I fully agree, that is what I am doing. I expressed myself a bit unclear.

I mute the bass track and play along with the whole mix excluding (muting) the bass.

I can hear and identify the bass notes and articulations in the context of the whole mix very well, but I also find it a bit easier to also listen to the bass stem in isolation to get familiar and analyze the patterns or rhythm patterns that are used over the chord changes for the song in its original.

I may then try to learn to play it as the original but mostly I start of with a very simple version and build it up from there.


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