Yes church bass family! Drop a link to your social media or a video of you playing bass in the comments below and let's grow together and support each other!

I’m curious, what do you enjoy doing outside of music? It’s easy to get so caught up in music and forget that we are all real people here. Let me know, what are you into outside of music?

This lesson was inspired by @Roy Houston who mentioned about memorising more complex lines and getting away from just root notes. I guess this is part one of the answer to that question to cover any holes in bass line creation and give you some simple structures to add some flavour to simple songs pt2 will deal with more ideas and strategy for song learning and memorisation. What are your approaches to this?

Ok, so I have a problem when it comes to playing. My ADHD messes with my head and I can't seem to do the root note only thing when I know a song has a more complex bassline. However I've also got the memory retention of a gnat when it comes to complex basslines. Does anyone have a techniques they use to remember more complex stuff? Something that works when all you have is lyrics and chord markers? I'd really like to get past the root notes only thing, so stuff sounds more like it was written and not sound like it's missing something.

That is the question. These days there’s so much talk around not needing an amp, not using an amp and basically “dead “the modern day amp is for Bass Guitar. What do you do? Where do you sit in this conversation? 👀👀 Personally I’ve come almost full circle from carrying a big old heavy PV 4 x 10 cab that weighed 45 kg to bringing just a DI preamp, to now using a smaller amp rig on almost every stage I play. Nothing can replace the real feeling of speakers pushing air and in my experience the whole band tends to perform better with the of the Bass amp because everyone feels the music and groove that much more. These days I use my little RS210 TC cab. I play around with using the TC electronic head or swapping it out for the little mark Bass head. I have a full Aguilar AG700 head with SL212 Cab that is beautiful but 9/10 I'll just go for the slightly smaller rig as it’s easier to transport and fit on any stage.