Bass Lessons - Mixing It Up Bass Tab

This is intended to give you ideas on how to create bass lines
and riffs. I
suppose anybody could benefit from this, but it's really targeted
at beginners
needing help.

Okay, onto the tab. What you want to do is think of any pattern
that you play
and try to expand on it. Here's a simple pattern to start with.
I know, it seems
way too easy, right? Don't worry...

G┌────────┐
D├─────9──┤
A├──7─────┤
E└────────┘

Now add another note.

G┌────────9──┐
D├─────9─────┤
A├──7────────┤
E└───────────┘

Still easy, right? Well, now strum all the notes at the same time.

G┌──9──┐
D├──9──┤
A├──7──┤
E└─────┘

Now strum and play the 7 (A string) and the 9 (D string) back and
forth.

G┌──9───────────────────────────┐
D├──9────9───9───9───9───9───9──┤
A├──7──7───7───7───7───7───7────┤
E└──────────────────────────────┘

Sounding better? Now we can expand on that some more. Take the
very same
pattern and move it down 2 frets. So instead of "7─9─9", it'll
be "5─7─7".

G┌──7───────────────────────────┐
D├──7────7───7───7───7───7───7──┤
A├──5──5───5───5───5───5───5────┤
E└──────────────────────────────┘

Now move it down 2 more frets so it'll be "3─5─5".

G┌──5───────────────────────────┐
D├──5────5───5───5───5───5───5──┤
A├──3──3───3───3───3───3───3────┤
E└──────────────────────────────┘

Now play the whole thing together.

G┌──9───────────────────────────9──┐
D├──9────9───9───9───9───9───9──9──┤
A├──7──7───7───7───7───7───7────7──┤
E└─────────────────────────────────┘

G┌──7───────────────────────────7──┐
D├──7────7───7───7───7───7───7──7──┤
A├──5──5───5───5───5───5───5────5──┤
E└─────────────────────────────────┘

G┌──5───────────────────────────┬─5─7─┐
D├──5────5───5───5───5───5───5──┼─5─7─┤
A├──3──3───3───3───3───3───3────┼─3─5─┤
E└──────────────────────────────┴─────┘

The little section at the end is a small fill so you can play the
pattern
over again. Mixing shit up is fun and easy, and best of all, simple.