Thursday, March 19, 2026

36 thoughts on “Bass Guitar Lesson – Slow Blues – Andy Irvine

  • Epic Andy every aspect of your tutorial is epic
    Watched a reverend dub king demo you did
    Love you work .. natural real .. just good ????

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  • Love your style and approach. Real feeling with useful instruction. Glad to find you. Appreciated.

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  • Am I the only one taking advantage of the free lesson because a subscription to Trufire is too much expensive ? ????

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  • Caution! Be very careful, once you actually ‘get it’ you may never leave. Many can play the blues but very few can feel it…
    Great explanation of the unexplainable!…

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  • Personally, I've not seen many Streamer's with a maple neck and inlays. That one looks Dyn-O-mite!! Sounds even better..
    Andy's right too, let the snare drum "breathe," especially when recording.

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  • This is a GREAT lesson! I've been watching a TON of bass lessons – and very few stick out as true gems – this is definitely one of them…

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  • Bro, I am a guitarist of 25+years and still picked up some usable info from this. Especially about note duration to the snare. I think watching other instructional vids for instruments you play around, even if you don't play, can be very beneficial for the interplay in a band. Nice video! ????????

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  • learn Playing the blues to escape to the Blues; thks to you with your explication I feel that it's possible to me to play bleus in the future!

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  • Beautifully played and the explanation/analysis matches the playing. On the strength of this video, I've looked at TrueFire's offering and actually paid money (!!!) for a couple of courses. I think the original of this music is Goin' Home by Junior Wells on the album Better Off With the Blues – bass player Johnny Gayden.

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  • Thank you, been learning the bass for less then a year, I have a Squire P Bass and just picked up a Ibanez P J Active Bass. This was truly an easy lesson and I hope to see more. Again Thank you.

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  • !!!!Andy my man I have had a Bass for 5 years and never wanted to learn how to play until now "I got to do this"

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  • and if you are going to teach, dont play with pro fingers, play with "this toy is for 6 and under" fingers. i can play bass for sure and looking for technique but the way you show it, i cant tell if you are reaching out to pros, inters but def not first timers

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  • you are a great bass player and i think teacher, but man, you aint playing tight in that pocket. like you said

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  • Great instruction. the closeups of the fret hand really helped. Thanks Im just starting to play and this makes practice sessions a whole lot of fun.

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  • The tip about ending the note just prior to the snare drum hit, was excellent ! (now I just need to find somebody with a snare drum !!)
    BTW, that trick about "pedaling" off the 1-note during the chromatic climb at the turnaround, was also really slick !
    Aaaand, another edit: That little fill just after 3:25 was really tasty !! I keep returning to this video, it's chock full of great advice and insight (I've been playing bass a whole month now, but having played guitar for a few decades, I kinda hit the ground running. Nevertheless, I'm still like a deer in the headlights, half the time, LOL!)

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