Our Bass Legend for the month is Aaron Williams! Aaron is one of the constants in the BLP, usually quiet in the background but when he posts a cover video, they’re really good! In fact, Aaron is one of the winners of the BLP song competition.
Aaron has an interesting start to playing bass, as he initially wanted to be a drummer! Today however, Aaron is very much into the bass, the ukulele and even started to learn guitar and the mandolin!
Learn more about Aaron’s bass playing story in the video below. Congrats to Aaron for being this month’s Bass Lab Legend!
James - Hey everyone! I want to welcome you to this month’s BLP Legend; this is Aaron Williams all the way from South Wales in the UK. He has done a ton of challenges here, a member of the Bass Lab PLUS and he’s also one of our song competition winners for romantic songs and ballads I think the theme was. He’s been a great member of our community. I’d love to ask you, where did it all start? How did you become a bass player?
Aaron: Because my dad wouldn’t let me play drums actually! My mum is a piano and singing teacher but I hated piano. I also wanted to play drums. My parents, my dad in particular; “ Neighbors, noise. You’re not doing that “I was given an old bass in the early 80s. It had a very warped neck which made it very difficult to play. You know what they say; get a decent instrument and you’ll keep learning. I put it down and I never touched an instrument until 2009 when I picked up a ukulele. I was joining a ukulele band who wanted to expand their sound and they started thinking we could do with a bass player. They asked “ Aaron what do you think? “5 years ago, I picked up the bass. Members of the Bass Lab PLUS who play ukulele will tell you that ukulele groups tend to go to an up down strum regardless of the strum. That’s where I started; just playing via the ukulele and my first bass was a u-bass.
J: Fantastic! How did the bass come along? What attracted you to moving to the bottom end and really taking that seriously?
A: To me, we take the Mark King scenario. He said he was a drummer and the next progression for him was bass. Exactly the same for me. It’s all about the rhythm and melody, but rhythm is obviously that. That’s what attracted me but I love it. The lower the note the better.
J: So what bass are you playing now?
Joe Amado says
I want to learn so I will try it even at my age….