What if I were to tell you that with a half an hour’s practice daily, even 15 minutes, you could learn all the note names of your bass fretboard, including flats, and simultaneously you could learn the fingering for the major triads of all of these fretboard notes? What if I were to tell you that you could play these in time to nice background tracks, at three increasing tempos while developing your stamina for playing complete songs? And all of this within a month and with no strings attached for Free!
What if I were to tell you that within a year or two you could become a decent walking bassist capable of applying your ability to jazz, rock, folk, and country and for Free?
Twilight Zone? I’ve been lucky in life that I’ve had some great teachers and recently I stumbled upon another. There is a lot of bass material on YouTube but I think this is a fantastic one. I’d say the best.
Look up learning Chord Tone Lessons put out by a Polish guy in England, Tomasz, who speaks very good English and who has developed a very great course that teaches in carefully sequenced programmed steps. He provides great background tracks and PDFs, all for free and it’s about a two year course and you see immediate results.
I am a devotee. I “like” every video of his that I watch. I even subscribed to his Patreon channel which amounts to $1 a month. You don’t need to. I did so only because I wanted to give him some support. It feels weird to get such good material for free.
So, long story short, look him up and learn about it. In addition to his course which begins with the Chord Tone Lessons, he has videos on the importance of the root note. To learn the fretboard look for his video on how to practice triads.
Sorry I can’t give his last name off the top of my head. It’s Polish and doesn’t come to me easily. There is more than one person talking about chord tones on YouTube. His is Chord Tone Lessons. Once you find him you can find his other material.
He’s a damn good player in all styles.
You may have seen my comments on Carol Kaye and Mike Kohan’s seconding me that using chord tones rather than scales is the key to playing well on bass.
What if I were to tell you that within a year or two you could become a decent walking bassist capable of applying your ability to jazz, rock, folk, and country and for Free?
Twilight Zone? I’ve been lucky in life that I’ve had some great teachers and recently I stumbled upon another. There is a lot of bass material on YouTube but I think this is a fantastic one. I’d say the best.
Look up learning Chord Tone Lessons put out by a Polish guy in England, Tomasz, who speaks very good English and who has developed a very great course that teaches in carefully sequenced programmed steps. He provides great background tracks and PDFs, all for free and it’s about a two year course and you see immediate results.
I am a devotee. I “like” every video of his that I watch. I even subscribed to his Patreon channel which amounts to $1 a month. You don’t need to. I did so only because I wanted to give him some support. It feels weird to get such good material for free.
So, long story short, look him up and learn about it. In addition to his course which begins with the Chord Tone Lessons, he has videos on the importance of the root note. To learn the fretboard look for his video on how to practice triads.
Sorry I can’t give his last name off the top of my head. It’s Polish and doesn’t come to me easily. There is more than one person talking about chord tones on YouTube. His is Chord Tone Lessons. Once you find him you can find his other material.
He’s a damn good player in all styles.
You may have seen my comments on Carol Kaye and Mike Kohan’s seconding me that using chord tones rather than scales is the key to playing well on bass.