Bass Solo. Should You and How to ?

[bartelby]

My band has a song where there's a bass solo, almost by accident. When we wrote the song the guitarist couldn't come up with anything so I would just noodle about to mark out that section of the song. Unfortunately it stuck like that, so now I just improvise something each time.

[bassist_lewis]

here's one of the master's of solo bass and music ("The Music Lesson", buy it). I do a solo on one song with a pop/rock band and I used play lots of pentatonics but it just sounded like s**t. I think less is more with solos (especially bass solos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2cOVgaKBM&feature=g-vrec&context=G20a9221RVAAAAAAAAAA

[wateroftyne]

[quote name='bassist_lewis' timestamp='1324666118' post='1476925'] I think less is more with solos (especially bass solos)[/quote]

Yeah... me too. Like, [i]really[/i] less.