Intermediate Bass Technique

In this series, JD DeServio (Black Label Society, Cycle of Pain) expands on the skills taught in his beginner series. Take your bass playing to the next level by honing your finger and thumb techniques and applying those skills in the context of the grooves JD teaches in this series.

Marty FriedmanTommy EmmanuelSteve VaiEric GalesEric Johnson

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Intermediate Bass Technique

About this course

In this series, JD DeServio (Black Label Society, Cycle of Pain) expands on the skills taught in his beginner series. Take your bass playing to the next level by honing your finger and thumb techniques and applying those skills in the context of the grooves JD teaches in this series.

What you'll learn

  • Create percussive tones using dead strings with first finger dampening
  • Play consistent triplet rhythms with thumb technique across octave shapes
  • Navigate octave patterns up and down the neck with triplet rhythm
  • Apply triplet fills in groove contexts
  • Control note length (long vs short articulation) while maintaining triplet feel
Release date: 03/12/2014 • 1h 54m runtime
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Sample lessons
Right Hand Finger Techniques
Right Hand Finger Techniques
JD teaches an octave exercise
Modal Studies Part 1
Modal Studies Part 1
JD walks through arpeggios for a minor scale
Modal Studies Part 2
Modal Studies Part 2
JD teaches the fifth mode (Mixolydian)
Modal Studies Part 3
Modal Studies Part 3
JD chords over the 1 major (Ionian)

What's included

97 lessons • 21 charts

Intermediate Bass Techniques
JD introduces his series and gives a taste of what to look forward to.
Right Hand Finger Techniques
JD uses an octave exercise and a new groove to help build dexterity and increase control with the right hand.
Right Hand Finger Techniques
JD uses an octave exercise and a new groove to help build dexterity and increase control with the right hand.
Right Hand Finger Techniques
JD uses an octave exercise and a new groove to help build dexterity and increase control with the right hand.
Right Hand Finger Techniques
JD uses an octave exercise and a new groove to help build dexterity and increase control with the right hand.
Right Hand Finger Techniques
JD uses an octave exercise and a new groove to help build dexterity and increase control with the right hand.
Modal Studies Part 1
JD dives into modal theory. This lesson covers the first four modes in the key of C major.

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