Rock Bass Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl16th February 2008
  Love it - thanks Bogdan!
- botoxfox16th February 2008
  Sounds nice.
- ZakkWylde16th February 2008
  The more fun the faster you play this one - good job!
- Muris Varajic16th February 2008
  Nice!
- coffeeman16th February 2008
  Very nice lesson Bogdan, thanks.
- Pablo Vazquez16th February 2008
  Great Lesson!
- Dejan Farkas16th February 2008
  Very nice Bogdan
- at lights end16th February 2008
  cool
- Nemanja Filipovic16th February 2008
  great Bole...for me it is so important to hear this lessons..becouse I wright my own bass lines..so you help me very much..beaing the bass player...and figuring opt how the bass players would think
- Juan M. Valero16th February 2008
  Just say you rock man !!!
- Hisham Al-Sanea16th February 2008
  welldone Bogdan,,,perfect job
- Bogdan Radovic17th February 2008
  Thanks people I'm really glad you like it!
- Ivan Milenkovic17th February 2008
  Well done Bole. Great job!
- Joe Kataldo17th February 2008
  I Have to start learn Bass again, cool lesson
- purple hayes18th February 2008
  I used some of this lesson when i played with our church group this morning as I subbed for the bass player.
- Bogdan Radovic18th February 2008
  Thats great news Purple hayes I'm really glad you put it in a good use!
- Toni Suominen21st February 2008
  Great lesson Bogdan, looks like a lot of fun!!
- SinoMan1st March 2008
  Awesome! Now I want a bass haha!
- Carlos Carrillo9th May 2008
  very nice lesson Bogdan!!!!
- Joe Kataldo2nd August 2008
  Sometime I go Back to this lesson to listen it over and over again...I've to say it, you are genius!

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- Tags: Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Rock n Roll,
Hello GMC!
-In today's lesson we are going to Rock 'n' Roll!! The groove we are going to learn is very typical for golden rock era - 50s and 60s.Songs from bands like Chuck Berry,Elvis Presley,The Beatles made this bass line famous.Now we are going back in time to learn a groove that will include many of the licks typical for that era of rock.Remember that this kind of bass line remained strong and its still in use today.

-I composed this little rockin' tune and included different rock licks in it.It will be a very good left hand finger exercise and especially right hand exercise because you will be playing alternating finger picking all the time on different strings and on this tempo it may not be so easy to do.You can use this groove in a song to make it little more old school rock sounding..Also this groove is ideal for jamming with friends..

-Scale used in this lesson is mainly A mixolydian , with some added notes coming from chromatic scale.

-Key: A
-Tempo: 145 bpm
-Time signature: 4/4
-Tuning : standard
-Difficulty: beginner/intermediate

Equipment I used for getting this sound was: Peavey Cirrus bass with active soapbar pickups, equal mix of both of them with added treble and middle on onboard eq - then going to the nemesis(eden) amp with a 1x15" and slightly added bass and treble there (at 1 o'clock position).

Feel free to ask me any questions in the lesson feedback and in my instructor board at forum.

Enjoy and I hope you'll have a lot of fun rockin' this one!

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