Really open up the world of harmony with this complete modal package. It will really unlock the fingerboard and help you play in every key and over every chord type with much greater ease and fluency.

It can be a challenge playing over static chords. This course will help you develop options that will help you to be a creative bass player.

Take what Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and many others played and use it to craft some great ideas of your own.

There’s also a series of lessons that look at how to apply modal scales to chords and common chord progressions.

This course is slap bass on steroids!

Building on the basic techniques learned in the first course, you’ll learn advanced techniques such a double thumbing, triplet & quadruplets combinations, two-handed muting, using double stops and chords, alternative snap techniques using 1,2 & 3 finger combinations, stretch your syncopation and study techniques that will help your play original funk bass lines.

You’ll also learn how not to be tied to open strings and how to apply your techniques to any chord type.

It’s not all about the bass…well, it is!, but this course will still enhance your bass playing and improve your musicianship all round.

We’ll discuss building a repertoire and why it’s important, how to practice and the psychology of practicing versus playing, transcribing techniques, ear training, music theory, writing & arranging music, music scoring, being a professional musician, equipment and how to maintain it, you’ll learn some simple piano skills (this will benefit you more than you think), how to approach a bass session, working in a live studio session and look at physical health.

This course is completely groovalicious!

It’s a close up look at playing bass within a rhythm section. You’ll study a variety of techniques to make sure you firmly anchor the bottom end, whatever style of music you play. Plus, learn to use all the harmonic & rhythmic devices you know to play your own original lines.

James Jamerson, Jaco, Bootsy, Larry Graham, Chuck Rainey the list goes on… We’ll look at some of their unique attributes and playing idiosyncrasies and learn how we can use them in our own playing.

Much of this course features a live rhythm section, so it’s an opportunity for you to take the bass chair and play along with some superb supporting musicians.

There’s even a unit on how to approach playing in a studio.

This course will help you understand and read all types of notation.

You will learn to negotiate chord charts, lead sheets and follow a process that will help you read music notation at sight and with fluency anywhere on your instrument.

You’ll study the 12 stave system and learn to be comfortable with both bass and treble clefs. You’ll even look at the benefits of TAB versus music notation.

It’s a sequential course that if followed diligently, will get you reading no matter how many times you’ve tried and failed previously.

It will certainly help your understanding of different notation systems, but it will also open up the neck and really increase your knowledge of the fingerboard.

Walking bass –  a dark art, an improvisers utopia, or a bass player’s nightmare?

Walking bass lines are something we all aspire to play well, but something that many bass players struggle with.

This course will help learn to play killer walking bass lines that will really Rock the rest of the band! You will have a much better command of harmonic knowledge after working through this series of lessons and you will be able to play over any chord progression.

The course combines your understanding of harmony, chords and scales and shows you how to apply this and play great walking bass.

You’ll study using roots & 5ths, chord tones, chromatic passing notes, octave displacement and will learn to develop solid time. You’ll soon be comfortable playing over all chord types and progressions and become comfortable playing completely improvised bass lines.

It’s a combination of all your musical knowledge… chords, scales, keys, rhythm, time, feel.

Advanced chords for bass.

You will study extended and altered chords, learn a variety of 7th chord voicings over the whole neck that will enhance your understanding of harmony and the fingerboard & vastly improve your playing options, learn how to develop your own chord voicings, use harmonics to play chords, modal chord studies that will turbo charge your command of playing over chord progressions, right hand picking techniques and how to approach slash chords and altered chords.

There’s a lot to this course, but it’s an aspect of bass playing that can’t be overlooked. It’s challenging and will give you a great workout, but the resultant impact on your playing can be huge.

This course is dedicated to helping you play authentic bass lines in a range of styles.

It’s an in depth study of playing styles including Funk, Soul, Reggae, Afro Cuban, Rock, Pop and Fretless.

You’ll learn the techniques and harmonic devices associated with each style that will help you play great bass lines.

It’s a great fun course that will help demystify some of the secrets of different genres. There are far too many great bass players and great songs to list, but it’s a course not to be missed.

Improvising in depth.

So many of the secrets of improvising are held within existing solos. You will study some of the world’s most renowned improvisers and transfer what they do on to your bass.

You’ll also work on expanding your harmonic and rhythmic library and learn to construct exciting solos.

Along the way you’ll be working on modal playing, playing over complex harmonies and learning how to access some of the great ideas you might already have, but don’t know about and developing the connection between your playing and you musical ear.

Learn iconic bass lines across many genres and start building a repertoire of awesome bass lines.

You’ll learn to play some of the greatest ‘must play’ bass lines, examine the harmony they are based on and look at how you can take what you’ve learned and use it to create original bass lines of your own.

James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, Jaco Pastorius, Carol Kaye, John Entwistle, Flea, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Marcus Miller, Family Man Barrett, Chuck Rainey are some of the chosen few whose bass lines you will study.

This course goes far beyond the fundamentals.

Not only will learn a range of advanced scales, you will really start to open up further harmonic options in your own playing. You’ll study the Melodic minor scale and its modes & harmonic applications, Harmonic minor scale, Whole tone scale, Diminished scale, Chromatics scale and the use of harmonics.

Scales alone are little use without taking a close look at the harmony they can be applied to, which is why you’ll also look at how to learn and use the scales practically over the most common static and harmonic progressions.

Starting out playing any instrument can be a daunting and confusing prospect.

This course will ease you in slowly, but give you the confidence of being comfortable with your new instrument from the beginning. It will show you everything you need to know to get started with the bass guitar in a very simple and straightforward series of lessons.

You will learn about all the parts of your bass, what everything does, simple left & right hand technique,  you’ll learn how to hold your bass properly and the benefits of good posture, how to set up your amplifier and how to get a good bass sound. You will feel comfortable and sound great from the very first note you play & be playing great bass line in no time!

Develop a cast iron, solid technique that will help you deploy killer slap bass lines.

Study left and right-hand techniques, how to mute properly and breakdown some iconic, funky bass lines.

You will learn good right hand technique, how to play octaves in every combination, learn to use and control your thumb, look at left hand technique, work on developing strong rhythmical interplay between your left & right hands, plus look at a range of articulations that will really give your slap bass lines a lift.

We’ll also analyse the key devices that make Marcus Miller, Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Abraham Laboriel, to name but a few so recognisable and individual.

Learn to develop and use definitive techniques that will help you play bass with control, accuracy and consistency.

Study left & right-hand techniques, fingerings, muting and articulations.

In this course you’ll study every essential technique including how/where to properly anchor your picking hand, different picking techniques, alternative picking, raking, using your thumb, how to mute with both your left & right hand, using a plectrum and you’ll learn to execute a range of articulations such as slurs, trills, hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Having a strong technique is paramount to being able to execute your musical ideas. This course presents a full workout that will help you build a great technique and have an immediate & positive impact on your playing.

This course completely lifts the lid on how to improvise on bass guitar.

Whether you’re playing a bass line, or ripping through a solo, the ability to improvise is at at heart of being a great bass player. It’s an integral skill that you use more than you might be aware of.

You’ll explore the use of chord tones, scales, motifs and a variety of devices that will help you play interesting melodic and rhythmic solos.

You’ll learn how to play a great solo using only a few notes, how to play within a chord and how to get an ‘outside’ sound. There’s even an analysis of some great improvisers, but not just bass players.

A core course on scales that will give you the perfect foundation for building a good understanding of harmony across the entire fingerboard.

You will examine major, minor, pentatonic and blues scales in depth and learn a no nonsense method for playing them every which way you can over various octaves and with different string combinations.

It’s great fun too, because you will be learning the nuts & bolts of harmony and playing music whilst you practice.

Chords are King in music and in this course you will learn about different chord types, where and how to play them across the bass and how chord progressions work.

Chord construction, harmonising scales, chord nomenclature, chord families, common chord progressions & turnarounds, how to play all chord types across the fingerboard, chord voicings.

Learn how to construct bass lines, lock in with a drummer, work within a rhythm section and stretch out whilst holding down the low end and outlining the harmony of any piece of music.

You will also learn how to play over any chord, when and how to play fills & runs within a groove, how to play simply and when/how to get busy, what feel is, playing around the beat and examine playing in different meters.