Electric Bass Lessons
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Beginner
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ELECTRIC BASS
Essential Finger independence Tips and Exercises for Bassguitar
This lesson is for beginner to intermediate bassguitar players. It contains tips, advice for finger independence and exercises to develop technique and independence on the bassguitar.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Groove Booster: Essential Bass Fingerings and Bluesy Fun!
Learn essential fingerings and use them to develop your tecnique on the bassguitar. To make it fun, we have included a fun Bluesy line in this lesson.
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ELECTRIC BASS
C Major Scale
Taken from the intermediate electric bass course "The Major Scale Approach", in this lesson we discuss the mother of all scales, the C major scale on four string bass
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ELECTRIC AND DOUBLE BASS
Rhythmic Divisions
This tutorial explains rhythmic divisions and their relationships. It covers whole to eighth notes, with a massive subdivision exercise to internalize and practice these important elements of rhythm.
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
Slap Bass in 12 Keys
This simple but very effective exercise will help you break out of the often used E and A minor tonalities by practising slap bass style through the 12 major scales. It is also a superb exercise to build stamina.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Rhythm & Notation Volume 1
A course to explain and give exercises to improve your rhythm playing and reading. This is volume one taking you from whole notes to eighth notes. As rhythm is a vast subject this is a huge body of work even though we only go "as far" as eighth notes.
Advanced
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ELECTRIC BASS
Scales and Arpeggios for Autumn Leaves
Taken from the advanced electric bass course "Soloing Concepts for Electric Bass", this lesson will put a lot of musical content under your fingers. It will become much easier to play solos and bass lines over the changes once you are familiar with these scales and arpeggios.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Jeff Berlin bass solo transcription
Found this CD suppliment to an old Bassplayer magazine. Jeff Berlin played these great lines unaccompanied on there.Sign in and head to the demo lesson with the transcription. Read through it may be 2 or 4 bars at a time (or more if you are an experienced reader) It'll improve your reading and you'll get to play some fantastic bebop lines by Mr Berlin.. -
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
Bass solo over Autumn Leaves
Taken from the advanced electric bass course "Soloing Concepts for Electric Bass", this lesson is an ascending phrase utilising most of the fingerboard with several examples of 7th to 3rd voice leading between chords.