Videos
Playing with the Circle of Fifths
Okay so you know A TON of different arpeggio shapes and you can play them in multiple places on your instrument and connect them together. Now I’d like you to start moving them through the circl...
Playing from Lowest to Highest
This is one of my favorite ways to practice scales and arpeggios. You may remember this exercise from the Essential Scales course that you just finished, so get ready to apply it to arpeggios now!
How to Use Arpeggios
Here’s the big moment where we tie everything together. You’ve got these shapes down, you can play them everywhere on the neck and you can connect them together fluidly. So now what? How d...
Grey Eyes
I wanted to try my hand at playing a four-chord pop song; in my own way, of course 🙂 This might be why they don’t let bass players in the writing room.
Studio Tour of The Bassist Headquarters 2018
I get asked quite often about my setup, what kind of gear I use, what my room looks like and how I treated it… So here it is! A behind-the-scenes look at The Bassist Headquarters! Enjoy and let ...
Presonus Quantum
The nice folks at Presonus were kind enough to let me borrow one of their new flagship interfaces – the Quantum. I was beyond excited to put it through the ringer here at The Bassist Headquarter...
Jazz Vocabulary #6 – Pivot Arpeggio #4
I’m going to wrap up this series for the time being by leaving you with one more Pivot Arpeggio idea. Good luck, this one can be pretty difficult at faster tempos!
Jazz Vocabulary #5 – Pivot Arpeggio #3
Here’s another Pivot Arpeggio idea, this time involving some chromaticism!
Sick Lix #60 – Joe Dart
From the first moment that I heard this lick, I had to stop what I was doing and learn it. Joe is such a sick player, and this lick expresses that illness perfectly!
