This Month’s Bass Lesson: The Double Chromatic Approach In my previous article entitled “Guide Tones” we learned how to create lines using guide tones that resolve...
Remember that great bass line you keep coming back to year after year and yet it’s still not where you want it to be? Your fingers...
Hey guys! How’s it going? This month I’d like to share this awesome 16th groove etude, based on the track by the great Stevie Wonder, as...
Being bass players, we are often renegades of a sort. Many of us learn to play when a friend or a cousin or uncle puts a...
Sneak Peak for Bass Musician Readers – How to Go From Amateur to Pro Bass Player – 3 Great Tips! Yonit was recently featured in Bass...
In this video I want to share with you a bass-duo based in “La Corralera”, a Milonga (An argentinian kind of Tango) written by Anselmo Aieta...
A few of you bass fanatics out there might be old enough to remember the infamous words “fuzzy math”. That’s all fine for the math wizards...
Hi Guys! How’s it going? This time I’m bringing an etude that I wrote to work on the tapping technique but in arpeggios format. Remember that...
Ask bass musicians on the street what they need to work on to get their playing in shape and you will hear grave and frustrated comments...
Diatonic Harmony Part 2… In my previous article entitled “Diatonic Harmony” I attempted to explain some basic concepts regarding triads, seventh chord arpeggios, and exercises that...
Modes of the Melodic/Jazz Minor Scale and Applications For Bass… In this issue we take a closer look into the Jazz minor modes and its applications...
In today’s lesson we are going to be talking about relative keys for bass. We are going to discuss what they are, how you can find...
Parallel Keys Parallel keys have the same tonic (root) note and octave but different key signatures. This applies when talking about the major and minor scales....
A first step in understanding harmony is to gain knowledge of all the chords, triads, and arpeggios that are built from the major scale. All this...
Plugging in the Blue Note To further build on the concepts I presented in Lesson Two–Seeing Shapes and Patterns, let’s alter the sound of the pentatonic...