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Create Crazy Bass Fills With This Scale Ninja Tactic!
This week we’re looking at how you can inject some awesome juice into your bass fills, runs and solos by using an intervallic approach to shedding scales. Getting Away From The Norm! Many beginner to intermediate bass players see scale runs in a very linear, up & down fashion. You run up the scale and…
THE Must-Know Melodic Bass Lick
This week I’m going to show you a really popular melodic bass lick used in loads of different songs. This line can be played over a major or minor chord so is a very useful run to know. The Must-Know Melodic Bass Lick Today we are going to be learning a popular melodic fill used…
The Dreaded Key Of Eb
This week I’m going to show you how to contend with the dreaded key of Eb. The Dreaded Key Of Eb The key of Eb is a common problem area for guitarists and bass players as our instruments start on an E and often leave us craving one extra fret to let us get that…
Using Double Approach Notes In Your Bass Lines
This week I’m going to expand on the Approach Note lesson by covering Double Approach Notes. To create these we simply approach a chord using two notes instead of one. Recap Last week we looked at the notes you can use to approach a chord in a sequence – this time, we are going to…
Getting Your Groove On With Only Root And Fifth
In this lesson I show how you can limit yourself to practising with only the root and 5th of each chord while still coming up with an interesting bass line. Roots and Fifths The last few lessons on this subject have explored ways you can spice up your playing by adding ghost notes, approach notes…
Killer Funky Bass Riff (and how to build your own!)
In this lesson we’re going to look at a killer funky bass riff and then break it down to see what it’s made of and how we can apply those building blocks in our own basslines. The main concepts we’ll be covering are chord tones and chromatic approach Killer Funky Bass Riff One of the…
