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Bassist Practice Plan (JamPlay)
Master the Fundamentals and Build Daily Practice Habits That Stick
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About this course
If you’re serious about becoming a skilled bass player, consistent, intentional practice is essential—and Bassist Practice Plan with Alex Scott gives you the structure to make it happen. This course is your go-to practice companion, guiding you through a focused routine that sharpens your fretboard fluency, chord understanding, rhythmic accuracy, and technical control.
Across 21 clear and effective lessons, Alex breaks down core concepts like major, minor, and dominant scale forms, arpeggios, chromatic patterns, and modal theory. You’ll also build confidence in tricky areas like 5/4 and 7/8 time signatures, 2-5-1 chord movement, and 16th-note fingerstyle technique. Each instructional segment is paired with a guided practice session to reinforce what you’ve just learned, ensuring that you not only understand the material—but can apply it musically.
Whether you're looking to tighten up your technique or add fresh exercises to your routine, this practice plan is your roadmap to becoming a more confident and well-rounded bassist.
Across 21 clear and effective lessons, Alex breaks down core concepts like major, minor, and dominant scale forms, arpeggios, chromatic patterns, and modal theory. You’ll also build confidence in tricky areas like 5/4 and 7/8 time signatures, 2-5-1 chord movement, and 16th-note fingerstyle technique. Each instructional segment is paired with a guided practice session to reinforce what you’ve just learned, ensuring that you not only understand the material—but can apply it musically.
Whether you're looking to tighten up your technique or add fresh exercises to your routine, this practice plan is your roadmap to becoming a more confident and well-rounded bassist.
What you'll learn
- Play augmented triad arpeggios with one-finger-per-fret technique
- Execute diminished triad arpeggios using pinky-index finger patterns
- Execute octave jumps while maintaining odd meter groove
- Recognize that only 3 unique diminished arpeggios and 4 unique augmented arpeggios exist
- Develop left-hand dexterity through unusual interval shapes
Release date: 10/20/2021 • 4h 40m runtime
Sample lessons
Major Scale, Arpeggio and Pattern
Guided Practice
Chromatic Shapes
Lesson
Counting Odd Time: 5/4
Lesson
What's included
21 lessons • 20 charts • 1 Jam Tracks
Introduction
Welcome to our Bassist Practice Plan! Let's look at all of the topics we'll cover and how the course is laid out.
Major Scale, Arpeggio and Pattern
We begin our practice plan by taking a look at our most fundamental scale shape - major.
Major Scale, Arpeggio and Pattern
We practice our major scale, arepggio and pattern together.
Minor Scale, Arpeggio, and Pattern
Let's shift our focus to the minor scale, and learn a simple arpeggio and pattern to flesh it out.
Minor Scale, Arpeggio, and Pattern
We practice our minor scale, arepggio and pattern together.
Dominant Scale, Arpeggio, and Pattern
We round out our basic scales by learning the shape, arpeggio and pattern for dominant.
Dominant Scale, Arpeggio, and Pattern
Let's practice our dominant scale, arepggio and pattern together.
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