How to Play Bass - The 10 Songs You Need to Learn As a Working Bass Player

If you want to make a living as a bass player there are some things you'll probably have to do make your dream happen. One of them is that at some stage you'll have to teach newbies to the bass guitar (we're assuming here that you've been playing a few years and that you've got a good deal with on how to play bass guitar).

The second is that you'll play gigs for one of the zillions of wedding and party bands in the Uk.

If you play in one of these wedding and party bands there are songs that you'll be imaginable to know.
The top 10 of these songs are as follows:

1. Brown Eyed Girl (by Van Morrison)
2. Dancing Queen (by Abba)
3) We Are family (by Sister Sledge)
4) Le Freak (by Chic)
5) Disco Inferno (by The Trampps)
6) Lady Marmalade (by Patti Labelle)
7) I Don't Feel Like Dancing (by Scissor Sisters)
8) Valerie (the Amy Winehouse version, not the Zutons)
9) Summer of 69 (by Bryan Adams)
10 ) Superstition (by Stevie Wonder)

If you don't know these songs, download the originals from iTunes and get learning them. Learn them wholly in the former key first. Then try transposing them up and down a tone. Maybe even a minor third as well.

If you've got a Tascam Bass instructor you can burn a Cd, put it in the Bass trainer, and plug your bass in and play along. The Bass instructor will allow you to turn the pitch of the song in semi tone increments Without changing the tempo of the tune. That way you can play through the song in separate keys and put in order yourself for the gig where the singer has got a sore throat and all goes down a tone.

There are other songs you'll need to know as well of course, but if your goal is to make some cash playing with a wedding/party band then these 10 are a good place to start.

(Please note: this record refers to the Uk. In other territories playlists will probably be different)

How to Play Bass - The 10 Songs You Need to Learn As a Working Bass Player

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How to Play Bass - The 10 Songs You Need to Learn As a Working Bass Player

How to Play Bass - The 10 Songs You Need to Learn As a Working Bass Player
How to Play Bass - The 10 Songs You Need to Learn As a Working Bass Player

The Wolves