Creating A Bass Line From A Beat For Beginners

[@LeeKennison]

Excellent. This has the potential to be your best course yet. At least from a practical day to day playing aspect. Chord tones and such, are probably better in terms of foundation. But this is the perfect one to build on that foundation going forward.

[@grahamdavies3102]

I agree - I'm really looking forward to it.

[@ravbuddy]

Excited!

[@Inferno5150]

I just learned something. Thanks 👍

[@sparkspark2314]

This has always been something that when I heard it talked about, nobody could explain it clearly. As I started playing bass to my own songs while recording, I used the bass as another melodic instrument… a counter punctual melody line to create interest in the music. And in fact, that is basically my take on all the instruments in my rock band setting. But this simple explanation here now gives me a clear understanding of what I might do, if I wanted to do this, and why it’s done. Being self taught on all my instruments, I generally don’t play them in a traditional way. I put parts together that sound good to my ear, and that frame the song/music in the way/vibe that accents what’s going on in that song. It’s served me well as I seem to do things that others who that is their sole instrument seem to find clever or interesting, a different approach than they might have had. But I believe in strong fundamentals, so just the first 5:20 of this video has been super helpful to me. I look forward to learn more from you. 💯

[@diggmo]

Mark - this is the start of something great here. I've been drumming for 40+ years and have played with some really good bass players. Although the drums seem very staccato in terms of note values, I don't think of them that way when I'm playing. The best bass players I've worked with are able to lock in very well while recognizing that some of the instrument choices I make are implying longer note values. Fascinating stuff! And as a student of the bass I'm eager to see where this leads. Thank you!

[@martinheath5947]

Very, very important stuff here. Good lesson!

[@denistomas33]

Thanks from Brazil for all of your contributions!!

[@pudifake6848]

thx for the lesson, ill study i promisse

[@lauraanne5175]

Gurl, I'm with you. I don't know why I don't study/practice more LOL. I need an accountability coach or something to check in bc I know when I do play I feel better...Maybe self sabotage.

[@pudifake6848]

@@lauraanne5175 true

[@lauraanne5175]

Excited about this one!!!🍍

[@alexl.9917]

Excellent explanation of the most important fundamentals, great and very valuable 👍

[@themosaito]

Great video, thanks!

[@davidpotts4368]

Really appreciate this and looking forward to the other video's in this course

[@kimhebert9905]

Great Video Mark👍

[@oumaronald2920]

Excellent

[@lukenguyen9698]

so amazing, nice work Mr.

[@Jdman5000]

Great video, very helpful thank you !!

[@mikephillips8810]

excellent

[@thomasfioriglio]

Excellent lesson Mark, and something I definitely need to do more of. When I started playing bass and writing my own bass lines, I would always play to my guitarist and not the drummer. Basically because my band went through many different drummers. It wasn't until many years later that I became aware of what the drummer was playing. Admittedly, playing along to drum tracks is something I do not do too often and know I should be doing more. This video proved that, as right away, I was playing along and coming up with my own grooves. Thanks for sharing this. Fantastic stuff as always!

[@LeMans512]

Really great lesson for any instrument. So you know what the bass player is doing and why. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@markbass354]

VERY NICE VIDEO

[@ajpittaway]

Hey Mark, thx for another excellent lesson. I have an idea for a future session: the songs/sound of the awesome Jean-Jaques Burnel/The Stranglers

[@turnoffthelights183]

Great video Mark! Do you think you could teach us the song What You Won’t Do For Love covered by Victor Wooten, there are no ways to learn it online and I would love to see you teach it. Your videos are really well made and everything is very easy to understand. If you could that would be awesome.

[@kahwigulum]

9:09 sounds great but i cant see a beginner figuring something like that out given just the drum pattern

[@talkingbasslessons]

No they won’t. That’s just an example of how the hi hat outlines the subdivisions you can use. The course is very progressive in terms of the grooves and VERY beginner based at the start

[@izzy1349]

I think u kept the bottom of the description from the joy division video accidentally

[@abbeyna01]

I didn't see the course on your website :(

[@MarcosDanielMorais]

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