Bass Lessons
See a selection of available free bass lessons that are on Zoltan's Bass Lounge.
Electric Bass
Intermediate
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ELECTRIC BASS
Bassguitar Warm Up Exercise
This free lesson will teach you the two most important chords in each key. We break every major key down to it's I and V chord and play them consecutively following the cycle of fifths. This is a great exercise for learning basic harmony (I and V chords in every key), finding notes on the fingerboard, voice leading between V to I progressions, improving technique through musical content and ear trining.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Shuffle Bassline and Fills
This lesson shares a great shuffle bassline and takes you through a basic to extended version. Includes a variety of fills to improve your sight reading skills, knowledge of notes over the range of the fingerboard and harmonic understanding. Incidentally, the musical content discussed is great for your technical development as well.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Finger Style Funk Groove
This is a great 16th note finger style funk groove in the style of the great Francis Rocco Prestia. Play it over and over to improve your time and play through the playalong to work on your stamina.
Double Bass
Intermediate
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DOUBLE BASS
Bassroom Sessions
A collection of tutorials focusing on every day aspects of playing jazz double bass
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DOUBLE BASS
Simple Blues lines
This goes through a very useful method of building up note choices from the ground up and it is then applied to the 12 bar blues.
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DOUBLE BASS
Melodic Blues lines
Here we discuss blues bassline options in more depth by adding scale and chromatic notes. This will give your lines a lot of harmonic and melodic interest. These concepts are valid for other chord progressions, so feel free to apply them while you are learning the jazz standard repertoire.
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DOUBLE BASS
Jazz Blues melody
Learn a great bebop tune, Slinky by my favourite guitarist Ulrich Elbracht. You can use it as a technical study piece for either double or electric Bass, and at the same time you will learn some great bebop language too.
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DOUBLE BASS
Bowed Double Bass
This is a simple but very effective intonation exercise, involving a reference note (interim note) between two target notes. I explain and demonstre on the G string, but of course it is playable on all the rest of the strings.
Advanced
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DOUBLE BASS
Advanced Basslines
This is a demonstration of advanced loose feel basslines and 2 choruses of solos over the jazz standard "Alone together".
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DOUBLE BASS
Stella by Starlight, solo bass performance and lesson
This is an arrangement of the standard 'Stella by Starlight' for solo Double or Electric bass. Accompanied by a detailed lesson of how to play it and the ideas behind the orchestration. Enjoy!
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DOUBLE BASS
Jazz Mastery Preview Lessons
These lessons have been taken from our 'Jazz Mastery' course. We have chosen a lesson from each section. Oh, and what's even better, it is free and gives you plenty of material to get into. However, don't stop here, make sure to head to the full course, where there is a lot more content waiting for you.