Free Bass PDFs
Four printable tools that pair with the free lessons — print them, stick them on the wall, and keep them on the music stand. Pop your email below and all four land in your inbox (and appear right here). Further down: the handouts that come free with Pete's written lessons. After blank paper instead — bass tab, stave-and-tab, manuscript or neck diagrams? That's on the free tools shelf, no email needed.
Bass Fretboard Notes Chart
Every note, frets 0–12, on one printable page — plus the three tricks that make the names stick.
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Bass Intervals Chart
All 12 intervals: fretboard shapes, semitone counts, and a famous tune to pin each sound to.
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Walking Bass Starter Pack
The step-by-step formulas plus a full 12-bar blues walking line in TAB, ready to play.
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Left Hand Finger Exercises
Pete's one-page left-hand workout: broken 3rds, 5ths and 6ths through the major scale in notation and TAB, with double-bass and one-finger-per-fret fingerings — learn them in the left hand, then swap rhythms into the right.
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Lesson handouts
Each of Pete's written lessons comes with its own printable PDF — the whole lesson typeset for the music stand, several with a one-page reference sheet or chart as well. They're free on the lesson pages: read the lesson, then download at the foot of it.
Bass Scales: The Complete Map of the 5 Families
Bass Scales – The Complete Map + Bass Scales Chart — the one-page map — free with the lesson (20 min read).
History of the Minor Scale: A Bass Guide to the Minor Modes
History of the Minor Scale — free with the lesson (27 min read).
The Bass Pentatonic Scale: 5 Modes and the Blues Scale
The Complete Pentatonic Scale + The Five Modes — Reference Sheet — free with the lesson (15 min read).
What Is a Tetrachord? The 12 Shapes Behind 49 Bass Scales
The Complete Guide to Tetrachords + All Twelve Tetrachords — The Reference Sheet — free with the lesson (13 min read).
How to Practise Bass with a Metronome (and Without)
Developing Timing and the Inner Clock — free with the lesson (23 min read).
What Does Diatonic Mean? Scale, Modes & Chords Explained
Diatonic – Meaning — free with the lesson (9 min read).