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Why play melodies on the bass?
Playing melodies on bass builds your ear, your fretboard knowledge and your musical freedom — Pete makes the case for making tunes part of your practice.
Free Online Bass Lessons
31 free online bass lessons to watch or read — technique, music theory, walking bass and how to practise — from Pete Lindemere, B.Mus (Hons), PGCE.
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The 12-Tone Chromatic Scale on Bass
The 12-tone chromatic scale on bass guitar: all 12 notes and their names, and how the entire fretboard is built from one repeating pattern of semitones.
Video 27 min watch
May the Perfect 4th be with you!
The perfect 4th interval on bass: its history from perfect consonance to jazz building block, and an analysis of All The Things You Are.
Video 22 min watch
Theory Thursday - Demystifying The Modes
Modes on bass made simple: split them into major and minor, then build all seven from four tetrachord shapes — the chunking method that makes them stick.
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Three Ways to Change Your Picking Finger Tone
Three ways to change your picking-finger tone on bass: picking position, finger angle and attack — plucking-hand adjustments that transform your sound.
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Walking on The Spot | Jazz Blues Bass
Walk a 12-bar jazz blues without leaving one position: dominant 7ths, the Mixolydian scale, secondary dominants and Simandl fingering — all under one hand.
Video 17 min watch
Major Thirds in Summertime
The major 3rd interval on bass: why four semitones sound happy, tunes that teach you its sound, and how Gershwin's Summertime uses it in both directions.
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Mad Worlds and Minor Thirds
The minor 3rd interval on bass: why it sounds sad, which tunes truly teach its colour — Greensleeves, Spider-Man, and above all Mad World.
Video 15 min watch
Triads, an Open and Closed Case
Triads on bass guitar: how they're built, the triads on each degree of the major scale, and the difference between open and closed voicings on the neck.