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15 July, 2021 Groove Backpack / Writing Bass Lines

Writing better basslines: Groove Backpack #1

This series focuses on expanding your bass guitar vocabulary by showing you different bass lines in real life situations. Write better bass lines today! Every groove has a transcription and an explanation why the bass line works with the harmony and the drums. This will surely power boost your bass

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Using Chords In Your Bass Lines
14 March, 2021 Applying Music Theory / Writing Bass Lines

Write better basslines: Adding chords to your basslines

As bass players we are usually only playing one note at the same time, unlike our guitarist counter-parts. But adding some chords to our vocabularies can not only spice up our basslines, but also help us in understanding harmony better. In this lesson I will introduce some chord shapes that

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Writing better bass lines - making great parts
6 March, 2021 Writing Bass Lines

How to write better basslines: The 4 ingredients

My students often ask me how they can create better basslines for their songs. To answer this question, you should ask yourself what makes a bass line good in the first place. If you ask this question to 5 different people, the answers will undoubtedly vary some. However, I expect

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