An Advanced Bass Guitar in G

Series Summary

Have you ever wanted to pump out a bass line like you hear in many songs? If so, the bass guitar may be the right instrument for you! The bass guitar is one of the easiest musical instruments to learn to play. Unlike the guitar the basic bass guitar has only four strings. In more progressive forms of rock music as well as in jazz, the bass maintains the timekeeping function while adding a subtlety and depth to a band’s sound nearly impossible to achieve with the more intrusive lead instruments.

With this video series you will be able to learn about the bass guitar and everything you need to know to start playing. Begin by learning the parts of the guitar. Our expert will break down the parts of the bass guitar so you understand what each part does. Also learn how to tune your bass guitar with an electronic tuner and tune by ear. Our expert then teaches different lessons on how to play the instrument. Learn chords, scales and techniques. You can even learn to write your own bass lines. With some practice and guidance you can be jamming in no time!

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: So, today we're going to go through the key of G [PLAYS G MAJOR SCALE PATTERN] but what we're really doing is learning this major scale pattern, and we're going to learn the minor scale that goes with it as well, and we'll going through and show you those as we go through, but what's really important is you get that major scale down and we're going to go through and show you all the different notes that come out of that major scale, so now you can take this information and when you go to read a real book tune in the key of G, one sharp, key of G has one sharp, you can go through and find out what all the bass notes are and how they fall on the bass as they compare to the root of G. So, what this would really do is give you an overview of how to find notes out of a scale and then we're going to go through how to walk through them or how to play simple Latin bass over these chord changes."