Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Bass Solo Lesson
So to celebrate Christmas 2019, I’ve created a simple chordal arrangement of the song Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas for you to learn.
So to celebrate Christmas 2019, I’ve created a simple chordal arrangement of the song Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas for you to learn.
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…
Chord Breakdown This exercise can be played in any key, but we are going to play this example in the Key of G minor for ease of access to the middle of the neck and fretboard. The reason for this is so that you are not overly stretching or straining your fretting hand when playing…
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…

This week we’re looking at one of the most useful chords for bass. The Power Chord! 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 I’m going to show you how to put some cool little chords in your funky bass lines Lesson Material
Thanks so much Mark..and a wonderful Christmas Season to you and your Family. Thank you also for the fantastic Lessons.
I am a beginner ,but will try this piece
as soon as possible.
Thank you again for the good work…..Merry Christmas.
Simple. Really? Trying to hold down that F#m7 on the run up is a killer. And the stretch on the Bm7. Or is it just me? Anyone else give this a go?
Brilliantly presented as ever though Mark. Thanks.
Hope to have perfected it by Christmas.
Am almost at the end of it! only 4 more bars to go.. I love everything that arrangement! It’s quite challenging, it took me 5 days up to now, But it worth it! Thanks Mark!
Great little gem of a lesson! Beautiful arrangement, pretty challenging to get my fingers to stretch to places they are definitely not accustomed to. I’ve spent about an hour working on this and have most of the fingerings down, will probably need to spend a few days on it to get it smooth and in tempo so I can record for my family as a “virtual christmas card.” The clock is ticking…
Thanks as always Mark and have yourself a great holiday season!