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How to Use Your Picking Fingers on Bass Guitar
How to use your picking fingers on bass: the first thing to get right — angle, contact and consistency — for a clean fingerstyle plucking sound.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Major Seconds And Strangers
The major 2nd interval on bass: Happy Birthday, Linus & Lucy, and the song built entirely around it — Strangers in the Night. Ear training with real tunes.
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An Interview With Molly Gebrian | Top 10 Scientifically Based Music Practice Tips - Part 1
Neuroscientist Dr Molly Gebrian on science-based music practice tips: how your brain learns an instrument, and how to practise smarter, not longer.
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An Interview With Molly Gebrian | Top 10 Scientifically Based Music Practice Tips - Part 2
Part 2 with neuroscientist Dr Molly Gebrian: more science-based practice tips for musicians — memory, sleep, and how to make new skills stick.
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An Interview With Molly Gebrian | Top 10 Scientifically Based Music Practice Tips - Part 3
By having a rough understanding of how our brain works, we can start to get our own biology working for us – which is good news when it…
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Walking Bass Line Formulas: Step By Step
Learn walking bass lines step by step with simple formulas — a brilliant way to understand chord construction, explore the neck and build jazz vocabulary.
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Triads and Arpeggios on Bass: From Mozart to Madness
Bass arpeggios and triads: the four triad types — major, minor, diminished, augmented — in three positions each on bass, from Mozart to Madness.
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Fretting and Damping on Bass: A Beginner's Guide
How to mute strings on bass: fretting-hand technique and damping habits that kill unwanted noise and tighten up every note you play. A beginner's guide.
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Top 10 Bass Lines for Beginners
Easy bass lines for beginners: ten iconic, playable classics that build real technique and groove while you play actual music — not just exercises.
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Walking Bass Lines the Easy Way: Simple Hacks to Learn Faster
Walking bass lines the easy way: a 12-bar blues with nothing but triads, plus three beginner hacks — Simandl fingering, one-position triads, the blue note.
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Fly Me To The Moon and Other Semitones
A Fly Me to the Moon bass lesson with a twist: Sinatra's classic (which really did go to the Moon) as a masterclass in semitones and melody on bass.
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Bass Fretboard
Learn the bass fretboard notes properly: memory techniques, octave patterns and note-name tricks — plus a free printable fretboard chart PDF.
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Bass Rhythms and Notes for Beginners
Beginner bass technique: playing clean notes, following rhythms, and damping exercises — with a nod to the great James Jamerson.
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Bass Intervals: Semitones and Instant Sharks
The semitone — music's smallest interval and its most dramatic. Learn to hear and play it on bass, from the Jaws theme up (instant sharks guaranteed).