The Ultimate Bass Solo Guide: Key, Scales, Phrasing, and More

In this bass guitar tutorial, I'm going to show you everything you need to create an amazing bass solo over three chord progressions.

One of the progressions is minor, and the other two are major, and Dorian (a really cool sound you are going to love!).

I taught exactly how to play those chord progressions in my last lesson:

So do check that one out after this one so you know the bass chord shapes and techniques you can use with your bass solos.

Next week I'm going to show you how to play those into a looper pedal...

If you like chords on bass then you'll also like this lesson:


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  • I love the 3-chord progression with the harmonics Dan. It just makes the following quote so, so true!

    “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”.
    PLATO

    Don’t you just love this it?

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