Below you will find all the bass lessons that are currently available, broken into categories by skill level. Level 1 is for beginners, and each level is harder. We’ll soon be adding some level 5 lessons, which are the most advanced.
We highly recommend starting with the lower level lessons, even if you consider yourself a more advanced player, as there are many foundational concepts that are developed and built upon in the higher levels.
Bass Level I
- Getting Started
- Do I Need To Know How To Read Music?
- Bass Guitar For The Total Beginner
- Right Hand Techniques
- Tones and Semi Tones
- Basic Bass Root Playing
- Fractional Breakdown of Rhythms (Theory)
- Roots, Pedalling, and Basic Rhythms
- Why Do We Use Scales?
- Your First Bass Scale (Diatonic Major)
- What’s this I IV V stuff? (Part 1: Bass and Guitar)
- What’s this I IV V stuff? (Part 2: Applied to Bass)
Bass Level I – Optional Areas
Bass Level II
- A Better Understanding of the Fingerboard
- Bass Intervals: The Perfect 8th
- Bass Intervals: The Perfect 5th
- Bass Intervals: The I IV V Perfect Harmony Box
- Rhythms: Straight 8th Bass Pedal
- Rhythms: Triplet and Dotted 8th
- The Diatonic Major Scale on the 5 String Bass
- The Diatonic Minor Scale
- The Pentatonic Minor Scale (for the Bass)
- Bass Symmetrics: Diatonic Major
- Bass Symmetrics: Diatonic Minor
- Bass Symmetrics: Pentatonic Minor
- Beginner’s Bass AND Guitar
- Walking Bass Lines
Bass Level III
- The Patterns System For The Bass
- The Flatted 7th in a Bass Walk
- What are Pentatonic and Diatonic?
- Combining the Diatonic and Pentatonic Scales
- Chromatic Passing Notes: Pentatonic Minor
- Introduction To Reggae
- Chromatic Passing Notes: Pentatonic Major
- Pentatonic Minor Riffs for the Bass
- Diatonic Major Scale Riffs
- Relative Major & Minor Relating to I IV V
- Using Scales To Follow A Chord Progression
- Bass Riffs Applied to Rocky Mountain Way Chord Progression
- Bass & Guitar: Taking the 12 Bar Further
- Bass & Guitar: The Shuffle
- Using Chords On The Bass
Bass Level III – Optional Areas
Bass Level IV
- What Are Thirds? (Part 2: Applied on the Bass)
- Intervals: Major & Minor 3rds
- Combining 3rds with the Perfect Harmony Box
- Bass Guitar Triads / Chord Scale
- Using Triads on the Bass
- Playing Chords on Bass (Stacking Thirds)
- Compound Intervals (1-8-3 Pattern)
- How To Solo On The Bass (Scales)
- How To Solo On The Bass (Composing)
- What Are Thirds? (Part 1: Theory)
- Triads (Part 1): Chord Construction