now playing:
More
- Country Style 2LEVEL 4Learn how to add transition notes and play in staccato feeling when improvising a country style bass line.
- Country Hybrid PickingLEVEL 3A short etude designed to develop right hand technique indicative of country music and "chicken picking" in particular. This hybrid style adds the second, third and fourth fingers to a standard flat picking technique and gives the player a unique control over picking dynamics and tone.
- Slash Style: Country SoloingLEVEL 6In songs like "I Used To Love Her", "Sweet Child o´Mine" and "Paradise City" Slash play a lot of cliches from country music, in this lesson we will illustrate some of them.
- Country TuneLEVEL 7A classic country tune in a polka style, simple but effective, inspired by different licks and riffs from Danny Gatton and Steve Trovato, true masters of this style.
- Danny Boy Country StyleLEVEL 3A traditional Irish folk song - country style!
- Fingerstyle CountryLEVEL 5A warm Travis picking style rhythm.
- Country RollLEVEL 7This is my idea of Country mixed with Rock n Roll, where I am playing lots of lots of dominants, ( Mixolydian modes, Minor 7 Pentatonics, Major b7 Pentatonics and the relative minor Pentatonic Scale). The techniques predominant here are bending, legato and open strings.
- Bakersfield CountryLEVEL 3Twangy Bakersfield, California style
- Country GospelLEVEL 4Country style rhythm 'n solo in a Gospel setting.
Feedback
Bogdan Radovic15th January 2009Thanks guys for your cool comments !
Gerardo Siere15th January 2009Cool lesson!
Vasilije Vukmirovic15th January 2009Vozi Misko what can I say:)
Very cheerful. Reminds me of come cartoon Generalova radnja.
Hisham Al-Sanea14th January 2009very good lesson Bogdan.good job mate
Dejan Farkas14th January 2009Cool
Emir Hot14th January 2009very nice Bogdan, scale variations are great
Toni Suominen14th January 2009Great work Bogdan!
David Wallimann14th January 2009Cool lesson Bogdan!
Sounds like Stu Hamm's Country solo he does all the time. ;-)
Nazgul14th January 2009Very funny, Country on Bass. Didn't know it was possible.
Carlos Carrillo14th January 2009Its Great Bodgan! I love the Country!
- Bogdan Radovic14th January 2009
Thanks guys! Glad you like the lesson!
Piotr Kaczor14th January 2009Cool bass line Bogdan, I call it "ping-pong"
Very useful lesson, mate!
Ivan Milenkovic14th January 2009Cool one Bole, very good!
Pedja Simovic14th January 2009Cool lesson Bogdan - love the double time feel in the middle
purple hayes14th January 2009Nice lesson. It's going into my bass lessons queue.
- Lesson
- My notes
Hello GMC!
-Today we are going to tackle some Country music bass and you are going to learn a useful bass pattern that can be used effectively in many other music genres too, for successful improvising. This beginner level lesson will help you practice your left and right hand technique as you go through it.
-Backing track is fun Country style one. You are going to play half and 8th notes in this lesson with a little Staccato feeling to them. You will learn how to improvise a bass line in Country music with the use of roots and 5ths as your note choice exclusively.
-This lesson is in the key of C major. All notes will belong to C major scale.
-Key: C
-Tempo: 120 bpm
-Time signature: 4/4
-Tuning: standard
-Difficulty: beginner
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 bass 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 grooving in this one!From this course:
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
Increase / decrease speed : `+` or `-`
