Bass Guitar Fundamentals

Learn 4-string bass from the first tuning to root-fifth grooves, major and minor scales, a 12-bar blues, walking lines, slap and pop, and harmonics.

What you will be able to play

• Tune your bass with a tuner, the 5th-fret method and harmonics, and restring it one string at a time.
• Read bass tab and pluck with a steady rest stroke while your thumb keeps the idle strings quiet.
• Find any note on all four strings with its fifth and octave, and build root-fifth-octave grooves.
• Count and play whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes in time with a drummer.
• Play the major scale across the neck, its relative minor, and A minor pentatonic in three positions.
• Play a 12-bar blues in G and walk a 1-4-5 in D with a chromatic turnaround.
• Slap and pop octave grooves, mute cleanly with both hands and play natural harmonics.

Is it for you?

Complete beginners on the 4-string electric bass, and guitarists picking up bass for the first time. You need nothing but a bass, an amp or headphone amp and a tuner: the course starts with the names of the strings. Players who already know their way around the neck can start at the scales or the blues module. It is not a course in reading standard notation, it does not cover 5-string or fretless technique, and the advanced slap and harmonics lessons are a first taste rather than a complete funk course.

What you get

• 52 video lessons in teaching order
• Taught by E Pruitt, David Taub
• Level: Beginner to intermediate
• Watch on the web or in the GuitarJamz app, on any device, with your progress kept
• Yours to keep: one payment, no subscription
• Backed by our money-back guarantee

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