Imagine this: You’re at a jam session and a guitarist starts noodling away (that shouldn’t be hard to imagine…) and asks you to join in with what they’re doing. But what you’re hearing doesn’t sound like it’s in a major key, but it also doesn’t sound like a straight-up minor key either. You realize they’re […]
The Modal Switch Trick
Ever felt like you were just playing the same tired old licks over and over when you’re improvising on bass? You might be playing over a song that you’ve played *dozens* of times before and you just can’t help it. 1st chord, you automatically play something you’ve heard yourself play thousands of times. The 2nd […]
How And Where To Use The Modes On Bass
If you’ve checked out the previous lesson all about how to play the modes on bass, you would have learned how the modes work and that they’re all related. But what now? You might be wondering, “If the modes are all the same set of notes, why bother with them at all? Won’t everything just […]
Finally – Bass Modes Explained (In Simple Terms)
Bass Modes When I was first starting out, one of the biggest hurdles for me was starting to learn the modes on bass. People could kind of explain them to me – they kind of made sense, I could see the shapes – but it was still confusing. Some people even told me not to […]
