Practice This to Improve Your Groove: Rhythm Exercises for Bass Guitar 

Thank you. Very helpful

I really appreciate the visual representation of the beat.

Freaking cool lesson. Second of your videos I've watched, and it earned a subscribe. Was just watching this time, but I'll definitely be rewatching and playing along. I've only been playing 6 months, but immediately grasped the value of this exercise.

Really nice idea to put beat division on a graph like that, very clear, great exercises, too, thanks! :)

Excellent video. Some tough challenges! Thanks.

Excellent video. A bass teacher who doesn't think he needs to try and be funny.

Bo this is simply fantastic, thank you very much! Please make more videos like this. :)

Thank you for this. This is what I am looking for exactly. Just a suggestion if you can make a video of this but with play in. its the same topic but you can visually see when to pluck on the beat aside from counting. Thank you once again.

❤not easy😊

It's a little beyond my ability right now but it's bookmarked for later.

Good video but holding the last 16th note for the duration of the measure is driving me nuts.

Bro looks like Jason Schwartzman.

Not as hard as everyone thinks. You timing is mainly from the drummer. Your progression from the guitar/guitars. In rock especially harder rock genres 8ths rule and your movements usually changes on the "and" after the 4. Honestly a lot of times i think 12345678 instead of 1and2and3and4and. To be totally honest a lot of times I dont even count until I dont even count until I need to for some fill ins or walk ups to the octave. Its good practice though to learn some discipline. But most times you are not gonna get your timing with a backing track. You will either get your timing from the drummer or guitar. So you really should know the song. Also learn what the drummer is doing. Its basic. High hat is 8th notes, snare is quarter notes and foot pedal is half notes. Then the have thier own fills which are pretty much 8ths or 16ths. And honestly timing may change from the intro to the verse pertaing to BPM. This is the main reason why it is so important as a bassist to hone into the timing of the drums and listen to the movement of the guitars. Guitar solos do end and if you are doind repetative basslines so intent on counting you may miss when you need to make a movement. A really good example of what I am talking about is ACDCs songs Shot Down in Flames and Girl's Got Rythm. And a few others. Another good one is Let Me Put my Love Into You. That last one well any of them there is nothing difficult about them. But you have to be precice. The last one? Where you play the notes on the fretboard you can matters even though they are the same notes. Its pretty much a 4 note bass song with an octave. And pretty much straight 8s. But where you play those notes. You can miss a lot on that song as a bassist. Particularly walk ups and slides. And the octave? You really shouldnt miss that. Especially on the next to the last outro chorus. Then the outro itself. 5th fret E string and walk up to the E Octave and slide down down and hold the A. Then hit it and slide down and mute the strings. There is way more to playing bass than root, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths and octaves. You can punch through the mix and i aint talking about jazz noodling. The song bBlack Sabbath. On that triad on the last note Geezer Butler didnt just slide up. He slid to the octave the 16th fret and back down. Not just 12 or 13 or 11 or 10. The 16th fret is the octave. It sounds sinister and matches the song. Another good slide. Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue. First bar 10th fret. Second bar 14th fret. Then back to ten for the rest of the intro matching the pedal drum. But the pedal drum is playing quarter notes.