Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Last week I stepped in as a sub bass player on the Mamma Mia UK tour.
One week to prepare.
New bass.
Fretless I wasn’t fully comfortable on yet.
A pedalboard I’d barely used.
And a band who’ve been doing this show for years.
So the real challenge wasn’t just learning the notes…
it was stepping into a machine that’s already running perfectly…
and making it feel like nothing had changed.
If you want to go deeper into how I prepare for gigs like this — charts, practice approach, breaking down real-world bass parts, and how I organise everything under pressure — I break all of that down inside my free Bass Skool group.
It’s where I go live, share PDFs, backing tracks, and show the actual systems behind learning and performing gigs like this (stuff I can’t really go into properly on YouTube).
👉 Here's the link to join - skool.com/bass
Last week I stepped in as a sub bass player on the Mamma Mia UK tour.
One week to prepare.
New bass.
Fretless I wasn’t fully comfortable on yet.
A pedalboard I’d barely used.
And a band who’ve been doing this show for years.
So the real challenge wasn’t just learning the notes…
it was stepping into a machine that’s already running perfectly…
and making it feel like nothing had changed.
If you want to go deeper into how I prepare for gigs like this — charts, practice approach, breaking down real-world bass parts, and how I organise everything under pressure — I break all of that down inside my free Bass Skool group.
It’s where I go live, share PDFs, backing tracks, and show the actual systems behind learning and performing gigs like this (stuff I can’t really go into properly on YouTube).
👉 Here's the link to join - skool.com/bass
