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Two Great Shapes to HELP YOU PLAY Bass Like a PRO (#56)

Academy of Bass 16,545 1 year ago
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These Two Great Shapes will Help You Play Like a Pro and that's guaranteed, because every single Professional Bass Player USES THEM! These shapes are use in 100's, if not 100's of Iconic Bass lines from Hit Songs and there's one good reason why... THEY SOUND AWESOME. They are EASY TO PLAY, EASY TO UNDERSTAND and you can play them in both Bass Lines and Fills/Runs. Join the ranks of John Deacon (Queen), Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads), Flea (RHCP), Bruce Foxton (Jam), Alec Jon Such (Bon Jovi), James Jamerson, Geddy Lee (Rush) and many, many more, by learning these MUST KNOW BASS SHAPES. Get these 2 Fantastic Box Shapes under your fingers and you will be playing Bass Lines like your Heroes in no time. This lesson is perfect for anyone who wants to improve their all-round bass playing and play better better lines. Download your FREE lesson workbook and backing tracks here: https://mailchi.mp/330dd7dc704d/r21ng60y1x __________ All of the PDF Workbooks are FREE. If you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee, your contribution will make the long hours much more bearable and of course keep me awake longer! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/academyofbass __________ Support Academy of Bass ▶︎Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=34523575 __________ Check out the following links to some of the lessons in which I've covered Pentatonic Scales and Chord Arpeggios Nice, simple Minor Pentatonic Riff lesson - https://youtu.be/lZ7XhCKbjFI Major Pentatonic Riff lesson - https://youtu.be/og_lcoyZkIk 14 Easy Ways to Use Patterns & Shapes - https://youtu.be/DwLRAHMGMd4 Use the Major Pentatonic Scale 38 Ways - https://youtu.be/g9KO0_7uEJY 32 Minor Pentatonic Shapes - https://youtu.be/GfNSN1nfkqo How to Use Major and Minor Chord Arpeggios in your bass lines - https://youtu.be/K7sFPbOGWhg __________ The Lesson Timeline 0:00 Intro 0:33 Where Shape #1 comes from 2:07 Why this shape is so good 2:24 Iconic Bass lines that use this shape 2:54 Shape #2 3:27 Iconic Bass lines that use this shape 4:08 Use Shape #1 to Play Bass Lines 5:16 Adding Shape #2 6:21 Key Change! - Playing in a New Key 8:11 Adding a New Chord 9:28 Using More Rhythm in another New Key 10:49 The Chord that you can play Both Shapes over 12:46 Summary __________ Follow Academy of Bass ▶︎ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlayBetterBass/ ▶︎ Instagram: https://instagram.com/academyofbassguitar ▶︎ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/playbetterbass #greatshapes, #probassplayertips, #easyshapesforbassguitar __________ A new free on-line bass lesson is released every week, so feel free to subscribe to the channel for all notifications. __________ About Academy of Bass I'm Keith Peberdy a professional musician and educator of almost 30 years. In that time, I've taught many 1,000's of bass players. The Academy of Bass is an on-line bass school founded to help bass players of all abilities to simply play better bass. Whilst we aim to deliver easy to understand lessons, our main focus is to show you how to take what you've learned, practice it and give you as bunch of great ideas of how to develop it, so that you can get it into your own playing.

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