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Chapter 1, getting started. The fretboard -- Reading standard music notation -- Reading bass tablature -- Chord symbols -- Accidentals -- The chromatic scale -- Tuning the bass -- Right-hand technique -- Left-hand technique -- Chapter 2, the major scale. Introducing the scale -- Intervals -- Major tetrachords -- Combining major tetrachords -- Keys and key signatures -- The circle of 5ths -- Rhythm practice -- Finger warm-ups -- Major-scale bass lines -- Chapter 3, triads. Major triads -- Major triad bass lines -- Reggae groove -- Minor triads -- Minor triad bass lines -- Rhythm update: the tie -- Major and minor triad bass lines -- Diminished triads -- Augmented triads -- Chapter 4, 7 chords. Major 7 chords -- Dominant 7 chords -- Rhythm update: dotted notes -- Minor 7 chords -- Island bass, mon -- Chapter 5, diatonic harmony: triads. The triads of the major scale -- The I-IV-V chord progression -- I-IV-V bass lines -- I-vi-IV-V progression and bass lines -- Stung by the bass -- Back to the roots -- Galaxy R35 -- Chapter 6, diatonic harmony: 7 chords. The 7 chords of the major scale -- 7 chord bass lines -- Chapter 7, locking-in with the drums: Rock grooves -- Funk grooves -- reggae grooves -- Chapter 8, the blues. The twelve-bar blues -- Twelve-bar blues in A -- Turnarounds and variations -- The major 6 chord -- Major 6 blues -- 6th blues in eights -- Swing 8ths -- Swing 8th bass lines -- Swing 8th blues -- Blues in E -- Slow blues -- Blues bass lines -- Slow blues in A -- Slow blues in C -- The eight-bar blues -- The sixteen bar blues -- Sixteen bars in G -- Chapter 9, funk. Syncopation -- We got the funk! -- Rhythm update, sixteenth notes -- Sixteenth note funk grooves -- Dead notes, muting. |
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