Hmm, let me see if i can come up with a coherent answer to your excellent question. My hope and plan, in watching this video and learning the bass part to (by reading the written score that comes with it)... was to hopefully take what i learned to other songs (so I guess i was expecting SOMETHING in the way of patterns), otherwise, since we are very improvisational, that time might be better used. I must say I do expect it to work for me (or I wouldn't be doing it), but i haven't exactly experienced it yet.

It seems to me, that just learning (in my ears and fingers), bass lines that sound good to me, in our genre - traditional black gospel - will at some point help me to use more interesting & rhythmical bass lines in our songs.

I look forward to any & all input.