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The original Crazy Country video from early 2011 Merry Christmas everybody.

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The original video this lesson was based on for your perusal at full speed.

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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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The amp has 4 presets: Clean, R&B, Rock and Grind w/a 4 band variable EQ, headphone jack, etc. etc. Great practice amp, would be fine on small gigs and sounds great in the studio. The XLR out on the back makes it very easy to plug and play in the studio and get a good tone right off the bat. I am a little old fashioned when it comes to bringing an amp this small to a gig though in any venue larger than 100 capacity, but if you were in a situation where the FOH engineer could give you the stage volume you needed in your monitors then you could definitely count on the sound guy being happy with the direct out your were sending him. Still, for all practical purposes, a studio or practice amp. Favorite preset: GRIND

Please note: Video was shot on the fly using an iPod Nano, so please excuse the narrow screen view. I was, however, pretty happy with the quality of the audio from the Nano recording, so the listener can get a good feel for the sound of the amplifier.

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A step-by-step tutorial with Nate Perry on how to play Flea’s intro bass line to “Higher Ground”, the 1989 Red Hot Chili Peppers cover of the Stevie Wonder song, from their album “Mother’s Milk”.

Hi there, my name is Nate Perry, this is the first of many more bass tutorials that I will be putting up and I am excited to be a new member of the PlayBassNow community. “Higher Ground” is a good exercise in slap and pop octave execution and one of Flea’s more well known bass lines. Focus on these key elements and the line will come together in no time:

• Groove and time: Never lose site of the swung 8th/8th note triplet feel of the line. Practice it with a metronome, slowly at first, while gradually increasing the tempo – paying close attention to laying it in there, leaving space in between the notes and focusing on the groove.
• An aggressive right hand attack. An aggressive slap with the thumb and hard pop/pull with the middle finger is essential to bringing out the tone.
• Deconstructing the line, isolating each part and looping the most difficult parts until they become smooth. Don’t just play the whole line over and over. When you run into a snag, focus on that snag until you iron it out.

Good luck and thanks for checking it out!

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Riff of the song “Lights of heaven” (Joe Satriani)

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Rock fingerstyle bass groove . I used my Fender Jazz bass 3TS and DUNLOP MXR M-80 DI+. It is mainly used minor pentatonic with added 6 and a little rake. If you need tabs write me an e-mail: mcrtchan@mail.ru

Funky fingerstyle bass groove. I used my Fender Jazz bass 3TS and DUNLOP MXR M-80 DI+. It is mainly used minor pentatonic with added b5, 3, 6 and a little rake. If you need tabs write me an e-mail: mcrtchan@mail.ru

A jam at first, then SLOOOWW  with a close up … so you can learn it too.  Be the first kid on the block to Rock Out in “G”

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Once again, jamming to a very repetitive drum beat with a repetitive riff in F# and improvising on the fly. Lock in with the basic rhythm and play around with it. A great practice for developing bass endurance and consistency IMO. Thanks for watching and to see more bass learning videos check out my youtube channel and please subscribe.

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A bit of fretless fun with a rhythm loop demonstration.

Basically, one way I have a lot of fun with a rhythm loop is to mostly focus on the “foot pedal” component of the rhythm.  Start out by just playing the basic foot pedal rhythm with just one note until you can lock into that.  Then throw whatever improvisation you can into the mix.  The notes aren’t that important IMO, play what you feel.  The thing is keeping time with the beat while jamming the best you can. The first video is just me alone noodling with a loop and the 2nd video was later that night (sorry about the lack of light) when my nephew came over and helped me with some backing guitar.  I find it fun to use a loop like that (when you don’t have a live drummer), it’s a bit educational, but mostly it’s fun and if it’s not fun playing bass, there’s not much point!   Thanks for watching and to see more bass learning videos check out my youtube channel and please subscribe.

Some alternative riff ideas for playing crossroads on bass slowed down.  Originally a Robert Johnson blues tune, it became very popular as a rock classic by the band Cream in the late 60′s.  Thanks for watching and to see more bass learning videos check out my youtube channel and please subscribe.

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This a playalong of the actual Cream tune I did a couple years ago, so you can see how my riffs work with the song. (sorry, you’ll have to crank the volume on this one, it recorded at a low volume)

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My Bass Tardized version of crossroads performed at full speed.

The simple pattern is demonstrated at the end of video.  It’s fun to rock jam over simple drum beats and I think it helps to keep you tight with the drum in a live situation. Thanks for watching and to see more bass learning videos check out my youtube channel and please subscribe.

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

The main riff of a great songs, in 5/4 and 9/8

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Choose a scale, choose a rhythm pattern and go!!

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A tapping lick inspired by Billy Sheehan

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Bass riff in A minor on 2 strings using the A on the D string as pedal note, inspired by Geddy Lee from Rush. The thumb of my right hand rests on the A string.

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