Videos

In an unexpected turn of events, the chair of the Berklee Bass Department, Steve Bailey’s initial plan to release a

Nathan Watts, the musician behind iconic hits from Stevie Wonder, was born on March 25th, 1954, in the vibrant city

Bass players and musicians of many genres revere Jaco Pastorius as a musical god. For the uninitiated, Jaco Pastorius’ virtuoso

Finally, The Smile performed a “Tiny Desk Concert” at the NPR office. They performed three songs from their debut album,

ZZ Top’s longtime bassist Dusty Hill passed away in July of last year at the age of 72. Elwood Francis,

Today we are featuring Alessandra Scaravilli and her play-through of “24k Magic” by Bruno Mars. This video is from 2016 but the

The term “punk rock” was first used to refer to garage rock bands of the ’60s. Bands like the Sonics

I was super excited to see NPR drop this video of jazz bass legend Ron Carter performing on their Tiny Desk

Bootsy Collins is one of the greatest funk and R&B bassists, singers, bandleaders, and music producers of all time. A

Nathan East is one the most significant studio bass players of all time and his importance to music cannot be overstated.

Slap bass is something that almost every beginner bassist wishes to learn. It is a killer, flashy technique that dates

Finally the wait is over, the Red Hot Chili Peppers just released their long-awaited new single. Black Summer is their

Marcus Miller has the skills, the groove, and the imagination when it’s time to come up with incredible bass lines.

This week’s Bass Video of The Week comes from one of our favorite bass and drums duos – Evan Marien

Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, was the Beastie Boys’ oldest member and, in many ways, the group’s creative and

Won’t Come Back, the new single by Rhonda Smith will sure to get you grooving into the weekend. The bass legend,

On a recent episode on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the musical guest was the great bass player Thundercat.

Sting is one of the most accomplished British musicians in modern music history, no doubt about that. Not only is

Silk Sonic was formed by two heavyweights of today’s music industry. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak has teamed up to

Grammy Award-winning bass player Pino Palladino has been a top call session bass player for over four decades. He first

Today, we are celebrating the birthday of one of the most prolific bass players of our time, Derrick Hodge. A 

It is a fact that Lee Sklar is one of the best and most badass bass players of all time!

A lot of us who were at a NAMM Show before know how crazy that convention is. It is literally

This week’s featured video is coming all the way from Serbia. It presents a live concert from the Pedja Milutinovic

This week’s featured video is this classic performance from the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Jeff Beck Cause We’ve Ended As

Today’s featured video is a live version of one of the biggest hits of 2013, which also has one of

There is little debate about how legendary Flea is. He is a multi-instrumentalist, a trumpet child prodigy, bass icon, and

Recently we lost one of the most legendary bass players of all time, Paul Jackson. Paul was the backbone of

Ichika Nito has been one of the most popular Instagram guitarists for a while now. He is mostly known for his

This week’s video feature is coming from the 2017 induction of Pearl Jam into the Rock and Roll Hall of

Parliament Funkadelic, or better known as P-Funk, is a legendary funk-psychedelic band formed and headed by George Clinton. This band

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records in the late ’50s in Detroit. This record label was more than just a company,

This week’s video feature is going to be a Michael Jackson full-length concert, sort of… in fact this is the

For bass players and for any musician, in general, a concert is more than just about the music. As bass

This week’s featured video is a classic Pat Metheny song call “Bright Size Life”. This version features the great Richard Bona

This week’s featured video is going to be for our jazz-head readers. It is coming from the legendary Ron Carter

This week’s featured video is coming from Alissia Benveniste and her Berklee band. This video was a really big hit

Throwback to this great video by Chad Smith and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This video is one

This week’s video feature is a D’Angelo live concert from the North Sea Jazz Festival from 2015. D’Angelo disappeared from

Happy Birthday to the legendary bass player Pino Palladino. Pino is one of the most versatile bass players in today’s

Legendary Tower of Power bassist, Francis Rocco Prestia died on September 29th, 2020 just a week ago. Rocco was known

Today we are celebrating the life of Cliff Burton with this classic Metallica song – Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth). A couple of

Throwback to this awesome video by Davie504. He plays 100 of his favorite bass lines in this 13 minutes long

Throwback to one of the earlier Snarky Puppy videos out there, Flood. This is a re-upload with remixed and remastered

With this video, we wish a happy birthday to the legendary bass player, Victor Wooten.  Victor Wooten is one of

Throwback to this amazing video, where Federico Malaman is covering Speed Damon by Michael Jackson. I remember the first time

Knower has been one of our favorite bands for some time now, mainly because they feature some heavy hitters on

Here is a new video from Vulfpeck. It is from Vulfpeck’s upcoming album “Inside the Mind of Woody Goss”. This

Throwback to this great video by Khruangbin at the NPR Tiny Desk Concert series, with Laura Lee on bass. Khruangbin

Juliaplaysgroove is a 20-year-old Polish bass player who’s bass cover videos received more than 17 million views on YouTube. She