[Music] Online Bass Guitar Lessons for an absolute beginner

[Balders]

that's not a simple riff to play well. . . . . try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=158fwCG27zE

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/otis-redding/pain-in-my-heart-power-1468372

Much appreciated - we know we are running before we can walk!

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[Balders]

LOL LOL -. Glad I don't drink at home. I would probably be woken next Tuesday by a delivery of a Grand Piano

Which is why I don't have my payment/card info set up on my phone, but Mrs B does lol...

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[£1.99]

This is a good place to buy backing tracks from to play along with https://www.karaoke-version.com/
You can buy the custom backing tracks only £1.99 where you can take out the bass or guitar and play along with them.
Start nice and easy something like, "She Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult, three notes on bass A C G just played over and over and you will feel like your playing in a really good band!
Of course it's a bit more tricky to play the guitar parts for your wife.

 

[GT49er]

Mrs B is an absolute beginner like me!

We've mucked about on Youtube but have found you do the absolute beginner lesson and then you seen to run before you can walk - obviously there are structured websites it looks like the free stuff is lesson one, then ten, then 20 but you have to pay for the ones in between, which isn't a problem, just want to "invest" in a recommended one if poss.

To give you an idea for the last couple of days I still haven't mastered the first 3 (relatively easy) notes from Another One Bites The Dust - that's my current level lol.

Oh well, 'twas just a thought! Good luck to her too, with YouTube instruction videos - they may not be that great (I wouldn't know, I've never used them) but think yourselves very lucky! Back in the day all we had was Bert Weedon's 'Play in a Day' instruction book - and if ever there was a book whose title infringed the trade descriptions act in so many ways, that was it!

 

[lasvegan]

I like this guy.

https://youtu.be/W7KWZYNYpFs

 

[lasvegan]

Also, I’d like to know what bass you bought?

 

[zefarelly]

I like this guy.

https://youtu.be/W7KWZYNYpFs

He's good isn't he . . . . The whole you tube thing missed me really, but my sone spends most of his life watching stuff . . . .

 

[zefarelly]

Also, I’d like to know what bass you bought?

Me too . . . . I've been eyeing this up, bit pricey, but utterly fantastic

https://reverb.com/item/34380260-1967-rickenbacker-4005-fireglo-ohsc

 

[Balders]

Also, I’d like to know what bass you bought?

Obviously please be aware that Mrs B bought it (but obviously extorted the cash from me!) https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Chicago-Bass-Guitar-and-15W-Amp-Pack-Black/DBK?

 

[Peteinblack]

What should you aspire too? How about this combination? The tone of JJ Burnel, the slap of Mark King, the gallop of Steve Harris? Just to be going on with

And the Rock God pose of Peter Hook (in his New Order days)

 

[Peteinblack]

As others have said, YouTube is your friend. It's great fun.

You might want to decide which songs or riffs you want to learn, and then type 'song title bass guitar' into YouTube.

I recently spent a rainy afternoon learning the bass lines to Bohemian Rhapsody doing this.

 

[m@goo]

Me too . . . . I've been eyeing this up, bit pricey, but utterly fantastic

https://reverb.com/item/34380260-1967-rickenbacker-4005-fireglo-ohsc

NINE AND A HALF GRAND

 

[GT49er]

NINE AND A HALF GRAND

The guitar equivalent of personalised number plates - an indication that somebody has got just too much money!

 

[Weststander]

Do you have to be able to read music to learn to play?

 

[Live by the sea]

How long b4 u can play like John Taylor - play the f@@king bass John

 

[Randy McNob]

I use Fender Play

 

[BadFish]

Try 10.15 Saturday night - the Cure

Wild thing - the trigger

Gloria - Van morrison

Anything that follows the root notes. Play along with the songs to get your timing and groove.

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