Course Highlights
  • Learn professional technique from a professional bassist.
  • Have mastery over the entire fretboard
  • Develop incredible technique in both hands
  • Understand the role of the bass and write great bass lines
  • Be able to improvise
  • Play the bass proficiently in a wide variety of settings
  • Master time
  • Understand music theory including harmony, chord construction, the modes, key signatures, time signatures and more
  • Play over changes from charts
  • Have the foundation to be a fully formed musician
  • Step confidently onto the stage or into the studio
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

1 Topic
Introduction

35 Topics
The Functions of the Bass
Practice Book and Resources
Practice Methods: How to Accelerate Your Learning
Tuning the Bass the Professional Way
Important Notes on Tuning
Professional Bass Technique - The Left Hand
Professional Bass Technique - The Right Hand
A Note on Practice Schedules
Introduction to Intervals and the 12 Notes -- Bonus Lesson Elements of Music
Intervals 2 -- Animated
Fretboard Natural Notes: See the Whole Board
The Natural Notes: Practice
The Major Scale: Solid Fundamentals
Major Scale -- Bonus Lesson from The Elements of Music
The Major Scale: Practice Plan
The Minor Scale: Solid Fundamentals
Interval Essentials
Notes on Interval Essentials
Music Theory I -- Building Blocks of the Fully Formed Musician
Music Theory I
Triad Types
The Major Scale - Linear
The Minor Scale - Linear
Bonus Lecture -- Music Applications Example
Major and Minor Scales Expanded
Time 101 - Note Values
Time 102 - Subdivisions
Reading Rhythm
Time Signatures - Introduction
Time Signatures I
The Bass Player's Workshop I - The Major Scale
Pentatonic Major - Two Octaves
Ear Training Skills Builder - Intervals I
Ear Training - Intervals II
Styles - Reggae Revealed

8 Topics
Level 1 Session 1
Level 1 Session 2
Level 1 Session 3
Level 2 Session 1
Level 2 Session 2
Level 2 Session 3
Level 3 Session 1
Level 3 Session 2

38 Topics
Music Theory II
The Minor Key and It's Scale -- Bonus Lesson from The Elements of Music
Music Theory II
The Benefits of Musical Practice
Intervals Applied
Artists Spotlight - James Jamerson and Jeff Berlin
The Bass Player's Workshop - Intervals Applied
The Chromatic Scale - I
The Major Scale Two Octaves
The Minor Scale Two Octaves
Key Signatures
Key Signatures
Major Pentatonic
Minor Pentatonic
The Bass Player's Workshop - Major and Minor Pentatonics
Time Signatures II - Compound and Odd Meter
Time 103 - Subdivisions Advanced
Time Signatures Extra Practice
Triads - Versions
Triads - Applied
Chords
Chord Construction - 3 Note Chords
The Elements of Chord Construction
Chord Construction
The Chromatic Scale - II
The Blues Scale Revealed
Chord Construction - 7th Chords
E Major - Two Octaves
The Ultimate Guide to Chord Order
Chord Order
The Number System: Essential Knowledge
Understanding Chord Progressions
Triads and the Major Scale
Music Theory III - Chord Functions
Pentatonic Major and Minor Together
The Ultimate Guide to the Dominant Chord
A Major - Two Octaves
Styles - The Blues

9 Topics
Level 4 Session 1
Level 4 Session 2
Level 4 Session 3
Level 5 Session 1
Level 5 Session 2
Level 5 Session 3
Level 6 Session 1
Level 6 Session 2
Level 6 Session 3

18 Topics
What You Need to Know About Bass Strings
The Ultimate Guide to Bending and Vibrato
Chords - Inversions and Voicings that Sing
Seventh Chords and Arpeggios
Pentatonics - The Five Shapes
F Major - Two Octaves
The People's Key -- Welcome to the Village
Chord Shorthand
B Flat Major - Two Octaves
Ultimate Walking Bass -- Practice Methods
Ultimate Walking Bass I
Ultimate Walking Bass II
Ultimate Walking Bass II - Supplemental
Ultimate Walking Bass III - The Lead Note
Ultimate Walking Bass IV - The Minor Thirds Rule
Ultimate Walking Bass V - Bringing the Elements Together
Ultimate Notes on Walking Bass
Ultimate Walking Bass VI - Walking in 3/4

12 Topics
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 1
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 2
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 3
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 4
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 5
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 6
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 7
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 8
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 9
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 10
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 11
Riff Trainer for Bass - Session 12

22 Topics
Chord Construction Advanced - Non-diatonic Chords
Chord Construction Advanced - Sixth Suspended Extended
Artist Spotlight - Carol Kaye
Modes I - Introduction and the Ionian Mode
Modes 2 - The Dorian Mode
Modes 3 - The Phrygian Mode
Modes 4 - The Lydian Mode
Modes 5 - The Mixolydian Mode
Modes 6 - The Aeolian Mode
Modes 7 - The Locrian Mode
Unleashing the Power of All Modes Combined
The Beauty of Bass Chords and Double Stops
Incredible Three Finger Technique
Expanding Your Bass Voice with Legato
Three Finger Technique and Legato -- The Master's Combination
Cadences Revealed
Advanced Finger Exercise
The Circle of Fifths - Bonus Material
A Brilliant and Simple Tool: One Octave Modes
The Whole Tone Scale
Harmonic Minor Explained
Mastering Melodic Minor

2 Topics
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