These Bass Lick of the Week video lessons are short, four-bar exercises written in a variety of different genres, and which use a variety of different playing techniques. In each lesson you'll see a full play-through of the line with on-screen sheet music and TAB. This is then followed by a detailed, bar-by-bar breakdown of the line which will give you clear instructions on how to play it yourself.
Each lesson comes with downloadable resources - a detailed PDF worksheet and a bass-free backing track for you to practice along with. These can be downloaded from the Free Stuff section of this website.
Bass Lick of the Week was a free YouTube series that ran from September 2017 - September 2018. Over the course of the series, multiple playing styles were covered, including funky fingerstyle lines, slap and pop grooves, plectrum basslines and chordal/harmonic parts. These 52 lines are now presented here as a free video course. Each exercise has an accompanying download which includes the audio backing track and a PDF worksheet. These resources can be downloaded from the Free Stuff section of this website.
This exercise is a slow fingerstyle groove that’s played quite aggressively.
This exercise is a semiquaver-based groove that’s played with the plectrum.