• Tri-tone substitutions

• Aguilar VS GK

• Environment and neck stability

• Slash chords

• Duo playing

• String types

• Recording yourself when practicing

• Soloing and chord tone focus

• Connecting with the audience live

• LH muting technique

• Transcription

• Why do I see bassists lick their fingers on stage?

• Practicing multiple instruments

• Walking: how to play over a chord AND pay attention to the next chord

• Spicing up repetitive bass lines

• relaxation and playing

• Modulations

• Major VS Dominant

• Practicing pentatonics

• Walking lines and looking ahead

• Gig prep

• Lead or follow on the bandstand

• Palm muting and hand position

• Chord tones VS diatonic scales when playing changes

• String tension and scale length

• DI’s for ampless gigging or recording

• Fanned fret basses

• Raking

• How to deal with unplayable unison lines in a band

• Legato lines

• Building awareness of chord tones and surrounding notes for use in melodic improvisations

• Getting comfortable with new time signatures

• Simple but effective groove variations

• 8/12 string basses

• Navigating fear and insecurity

• Dialing in feels with the band when things just don’t feel right

• Pivoting

• Turning exercises into musical vocabulary

• Tinnitus

• Reading: Notation, Chord charts or Nashville Numbers?

• Using the thumb… when?

• Keeping inspired and not defeated / G.A.S vs time spent practicing guilt

• Teaching and feeling pressured for absolute answers in a subjective art form

• Relaxing while you play

• Playing bass vs being a bass player

• Self satisfaction (or not) after a gig

• Jam sessions and variations within a tune