Understanding harmony is absolutely essential for all bass players.
This bass guitar tutorial will teach you about the arpeggios built from the harmonic minor scale.
That's a relatively unusual scale and I'd definitely recommend you look at my major and natural minor harmony lessons first:
- Bass Guitar Music Theory: The 7 Arpeggios From C Major
- Harmonising The Natural Minor Scale: Play Bass Lines, Chords & Solos!
Scroll down for the free PDF with all seven arpeggios plus a bonus mode (harmonic minor modes sound amazing - especially if you like flamenco music!).
Harmonised Harmonic Minor - Bass Guitar Arpeggios
A great example of a harmonic minor bass line is Thundercat's on the Gorillaz track Cracker Island. Here's my lesson on it:
If you know a little bit about harmony, your ability to hear music improves and you acquire lots of arpeggios that you can instantly make music with.
Once you've learnt the arpeggios, try this:
Harmonic Minor Bass Guitar Etude
Thanks Dan, nicely done
Thanks very much.