7 Bass Riffs Normal People Actually Find Impressive

Whaddaya do when someone says “play me something”? Next time, don’t freeze up – blow their minds with these 7 killer bass riffs.

Play Something

If you’re doing the Beginner to Badass course, you could definitely play these first couple riffs by Module 8 or so. Difficulty climbs up a bit from there. :slightly_smiling_face:

Play Me Something Riffs - Tabs

Here’s all the tabs and sheet music for the bass riffs I cover in this video -

Please road test these in real life and report your results here!

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Great😃

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I, for one, like that Jaco Teen Town riff at the beginning :joy:

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You obviously are not a normal person :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Hardly :wink: And I take that as a compliment :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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…why am I not shocked that you know how to juggle, @JoshFossgreen?

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This is a fun video. Fun topic. As always, well put together.

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You should, it was meant that way
:fist_right:t2: :fist_left:t2:

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Normal people?

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Yeah, you know… People who don’t play bass :grin:

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Cool video, liked this one a lot.

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Mommy and Daddy always told me I was special…. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Because I missed the original What’s your “play me something” thread, I’ll put it here.

I Want You Back - Jackson 5

Doesn’t matter if they know it or not. :upside_down_face:

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Oh man, I like the new evilness of Josh’s beard growth! That’s a serious bass beard!

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I think I might grow mine back out this winter now that it’s all white. It’s been that patchy half and half the past few years. Might be fun with most of the hair on top of my head being brunette still.

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My beard is all salt and pepper now, which is no bueno, and yeah it is looking better as the salt takes over. The interim state of half and half is a bummer. I’ll usually just keep it a Van Dyke/Goatee, been rocking that look for like 30 years now, but growing it out a bit is fun sometimes. But until it is more white it just looks kind of mangy if I do it now.

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Ha, yeah, the beard has since been hacked down a bit. Funny, the first couple days was mostly “ah cool Josh grew more beard” comments, then as the video got more views the beard comments took a turn for the worse lol.

So strange how people feel totally enthused to negatively comment on someone’s appearance through a video comment… but nobody would ever do that to my face in real life. Probably because I tower over them menacingly. :japanese_ogre:

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I’m 41 and I still can’t grow a beard.

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I let mine go for 9 months once. My wife (the only opinion besides mine that I care about) kept quiet about it for that long before she just mentioned that she didn’t think she liked it that long so I made sure it was gone that weekend.

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I loved this video. But then I love all your videos. I’m definitely learning all these riffs. What a great idea for a video!

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