Power Chords
This week we’re looking at one of the most useful chords for bass. The Power Chord!
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This week we’re looking at one of the most useful chords for bass. The Power Chord!









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 lesson deals with the topic of strumming chords on bass guitar. Stanley Clarke, Les Claypool and Victor Wooten are all masters of this technique so be sure to listen to them if you want some examples of its application. Lesson Material
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…
Today, I’ve got something a little different for you. It’s the holiday season and Christmas is round the corner for many of us out there so here we have a re-release of a solo bass rendition I arranged of the song The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. I released this arrangement a few years…
This week we’re looking at bass chords. When you first learn chords you generally learn chords from the root note upwards. But we can learn chords starting from other chord tones like the 3rd or 5th. These are inversions and can help create great voice leading in the bass line. Basic Chords OK so I’m…

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. Riff #1 Practice Track: Riff #2 Practice Track:
Excellent explanation of usage. Great job as always
Mark has a great way of making it simple Thanks Mark
Mark a good teacher
Thank you Mark
Thank you Mark for great lesson again…….
Great lesson … once again. ‘Thank you!
Very helpful. Thanks man.
I welcome this website, thanks much for yur willing and thoughtfullness for self taught people like me.
This was great Mark ,
Thank’s
That was a great lesson! I’ve been curious about playing chords on a bass and had not idea.
Thanks.