Recent content by hoffmann

@ Wes Stephenson : loved your impro dude!! very nice melodies in there!! keep it up!! :) here is a bass cover of the bee gees' stayin alive!! hope you'll like it!! :bassist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DzoNOBA37A

New article! This one works on your phrasing!! Very interesting topic to me but hard to explain... anyway I hope it will be of some use!! ;)

and here we go for another article! this one is meant to give you some tools to get comfortable to improvise!! It is a mix of Wooten's idea and what I learnt from my former teacher! Hope it helps!! :)

Heyyy!!! I just wrote another article! It is based on a previous one but more in depth! Check it out! :bassist::)

Hey guys! Just uploaded a new article today!! It is a professional bass player i quoted when he talked about how to behave, in which state of mind one should be when playing music... very interesting! check it out!

Thanks a lot!! I am glad it helped at least one person! ;) To DudeistMonk, ok I did not understand that at first! But you know I am not really into serious theory and stuff... the only things I do know are scales and chords but appart from that... ^^ I don't think it is compulsory to feel the...

Cheers mate!! :hyper: But what do you mean by "later blog post"?

Hey guys!! Just wrote an article on a weird concept by Wooten... but it works! Just breath with your bass line! but everything is written on the blog! ;) Hope it will help! :)

And here we go for an article on a fooooooooonnnky pattern: root octave!! Hope it is of some use!! :)

Hey! I just wrote an article on scales and notes one should try to use to grooove!! check it and please give feedback (here or there)! :bassist::)

Cheers mate!! :D

You're right! Band members should stick to their role. Of course, one can have a say to someone else's riffs/lines/lyrics/whatever but the last word must go to the one who's playing them. You know better than him what a bassline should looki like (and that's because you ARE a bass player and...

Article on ghost notes uploaded! :) Btw, Have I mentionned that your own grooves are welcomed?! please explain them here and I'll upload them on the blog so that everybody can learn from it!

I am not sure I understood you perfectly but yes indeed my groove definition is quite simple. Of course groove comes from learning these components you were talking about. However, if someone who does not know anything about groove wants to understand what it is, IMHO the easiest way would be to...

New articles uploaded! :bassist: