10 Modules including fretboard skills, rhythm studies, important Jazz bassists, tracks and much more!
Take the Jazz Bass Course!
9 Lectures
10 Modules
81 Lessons
34 Topics
10 Jazz Bassists
40 Classic Jazz Bass Lines
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Course Details
Finger Fitness: Fingers Exercises to gain fluidity, independence and strength.
Fretboard Skills: What Notes, Positions, Exercises, How to Practice, Triads: root, 1st and 2nd inversion, Arpeggios: Major, Minor and Dominant 7th with all inversions, Pentatonics, Quartal Approach, Blues scale, Major Scale and Intervals, Diatonic Arpeggios, Major Modes, Chromaticism, Diminished Scale, Melodic Minor Scale, Patterns Application.
Jazz Rhythm: Rhythm Exercises, Metronome & Time, Odd Times.
Technique: Articulations & Dramatic Effects – Hands Position & Fingerstyle, Skips, Slides, Hammer On & Pull Off, Rake & Trill, Ghost Notes & Accents, Crossing Strings, Drops, Anticipation, Short Notes & Long Notes, Palm Muting.
Applied Harmony: Type of Chords, Chord Changes with Major and Minor II-V-I, Scales and Arpeggios options over chords, Substitute Chords in Rhythm Changes, Turnarounds, Substitute Chords in a Major and Minor Blues, Subs, Tritone, Secondary dominants.
In the Style of: Sound & Feel, Language, Bass Lines, Fills & Phrasing, Steal Like an Artist – Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Bob Cranshaw, Scott LaFaro, Sam Jones, Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Steve Swallow, Jaco Pastorius.
Walking Bass: Roots and Half Steps, Playing in 2, Walking Targeting 3rds and Root to 9th, Walking Targeting 5th and Root/6, 3rd/5th – 3rd/9th, Walking Targeting 7th, Melodic Bass line: chord tones, 5 to 1 motion, voice leading, Scalar Walking: Scalar tones, diatonic and bebop scale approach, Broken Feel, Pedal.
Soloing
How to build a solo, Concepts, Enclosures, Ornaments, Phrasing.
Songs Related: PlayAlongs
Module 1
Lesson 1: Techniques – Hands Position & Fingerstyle
Lesson 2: Finger Fitness
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Triads
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Roots and Half Steps
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Major Chords
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Paul Chambers
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 2
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Techniques – Skips
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Major Scale and Intervals
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Targeting 3rds and 9th
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Minor Chords
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Ray Brown
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 3
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Drops
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Diatonic Arpeggios
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Targeting 5th and 6th
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Dominant Chords
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Bob Cranshaw
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 4
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Techniques – Anticipation
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Major Modes
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – 3rd/5th – 3rd/9th
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Chord Changes with Major II-V-I
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Scott LaFaro
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 5
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Techniques – Slides
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Pentatonics
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking: Targeting 7th
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Chord Changes with Minor II-V-I
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Sam Jones
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 6
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Techniques – Hammer On & Pull Off
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Blues Scale
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking: Melodic Bass line – chord tones, 5 to 1 motion, voice leading
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony: Diminished and half diminished Chords
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Steve Swallow
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 7
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Rake & Trill
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Chromaticism
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Scalar tones, diatonic and bebop scale approach
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Tritone, Secondary Dominants and Subs
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Charles Mingus
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 8
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Ghost Notes & Accents
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Diminished scale
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Pedal, Broken Feel
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Substitute Chords in a Major Blues
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Ron Carter
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 9
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Short Notes & Long Notes
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Melodic Minor
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Turnarounds
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Substitute Chords in a Minor Blues
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Dave Holland
Lesson 8: Jazz Standard
Module 10
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Palm Muting
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Quartal Approach
Lesson 4: Jazz Rhythm
Lesson 5: Walking – Function – Interaction
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Substitute Chords in Rhythm Changes
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Jaco Pastorius
Lesson 8: Soloing
Lesson 9: Jazz Standard
