Lessons in this segment focus on the fundamentals of bass playing. There is a big tendency for players to seek for advanced and complicated topics while they still did not master the basics. It is absolutely crucial for the student to learn the material in the correct order and not to go ahead of oneself. If we do not spend sufficient amount of time on practicing fundamentals then everything else will seem to be extremely difficult to acquire and we are going to feel frustrated and discouraged, loosing the faith in being a good musician.
I hope that you will appreciate the lessons I am presenting here and that you will get a useful pieces of information from each of them although they bring up the subjects you thought you new all about.
Exploring The Root Note
In this lesson I demonstrate how the simple idea of playing just the root notes of the given chords can be effective enough to create a solid and interesting bass lines.
Names of the notes on the Fret Board
In this short lesson I give you some food for thought about how well you know the basics.
Major Scale as a Reference Point for Creating Harmony
In this lesson I pressent a different way to look at he the major scale.
Transposing to All Keys
In this lesson I demonstrate how to easily transpose a chord sequence to all keys. You can apply this method to transpose an entire song to different keys without knowing music theory.
Intervals
In this lesson you will learn the basic intervals.
Recognizing intervals and relationship between them will drastically improve your knowledge of the fret board. You will start to see it as logically laid out grid on which the notes has been arranged in the repeatable, consistent patterns.