10 Modules including fretboard skills, rhythm studies, important R&B bassists, tracks and much more!
The Term Rhythm&Blues appears at the end of the 1940s, the style come out of the Blues, but with the advent of the electric guitars and the economic migrations, new life was pumped to the music scene and Rhythm&Blues was born.
This course will give you all you need to play in a R&B band and also you will learn the approach of some of the best R&B bassists in History.
Take the R&B Bass Course!
8 Lectures
10 Modules
71 Lessons
Topics
10 R&B Bassists
40 Classic R&B Bass Lines
Private Online Folder
PDFs
Backing Tracks
Transcriptions
Playlist: R&B Bass
Course Details
Finger Fitness: Fingers Exercises to gain fluidity, independence and strength
Fretboard Skills: What Notes, Positions, Exercises, How to Practice, Triads, Pentatonic Scale & Quartal Approach, Blues scale, Major Scale and Intervals, Diatonic Arpeggios, Major Modes, Diminished Scale, Melodic Minor Scale, Patterns Application.
Rhythm Studies: Exercises, Syncopation, Metronome & Time, Groove & Fills, Bass Line Improvisation.
Technique: Articulations & Dramatic Effects – Hands Position & Fingerstyle, Slides & Shake, Hammer On & Pull Off, Rake & Trill, Ghost Notes & Accents, Crossing Strings, Short Notes & Long Notes, Palm Muting, R&B Bass Tone.
Applied Harmony: Type of Chords, Scales and Arpeggios options over Major, Minor and Dominant Chords.
In the Style of: Sound & Feel, Language, Bass Lines, Fills & Phrasing, Steal Like an Artist – Jerry Jemmott, David Hood, Duck Dunn, Willie Weeks, James Jamerson, Tommy Cogbill, Bob Babbitt, Chuck Rainey, Nathan Watts.
Soloing
How to build a solo, Concepts, Enclosures, Ornaments, Phrasing.
Songs Related: PlayAlongs
Module 1
Lesson 1: Defining R&B
Lesson 2: Technique – Hands Position & Fingerstyle
Lesson 3: Finger Fitness
Lesson 4: Fretboard Skills – Triads (Maj, Min, Aug & Dim)
Lesson 5: Rhythm Studies – Half and Quarter notes
Lesson 6: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Jerry Jemmott
Lesson 8: 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: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – David Hood
Lesson 7: 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: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Duck Dunn
Lesson 7: Songs Related
Module 4
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Accents & Ghost Notes
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Major Scale and Intervals
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – Triplets
Lesson 5: Rhythmic Variation vs Repetition
Lesson 6: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 7: In The Style Of – Willie Weeks
Lesson 8: Songs Related
Lesson 5
Lesson 1: The James Jamerson Concept
Lesson 2: Rhythm and Tonality
Lesson 3: James Jamerson bass line analysis on classics Motown
Lesson 4: Songs Related
Module 6
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Crossing Strings
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Major Modes
Lesson 4: Rhythm Studies – Syncopation
Lesson 5: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Tommy Cogbill
Lesson 7: Songs Related
Module 7
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique: Short notes & Long notes
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills: Diatonic Arpeggios
Lesson 4: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 5: In The Style Of – Bob Babbitt
Lesson 6: Songs Related
Module 8
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Rakes
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Quartal Playing
Lesson 4: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 5: Applied Harmony – Major Chords
Lesson 6: In The Style Of – Chuck Rainey
Lesson 7: Songs Related
Module 9
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Palm Muting
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Diminished
Lesson 4: Chromatic tones
Lesson 5: Slides, Hammer on & Pull off
Lesson 6: Grooves & Patterns Application
Lesson 7: Applied Harmony – Minor Chords
Lesson 8: In The Style Of – Nathan Watts
Lesson 9: Songs Related
Module 10
Lesson 1: Finger Fitness
Lesson 2: Technique – Double Stops
Lesson 3: Fretboard Skills – Melodic Minor
Lesson 4: Groove & Patterns Application
Lesson 5: Applied Harmony – Dominant Chords
Lesson 6: Taste & Feel
Lesson 7: In The Style Of
Lesson 8: Songs Related
