Master The Minor 2-5-1 On Bass

Let’s talk about how to play through a minor 2-5-1 progression on bass.

I don’t know about you, but when I was getting serious about my improvising, I loathed playing over minor 2-5-1 progressions.

Give me a 12-bar blues? I was fine – I could play over that all day.

A major 2-5-1 – no worries…

But the minor 2-5-1 jumbled my mind, left me confused and felt awkward under my fingers – it felt like I’d be stuck playing only root notes for the rest of my life.

It turns out, I was making a grievous mistake.

I was trying to jump straight to the hard stuff without taking care of the basics first. I was trying to be a ‘Level 3’ bassist when I should have been focusing on Level 1.

So today, I want to show you the 3 ‘levels’ of the minor 2-5-1 progression; from the easiest – which you can probably do right now and sound great – to the more advanced, which will make you sound like a legit, heavy-hitting player.

Learning how to deal with the minor 2-5-1 in this order will save you the headaches and confusion and make sure you stay musical through all the levels.

In this lesson, you’ll learn:

• 2 stupidly simple ways of improvising through the minor 2-5-1 (without needing a masters degree in music theory)
• How to break away from only playing the roots of the chords 
• 2 ‘advanced’ methods of playing through the minor 2-5-1 (Do this and you’ll sound like you know exactly what you’re doing…)

Check out the lesson here:

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Like I say in the lesson, you only have to go as far as you want with these 3 ‘Levels’. If you’re happy staying in the first level, and you can do it in a musical way, you don’t necessarily need to even think about the 2nd and 3rd. You always have the option to ‘level up’ if you want to.

If that does sound like something you want to do though, make sure you download the free bonus guide and the practice tracks from this lesson. It puts everything from the lesson in one place that you can go through at your own pace.

Just fill out the form above and I’ll send it to you 100% free so you can start mastering the minor 2-5-1 on bass.

Good luck with the lesson and happy playing!

Cheers,