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.
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.
Artists like Billy Sheehan, Stu Hamm, Victor Wooten, Dave La Rue, John Myung and others are famous for using this technique.It will add a new voice and ideas to your own bass lines and composing.
We are going to learn how to play a famous traditional dance called "Uzicko kolo", after the city of Uzice (in which it originated) that is located in the center of Serbia. This is a group dance song without lyrics. "Kolo" is a dance in which dancers form a circle and hold their hands together.
Most bass players use two or three finger technique.It allows you to play faster and smoother and expands your abilities when it comes to playing more complicated fingerstyle stuff on bass.
Double thumb technique is made famous and brought to perfection by Victor Wooten, Les Claypool and many others! Its a very percussive technique mainly used in slap bass lines but you can incorporate it to any style of playing to get some cool cross rhythm possibilities or just plain speed.
Time to introduce you to the world of tapping on a bass guitar! Bass players like Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, John Myung, Les Claypool are famous for using this technique.
Dead notes are produced by string muting technique. String muting is one of the most useful techniques which you can use to develop a good groove. Bass guitar can be a very percussive instrument and string muting creates a percussive sound that can add a new dimension to your playing and bass lines.
Slap style is what everyone wants to do when they start playing bass. Nowadays these bass players are famous for using that technique: Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke etc.