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Play Bass Guitar 3: Essential Skills
Essential Skills for Late Beginner to Intermediate Bass Guitarists
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About this course
Welcome to Play Bass 3: Essential Skills for late beginner to intermediate students of bass guitar.
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by 6 top TrueFire educators: Andy Irvine, Andrew Ford, Stu Hamm, Brad Carlton, Jasper Mortier and Ariane Cap.
The Essential Skills curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Once you’ve gotten some of the basics under your fingers, it’s important to start developing a repertoire of techniques, grooves and lines that you can use anywhere. This course will equip you with the skills you need to become a solid bass player!
Play Bass 3 is arranged in two sections. In the first section you will start off by expanding your repertoire of grooves. Having a wide variety of grooves to work on will build your skills and give you a more versatile reservoir of feels to draw from. Then in the second section, you’ll learn new scales, and progressions, and dig into essential concepts and techniques that you will need to take your playing to the next level.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your bass and let’s get started!
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by 6 top TrueFire educators: Andy Irvine, Andrew Ford, Stu Hamm, Brad Carlton, Jasper Mortier and Ariane Cap.
The Essential Skills curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Once you’ve gotten some of the basics under your fingers, it’s important to start developing a repertoire of techniques, grooves and lines that you can use anywhere. This course will equip you with the skills you need to become a solid bass player!
Play Bass 3 is arranged in two sections. In the first section you will start off by expanding your repertoire of grooves. Having a wide variety of grooves to work on will build your skills and give you a more versatile reservoir of feels to draw from. Then in the second section, you’ll learn new scales, and progressions, and dig into essential concepts and techniques that you will need to take your playing to the next level.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your bass and let’s get started!
What you'll learn
- Prepare to develop a repertoire of bass techniques, grooves, and lines
- Understand the structure and purpose of the Play Bass 3 Essential Skills course
- Understand how to use course features like looping, slow-down, and jam tracks
- Learn how to navigate the TrueFire learning path system
Release date: 05/24/2018 • 3h 17m runtime
Sample lessons
Grand Daddy
Groove 4
Walking Blues Shuffle
Groove 14
Floyd's Bricks
Groove 11
60's Funk
Groove 7
What's included
40 lessons • 37 charts • 22 Jam Tracks
Play Bass 3: Essential Skills
Welcome to Play Bass 3: Essential Skills!
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by multiple top TrueFire educators. The curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Once you've gotten some of the basics under your fingers, it's important to start developing a repertoire of techniques, grooves and lines that you can use anywhere. This core course will equip you with the skills you need to become a solid bass player. All of the key examples are tabbed and notated, you can loop and slow down any of the videos to work at your own pace, plus, you'll have all the available jam tracks to work with as well. Take as much time as you need to work on each lesson before moving on to the next one.
If you want to dig deeper - or wider - into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path. There, you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire eductors.
Grab your bass, and let's get started!
This Bass Learning Path core course is presented by multiple top TrueFire educators. The curriculum is comprised of select bass guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Once you've gotten some of the basics under your fingers, it's important to start developing a repertoire of techniques, grooves and lines that you can use anywhere. This core course will equip you with the skills you need to become a solid bass player. All of the key examples are tabbed and notated, you can loop and slow down any of the videos to work at your own pace, plus, you'll have all the available jam tracks to work with as well. Take as much time as you need to work on each lesson before moving on to the next one.
If you want to dig deeper - or wider - into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path. There, you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire eductors.
Grab your bass, and let's get started!
Tight 8th Notes
Tight 8th Notes - Groove 2 is a video guitar lesson presented by Andy Irvine and is sourced from 30 Beginner Bass Grooves You Must Know.
The mood and feel of this groove can be varied by playing the 8th note pulses with shorter and tighter notes. This often gives the music a cleaner sound and creates a little space, also working well to support a vocal section or create tension in the music.
The mood and feel of this groove can be varied by playing the 8th note pulses with shorter and tighter notes. This often gives the music a cleaner sound and creates a little space, also working well to support a vocal section or create tension in the music.
Broken Feel #1
Broken Feel #1 - Groove 3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Andy Irvine and is sourced from 30 Beginner Bass Grooves You Must Know.
These broken feel grooves are all about space - leaving holes, or rests, in your line. This is an element that is crucial to the development of your musicality.
We all have a natural body clock that allows us to keep time in music, and by practicing these grooves you'll start to develop your clock. Count through the holes when you're not playing, focusing on even smooth tempo and playing your notes with punch, purpose, and deliberate authority.
These broken feel grooves are all about space - leaving holes, or rests, in your line. This is an element that is crucial to the development of your musicality.
We all have a natural body clock that allows us to keep time in music, and by practicing these grooves you'll start to develop your clock. Count through the holes when you're not playing, focusing on even smooth tempo and playing your notes with punch, purpose, and deliberate authority.
Broken Feel #2
Broken Feel #2 - Groove 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by Andy Irvine and is sourced from 30 Beginner Bass Grooves You Must Know.
These broken feel grooves are all about space - leaving holes, or rests, in your line. This is an element that is crucial to the development of your musicality.
We all have a natural body clock that allows us to keep time in music, and by practicing these grooves you'll start to develop your clock. Count through the holes when you're not playing, focusing on even smooth tempo and playing your notes with punch, purpose, and deliberate authority.
These broken feel grooves are all about space - leaving holes, or rests, in your line. This is an element that is crucial to the development of your musicality.
We all have a natural body clock that allows us to keep time in music, and by practicing these grooves you'll start to develop your clock. Count through the holes when you're not playing, focusing on even smooth tempo and playing your notes with punch, purpose, and deliberate authority.
Grand Daddy
Grand Daddy - Groove 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by Andrew Ford and is sourced from 30 Rock Bass Grooves for Beginners You MUST Know.
This groove is based on the song "American Band" by Grand Funk Railroad. This time, we'll use an 8-bar phrase to demonstrate the beginning, middle, and end of the motif. We need all 8 bars to see how it kind of rises and falls. This one will have all eighth notes each bar, except for the last one, sticking to the root for the first half of the bar and then playing a pivoting groove on beats 3 and 4.
We start with D, playing four eighth notes on the root then moving to a D-G-A-G on beats 3 and 4. The next bar repeats this, then Bars 3 and 4 move to a C chord where we play the root for the first half of the bar using those four eighth notes and ending playing a similar C-F-G-F pivot. In Bar 5, we switch to a Bb chord again starting on the root (Bb) and then play a Bb-F-G-F pivot. It's basically the same pivot we used over the C chord, but the notes are functioning as 5-6-5 instead of 4-5-4 as in the previous 4 bars. We have a quick chord change in Bar 6, going back to C using the root and then a C-G-A-G pivot, notice we used a C-F-G-F on the previous C chord. Bar 7 repeats our D chord pattern from Bars 1 and 2, and we end with a C chord, but our first note is D for a little variety, creating an anticipation for the listener to look for the root C that comes up on the next eighth note. We end that bar with the G-A-G pivot, different from the Bar 3 and 4 F-G-F pivot.
This groove is based on the song "American Band" by Grand Funk Railroad. This time, we'll use an 8-bar phrase to demonstrate the beginning, middle, and end of the motif. We need all 8 bars to see how it kind of rises and falls. This one will have all eighth notes each bar, except for the last one, sticking to the root for the first half of the bar and then playing a pivoting groove on beats 3 and 4.
We start with D, playing four eighth notes on the root then moving to a D-G-A-G on beats 3 and 4. The next bar repeats this, then Bars 3 and 4 move to a C chord where we play the root for the first half of the bar using those four eighth notes and ending playing a similar C-F-G-F pivot. In Bar 5, we switch to a Bb chord again starting on the root (Bb) and then play a Bb-F-G-F pivot. It's basically the same pivot we used over the C chord, but the notes are functioning as 5-6-5 instead of 4-5-4 as in the previous 4 bars. We have a quick chord change in Bar 6, going back to C using the root and then a C-G-A-G pivot, notice we used a C-F-G-F on the previous C chord. Bar 7 repeats our D chord pattern from Bars 1 and 2, and we end with a C chord, but our first note is D for a little variety, creating an anticipation for the listener to look for the root C that comes up on the next eighth note. We end that bar with the G-A-G pivot, different from the Bar 3 and 4 F-G-F pivot.
Sweet Southern Home
Sweet Southern Home - Groove 18 is a video guitar lesson presented by Andrew Ford and is sourced from 30 Rock Bass Grooves for Beginners You MUST Know.
Groove 18 is another one of those implied eighth note grooves in the style of "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Here we have a 4-bar phrase with two chords per bar. The first two chords are D to C, both starting with two eighth notes tied to a quarter note using the root of each chord. So, the rhythm is 1 "and", then holding through beat 2, then the same thing on 3 "and", and then holding through beat 4 on C. Bar 2 starts the same way for beats 1 and 2. You'll notice in Bars 2 and 4 a chord with a slash mark. As a bass player, our main bass note is the note below the slash, in this case B in Bar 2 beat 1 and E in Bar 2 beat 4. So, on beat 1 we play the B using the eighth notes and hold through beat 2, on beats 3 and 4 we have quarter notes to break up the pattern.
In Bar 3, eighth notes again on beat 1 with the D chord, but this time we only hold it for an extra eighth note and add a low E on the "and" of beat 2 before getting back to the pattern over the F chord with two more eighth notes. In Bar 4, we have a mashup of the patterns in Bars 2 and 3, starting with the two eighths, holding for an eighth and playing another eighth on the "and" of 2 like Bar 3, all using the root G. On beats 3 and 4, we have quarters like Bar 2 using the roots B and C.
Groove 18 is another one of those implied eighth note grooves in the style of "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Here we have a 4-bar phrase with two chords per bar. The first two chords are D to C, both starting with two eighth notes tied to a quarter note using the root of each chord. So, the rhythm is 1 "and", then holding through beat 2, then the same thing on 3 "and", and then holding through beat 4 on C. Bar 2 starts the same way for beats 1 and 2. You'll notice in Bars 2 and 4 a chord with a slash mark. As a bass player, our main bass note is the note below the slash, in this case B in Bar 2 beat 1 and E in Bar 2 beat 4. So, on beat 1 we play the B using the eighth notes and hold through beat 2, on beats 3 and 4 we have quarter notes to break up the pattern.
In Bar 3, eighth notes again on beat 1 with the D chord, but this time we only hold it for an extra eighth note and add a low E on the "and" of beat 2 before getting back to the pattern over the F chord with two more eighth notes. In Bar 4, we have a mashup of the patterns in Bars 2 and 3, starting with the two eighths, holding for an eighth and playing another eighth on the "and" of 2 like Bar 3, all using the root G. On beats 3 and 4, we have quarters like Bar 2 using the roots B and C.
Walking Blues Shuffle
Walking Blues Shuffle - Groove 14 is a video guitar lesson presented by Andy Irvine and is sourced from 30 Beginner Bass Grooves You Must Know.
Now let's look at a shuffle feel - more bounce to the ounce! That's the name of the game, sticking to the kick drum, and playing patterns that remain intact, not breaking the pattern. Toe the line, and enjoy the approving smiles of the band leader.
Discipline is the highest level of musical sophistication. Blues shuffle skills done well are the key to getting gigs that can, and will, pay you, and open many doors of opportunity to grow on the band stand among other players. There are dozens of subtle variations depending on geographic influence - Texas, Chicago, Delta, and more!
Now let's look at a shuffle feel - more bounce to the ounce! That's the name of the game, sticking to the kick drum, and playing patterns that remain intact, not breaking the pattern. Toe the line, and enjoy the approving smiles of the band leader.
Discipline is the highest level of musical sophistication. Blues shuffle skills done well are the key to getting gigs that can, and will, pay you, and open many doors of opportunity to grow on the band stand among other players. There are dozens of subtle variations depending on geographic influence - Texas, Chicago, Delta, and more!
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Reviews
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cupit357
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12/04/22
I am a brand new bass player and I find this to be easy to follow and very informative.
mikeespen
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11/28/21
I used to play 30 plus years ago - so this is a great way to get back into it with structured grooves that I can play
mirkogit
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09/25/21
GREAT
LuigiD
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04/19/21
Well done!
Good course, beautiful lessons with nice scales. With streaming lessons from website I can learn everywhere with every device, well done!
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