Bassist Fretboard Roadmap
Few things are more important on bass guitar than a solid understanding of the fretboard. In this course, veteran bassist Alex Scott takes you through a series of 15 lessons and 5 JamTracks designed to maximize your fretboard knowledge and comprehension. Throughout this pack, for every two lessons you spend learning core concepts, you’ll get one lesson that lets you practice your new skills along with a backing track.
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Alex Scott
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About this course
Few things are more important on bass guitar than a solid understanding of the fretboard. In this course, veteran bassist Alex Scott takes you through a series of 15 lessons and 5 JamTracks designed to maximize your fretboard knowledge and comprehension. Throughout this pack, for every two lessons you spend learning core concepts, you’ll get one lesson that lets you practice your new skills along with a backing track.
What you'll learn
- Play major and minor arpeggios (1-3-5-octave patterns)
- Recognize that the course covers both WHERE notes/scales are and WHY they work musically
- Understand how triads connect scales to chords
- Understand the overall structure and goals of the Bass Fretboard Roadmap course
- Understand the course format: 2 concept lessons followed by 1 practical application track
Release date: 10/20/2021 • 3h 20m runtime
Sample lessons
Dominant Scale and Arpeggio
Classic Rock Track
R&B Track
What's included
16 lessons • 12 charts • 5 Jam Tracks
Introduction
Welcome to our Bassist Fretboard Roadmap! In this introduction lesson, let's get acquainted with the topics we'll cover in this course, and some of the specifics we'll be learning over the next 15 lessons.
Major and Minor
We kick things off with the fundamentals - learning the shapes of our major and minor scales.
Intervals and Modes
We look at broader fretboard patterns relating to major and minor, and put them in context by learning about intervals and modes.
Indie Rock Track
We put our first few concepts into practice over a hip indie rock track.
Dominant Scale and Arpeggio
Let's look at another critical scale shape - the dominant scale.
Chromatic and Blues Scale
This lesson takes a look at the notes in between the notes of our various scales, and discusses why and when we would use them.
Funk Track
Let's put our dominant shapes and knowledge of chromatic tones into practice over a funk groove.
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