THE BASSICS
- How to Hold Your Bass Guitar
- How to Tune Your Bass Guitar
- Basic Right Hand Technique
- Basic Left Hand Technique
- Muting
- Playing Ghost Notes
- All About Tone
- How and When to Change Your Strings
- Essential Music Theory to Know
- Learning the Notes on Your Bass Guitar
- What Does the Bass Actually Do?
- The Most Influential Bassists of All Time
PRACTICE TIPS
- How to Create a Successful Practice Routine
- My Personal Warm-Up Routine: The Way of The Bassist
- How to Learn Difficult Passages
- How I Practice (It’s Science)
- Top 10 Practice Hacks
ESSENTIAL SCALES
- Introduction to Scales
- The Major Modes
- The Pentatonic Scales
- Playing with Runs & Sequences
- Playing Scales Intervallically
- Playing with The Circle of Fifths
- Playing from Lowest to Highest
- How to Use Scales
ESSENTIAL ARPEGGIOS
- Introduction to Arpeggios
- Single Octave Major & Minor Triads
- Single Octave Augmented & Diminished Triads
- Single Octave Major & Minor 7th’s
- Single Octave Dominant & Diminished 7th’s
- Two Octave Triad Arpeggios
- Two Octave 7th Arpeggios
- Playing Runs & Intervallically
- Playing with the Circle of Fifths
- Playing from Lowest to Highest
- How to Use Arpeggios
RHYTHM & TIMING
- Introduction to Rhythm & Timing
- Rhythm Test #1
- Rhythm Test #2
- Up Beats & Down Beats
- The E’s & A’s
- Playing On Top, Behind & In Front of the Beat
- You Have to Move with the Music
- Develop your clock: Internal Timing Exercise
- Rhythmic Accent Displacement
- Rhythmic Syncopations
GROOVE: HOW TO GET HIRED
- Locking with the Kick Pattern
- Syncing-Up with Drum Fills
- More Than Kick Patterns
- Playing Off the Kick
- Playing with Simple Kick Patterns
- Playing Groove Phrases
- Developing a Groove Phrase
- Matching Cymbal Lengths
- When Less is More
- Never Sacrifice the Groove for a Note
- Playing Busy Grooves
- Before You Play a Single Note…
MUSIC THEORY & EAR TRAINING
- Lesson #1 – Introduction to Music Theory & Ear Training
- Lesson #2 – Music Theory Fundamentals
- Lesson #2 Dictation Practice-Test
- Lesson #3 – Elements of Rhythm
- Lesson #3 Dictation Test
- Lesson #4 – Intervals
- Lesson #4 Dictation Test
- Lesson #5 – Triads
- Lesson #5 Dictation Test
- Lesson #6 – The Essence of Key
- Lesson #6 Dictation Test
- Lesson #7 – Seventh Chords
- Lesson #7 Dictation Test
- Lesson #8 – Diatonic Chord Sequences
- Lesson #8 Dictation Test
- Lesson #9 – Compound Intervals
- Lesson #9 Dictation Test
- Lesson #10 – Modes & Other Scales
- Lesson #10 Dictation Test
- Lesson #11 – Chord Extensions & Alterations
- Lesson #11 Dictation Test
- Bonus Lesson – Reading Chord Charts & Lead Sheets
- Bonus Lesson Dictation Test
- Dictation Practice-Test Revisited
HOW TO READ MUSIC ON BASS
- Introduction to Reading Music on the Bass Guitar
- How to Setup & Use Sight Reading Factory
- Level 1: Frets 1-3
- Level 2: Frets 2-4
- Level 3: Frets 2-5
- Level 4: Frets 1-5
- Level 5: Frets 3-6
- Level 6: Frets 4-7
- Level 7: Frets 5-8
- Level 8: Frets 1-8
- Level 9: Frets 6-9
- Level 10: Frets 7-10
- Level 11: Frets 8-11
- Level 12: Frets 1-11
- Level 13: Frets 9-12
- Level 14: Frets 10-13
- Level 15: Frets 1-13
