How To Make A Bass Line - Basic Guide
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- How To Make A Bass Line - Basic Guide
A basic guide to writing / playing a bass line on your bass ukuleles. I look at how you can make your bass line more interesting if you are just following chord charts, especially if you are playing in a ukulele group. Using different rhythms, octaves and passing notes an easy way to make your bass lines better.
"12 bar blues in A" full backing track included at end of video!
How to make bass lines:
00:00 Intro to how to make interesting bass lines - basic guide
02:17 12 bar blues in A just using root notes but different rhythms
04:26 Bass line adding octaves and rhythms
06:35 Bass line adding 5th and various rhythms
09:24 Using passing notes in your bass lines
12:12 Making your bass line more interesting using our new knowledge
15:31 Overview of making a bass line
16:41 Backing track for 12 bar blues in A
Video features the following ukuleles and equipment:
Fanner Pee Wee Bass Ukulele
Barefaced One 10 Cab
Genzler Magellan 350 Bass Amplification
Behringer V-Tone Bass BDI21
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Your bass lessons just keep getting better. This was very helpful. As a bass player for a uke group, thanks for the reminder that my main job is keeping the rhythm.
My pleasyre as always, just so glad to be helping and more coming soon.
Thank you. I picked up u-bass because our Rubber City Ukulele group in Akron, Ohio didn't have a bass player. I have learned so much from you.
Glad I could help and so good to hear you are playing with a group too. Please feel free to ask if you ever have any questions.
Thanks for posting this. I'm a teacher and recognize well scaffolded lessons (basics first with increasing difficulty added in small steps.)
You're very welcome and much appreciated comment. 😊
I love the purple on the bass it looks so cool
Thanks Meg. Hope you are feeling okay, we are missing you in school.
@@UkuleleWales Thankyou!! I have emailed you about when I’m allowed back so hopefully it’s soon as I’m missing you all too :(
I can follow you, just by reading the line. Im a 63 year old true bass beginner and fascinated by listening. I wish i was in the room with you to learn, but the tutorial is fabulous, all so new to me, i dont read music as such, just childhood piano lessons, ive always had a really good sense of rhythm, this instrument suits my personality, thanks so much for your lessons. ❤
Thanks Jackie, loved reading you comment and so glad to hear you are enjoying the bass and learning so much. Keep up the good work! 😊
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank You.
You are welcome, glad I could help.
Love this video Rachael. You are a gifted blessing to us all. Thank you. Xx
Thank you so much Janice, just very glad to be helping as always.
Thanks Rachel, a revelation!! Looking forwards to more vids like this one Hwyl !
Diolch Lois, definitely more of these to come plus I've still got a few more reading music ones to finish that series off.
That was great Rachel 👍
So glad to have helped, Thanks
Always goode too regularly get back to basics and practice them over and over. Thanks!
Thanks Ian.
Thanks for another excellent tutorial. Very well explained. Always look forward to anything bass. Stay safe and well.
Thanks Michael. Will finish off the reading music vids soon too and yes, definitely more of these to come.
Merci beaucoup. I'm learning the piano after 65 years of joking that I was born with two left ears. I love learning about music and my daughter loaned me her ukulele. Listening to you really makes me want to train my ear better. I know when it's a wrong note, but it's hard to tell the right note.
Loved reading your comment and so glad you are giving it a go. It isn’t easy to start but sounds like you are already making great progress! 😊
Thank you Rachel I found that really helpful.
My pleasure Derek. Hopefully see you over the Summer.
Fabulous lesson. Thank you!
I recently mentioned the 12 bar blues to a friend and she asked "What are 12 baboos?"
LOL Love it Shirl, stories like this always make me laugh! I had a kid in school ask me what a "gooseneck" guitar was recently- after a LOT of questioning, I discovered they meant "acoustic" LOL
@@UkuleleWales OMG that is hysterical! And now I'm off to practice my 12 baboos on my gooseneck u-bass👍
Thank you Rachel. This is exactly the sort of lesson/course I, and I would imagine many others are looking for. I, as what I term a, ‘bedroom bassist’ ( I’m not looking to join a group or play in front of audiences) only need to play a rough approximation of what is being played on records but so many tutorials only provide an exact detailed copy of the original which is all credit to them but not what I’m looking for. I want something more improvised that works and more easily learned which your tutorial does. Looking forward to the next lesson.
So glad to have helped. As someone who has always read music I do like having "the original" bass line but as a teacher I've always felt it so important to make it as easy as possible to enjoy playing ad in many cases, the original bass line isn't neccessarily the best option. Will be many more of these to come.
Oh, this was fun. But now I have to go back to the very beginning of your walking bass course.
Glad you enjoyed but feel free to ask if you have any questions.
j’adore >poker face < 😂🤣👌🏼
Great lesson Rachel, something for me to work towards 👍
Glad as always to be helping Mike. Ask away if you have any questions. 👍
@Ukulele Wales thanks Rachel, your very kind, I'm following your lessons and practicing three times a day. Slow to sink in, lol
Great starter guide for folks. I need to do that with my uke bass. I’ve been playing guitar so long, that I tend to translate that experience to bass, and I feel what I need to do instead is effectively start from scratch with very rudimentary bass lessons. I have found this especially taxing with the fretless bass. That said, my daughter and I will be working on some bass kits in the fall, so I’ll make certain mine has frets! Thanks for the video, as always.
My pleasure as always and great to hear your daughter is playing too.
Thank you once again Rachel, great stuff. All things I have been doing, but listening to you builds my confidence. Some different styles/genres would be brilliant, when you have time. I have done your walking bass videos soooo many times. 😂
You are so welcome Eileen and so glad it is building your confidence, sometimes you just need to know you ARE doing the right things already! Yes, definitely more of these to come.
@@UkuleleWales you paly my song
Wow Rachel, thank you. You do make it look so easy, if only I could abstract it into my own hands😂. This is very helpful, after following sheet music for so many years its hard to transition to bass without something to follow. Trying to get this all into my old brain. Look forward to more.
Thanks Loree, yes, for a long time I found it very difficult to play without the actual notes but over many years I've retrained myself to do it and it makes so much sense when it comes to playing along with groups. Hope you are keeping weel, any new instruments? ;-)
@@UkuleleWales no right now. I still owe you a pic of my Fanner, will get on that.
Looking into a kit to make my own uke. Thinking of a project for next winter as winters are long in Maine. Stewmac is the company, they have kit instructions in a series of you tube videos.
Be safe and well.Always look forward to more vids, no pressure or anything 😂
When playing rhythm on old-time, Appalachian Mountain tunes with acoustic guitar, we call those notes used to move between chords "walk ups" and "walk downs." I love how those whatever-you-call-them sound on Pee Wee! Also, can I say "anymore" anymore about that lovely lavender fretwrap? lol
LOL! Yes, fretwraps coming soon. "Passing notes" is what I've always called them but I really like "walk ups & downs" Make a lot of sense. Thanks for the email, replied a little earlier.
Hi Rachel, another great video..Are you planning to get a Flight mini bass and review it. I've had mine a week now and am very pleased with it. It's taken a bit of getting used to though with steel strings and slightly longer scale length compared to my Kala
Hi Malcolm, I think you already know. Yes, I will be borrowing one to review and no doubt I will get one in the end, just had already set me mind on a Magic Fluke Timber. First impression of the Flight though - VERY nice!
Hope you don't mind me asking using this medium but I play a Magic Fluke solid body bass direct to a Phil Jones combo but what difference does a Behringer V tone make to the sound?
Hi Keith, that sounds like an awesome combination of bass and amp, both of which are quality. The Behringer might give you a few more tonal options, I find it helps boost the Fanner Pee Wee but as I haven't play a Fluke Timber (yet!) It might not need a volume boost. The Behringer is definitely worth trying for the price though and it may give you some nice tones. Let me know if you do try it.
Would you talk about your fret wrap? I see those but I'm not sure how they work or what to get to try them out.
Yes Dave, I've been asked to already and it's definitely on the list to do.
Rachel!! I need your help! Where can I find this bass you play!? I have a kala style bass now and really want a steel string bass. Any help would be 👍🏻.
Hi Chris, it's a Fanner Pee Wee bass. They are custom made in South Africs, you can find them here: www.fannerelectricukulele.com/peewee-bass-electric-ukulele/
Also worth checking out the Fanner facebook page as they are always posting pic of more instruments that they've made.
Though I have no interest in playing bass, I really like listening to it.
There's me thinking that playing bass was easy? Cheers.
LOL! Thanks Des, very glad you enjoyed.