Creating Two Octave Triads For Bass – Arpeggios Made Simple

In this lesson, we look at a great tip for learning scales by adding the tonic arpeggio to the end of the line. This gives you a better understanding of how scales relate to the harmony Finding Arpeggios Within Scales In this exercise, we will take some different scales, play each one up and down, land on the tonic and…

This week I’ve got a preview lesson from the upcoming Scale Essentials course! This lesson is from module 3 and we’re looking at the 3 basic scale patterns we can generate from any single root note fret. This is the foundation for building a map of the entire fretboard for any scale. The Three Positions…

This week we’re going to look at arpeggios, specifically four note inversions and I’m going to give you a little etude that should not only help with learning your arpeggios and chord tones a little better, but also help with moving around the neck a LOT. Arpeggio Etude

This lesson covers how to play scales and arpeggios on the bass guitar but only descending from a high root note. This lesson was inspired by a Skype lesson I was giving recently on walking bass lines and the student was having problems with descending arpeggios. Ascending then descending was fine but descending from any…

This bass lesson covers how to play two-octave scales on the bass guitar. When we learn scales on bass we often stick to learning the standard one octave root to octave shapes. But what if you need to learn a 2 octave scale? In this lesson from you’ll learn a two octave pattern based on…