Bass Seminar • Ideas for TASTEFULLY going beyond the root

note• All material taken from the Musicademy DVD

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Bass Seminar

• All material taken from the Musicademy DVD video lessons  

Notes on the Neck

Move up in 4ths

Cover every chromatic note

Paired string notes (two frets apart)

E+DA+G

Transposing

Major scale for transposing -----|-------|------|------|----------------------------------6--|------|--7---|---8--|---------------------------------3--|---4--|------|---5--|------------------------------------|---1--|------|---2--|--------------------------------

Major scale A string

--6--|------|--7---|---8--|---------------------------------3--|---4--|------|---5--|------------------------------------|---1--|------|---2--|-------------------------------------|---5--|------|---6--|--------------------------------

Octave slides

Slide up to same note octave up NEXT STRING

Don’t use the same finger

Passing Notes

Step wise 1 2 1 7th or 2nd of next chord

Low 5th current chord or next chord 5th always directly a string below the root

Using low 5ths

10,000 Reasons: Chorus chords

|A E |B/D# C#m |A E |B riff |

|A C#m |A B C#m |A B |E |

Ghost Notes

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a/ / ( /) / / (/)

2 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a/ / / (/) / (/) /

3 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a/ / (/) / (/) /

Ghost notes in brackets (/)

Riffs - Note choice

• Riffs should be based around chords not scales

• recommended riff notes - 1st 2nd 3rd 5th 7th 8th (octave)

• Major chords - note choice order = 5th below, 5th above, octave, 7th 2nd p3rd in that order

Riff notes -----|-------|---3--|--4---|-------|--5-----|-------------6--|------|--7---|---8--|-------|-(9)2--|-------------3--|---4--|------|---5--|-------|--6----|-----------------|---1--|------|---2--|--------|--3----|----------

Minor Chord Riffs

Feature b7th and b3rd

Chord tones 1 1 7 1 3 1

The Power of the Cross Playing high and low

positional playing joining high and low sounds

Using passing notes 5th below stepwise passing notes

Groove Ghost Notes 8th notes

Riffs Using chord tones

Here For You

Slides Octave runs Chord tone based runs

Riffs 121 steps wise passing notes low 5th passing notes 158 riffs minor 7th based riffs

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