You will practice getting that feeling for playing natural harmonics and the precision needed. You will gain a good control over left hand. Also right hand will be playing fingerstyle, plucking the strings like playing the classical guitar.
I'm sure you've done something similar on the guitar, and here the same exercise is used to give your voice better control over pitch, while changing the notes in the melody. The purpose of exercise is to increase your's voice ability to sing properly.
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.
We are going to practice playing octaves on bass using fingerstyle technique. Playing octaves is very important aspect of your bass vocabulary. Also its quite simple to do and adds a lot of color and ideas to your own bass lines.
Here's a lesson devoted to just the kick drum. Especially in today's rock music the bass drum has been extremely important. The beat presented here is all about the kick. As you can see, there really isn't much to the rest of the beat.
The song is easy, and the melody is very straightforward. In this lesson we will focus mostly on our vibrato and pitch modulation on certain words in the song while singing. You will notice how I execute the vibrato on certain notes, and try to do the same.