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Play Bass Guitar 4: Groove Vocabulary
Groove Vocabulary for Intermediate to Late Intermediate Bass Guitarists
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About this course
Welcome to Play Bass 4: Groove Vocabulary for intermediate to late intermediate students of bass guitar.
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Freekbass, David Santos, Stu Hamm, Andrew Ford and Jasper Mortier.
The Groove Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Big bass grooves are the foundation that most music is built on. Having a wide range of go-to grooves will make you a much more in demand player! The lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of grooves along with the technical skills required to take your playing to the next level.
Play Bass 4 consists of grooves, licks and lines that will help you build the chops you need as a bass player. This collection of grooves will help you hone your skills across a wide variety of styles and feels.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your bass and let’s get started!
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Freekbass, David Santos, Stu Hamm, Andrew Ford and Jasper Mortier.
The Groove Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Big bass grooves are the foundation that most music is built on. Having a wide range of go-to grooves will make you a much more in demand player! The lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of grooves along with the technical skills required to take your playing to the next level.
Play Bass 4 consists of grooves, licks and lines that will help you build the chops you need as a bass player. This collection of grooves will help you hone your skills across a wide variety of styles and feels.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your bass and let’s get started!
What you'll learn
- Execute walking bass lines with chord changes
- Combine hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides in a musical context
- Play independent bass notes with thumb while executing melodic fills
- Coordinate thumb and fingers to create two-part arrangements
- Develop rhythmic pocket with thumb as foundation
Release date: 05/24/2018 • 2h 57m runtime
Sample lessons
The G Strut
Lick #3
Tom Groove Time
Groove #24
Funky Charleston
Bass Line #12
Reggae-Mon
Groove #34
What's included
47 lessons • 45 charts • 45 Jam Tracks
Play Bass 4: Groove Vocabulary
Welcome to Play Bass 4: Groove Vocabulary!
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by multiple top TrueFire educators. The curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Big bass grooves are the foundation that most music is built on. Having a wide range of go-to grooves will make you a much more in demand player. The lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of grooves along with the technical skills required to take your playing to the next level. You can loop and slow down any of the videos to work at your own pace, plus, you'll have all the available jam tracks to work with as well. Take as much time as you need to work on each lesson before moving on to the next one.
If you want to dig deeper - or wider - into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path. There, you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your bass, and let's get started!
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by multiple top TrueFire educators. The curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Big bass grooves are the foundation that most music is built on. Having a wide range of go-to grooves will make you a much more in demand player. The lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of grooves along with the technical skills required to take your playing to the next level. You can loop and slow down any of the videos to work at your own pace, plus, you'll have all the available jam tracks to work with as well. Take as much time as you need to work on each lesson before moving on to the next one.
If you want to dig deeper - or wider - into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path. There, you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your bass, and let's get started!
Start And Finish
Start And Finish - Lick 2 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jasper Mortier and is sourced from 50 Blues Bass Licks You Must Know.
Bass players in the 60-ies and 70-ies often constantly muted their strings with foam. But with this overall way of muting you just make all of the notes die out faster - which can already sound funky enough though! - but it the note doesn't stop at a specific moment. To be more aware of the length of the note try to think of 'organ' for instance since that's got an everlasting sustain as long as you keep on pressing the key. This way of playing also helps to be more aware of all of the 16th notes in your part and not only of the actual notes picked. You'll also become more aware of the silence in between your notes. Those are at least as powerful as the noise you're making!
Bass players in the 60-ies and 70-ies often constantly muted their strings with foam. But with this overall way of muting you just make all of the notes die out faster - which can already sound funky enough though! - but it the note doesn't stop at a specific moment. To be more aware of the length of the note try to think of 'organ' for instance since that's got an everlasting sustain as long as you keep on pressing the key. This way of playing also helps to be more aware of all of the 16th notes in your part and not only of the actual notes picked. You'll also become more aware of the silence in between your notes. Those are at least as powerful as the noise you're making!
Cool Vultures
Cool Vultures - Lick 3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jasper Mortier and is sourced from 50 Blues Bass Licks You Must Know.
John Mayer is clearly influenced by blues guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan for example, but he took it to another level with the John Mayer trio. What I really like and admire about those sessions is the seemingly simplicity of the performances. The live recordings like Try! have nothing added as far as I can hear. No extra guitars, vocals or keyboards. Just three fantastic musicians playing a bunch of strong songs live. So it gives us a huge opportunity to study what you can achieve with as few resources as possible: it gives the rhythm section an enormous responsibility. It's only doable with super sound, super timing and refined parts. This is of course in good hands of Steve Jordan on the drums and Pino Palladino on the bass.
John Mayer is clearly influenced by blues guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan for example, but he took it to another level with the John Mayer trio. What I really like and admire about those sessions is the seemingly simplicity of the performances. The live recordings like Try! have nothing added as far as I can hear. No extra guitars, vocals or keyboards. Just three fantastic musicians playing a bunch of strong songs live. So it gives us a huge opportunity to study what you can achieve with as few resources as possible: it gives the rhythm section an enormous responsibility. It's only doable with super sound, super timing and refined parts. This is of course in good hands of Steve Jordan on the drums and Pino Palladino on the bass.
The G Strut
The G Strut - Lick #3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Freekbass and is sourced from 50 Freekbass Licks You MUST Know.
With this lick, I am starting to develop something from the "top" of the run, as opposed to starting from the root note. I develop the lick based on the minor 3rd (or the 10th), using the hard mute technique I talked about in an earlier lesson.
I like lines like this because it gives them more of a melodic quality,while still being groovy. If you are vamping in the same key a lot, this will get it out of feeling like your line is based too much around the root, and open it up a bit.
With this lick, I am starting to develop something from the "top" of the run, as opposed to starting from the root note. I develop the lick based on the minor 3rd (or the 10th), using the hard mute technique I talked about in an earlier lesson.
I like lines like this because it gives them more of a melodic quality,while still being groovy. If you are vamping in the same key a lot, this will get it out of feeling like your line is based too much around the root, and open it up a bit.
Short Stop
Short Stop - Lick #6 is a video guitar lesson presented by Freekbass and is sourced from 50 Freekbass Licks You MUST Know.
When playing bass, if you use all parts of both your left and right hands to help enhance the rhythm, one or two notes can feel like a bunch of notes or more importantly rhythms.
Here I am playing just a D to a low F, but I am coming down with my left hand as a ghost note, and then following that up with my right hand, before I pluck the note, creating kind of a triplet rhythm. This makes this simple D to F groove have much more feel and groove.
When playing bass, if you use all parts of both your left and right hands to help enhance the rhythm, one or two notes can feel like a bunch of notes or more importantly rhythms.
Here I am playing just a D to a low F, but I am coming down with my left hand as a ghost note, and then following that up with my right hand, before I pluck the note, creating kind of a triplet rhythm. This makes this simple D to F groove have much more feel and groove.
Lazed & Difused
Lazed & Difused - Groove #17 is a video guitar lesson presented by Stu Hamm and is sourced from 50 Pro Bass Grooves You MUST Know.
Groove #17 is a slow, sustained groove that requires you to really focus on how much tone and sustain you can get from your bass. This can be achieved by not striking the strings too hard with your finger and putting a good deal of pressure on the note that you are fretting to get maximum sustain. Notice that there are are just a few spots where you can put a breath in the line to give it some movement, but your job here is to create a huge sonic comfy pillow for the song to lay its head on.
Groove #17 is a slow, sustained groove that requires you to really focus on how much tone and sustain you can get from your bass. This can be achieved by not striking the strings too hard with your finger and putting a good deal of pressure on the note that you are fretting to get maximum sustain. Notice that there are are just a few spots where you can put a breath in the line to give it some movement, but your job here is to create a huge sonic comfy pillow for the song to lay its head on.
Tom Groove Time
Tom Groove Time - Groove #24 is a video guitar lesson presented by Stu Hamm and is sourced from 50 Pro Bass Grooves You MUST Know.
Groove # 24 is taken from a song on first Solo release "Radio Free Albemuth". It's a quasi-out laid back tom-tom kind of a groove, and I start by playing with a muted tone, and then open it up as the groove grows, and on the record, play the final few choruses with my thumb. Try this yourself, and check out how you can use different ways of hitting the string, and therefore achieving different tone and feels, to give the groove some movement over time. It's okay to lay this one back in the beat to let the groove settle.
Groove # 24 is taken from a song on first Solo release "Radio Free Albemuth". It's a quasi-out laid back tom-tom kind of a groove, and I start by playing with a muted tone, and then open it up as the groove grows, and on the record, play the final few choruses with my thumb. Try this yourself, and check out how you can use different ways of hitting the string, and therefore achieving different tone and feels, to give the groove some movement over time. It's okay to lay this one back in the beat to let the groove settle.
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KJJohnson
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12/11/24
Nice content, it was easy to understand.
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10/01/21
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06/08/21
Great course from True Fire. I highly recommend it.
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