10 Modules including fretboard skills, rhythm studies, important blues bassists, tracks and much more!
The Blues was born in the Mississippi Delta after the civil war. Musically it incorporates elements of African music, Field Hollers and Church music. Traditional Blues was raw and earthy style but when electric instruments became popular the style changed. Today Blues has become more then a style, you can find it everywhere, in many styles and with a legion of musicians inspired by its players.
This course will give you what you need to play in a Blues band and also you will learn the approach of some of the best Blues bassists in History.
Take the Blues Bass Course!
9 Lectures
10 Modules
79 Lessons
47 Topics
10 Blues Bassists
40 Classic Blues Bass Lines
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PDFs
Backing Tracks
Transcriptions
Playlist: Blues Bass
Course Details
Finger Fitness: Fingers Exercises to gain fluidity, independence and strength
Fretboard Skills: What Notes, Positions, Exercises, How to Practice, Triads, Arpeggios, Pentatonic Scale, Quartal Playing, Blues scale, Major Scale and Intervals, Diatonic Arpeggios, Major Modes, Diminished Scale, Melodic Minor Scale, Patterns Application
Rhythm Studies: Rhythm Exercises, Metronome & Time, Groove and Fills.
Technique: Articulations & Dramatic Effects – Hands Position & Fingerstyle, Skips, Slides, Hammer On & Pull Off, Rake & Trill, Ghost Notes & Accents, Crossing Strings, Short Notes & Long Notes, Palm Muting, Double Stops, Blues Bass Tone.
Applied Harmony: Type of Chords, Major Blues Forms – 8, 12 and 16 Bars, Quick Change, Minor Blues, Intros & Endings, Stormy Monday Changes, Scales and Arpeggios options over chords, Turnarounds, Substitute Chords in a Major and Minor Blues.
Types of Blues: Jump Blues/Boogie Woogie, The Bump & Two Beat, Shuffle, Rumba, Rhythm & Blues, Slow Blues 12/8, Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, Funk Blues, Texas Blues.
In the Style of: Sound & Feel, Language, Bass Lines, Fills & Phrasing, Steal Like an Artist – Willie Dixon, Russell Jackson, Johnny Gayden, James Hutchinson, Jerry Jemmott, Willie Weeks, Darryl Jones, Pino Palladino, Roscoe Beck, Tommy Shannon.
Soloing
How to build a solo, Concepts, Enclosures, Ornaments, Phrasing.
Songs Related: PlayAlongs
Module 1
Lesson 1: Technique – Hands Position & Fingerstyle
Lesson 2: Finger Fitness
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Triads
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – Half and Quarter notes
Lesson 5: Bassline & Patterns Application – Jump Blues/Boogie Woogie
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Major Blues Form – 12 Bars
Lesson 7: Quick Change
Lesson 8: In The Style Of – Willie Dixon
Lesson 9: Songs Related
Module 2
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Slide & Shake
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Pentatonic Scale
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – Quarter and 8th notes
Lesson 5: Bassline & Patterns Application – The Bump & Two Beat
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Major Blues Form – 8 Bars
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Russell Jackson
Lesson 8: Songs Related
Module 3
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Hammer On & Pull Off
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Blues Scale
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – 8th and 16th notes
Lesson 5: Bassline & Patterns Application – Shuffle
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Major Blues Form – 16 Bars
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Johnny Gayden
Lesson 8: Songs Related
Module 4
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Accents & Ghost Notes
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Major Scale
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – Triplets
Lesson 5: Bassline & Patterns Application – Rumba
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Minor Blues
Lesson 7: In The Style Of- James Hutchinson
Lesson 8: Songs Related
Module 5
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Crossing Strings
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Diatonic Arpeggios
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – Syncopation
Lesson 5: Bassline & Patterns Application – Rhythm & Blues
Lesson 6: Applied Harmony – Intros & Endings
Lesson 7: Blues Fills
Lesson 8: In The Style Of – Jerry Jemmott
Lesson 9: Songs Related
Module 6
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Short notes & Long notes
Lesson 3: Applied Harmony – Turnarounds
Lesson 4: Fretboard Skills – Major Modes
Lesson 5: Bassline & Patterns Application – Slow Blues 12/8
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Willie Weeks
Lesson 7: Songs Related
Module 7
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Rakes & Trills
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Mixolydian b3 & b5
Lesson 4: Bassline & Patterns Application – Delta Blues
Lesson 5: Applied Harmony – Stormy Monday Changes
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Darryl Jones
Lesson 7: Songs Related
Module 8
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Palm Muting
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Quartal Playing
Lesson 4: Bassline & Patterns Application – Chicago Blues
Lesson 5: Applied Harmony – Major, Minor and Dominant Chords
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Pino Palladino
Lesson 7: Songs Related
Module 9
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Fretboard Skills – Diminished Scale
Lesson 3: Technique – Double Stops
Lesson 4: Bassline & Patterns Application – Funk Blues
Lesson 5: Applied Harmony – Substitute Chords in a Major Blues
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Roscoe Back
Lesson 7: Bass Line Improvisation
Lesson 8: Songs Related
Module 10
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Blues Bass Tone
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Melodic Minor Scale
Lesson 4: Bassline & Patterns Application – Texas Blues
Lesson 5: Applied Harmony – Substitute Chords in a Minor Blues
Lesson 6: Blues Soloing
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Tommy Shannon
Lesson 8: Songs Related
