Today I’ve got something a little different, I’m going to look at the back pain that we can often encounter as working bass players and I’m going to give you my top 4 tips for keeping your back in tip top shape. Tip #1: Visit A Doctor Visit a doctor at the first sign of…
This week we’re looking at an exercise that helps you to learn all the notes on your bass neck, the cycle of 4ths AND the major scale. All at the same time!! Enjoy!
This week I’ve got a great exercise for helping develop strength and independence in the fretting hand fingers. Particularly the fourth finger. View Lesson Material PDF
Chords within a key can be numbered to more easily understand the functional harmony of a song and to also aid in memorising chord progressions. In the early stages of playing we often we see songs as just long streams of unrelated chords but it’s important to know that the same chord patterns appear time…
Lots of people use the 1 finger per fret system as if it was some kind of law. In this lesson I show the limitations of the system and a few alternative perspectives on how to assign our fingers. This Lesson is a preview of the Bassic Fundamentals Course
In this lesson I cover the most common problem I always find with new bass students. If I ask a student to play a scale or a bassline there’s always this problem of holding a note down for the full duration and leading smoothly from one note to another. Often the solution can be found…