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How to Play Octave Slides On Bass: Essential Rock Technique
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How to Play Octave Slides On Bass: Essential Rock Technique

In this lesson, we take a look at octave slides and how they can intensify our rock and roll bass playing! We’ll practice playing a root note in the lower register of the bass and then slide up to play the octave on the adjacent string.

Learn How To Play Pull-Offs: Essential Funk Bass Technique – Part 2
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Learn How To Play Pull-Offs: Essential Funk Bass Technique – Part 2

In Part 2 of this lesson series, we further develop our bass groove with the E minor pentatonic scale and a few built-in moves perfect for pull-offs.

Learn How To Play Pull-Offs: Essential Funk Bass Technique – Part 1
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Learn How To Play Pull-Offs: Essential Funk Bass Technique – Part 1

This lesson explores the pull-off technique, an essential element of bass playing. While it’s typically used in funk, this can be applied across all genres of music.

Talking Technique: Bass Octaves and Chromaticism with Slides and Hammer-Ons
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Talking Technique: Bass Octaves and Chromaticism with Slides and Hammer-Ons

In this video, Ari opens up the idea factory again: Octaves, chromaticism, peppered with slides and hammer-ons. These are tools to make your grooves to come alive!

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tapping Chord With Melodies on “Riches to the Conjuror”
Tapping Technique and Composition

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tapping Chord With Melodies on “Riches to the Conjuror”

The final installment of John Ferrara’s excellent “Tapping Technique and Composition” lesson series on No Treble is here. In this episode, John shows one way that we can accomplish playing a melody on top of an arpeggiated chord progression.

Tapping Technique and Composition: Percussive Bass Tapping on “Riches to the Conjuror”
Tapping Technique and Composition

Tapping Technique and Composition: Percussive Bass Tapping on “Riches to the Conjuror”

For his newest “Tapping Technique and Composition” lesson, John Ferrara says, “Let’s turn the bass into a drum, shall we?” The technique used in this lesson is his new favorite to play with in a solo bass setting.

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tapping Polyrhythms, Part 2 – Zeroes and Ones
Tapping Technique and Composition

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tapping Polyrhythms, Part 2 – Zeroes and Ones

In this new “Tapping Technique” bass lesson, John Ferrara shares part 2 of his “Tapping Polyrhythms” series. This lesson is based on one rhythm doing 3 and one doing 2. Check this out.

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tapping Polyrhythms, Part 1 – Zeroes and Ones
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Tapping Technique and Composition: Tapping Polyrhythms, Part 1 – Zeroes and Ones

In this new “Tapping Technique and Composition” bass lesson, John Ferrara focuses on tapping polyrhythms. In part 1 of this series, he uses his song, “Zeroes and Ones,” to demonstrate.

Tapping Technique and Composition: False Delay Tapping on “The Gnome and The Skeleton”
Tapping Technique and Composition

Tapping Technique and Composition: False Delay Tapping on “The Gnome and The Skeleton”

In this episode of “Tapping Technique and Composition,” John Ferrara focuses on the subject of “False Delay Tapping.” This technique includes tapping notes with the left hand and then mimicking them with staccato notes with the right.

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tremolo Tapping on “The Gnome and The Skeleton”
Tapping Technique and Composition

Tapping Technique and Composition: Tremolo Tapping on “The Gnome and The Skeleton”

John Ferrara’s next bass lesson in his “Tapping Technique and Composition” series focuses on “Tremolo Tapping.” John demonstrates this technique using his song, “The Gnome and the Skeleton.”

Tapping Technique and Composition: “Perhaps Everything, Perhaps Nothing” – Part 2
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Tapping Technique and Composition: “Perhaps Everything, Perhaps Nothing” – Part 2

In this new “Tapping Technique and Composition” lesson, John Ferrara covers two main topics: Tapping in odd time signatures and a more in-depth explanation of extracting as much as you can out of a musical idea before moving on to something new.

Tapping Technique and Composition: “Perhaps Everything, Perhaps Nothing” – Part 1
Tapping Technique and Composition

Tapping Technique and Composition: “Perhaps Everything, Perhaps Nothing” – Part 1

John Ferrara has joined No Treble. In this first part of his Tapping Technique and Composition bass lesson series, he focuses on drone tapping.