Beginner Blues Bass "Survival Shapes” (Simple Method for 12 Bar Blues)

While Gary Thain in Uriah Heep didn't play much blues (I Won't Mind comes closest I guess) he is my most important inspiration overall (Paradise is so beautiful). When it comes to pure blues I'd say Jack Bruce and Andy Fraser. Underrated is Gary McAvoy, who played with Rory Gallagher for about 20 years.

Cool man I’m gonna have to start somewhere, love it as I can’t read music and tab is ok but I think I need to study it more
Thanks from New Zealand ✌️😎👍

Good job! Thanks for relating it directly to certain songs.

Sugar Ray and the Bluetones

I like this guy

I have trimmed my fingernails.

How do you keep your bass so clean and shiny?

Thanks, Josh for the lessons. I kind of made a mistake. I was intimidated about moving on from lesson one. However, I finally did. I took your lessons and made my own to practice specific basic skills in your lesson (things like moving from one string to another). But, good news - Today I actually sounded like I was playing music. It was sloppy sounding but it was music. Thanks again!

Brilliant lesson

Awesome lesson. Knowing the major scale, up and down, is so important. Similar concepts come in to play with blue grass music as well. Both genres rely heavily on that bass line.

Big Mamma Thornton... less we forget... Hey Josh, I am taking your course! right smack in the middle of the lessons! Enjoying and learning. I would recommend your course to anyone!!

who inspired me to play the blues? You Bro!!! your videos are awesome!! Cheers From France

This is absolutely brilliant! I finally get it. Thank you very much!

From Crossroads "The blues aint nothing but a good man feeling bad" Thanks for the lesson.
Nobody leave here til they sing the blues

Tommy Shannon is my main man as far as bass players are concerned. Such tasteful walking bass lines. Was a real compliment to SRV.

"instead of just sitting around stupidly on the same note forever"... also has velvet underground tattoo.

Very intuitive graphical chord helped me alot 🎉🎉🎉 thank you. And also for good video contents.

Hey josh I got a question, how do we choose between high and low shape if both are possible?

If you have a five string bass guitar like I do you can play E flat down pride and joy 😂... five string bass and six string bass guitar alow you to go higher or lower 😀

this guy has single-handedly earned me my spot in a band after playing for only 6 months

I love the bass line in ---In the garden"" sung by Joey Fink

As a life-long Blues/Rockabilly fan who is currently learning bass this lesson is a dream come true! I've learnt so much in such a short time since discovering this channel. Josh you are an amazing teacher I can't thank you enough.

Gotta give Willie Dixon some major creds on blues bass.

So glad I saw this.

Oh Josh, we love you. So knowledgeable

This is probably really helpful. I love cheesy hacks like this. Im a guitar guy but overall .. cool

Thank you.

I started playing the blues in high school (50 years ago.) on an alto sax. I kept playing and still do now. I play Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bari. In my band (Southside Soul Kings) sometimes our bass player is late, so I figured if I could play at least basic bass lines we could at least start the set with me playing bass. So, I'm not new to the blues, but new to the bass. Learning bass clef when I've always ever played treble is the hard part. Even when you are old, it's good to keep learning.

HELP! I've been invited to play in my very first Open Mike Jam and the chosen song is "Don't Lose Your Cool" by Albert Collins. I cannot find any bass tabs or sheet music online. I'm still a beginner (and am on lesson 55 of 109 in B2B right now, but decided to ask the Q here), so how can I prepare myself and really show that I did my homework ahead of time? Thanks in advance!

Thank you so much, John.. John, I stink on bass but because of you I’m actually getting better on the bass. I’m actually playing songs. Me playing songs? I love this instrument so much. Thank you so much.

Stevie Ray Vauhn is the man who got me into the blues!!

Les claypool got me into blues piano.

This really is the best bass tuition channel online.

Thanks for making it much easier to get the basics, Josh, it *really * helps 👍

Josh, you are my hero. I'm on Lesson 5 of Module 7 of your "Beginner to Badass"😎 course and I can now play the blues, which was my goal for the whole course! I can hardly wait to find out what other cool things I get to learn.

The bass line on FUNK 49 by the James gang inspired me to learn bass.

Where can we get the Jaco T-shirt?

I don't know how I ended up here, neither why I picked my guitar to follow along, but it slaps!!!

Muddy Waters…..

I actually find this video better explain and understandable than videos in my first language 😂
Thank you so much, I am learning a lot from yours videos!

What strings do you use? They look like nylon on the outside

Great stuff. TYVM

Any student of the bass, needs to listen to as many records as possible, of great jazz, bass players. In bebop jazz , they play walking bass lines that are totally killer. Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Bob Crenshaw, Milt Hinton, and Neil's Henning orsted Pederson

Dude, this just opened up so many songs for me. I'm very new and can't actually play "the song", but I can totally jam along to my favorite music notes, even if it is rudimentary. Thank you!

SRV, buddy guy, BB king, john mayer, led zeppelin

why no 1 3 5?

When do you use the high shape verses the low shape or does it matter???