You need to know how to play notes all over the bass guitar fretboard, not just in one place.Watch any great bass player and, if they want to, they'll fly around the neck with ease.How do they do this?They know ...

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I already have plenty of bass guitar lessons based on the major and minor pentatonic scales. These are incredibly useful and common scales to use in bass playing so you definitely need to know them!This lesson focuses on 5 string ...

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Whilst this is primarily a bass guitar lesson about common and useful patterns, it's also about so much more.You'll learn lots of juicy music theory, some techniques, plus how you can use all of this information to create bass lines, ...

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I love a good bass pattern.Patterns on bass help to internalise the sound and shape of scales, triads, and arpeggios. In this bass guitar tutorial, I'll show you three pentatonic patterns I use every day.Scroll down for the free PDF ...

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Recently, I made a video on six bass patterns I use all the time.That one is proving very popular on YouTube so it's obviously something that many bass players are interested in. That's for good reason as patterns make bass ...

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Here are three minor blues bass guitar patterns you can use over 12 bar minor blues.Scroll down below the video to download the free PDF plus the backing track for this lesson.If you love blues (and soul, RnB, and Motown, ...

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Here are three blues bass guitar patterns you can use over 12 bar major blues. Scroll down below the video to download the free PDF plus the backing track for this lesson. If you love blues (and soul, RnB, and ...

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All the shapes in this bass guitar tutorial are fragments of larger scale patterns.When you memorise them and then use some simple rhythms and bass techniques you get instant amazing bass lines!Scroll down for the free PDF.Here's a follow up ...

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It may be boring but you do need to know all the notes on your bass guitar. It helps not only to memorise the note names but to deeply understand the patterns that make learning bass easy. Once you familiarise ...

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5 string bass guitars are not 'better' or 'worse' than their 4 string siblings.For me, they're just tools to be experimented with and used if you like.I love 5 strings because:The extra low B makes playing in different keys easyTransposing ...

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