Step-by-Step Bass Lessons. Start from zero. Lessons are organized and guide you from the beginning. Lessons are ordered and paced based on 30 years of teaching thousands of private bass students.

The StudyBass curricula. Lessons on bass fundamentals, technique, reading, harmony, rhythm, blues, chord tones, arpeggios, scales and hundreds of other bass topics.

Recommended Beginner Bass Materials Let's make sure you have everything you need to start playing and learning effectively. In the video above, I run you through a checklist of items I recommend for all of my students.

I feel like I've finally found instruction that starts from the root basics and introduces a plan that, with my hard work, might actually make me a legitimate bass player. You lessons are exactly what I'd hoped to find!

Utilities and resources for bass players and musicians. I created these web apps to help you learn more about music and the bass.

These lessons are à la carte. Use the Study Guide for a guided course. Lessons in This Category:

The idea of this lesson block is to give you a beginning understanding of what notes bass players choose and why. These are all simple-to-play note patterns and apply in a lot of musical situations. You may discover these patterns make up the bulk of most basslines.

Bass exercises and examples applying the StudyBass lesson Plucking. Basic bass plucking technique with pics and video.

The goal of this first lesson block is to give you a broad look at music and the bass guitar. With my students I've found thinking about music and the bass in this way really helps accelerate their learning.

In this article I’m going to point out what I consider to be the biggest mistakes beginner bass players make when learning how to play bass. I'm assuming your goal as a bassist is to be creative and knowledgeable.