Loading ...Today our world opens up because I will be acquainting you with the 3rd. I love this interval, adding it will now give us 2 very distinct sounds, major and minor. Whole songs are written exclusively from major and minor tonalities and they are also combines too. We have been hearing these 2 distinct tonalities all our lives. When you [...]
Hello Everyone! It’s back to the shred shed, in the previous weeks we covered the fret names and roots and octaves. The next step in learning to construct bass lines is adding the 5th. In this week’s article we will discuss where to find them on the neck and where to use them in a musical setting. I’ve always liked [...]
Hello fellow Bassists. I am back for the next segment in Bass line construction. This week I want to talk about roots and their octaves. This is very important knowledge for us to have as players. It involves first knowing your fret board to locate the roots and then being able to find the octaves of that root. For those [...]
Hello and welcome to the first segment of my Bass line construction series. In this article I’m going to cover one of the basic elements of playing, fret names. Having a solid foundation in this area I’ve found makes it easier in the long run to advance more quickly. I don’t disapprove of tablature but I’ve found an increasing number [...]
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