Level up your bass solo! 📈🔺🚀

An absolutely killer exercise from @michaelleageplaysmusic ❗️
One of the best ways for us as bass players to increase our
vocabulary and become more fluent in the language of music
is by mimicking the great players who came before us. In this clip, Michael takes inspiration from the timeless classic “So What” & demonstrates how he would reinterpret the ideas within his own playing. 👌🏻
This is taken from our latest course 'Soloing & Improvisation Concepts with Michael League', only available within the SBL Academy.
Follow our link in bio to claim your free trial! 🚀🔗

[@claudevieaul1465]

Michael is such a phenomenal bass player, and a joy to watch with Snarky Puppy! A complete pro...

[@devinebass]

He really is!!

[@MadeOnTape]

wonderful quick lesson. tapping into other solos' vibe is like remembering someone's story, but then telling your version.

[@josephkaplan8287]

thats a bar, man

[@julianmorrisco]

Maximum tongue power! Respec’!!!

[@rothaarbiker]

Always learn from the best!

[@williamjamieson1849]

This is so cool

[@Carvalhouk]

Great bassist...

[@ladywilhelminabass]

This is a lesson I'd pay for

[@Swindrim.]

Amazing

[@yafettuwanakotta8929]

It remind me a little bit of cant stand losing you by the police❤

[@felixabrahamsson6783]

Isn't it D dorian?

[@christahansen]

I think it is yeah

[@responsibassmusic]

It’s A Dorian

[@felixabrahamsson6783]

@@responsibassmusic I play this in an ensemble and it goes Em11 to Dm11 which is D dorian or A natural minor

[@christahansen]

Doesnt it go from D Dorian to Eb Dorian and then back? I think it does at least on the album kind of blue

[@felixabrahamsson6783]

@@christahansen yes

[@VanNordstein]

P-Bass with tapewounds is extra mojo

[@josku5]

Doesn’t he use flats?

[@quasarthelasermen]

It's on D Minor/D Dorian

[@voodoochile4147]

The man is in a league of his own. 😉😩 ok I’ll excuse myself…

[@andrewblue8509]

You’re locked in! Too funny

[@devinebass]

🤣🤣🤣

[@EnoreeBand]

Micheal is a great bass player.
But southern rock bassists need more attention.
People don’t give them enough love for how good they are. Ed king and Leon wilkeson from lynyrd Skynyrd are really good.( ed was more up front while Leon is more tasteful.) but berry oakley was an incredible bass player. Just listen to the mountain jam bass solo, it whipping post, or any Allman brothers song before Duane’s death, and u will be astonished by his incredible playing. I would love to see a video on this. Thx

[@JordanIs.Online]

Transcribing parts of Jazz solos like this, particularly from saxophones and trumpets have done wonders for my playing as well. Loved this snippet. Can’t wait to try the lesson

[@dylanfreestone908]

The tooooooooooooone 🤤

[@devinebass]

🔥🔥🔥

[@skineyemin4276]

I would suggest to first....... learn how to walk over those changes, then go listen to some Paul Chambers bass solos.

[@mqaisataloss.5951]

Hold on... I thought anything past the 15th fret was spare frets.....

[@jonnok16]

I wish I could consider myself a natural Dorianian

[@tbasshandyman7610]

im confused by the A major in a c minor pent. scale

[@robertlibby9716]

Who?

[@JakeStrange66]

Miles Davis played bass on the album too??? Or wrote the bassline????
That's cool if I understand that correctly... didn't know that.

[@skineyemin4276]

The great Paul Chambers played the bass on that album. Read the credits, find it on Google. If you're over 20 years old, then that's an absurd question.

[@corrado6590]

@@skineyemin4276 loser nerd

[@eharris3021]

I understood practically nothing he said but felt every note he played. A practical demonstration of just far away from being a real bass player I am...

[@peteshand543]

Yawn yawn

[@Yash42189]

I think transcribing miles will make you a worse player lol😅