Learning the C major tonality
The C major tonality and scale is the mother of all scales and is therefore an important one to learn in detail. These three free lessons will walk you through the scale, and then you'll be able to work on the C major triad and it's inversions. Finally with this knowledge under your fingers, you can expand your skills further by learning to build an essential and great bassline with the C major, D minor, G major triads. This bass lesson collection is here to give you an insight into learning scales, chords and then how to put all that musical knowledge into a practice.
Working through these studies will enhance your musical knowledge, your fingerboard awareness and your technique.
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The C Major Scale
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Major Scales in Lower Positions", this lesson takes you through the C major scale in second position
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C Major Triad And Inversions
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Major Triads in Lower Positions", this is the C major triad, played up to the 2nd Position. It gives us the opportunity to use open strings as the open G and E strings are the 5th and 3rd of the triad.
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Create Simple Bass Lines - C Major
Using roots, thirds and fifths in C major, learn how to develop your own bass lines.