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Free Electric Bass Lessons and Courses
Advanced
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ELECTRIC BASS
Bass solo over Autumn Leaves
Taken from the advanced electric bass course "Soloing Concepts for Electric Bass", this lesson is an ascending phrase utilising most of the fingerboard with several examples of 7th to 3rd voice leading between chords.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Scales and Arpeggios for Autumn Leaves
Taken from the advanced electric bass course "Soloing Concepts for Electric Bass", this lesson will put a lot of musical content under your fingers. It will become much easier to play solos and bass lines over the changes once you are familiar with these scales and arpeggios.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Finger Style Funk
This is a great 16th note finger style funk groove in the style of the great Francis Rocco Prestia. Learn the A and B sections separately then put them together. Play it over and over to improve your consistency of time. I recommend using the playalong only once you've mastered both the A and B parts. I love this groove, enjoy playing it!
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ELECTRIC BASS
Jeff Berlin bass solo transcription
Found this CD suppliment to an old Bassplayer magazine. Jeff Berlin played these great lines unaccompanied on there.Sign in and head to the demo lesson with the transcription. Read through it may be 2 or 4 bars at a time (or more if you are an experienced reader) It'll improve your reading and you'll get to play some fantastic bebop lines by Mr Berlin..
Intermediate
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ELECTRIC BASS
Bassguitar Warm Up Exercise
This free lesson will teach you the two most important chords in each key. We break every major key down to it's I and V chord and play them consecutively following the cycle of fifths. This is a great exercise for learning basic harmony (I and V chords in every key), finding notes on the fingerboard, voice leading between V to I progressions, improving technique through musical content and ear trining.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Shuffle Bassline and Fills
This lesson shares a great shuffle bassline and takes you through a basic to extended version. Includes a variety of fills to improve your sight reading skills, knowledge of notes over the range of the fingerboard and harmonic understanding. Incidentally, the musical content discussed is great for your technical development as well.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Slap Bass in 12 Keys
This simple but very effective exercise will help you break out of the often used E and A minor tonalities by practising slap bass style through the 12 major scales. It is also a superb exercise to build stamina.
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ELECTRIC BASS
Major Scale Structure
Taken from the intermediate electric bass course "The Major Scale Approach", this lesson goes through the structure of the major scale
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ELECTRIC BASS
C Major Scale
Taken from the intermediate electric bass course "The Major Scale Approach", in this lesson we discuss the mother of all scales, the C major scale on four string bass
Beginners
Free Double Bass Lessons and Courses
Advanced
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DOUBLE BASS
Advanced Basslines
This is a demonstration of advanced loose feel basslines and 2 choruses of solos over the jazz standard "Alone together".
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DOUBLE BASS
Jazz Blues melody
Learn a great bebop tune, Slinky by my favourite guitarist Ulrich Elbracht. You can use it as a technical study piece for either double or electric Bass, and at the same time you will learn some great bebop language too.
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DOUBLE BASS
Stella by Starlight, solo bass performance and lesson
This is an arrangement of the standard 'Stella by Starlight' for solo Double or Electric bass. Accompanied by a detailed lesson of how to play it and the ideas behind the orchestration. Enjoy!
Intermediate
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ELECTRIC AND DOUBLE BASS
Groove the pentatonic scale
Learn this solid doublebass groove and master two pentatonic scales while you are having fun groovin' it! This lesson will teach you how to learn two great pentatonic scales by applying them to an exciting bass groove!
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DOUBLE BASS
Bassroom Sessions
A collection of tutorials focusing on every day aspects of playing jazz double bass
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DOUBLE BASS
Simple Blues lines
This goes through a very useful method of building up note choices from the ground up and it is then applied to the 12 bar blues.
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DOUBLE BASS
Melodic Blues lines
Here we discuss blues bassline options in more depth by adding scale and chromatic notes. This will give your lines a lot of harmonic and melodic interest. These concepts are valid for other chord progressions, so feel free to apply them while you are learning the jazz standard repertoire.
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DOUBLE BASS
Create Simple Bass Lines - Eb Major
Using roots, thirds and fifths in Eb major, learn how to develop your own bass lines.
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DOUBLE BASS
Bowed Double Bass
This is a simple but very effective intonation exercise, involving a reference note (interim note) between two target notes. I explain and demonstre on the G string, but of course it is playable on all the rest of the strings.
Beginners
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DOUBLE BASS
Free Double Bass Foundations Course
Start right at the beginning and make sure you have a strong foundation to build on. Taking the time to get the basics right will help faster progress as your playing develops. This is a Free course to get you off to a great start with your double bass studies.
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DOUBLE BASS
C Major Studies Preview Lessons
Three studies working on the mother of all scales, the C major scale. Explore the scale itself, the major triad and it's inversions and learn how to create simple bass lines in this key
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DOUBLE BASS
Major Scales Overview
An overview of the major scales taken from the beginners course - Major Scales in Lower Positions
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DOUBLE BASS
Major Triads And Chord Types
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Major Triads in Lower Positions", this lesson gives a detailed description of the triad and the four basic chord types: major, minor, augmented and diminished.
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DOUBLE BASS
Scales on Bass
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Minor Scales in Lower Positions", this lesson determines the origin of the natural minor scale. Then it explores the minor sound and highlights a very important interval, the minor 3rd.
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DOUBLE BASS
The A Minor Scale
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Minor Scales in Lower Positions", this lesson is the one octave A natural minor scale played with 2 alternate fingerings in half and first position.
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DOUBLE BASS
The Minor Triad
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Minor Triads in Lower Positions", this lesson describes the minor triad and gives you two great options to determine it.
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DOUBLE BASS
A Minor Triad And Inversions
Taken from the beginners double bass course "Minor Triads in Lower Positions", this lesson is the A Minor Triad, played up to the 2nd Position, including it’s inversions and a related exercise.