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Category: Bass Lessons

  • Pentatonic Scale for Beginner Bass Players: The Complete Guide

    Pentatonic Scale for Beginner Bass Players: The Complete Guide

    The pentatonic scale is one of the most popular scales in music. It’s used in all styles of music – rock, blues, country, jazz and more. In this article, I’ll teach you what the pentatonic bass scales are, how to understand the music theory behind them and how to play them on the bass guitar.…

  • The Best Websites for Online Bass Lessons: A Review for Bass Players

    The Best Websites for Online Bass Lessons: A Review for Bass Players

    Are you looking for online bass lessons? If so, you’re in luck! There are a lot of websites that offer online bass guitar lessons, and it can be tough to decide which one is right for you. In this article, we will review some of the best websites for learning bass guitar. We’ll discuss the…

  • 6 Easiest Bass Scales for Beginner Bass Players

    6 Easiest Bass Scales for Beginner Bass Players

    In this blog post, we will discuss 6 of the easiest bass scales that beginner bass players should learn. Don’t have time for a long article? No worries. If you want a quick overview of the easiest scales bassists can learn then here it is. The 6 best scales for beginners bassists to know are…

  • 5 Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner Bassist…

    5 Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner Bassist…

    As a beginner bassist, I made a lot of mistakes. This was really frustrating but looking back now I can pinpoint 5 specific lessons that would’ve made all the difference to my playing had I learned them as a beginner. So what are these lessons? What tips do I wish I learned when I was…

  • Sight Reading App Review – Why Is TomPlay The Real Deal

    Sight Reading App Review – Why Is TomPlay The Real Deal

    Practicing sight-reading is something many bass players avoid. Even with the help of a good sight-reading app or teacher, many find the feeling of not being able to play through even a basic piece of sheet music is too uncomfortable to handle so they simply ignore it. Before we can look at a great new…

  • Walking Bass Lines – Simple Formulas That Make AWESOME Lines

    Walking Bass Lines – Simple Formulas That Make AWESOME Lines

    Walking bass is one of the most useful skills any bass player can learn. I like to think of it as being a sort of musical compound exercise because it works so many aspects of your musicianship at once. It helps you understand theory, scales, arpeggios, you have to use your ears and you need…

  • Chords For Bass Guitar – How To Use Them Tastefully

    Chords for bass guitar is a topic that divides opinion. Pretty strongly in fact. There are some people who do it really well and write some very beautiful music like Michael Manring. But there’s also the purists who say the bass isn’t a chordal instrument and there’s also the people who shove chords into music…

  • Learn Music Theory – Here’s Why You Need To Know It

    Is it important to learn music theory? The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might think at first. This short story will show you why. As a young musician growing up, I often told my musician friends (and myself) that I didn’t need to learn theory because I could “play music from the heart” or…

  • 3 Easy Steps To Awesome Bass Fills (For Beginners)

    3 Easy Steps To Awesome Bass Fills (For Beginners)

    Bass fills for beginners is a tricky subject to teach. So many beginners see their favorite bass player bust out some mind-bending bass fills and licks, get inspired, and want to learn how to do it. But their lack of theory knowledge, technical skill and an underdeveloped ear hold them back for learning how to…