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“How to play xyz” tutorials online

So having been a guitar player for 10 years I really love this guys site

Shutup & Play - guitar tutorials

for teaching how to play guitar parts on songs that are dead on, or pretty darn close to the way the originals were done.
Can anyone recommend a few sites that do the same thing for the bass parts of songs?

There seems to be a lot more YouTube videos of someone playing along with various popular songs, but not necessarily giving instruction as to how to play each part. Simple songs are easier to pick up from watching someone play it, but for more complicated runs, or even ones where I can't clearly see what the fretting hand is doing, I'd rather have the song broken down into parts to learn.
 
If I can't grasp it by ear, CoverSolutions has been helpful to me. He doesn't really break stuff down, but he offers the tabs or notation and those can be opened in a program that plays them. Slow it down and it becomes much easier to grasp what exactly is going on. Heck, just slowing the video down can be helpful.


Edit: D'oh! I've been playing that G# as a G :facepalm: