodicism my friends.

If you are just starting on the fretless, these lines are simple enough for you grasp and to help you develop some of your own ideas, while being melodic. I’ve always felt that the fretless has to be somewhat melodic in order to showcase its distinct tone, otherwise, you might as well use a fretted.

Seeing as these are all fretless bass lines, the hardest part is going to be the intonation. You may want to practice these on fretted first to get the fingerings and proper tuning in your head. This way you won’t develop any bad habits if you attempt the fretless right away. That being said, if you feel confident or if you are already experienced on the fretless, then by all means, go for it.

Fast doublethumb groove in G# based on minor pentatonic with 3th added.

The aim of “BassLab” is helping the bassplayer in the creative process of a bass line.

“BassLab” features a complete exercise played with real instruments (not MIDI or VST). The first part shows an example of bass line, then you will have only the other instruments for creating your own riff.

You can download the track without the main bass line on:

http://www.guidoponzini.eu/basslab/lab1nobasscompressed.mp3
Hope this will be usefull. I plan to create more BassLab episodes.

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Thank you
Guido Ponzini
http://www.youtube.com/ghigo85
http://www.guidoponzini.eu

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BassLab Ep.1 – “Surfin with Log Drums”
Written by Guido Ponzini

Guido Ponzini:
. fretless bass (main line)
. 8strings bass (melody and rhythmic fills)
. log drums