Watch ArtistWorks electric bass master Nathan East’s guide to creating a bass solo, part of his online bass guitar lessons series!

According to East, “Most bass solos I've heard are actually very boring, because it’s just a lot of fast notes, with no regard for the chord progression or melodic structure of the jam"

Throughout this lesson, the respected session player demonstrates how to use the melodic structure of any song to create a killer solo on the fly! East, who has played with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder and Joe Satriani, will show you techniques to structure a musical arc—giving your solo a beginning, middle, and end, and making it into a truly memorable song-within-a-song. 

Check out the video below for Nathan’s full online music lesson for soloing on the bass.