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Stella By Starlight Duo Performance by Olivier Babaz and Sam Dunn
Stella By Starlight Duo Performance by Olivier Babaz and Sam Dunn

Olivier Babaz and Sam Dunn perform Stella by Starlight by Victor Young.

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Spice Up Your Funk Bass Solos
Spice Up Your Funk Bass Solos

Funk champion Chris Minh Doky teaches how to spice up your bass solos.

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Getting Funky with a Metronome
Getting Funky with a Metronome

Funk champion Chris Minh Doky teaches how to get funky with a metronome in your practice.

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Our Top Double Bass Intonation Lessons
Our Top Double Bass Intonation Lessons

Our top lessons for improving your intonation on the double bass.

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Adding The Blues to Your Bass Lines
Adding The Blues to Your Bass Lines

Reginald Veal demonstrates how to add the special blues ingredient to spice up your bass lines.

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Get Started with Improvising
Get Started with Improvising

Katie Thiroux teaches how to get started with improvising using rhythmic motifs.

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Percussive Brushing Effect on Two-Feel Bass Lines
Percussive Brushing Effect on Two-Feel Bass Lines

Olivier Babaz teaches how to mimic jazz drums played with brushes on the double bass.

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Building Funky Bass Lines
Building Funky Bass Lines

Funk champion Chris Minh Doky teaches how to build up a funk bass line.

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Russell's Rhythm Workout!
Russell's Rhythm Workout!

In this preview lesson from ‘Bessie’s Bass Busters’, Russell Hall covers the three main rhythms you’d use in your bass lines.

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Popular Songs Featuring the Double Bass
Popular Songs Featuring the Double Bass

A list of some of our favourite popular songs that feature the double bass.

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Slap That Bass! Course Clips Compilation
Slap That Bass! Course Clips Compilation

A whistle-stop tour of Slick Joe Fick’s course, Slap That Bass!

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Building Melodic Bass Lines
Building Melodic Bass Lines

Katie Thiroux teaches how to build awesome melodic bass lines with a few simple tips.

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Solo Bass Arrangement of Just Friends
Solo Bass Arrangement of Just Friends

Petros Klampanis teaches his solo arrangement of the classic standard, ‘Just Friends’.

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Finger Replacements - Intonation Exercise
Finger Replacements - Intonation Exercise

Geoff Chalmers teaches finger replacement technique to help you navigate the fingerboard.

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Top 10 Intermediate Double Bass Lessons
Top 10 Intermediate Double Bass Lessons

Our top 10 lesson suggestions for intermediate and advancing, including thumb position, intonation, bowing technique and scales!

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I Got Rhythm in the style of Hampton Hawes Trio
I Got Rhythm in the style of Hampton Hawes Trio

John Goldsby teaches I Got Rhythm in the style of the Hampton Hawes Trio, highlighting the ensemble value of the double bass.

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Hey You, Remember Me? Lesson and Play-Along Performance
Hey You, Remember Me? Lesson and Play-Along Performance

DDB artist, John Goldsby, teaches his tune Hey You, Remember Me? The lesson includes a play-along track and downloadable transcription.

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Creating Melodic Bass Solos
Creating Melodic Bass Solos

Katie Thiroux teaches how to create awesome melodic bass solos from just a few notes.

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