5 Tips to Help You Play ANY Bassline | Learn to Play La Grange

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Learning to play ANY bassline requires the same essential skill sets. In this lesson, I’m going to go over 5 key tips that will help YOU learn to play La Grange…AND…put you on the road to learning any other bassline that you might want to. I’ll be covering right-hand techniques, articulating notes, thumb muting, tracking the beat, and working yourself up to tempo so that you can get playing as fast as possible!

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🎧LESSON INDEX

0:00 Lesson Intro
0:57 TIP #1 FINGER CYCLING
4:48 TIP #2 PLAY LEGATO
7:19 TIP #3 RIGHT-HAND THUMB MUTE
9:12 TIP #4 TRACK THE BEAT
10:15 TIP #5 STEP INTO THE TEMPO
11:41 Wrap Up

🧠CONCEPTS

Cycle through 3 fingers to get more longevity, speed, and accuracy in your bass playing
FOCUS on the Bass Skills You’re Building
Build Complexity SLOWLY Over Time

“Normal” notes have some space in between them
“Legato” notes blend together

LEGATO TECHNIQUES
1) Keep the
Strings Held Down
2) Avoid the
Open Strings
3) Use Neighboring Fingers (easier than barring with the pinky)

MOVEABLE THUMB: If You Are Playing on the G…Rest Your Thumb on the A

1) DECIDE Where the Beat is in the Song
2) Keep Track of the Beat PHYSICALLY

Words to Live By…
*Don’t Try to Learn Your Basslines at FULL TEMPO!
Slow down my cover of La Grange on YouTube so play along at a slower speed

Do What You CAN…Not What You THINK You SHOULD Be Able To

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