Basic Reading Skills – you will nede these skills in order to follow the lessons provided on this website. Reading music is a great way to expand your musical memory – making your own charts for bands that you rarely play pays itself back timewise. You don’t have to play through all the tunes in order to get every detail – you can just look through your charts. And obviously being able to sightread is incredible useful if you have to substitute on a gig with no time to practice.
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Building Chords – improvising creative and cool bass-lines from a chord-chart becomes incredible more difficult if the only note you can think of playing on a Amaj7#11 is the root. Learn the common chord structures and expand your possibilities when improvising/building bass lines.
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Diatonic Scales – most music that you hear in the radio is tonally build within the diatonic system. This is your musical alphabet in 90% of the music you are going to play. Learning this you will be able to categorize chords and notes in functions and see the patterns/similarities in songs and melodies you already know.
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Pentatonic Scales – rock, blues and funk language has roots within the pentatonic scale. You already know the sound from the countless rock-riffs, funky bass lines and blues you’ve heard. Pentatonic scales are a musical shortcut to great sounding solos, funky bass line ideas and it’s almost impossible to play a wrong note.
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