Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners
Learn Bass Lines & Techniques with this Hands-On Method for Beginners
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Stu Hamm
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About this course
Hi, I’m Stu Hamm, one of TrueFire’s top bass instructors. Welcome to Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners.
In Learn Bass 1: First Steps for Beginners, you learned how to play essential bass lines and rhythm patterns, you built up the finger strength to play open and fretted notes with a great tone, learned basic hand positions, and can how to transpose a few basslines to different keys so you can jam along with your buddies.
Here in Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners, you’ll learn more essential basslines and rhythm patterns, syncopated grooves, walking lines, and will even start tackling latin rhythms and more — everything you need to take your playing to the next level.
Ready to take the next step? Grab your bass and let’s dig in!
In Learn Bass 1: First Steps for Beginners, you learned how to play essential bass lines and rhythm patterns, you built up the finger strength to play open and fretted notes with a great tone, learned basic hand positions, and can how to transpose a few basslines to different keys so you can jam along with your buddies.
Here in Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners, you’ll learn more essential basslines and rhythm patterns, syncopated grooves, walking lines, and will even start tackling latin rhythms and more — everything you need to take your playing to the next level.
Ready to take the next step? Grab your bass and let’s dig in!
What you'll learn
- Perform Latin bass rhythms
- Play syncopated grooves with confidence
- Apply bass techniques across multiple musical styles
- Improved timing by locking in with a metronome
- Development of internal rhythm and groove
Release date: 06/07/2018 • 1h 00m runtime
Sample lessons
Leaving Space & Walking
Lesson 2: Demonstration
Practice Session 3
Playalong: Slow
Practice Session 4
Playalong: Fast
Practice Session 5
Playalong: With the Band
What's included
28 lessons • 24 charts • 12 Jam Tracks
Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners
Hi I'm Stu Hamm, one of TrueFire's top bass instructors. Welcome to Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners.
In Learn Bass 1: First Steps for Beginners, you learned how to play essential bass lines and rhythm patterns, you built up the finger strength to play open and fretted notes with a great tone, learned basic hand positions, and can how to transpose a few basslines to different keys so you can jam along with your buddies.
Here in Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners, you'll learn more essential basslines and rhythm patterns, syncopated grooves, walking lines, and will even start tackling latin rhythms and more — everything you need to take your playing to the next level.
Ready to get started? Grab your bass and let's dig in.
In Learn Bass 1: First Steps for Beginners, you learned how to play essential bass lines and rhythm patterns, you built up the finger strength to play open and fretted notes with a great tone, learned basic hand positions, and can how to transpose a few basslines to different keys so you can jam along with your buddies.
Here in Learn Bass 2: Next Steps for Beginners, you'll learn more essential basslines and rhythm patterns, syncopated grooves, walking lines, and will even start tackling latin rhythms and more — everything you need to take your playing to the next level.
Ready to get started? Grab your bass and let's dig in.
How Do I Practice?
Let's talk really quickly about how to practice and how to use this course to become a better bass player. Every course is laid out sequentially, and it's very important that you master one lesson before you go on to the next one. This is the way you learn: by repetition, by learning a basic technique, then mastering it and expanding on it.
Warm-ups & Stretching
It's really important to stay loose and relaxed when you play, and to warm-up before you play. Let's talk about some basic things you can do to warm-up. The sooner in your career you take this seriously, the better chance that you'll have a longer pain-free music playing life.
Swing & Triplet Feel
We've talked about whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes, now let's talk about another rhythm, which is swung notes or triplets. These are rhythm patterns that are based in groups of three.
For this exercise, we'll be playing a pattern with one bar of E, then G, then A, and then one bar of C. We'll play two different swing/triplet patterns through this progression.
For this exercise, we'll be playing a pattern with one bar of E, then G, then A, and then one bar of C. We'll play two different swing/triplet patterns through this progression.
Practice Session 1
In this Practice Session, we'll work through our swing/triplet rhythm pattern with a metronome.
Practice Session 2
Now, we'll take our same progression and work it at a faster tempo.
Leaving Space & Walking
Let's walk through our next bassline that uses triplets again, but adding in some wrinkles. Here we're leaving a hole where the second triplet should be instead of tying the first two notes together. The little subtle differences of either tying the first two notes of the triplet together or leaving it blank is what really gives a song it's motion and it's unique feel and sound.
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