Bass Guitar Foundations | More Rock, Less Drama!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome To The World of Bass

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Getting the most out of this course

Lecture 3: The Resource Guide (Download This)

Lecture 4: What is the Purpose of the Bass in a Band?

Lecture 5: The Best Musical Advice I Ever Received

Chapter 2: Getting Started | The Bass-ics (See what I did there?)

Lecture 1: Tips For Buying Your First Bass

Lecture 2: Parts of the Bass

Lecture 3: Tuning and the Strings

Lecture 4: Start Building Your Musical Vocabulary (Wholes, Halve and Quarters)

Lecture 5: Musical Alphabet

Lecture 6: Position To Play The Bass

Lecture 7: Hold the Bass with Playing Live in Mind

Lecture 8: First Finger Exercise!

Lecture 9: Let's Talk Gear

Chapter 3: Songs, Octaves and Exercises

Lecture 1: Your First Song! With or Without You

Lecture 2: Finger Exercise 2

Lecture 3: Octaves

Lecture 4: Your Second Song | You Really Got Me

Lecture 5: Spider Exercise

Lecture 6: Your Third Song | 7 Nation Army

Chapter 4: The Major Scale

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Major Scale

Lecture 2: Major Scale Shape 1

Lecture 3: Major Scale Shape 2

Lecture 4: Major Scale Shape 3

Lecture 5: 2 Octave Major Scale

Lecture 6: Practicing the Major Scale

Lecture 7: Exercise | Improve Your Speed

Chapter 5: Triads for the Win!

Lecture 1: Introduction to Triads

Lecture 2: Major Triad Shape 1

Lecture 3: Major Triad Shape 2

Lecture 4: Introduction to Minor Triads

Lecture 5: Minor Triad Shape 1

Lecture 6: Minor Triad Shape 2 & 3

Lecture 7: The "5" Is Alive and Awesome

Lecture 8: Finger Exercise | Every Other

Chapter 6: Flavor Your Sound

Lecture 1: Flavor Your Sound Intro

Lecture 2: Staccato

Lecture 3: Slides

Lecture 4: Hammer-Ons

Lecture 5: Pull-Offs

Lecture 6: Take Me to the Flavor Riff!

Lecture 7: Song | Another One Bites the Dust

Chapter 7: Introduction to the Pentatonic Scale

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Pentatonic Scale

Lecture 2: Pentatonic Scale Shape 1

Lecture 3: Pentatonic Scale Shape 2

Lecture 4: Pentatonic Scale Shape 3

Lecture 5: Pentatonic Scale Shape 4

Lecture 6: Pentatonic Scale Shape 5

Chapter 8: Put It Together | Pentatonic & Minor Triad

Lecture 1: Putting it Together with the Pentatonics and Minor Triads

Chapter 9: Can we get a Bass Solo?

Lecture 1: Intro to Soloing

Chapter 10: Chromatic Scale and Walking Bass

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Chromatic Scale and Walking Bass

Lecture 2: Chromatic Pattern

Lecture 3: Song | Hey Joe

Chapter 11: I'm Feeling Blue

Lecture 1: Introduction to Blues Bass

Lecture 2: 12 Bar Blues YT

Chapter 12: Final Thoughts

Lecture 1: Practical Application of Bass in a Band

Lecture 2: Final Thoughts and Continued Learning