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Using Approach Notes To Improve Your Bass Lines
This lesson I cover diatonic and chromatic approach notes. These are a great way of getting started on building your own bass lines because you don’t have to get too caught up in all the arpeggios and scales. What Are Approach Notes? An approach note is used to approach another note from a tone or…
How You Can Use Scales To Create Cool Bass Fills
In this second lesson on bass fills we’re going to add some scales into the mix. We’ve been playing fills over the A7 chord in our simple progression so we’re going to look at the A Mixolydian scale. Let’s have a refresher… In this lesson we’re going to look at how we can use scales…
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…
Juice Up Your Bass Lines With Double Stop Hammer Ons
This week we’re looking at some cool little bass chords you can use to juice up your bass lines, riffs and fills. Double Stops Double Stops are just two notes played together. This could be an interval like a 5th, 3rd or 10th. But we can also add ornaments and embellishments like hammer on’s into…
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…
Beginner Blues Bass
This is the first in a short series of lessons devoted to playing bass on a 12 bar blues. I’ll be covering Blues Rock and Jazz Blues in upcoming lessons. Please Note: On this video the backing track has a very full sound and the bass can sound a little overpowered on smaller speakers. If…
