3 Easy Bass Solos To Get Started (Even If You’ve Never Taken A Bass Solo)

[@kevmac1230]

Thanks Luke, these are fantastic. I'm a 65 yr old bassist trying to teach myself fretless bass and these will help immensely.You do the bass community a great service, especially the youngsters.I would have loved and benefited loads if your lessons were available in the"olden days" 😂

[@neddewar9523]

Nice one U learn that your set

[@josipbroz8250]

This is great. More please. A lot of this is great just for fills and ideas even if not soloing.

[@BecomeABassist]

Absolutely - and if you liked this one, I have a few more things in the pipeline that I think you'll LOVE

[@surfingtheapocalypse]

Thank you, loved the first solo. I'm going to use it.

[@44claude]

Thanks Luke, your video is very useful, and easy to follow....Keep up the great work!

[@alfonsoincorvaia2595]

Great job! Thank you for the standard notation, this always help!!!! A BIG THANK YOU!!!!!

[@BecomeABassist]

No worries at all @alfonso incorvaia - happy to hear it's helpful!

[@EL-ny3wq]

I just played bass today and loved it so much

[@hank3266]

a very helpful lesson for me to try developing some more freedom in my playing. Great teacher, i appreciate!

[@totalrecone]

Awesome lesson, Luke! This sort of info is just what I'm looking for.

[@BecomeABassist]

Perfect! Happy to hear it @Reverend Rodinal!

[@hectorgarza5842]

Excellent lesson! Appreciated! Thanks a lot.

[@jaimeproctor7288]

Very nice, NEVER underestimate the power of some well placed "Ghost" notes.

[@erikmartin565]

Thank you for putting the Sade solo in there. Always loved that solo

[@karlgronbach2066]

Thank you Luke for that fast response. I will definitely look that up as you suggested.

[@mehdiboquetcherfa7050]

excellent merci!

[@lovetoshare3478]

Great! I like the way you teach which gives me ideas to come up my own. Thx a bunch.

[@doomk2020]

What bass are you playing ??? Looks amazing

[@paulsathi6447]

I really enjoyed it, keep doing stuff like this

[@BecomeABassist]

For sure @Paul Sathi - I've got more in the works for you.

[@paulsathi6447]

Thank you 😊

[@katekim5560]

Thank you.😊

[@Diaaze]

you are always so good to me Luke. Sade! HEART HEART HEART

[@skippto]

Great instructional video. I have ended up learning Smooth operator & Stealing My Kisses all the way through, which were both great fun. Just about to start Aeroplane, which looks far more challenging. Still fun though. Thanks.

[@BecomeABassist]

Awesome work @skippto!

[@jacobwick5291]

Thanks a lot!! I love the second solo. Can anyone help me counting it? I cant figure out how to play it to a beat. Is it a 4/4rythm?

[@Jay_Moreno]

1:29

[@subhrajyotisarkar2072]

This helped a lot

[@BecomeABassist]

Great to hear @subhrajyoti sakar!

[@calebh2053]

I’m working on a bass solo now this helped a lot thanks

[@BecomeABassist]

Amazing to hear @Caleb H!

[@mehdiboquetcherfa7050]

continue svp superbe basse!!!

[@RaFF9_9]

Thank you for the toturial so amazing dude ❤🔥

[@paulogurrieri2221]

super genial, gracias por compartir🙂🤙

[@maryfarmer1020]

Thanks. Great breakdowns.

[@peterthegreat996]

Maybe try to break down the solo from , “Atomic?”

[@casseyalcayagaofficial2150]

Very helpful! Looking forward for more videos!

[@stefceusplays8551]

Don’t mind me but I might steal these to use in a solo part that’s meant to be improv or written 😅

[@Pale4bass]

thank you!!!

[@jamesmarshall8408]

Try Led Zeppelin- The Lemon Song..........that should be easy:)

[@billyjohnson9572]

That's not a solo...

[@wicklandrealestategroup9908]

Great video. Thanks for doing it!

[@donh5794]

Nice lesson on solos! Do you have a video on improvising? I did not know that solo in Smooth Operator was a bass. When I first heard the song many yrs ago, I thought it was a guitar.

[@BecomeABassist]

Absolutely @Don H - I have about 23 videos about improvising! They're all in this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLng38Iik54jgSPIHVMwb4lBmdv3zxiPNY

[@donh5794]

@@BecomeABassist Thanks!

[@MontyVGK]

"A Bassists is always doing a solo, but never doing a solo" -a random guy

[@wilfredomendez3450]

Awesome, dude.

[@BecomeABassist]

Cheers @Wilfredo Mendez

[@NoahLinebarrier]

There’s a bass solo in a song called Metropolis where I do a bass solo.

[@chipmonk9101]

Would love to see a jack Bruce inspired lesson

[@BecomeABassist]

That's interesting @Chip Monk - what would you like to see in a lesson like that?

[@chipmonk9101]

Just some of the fills he uses and where to use them

[@DrBASSics10]

I was laughin because the dog was passing from the camera and luke seems not disturbed hahahahaha

[@Rustinho]

Luke: [plays bass] Doggo: "I halp." Honestly, I get the same here.

[@BecomeABassist]

Arnie is always up in my business. Lol

[@thenathanimal2909]

Damn bass is hard. I can't even play these very slowly without strings buzzing like crazy, and I've played guitar for years lol

[@karlgronbach2066]

HI Luke, I am an 85 yr. old just learning notes on the bass. What does the X (third note on Hot Chile Peppers) mean?

[@michaelmccomb4943]

I'm pretty sure this means missed note in the beat, somebody correct me if I'm wrong!

[@michaelmccomb4943]

Oh sorry I just rechecked that...it a quick ghosted note

[@BecomeABassist]

@Michael McComb is right @karl gronbach - they're ghosted notes. I have a lesson all about them if you want to check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6fOloxubLapeqM

[@Kat-Kobold]

first bass solo i ever tried to learn was Geezer Butler's solo from the start of N.I.B. I still have not learned it. Instead I wrote my own loosely inspired by Cliff Burton's bass solo in Orion

[@carlosqueredamolina4851]

Keep it up! It was my first bass solo too and It rocks!

[@okbill18yearsagoedited25]

Same

[@jhay3966]

me tryna play these in my hybrid E1 B2 G2 D3 G3 A#4, baritone guitar bass it's like learning a language that uses the same letters but has different grammar rules

[@maks886]

Hahahah the intro caught me off guard :D

[@Defmusicman1]

Hi. I’m a deaf bassist and I’m trying to improvise an uptempo bass solo in D minor. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

[@onyjdm]

Wow! Good luck. How is progress so far?

[@paulogongora3371]

Tank you********

[@shmoogle2330]

Epic

[@livebetter1277]

What is the name of that Sade sound?

[@BecomeABassist]

The name of the song? it’s Smooth Operator: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoW8p2WGnaxrb6M

[@1234drums]

Nice tasty licks ❤❤❤❤

[@CamBoyHan]

18:08 18:22

[@natebukowski160]

you know you came here to learn to play like flea

[@thathawaiiandude787]

Naw….although, he kicks azz and I’m sure inspired (and continues to inspire) an insane amount of bass players. But, I’m all about SADE and her bassists with the always smooth, Jazz, Soul lines that I never get bored playing no matter my mood. Oh, and the ladies love to get close up when groovin’ something in a SADE World🎼🔥🤙🏾

[@Spritsailor]

That Flea bass solo was stolen by him from funk players in the '70's. It was a common funk bass line I learned in 1977.

[@BecomeABassist]

I don't know if I'd use the word 'stolen' in this context. Was he influenced by funk players of the '70s. Absolutely! He probably absorbed a lot the musical language of those players and it comes out in his own playing. But did he 'steal' this solo note-for-note - I don't think so, but if you have a recording/link of a solo that someone else played, please share it with us. That'd be super interesting.

[@Spritsailor]

@@BecomeABassist oh man, coming up with a specific recording 45 years later would be tough. I have played that riff almost note for note this whole time. Flea added maybe two notes LOL and made it a little busier, something the funk players tried to avoid.

[@BecomeABassist]

Well if you think of the recording, I’d love to hear it.

[@kuhbert2770]

im playing fot two years now and struggle with the first one. LOL i hate my life

[@jz13]

I wish you were my teacher

[@f1rexycodm354]

No one: Him: Ghost it note Me: wtf Post it note

[@nachtmensch2023]

Headaches for beginners guaranteed. ;-)

[@blaisew73]

still way to fast "switching" for me xD but I can play it more or less at 0.5x Speed now xD

[@allanknight893]

When I clicked to get the Tabs, I only got the tab for the RHCP song and not Sade or Ben Harper.

[@BecomeABassist]

Hey Allan! You may need to scroll down - it's all in the one PDF.

[@illegalpoptart9633]

Pls slow down

[@THERedstoneRocket189]

banana bass

[@joeysisk5619]

This is a good video, but you need to find a way to reduce the mouth noises when your speaking. There are a lot of smacking wet noises in this video.

[@BecomeABassist]

That's interesting. Do you notice it in any of my other videos? Or is it just this one?