This week we’re looking at two simple chord bass riffs for bass guitar. Chords can seem quite challenging to bass players when starting out because we’re so accustomed to playing single note lines.
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Today we’re going to look at a great way of incorporating chords into your bass lines in a really simple way that also helps develop your overall knowledge of harmony and the fretboard. To do this we’re going to look at the famous intro from the song My Friend Of Misery by Metallica. The bass…
This week I’m going to show you how to put some cool little chords in your funky bass lines Lesson Material
This week I’m going to show you a great Add9 chord that works both as just a great sounding chord and also as a finger stretch and workout. Enjoy! Lesson Material
This week to celebrate the holiday season we’re looking at a simple chordal bass solo I’ve arranged for the Christmas song “Silent Night” This is a traditional song written by Franz Gruber in 1818 and nearly everyone will have heard one of the thousands of different renditions of the tune at some point in time….
This week we’re looking at my bass duet arrangement of Blackbird you may have seen on the Talkingbass Instagram channel. We’re going to look at the chordal arrangement and I’ll take you through all the hurdles you’re likely to encounter playing a song like this. Blackbird: Chordal Arrangement We can split this chord progression up…
Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at the Jazz Standard Billie’s Bounce. We’ve worked on the melody and we’ve analysed the harmony and chord tones by way of learning the arpeggios of each chord. This week we’re going to delve a little deeper into the chords by learning them on the bass. We’ll be…
Could you please provide the drum tracks for this tutorial?
Very cool, Mark. Thanks!
Thank you, Mark. GREAT fun learning this. Looking forward to the course. Stay safe, play bass is my mantra.
love it! Thanks
Great intro into playing chords on the bass.
Very cool.
Great….loving practicing it. Hoping it helps when it goes up a level
Need the keys in Riff# 1 and Riff#2
Lovely Mark,
Easy enough to do which is nice boost as I find it difficult to remember lots of notes or Chords . Ill go over it again later.
Aidan Cocooned in Cork.
Please I don’t understand the drawing on the practice sounds
Having a good time learning these Mark. Thx
Mark is awesome! Even if the person is an idiot, he will understand everything that you explain! But seriously, thank you so much for your work.
Playing Chords on Bass is something I do all the time. So I am excited about this course.
So nice.😎
Love it, just hope I can do it justice!
The time signature in the music for the first riff doesn’t match the counting. The way you counted it off and played it, it would be 4 measures not 2. Thanks for the cool riffs!
Oh, these are both good riffs. Gotta practice now.
My poor tiny fingers!