All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor

As the title of this track suggests, practicing this monster-hit is indeed an excellent exercise for developing those left-hand bassline skills.

Quite an easy tune, chord-wise (did you expect otherwise with nowaday hits?) consisting of just the three part (three chord) blues-derivative progression, BUT highly illustrative again how just those three chords, using patterns and left hand bass line techniques, can make up quite the cool piano part.

Apart from challenging your left hand skills, the end result also consists of a tricky left and right hand combination pattern, where the left hand plays that bassline (that it’s all about) and the right hand counter-rhythms with an eighth beat pattern. Valuable stuff for practicing left and right hand combination / independence in here too!

All in all, now that I jot it all down, a super high value lesson for improving left, right, combining, independence and groove. Wow.

Beat is included to practice with, as is highly advised for keeping a steady pace and indeed improving your groove.

HALFtime beat (to practice slowly).

REALtime beat (to play along or practice in the actual tempo).

Have fun!

Coen.

 

All skills, tricks, tips, techniques and knowledge from this- and all other lessons @ this website are taken and can be learnt from my book / course ‘Hack the Piano‘ – The unconventional shortcut method to truly understand music and the piano.

About Coen

Founder of Piano Couture and creator of the Hack the Piano method. Coen is a musician, reader, writer, web-designer, eater and traveler. Find him at CoenModder.com

6 thoughts on “All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor”

    • Hi Thomas,
      Thanks for your comment! Glad you like it 🙂
      Keep an eye on this website for more 'rhythm-oriented' lesson video's to come!
      Cheers, Coen.

      Reply
  1. Coen,

    Your teaching personality is lovely, soothing and most of all effective. I can actually now play About that bass thanks to you my friend. I will be back to start another tune soon, so thank you! As for that backing drum track can it be purchased for download? I would like to play along with it off the computer?

    Thanks again!

    Reply
    • Thanks so much for that Keith! Much appreciated :). Plans for offline available beats are going to be implemented in the new website, planned release December 1st so stay tuned!
      Cheers, Coen.

      Reply

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