“…that even guitarists can play!” I ❤ that Julia !!😂 😘

One of the things most new students want is to play some music at day 1. Most cases it is not possible, but this video proves you can play a full music at day 1 studing. Awesome video!

I play drums for 40 years. When I found and watched your videos I started playing bass too. Thank you for all the inspiring content and wonderful music you share here.

This video should be compulsory viewing for people who are starting, or thinking about starting, to play bass. Thank you for making it so accessible.

This is the best instructional video for beginners (like me) I have ever seen. Inspiring, easy to learn, and gives you the experience of playing music right away. A thousand thanks, let there be many more like it.

As a guitarist of 25 years who just bought a couple of basses in the past few months, I feel very called out by - and yet very appreciative for - this video.

I am not a musician, but I am definitely a music lover. I am super happy to be learning about the bass and bassists, but mostly I can relate so much to the joy you have in playing. When I hear something particularly moving, I cry. I wear headphones all of the time, and I cry at work, at stores, at my friends' gigs...I get embarrassed, but it is not in my control. Thank you for sharing your love of music with me and teaching me about the bass! Keep the videos coming.

Sweet memories, running with the devil was the first song I ever played on bass. It was during a jam session 40 years ago (god I'm getting old). And then I fell in love with the bass, sold my strat and bought a jazzbass and the rest is history

It may be easy to play the notes of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," but getting the timing perfect can be a challenge. There are some long rests and notes come in on the offbeat. Same thing with the timing of "Oye Como Va" actually. I often think really nailing the groove of something is harder than playing a bunch of fast notes.

The first song I learned on Bass was Money by Pink Floyd; that intro is just irresistible!

Not only is she a super bassist, she a really good educator as well.

My nomination would be She Sells Sanctuary by the Cult. The bass line has four notes, playable on one or two strings, solid eighth notes throughout, and an absolute monster song.

The best thing about 'simple' bass lines is that they show how important the stops are. As a new bassist, 10 years ago, I saw Ocean Colour Scene play an acoustic set and the bassist left more space than he played notes. It was a very important lesson for me and I'm glad Julia points this out (around 4minutes). Get this in to your head and work on it. I have played guitar for over 30 years and that lesson I learned on bass also improved my guitar playing.

This shows how a bass line doesn't have to be super sophisticated to be the heart of the groove. I don't play or read music, but I got a cheap bass, and a small amp, watched videos, and learned Poppa was a Rolling Stone, Haha. Thanks to your video, I now have a few more I can easily learn,

This demontrates the importance of the groove thats paramount when playing bass regardless of whether its one note or many. Thanks Julia. Great work and playing is very cool.

As a bass player, who also encourages others to play bass, this was excellent!! What a great range of "easy" songs to listen to, but to work on fundamentals with.

Wow... This video really shows your educational skills, Julia. Down to the bone but never to neglect the intrinsic difficulties of the bass. I wish my bass teacher had used this technique. Praise!

Hey Julia, I love this song, I re-discovered it when my Dad was so ill with Motor Neurone Disease, I had a 60hr a week job and used to listen to it on my headphones walking up to their house to nurse Dad.

I love how these videos are fun and educational way to play and teach Julia❤

As a total beginner (I have had a bass for only two weeks) I found this vid by Julia truly wonderful! In my early 50's, this was so much fun. I have practiced an hour every night on basic chords and lines, but this helped me feel like I was playing music! So much fun which is why I want to play. Have picked up my banjo too and have practiced it an hour also. Lessons for both scheduled in the new year. Julia, thank you so much for this and all of your videos. Your enthusiasm for the bass and your easy manner in teaching is truly wonderful!

Such a great idea and so well executed

I was watching a bass video last week and realized I hadn’t seen KZfaq suggest one from you in quite some time. Glad to see you are well and making videos!

That was awesome Julia, thank you!

Very helpful music choices! Bravo

Clear, concise and practical.WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for this video Julia.

It was an awesome concept and it helped me loads. Please let’s have a lot more. Thanks Mark

The thing I love about simple bass lines is that it actually doesn't work for most songs, because we expect to hear certain types of harmonic shifts in music, so it's rare to be able to play a single figure or two over an entire song and have it make musical sense. What I think a lot of people don't understand is, harmonically-speaking, you aren't just "playing the same note", because as the tonal center of the song shifts, the position of that note in the scale changes relative to the harmonic structure, so technically, you aren't playing the same note any longer.

Very useful Julia! Thanks.

Thank you again for a very nice and warm video. Suppose the right hand is the one making it sound great no matter how many strings and moves with the left.

What a great video! You present the basics of bass in the most eloquent and articulate manner possible. Thanks!

Great exercise! I've played a long time, and discovered that it's a good thing to go back to concentrating on 1, then 2, then 3 strings. Allows you to focus on Timing and Space basics. Kinda zen....

This is great!

I love it. I'm gonna try the first and last song.

Papa was a rolling stone has been a favorite of mine since I was a little kid. The strings, the bass line and all of that dreamy reverb is so special sonically. As a fellow cellist and bassist I'm sure you can appreciate it all. Thank you for including this piece. I shall now go practice! LoL. 😎☝

This was great Julia! Thank you!

Loved it, thanks! Subscribed.

Excellent lesson

Awesome lesson for beginners! I often get asked about giving lessons or recommended videos for starters. Now I have a video to recommend. Thank you! Awesome work Julia!

Absolutely awesome ❤️.

Very well done. You are awesome!

Love these songs, love Thomann guitars, and dig Julia's playing! I would also suggest "Walking On the Moon" by The Police. The moments where there is space in between makes the song so amazing to play. Thanks guys!

Incredible idea!!

Playing bass myself, I have to say: The dead notes in "Papa was a Rolling Stone" are super important for the groove and not easy to play (especially not so smooth and in time like Julia does) and yes, in theory "Lose Yourself" is easy - but killing it so consistently and in time like Julia does is crazy good!

Hi Julia: A very educational video. I think that simpler bass lines are more difficult to play. I really like Santana's bass. When I bought the bass the first song I learned was Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You, wonderful song and bass. Thanks for your videos. Bay

You are so talented 🙏🏽

Well Played and Enjoyed ✌🏿

Really enjoy your teaching, absolutely the best on you tube!

Super interessant! Dankeeee!

Great video Julia 👍

Thank you great tutorial

Excellent look back at easy songs. I remember in my beginning decades ago in high school… “Another One Bites The Dust”, “Linus & Lucy”, and the theme to “Barney Miller”

good video and exercise, ideal for encouraging beginners to start playing bass 👍👍

I'm just starting out - this is Great!! Learning the tabs are another thing but love your inspiration.

Another Awesome Video. Thank You. :)

Nice job on the video!

Excellent!

Thanks for the lesson. Good energy Good vibes Great songs 🎵

Awesome teacher 👏 ❤❤

Oh my god……while the ad was loading the first song I thought of was “Dreams” and then the intro to the vlog came on. I feel smart. Great start of the day!!!!!

Just starting out and this makes a great jump off point. Thank you!

I just bought a fender bass , that exact paint job. I love it. Great playing by the way

Thanks Julia! Oye Como Va is still a lot of fun to play when you're new to five string and want to vary the strings you use.

Thank you julia the Fleetwood Mac bass line really helped I hope to become a rock bass player I'll be looking forward to seeing more of your videos ❤🎸🎼

Thanks for the video. That is a sweet bass with a precision and a hum bucket pickup. Very cool.

Você é incrível!

Amazing bass player I enjoy listening and learning from. U thank you

Julia is a great teacher!

One of music teachers from way back said better to play something easy but well, rather than something difficult with mistakes in it. I always enjoy watching your playing which looks effortless and your love of the instrument

First groove for me when started to learning bass guitar was "Billie Jean" 🙂 (even now i play often this riff, love it and it's a very good excercice !) Thx for your video and sharing !

We love the video 😊!!!!!!

Cool! I was just telling my friend that one day I could teach his daughter and I had been thinking which songs could be cool and beginner-friendly at the same time. These are great recommendations!

I'm a beginner bass player. Loved this and looking forward to playing along with your other bass videos.

Bravo! amazing playing by Ms. Julia as usual. Those basslines in which the bassist can just keep playing the root note of which ever key the lead melody is playing are usually the easiest to play. My beginner friendly bassline recommendation for those who prefer rock/punk genre is Ramones-I wanna be sedated.

I'm 75 now been plying 61 years. I am all about the tone and punch and most of all to feel the bass from your soul. You have that, do not worry about negative comments. Do your thing I am enjoying it. I noticed that you use the reverse P pickups, that kelps the D and G string have the same volume as the E and A.

thanks this was awesome i will be working on these you're so right they are perfect to start out with as you build your technique and strength too! you got great taste in music and riffs!! amazing how i've experienced playing even one note and with the right beat you can get so deep into your soul! i was doing this with the e string on RUNIN WITH THE DEVIL and got so into it i got tears in my eyes, no joke...brilliant choices :)! and to see how you get so deep into the groove is an inspiration to me. i was definitely feeling it! i been watching you play for a year or so and always wished you had an on line bass academy because you deliver something extremely important, besides technical knowledge, the FEELING AND PASSION for the bass groove!

This bass sounds amazing

Papa was a rolling stone is simply one of the grooviest track ever. I heard it the first time 30 years ago in the city nearest to me, during buskers festival held every summer, and I then rediscovered it few years ago, some time I simply let it play and relax. I've read then that the singer of that group managed to make music for a living in Switzerland, the country from where the group came from. Nice story!

This is awesome. More of this. The intermediate and challenging songs are great, too. But every once in a while, it is nice to add five songs to your playlist in a an hour. Unfortunately, when you are learning, you don’t even know which songs are this easy.

Two grooves I liked practising to back in the dearly 80's (15 yro) were Bar-Kays "Cozy" (1976) and Cameo "Slow movin'" (1983, synth bassline). Both groups have some really funk and some smooth soul tracks with pretty solid but easy basslines.

Awesome

Great lesson., I like Julia so much, hope she make video lesson about right hand technique

Great Stuff 👍

I leaned bass on cocaine j.j.cale I was 14.. and from this song I learned to be groovy and tide as well from the first time. All these syncopic guitar's are extremely helpful to understand and feel and pockets.. this was the best song to start with bass.

Usually when it says easy to learn I watch it and it's like What? These were fairly easy for we who are beginners. Thank you.

Yes, this is awesome, especially for learning to follow a metronome

Very good Julia, as always :) I really needed this for Cubase, I'm a key player

You're truly a bass ologist Julia 🎸❤️

Good idea !

Awesome first pick. Rumors - in general - is one of my favourite LPs 🙂

Woderful!!!!! The Base bring the power of every Song and you show this Great. Love this video! Moti G. From Israel

Beauty, style and brains.. deadly combo!

I remember when Van Halen first came out I was in my late teens and I nicknamed them Van Basic! As the bass parts were so incredibly simple. Of course Eddie's guitar work was not so simple but the bass parts my god! I was into John Entwhistle songs Live at Leeds, way more complicated bass parts. Funk, etc... Took me many years to finally realize that a bass part does not have to be incredibly complicated. However I would only learn some of these songs if I had to play them for a gig, and I would probably throw a few more notes in there! I too liked the part "even guitarists can play these bass parts!" It's all about the timing bass-ically... I play bluegrass banjo, fiddle and guitar stuff now. Still noodle around on Occasion... my last song I really practiced a lot was Play that Funky Music, there is a guy on you tube that has video on that one. Spent some time on that one. The Who stuff is really complicated if you want to play "exactly like Entwhistle" but no one really cares anymore. I think Led Zeppelin 2 is a good album for bass parts. Also early Blue Oyster Cult. Then you got all your Funk bass players, but I stopped playing new tunes in 1991 and started playing really, really old bluegrass music. Love your you tube stuff, very positive and cheerful!

This is fantastic. I don't know how to teach, so I turned to your lesson which is so logical. Thanks so much.

great video, as always. You make cool "bass face". Thanks.

Thanks Julia, always good ! For me many years ago, it was 'Walking on the Moon', a song I really loved. As a curious non-string player at the time (l didn't even understand how the instrument was tuned) after playing the track (including the chorus), I thought, Wow ! I never imagined I could do that ! For people beginning an instrument, a moment like this, I think, is what can drive you forward. On a silly note : Julia, I could just imagine if you showed up to play a gig, primed & pumped only to find the wrong bass in the case, with just the E string on it ! Aaaaaah ! Well I'm sure you'd kill it anyway. 😜 Good weekend to all !

Loved the removing strings that were not being used, to illustrate the simpleness of the song..good job!

Really cool Julia

"With or without you" by U2 is another easy, but fun to play, bass line. Four notes repeated with a slide.

Gracias