Best of 2011: The Top 10 Bass Lessons
No Treble readers must be busy practicing, because our lessons section is one of our most visited sections. The top 10, most viewed lessons in 2011 include many newcomers, as well as several from our archives.
Here are the top 10 most popular bass lessons on No Treble in 2011.
1. Practical Theory: Practice Tips for Scales (Part 1)
Practicing scales in a musical way helps keep things interesting. MarloweDK kicked this off lesson with some tips for practicing scales by using different intervals, arpeggios and fingerings. He also introduced a new approach to looking at the Major scale formula…
2. Double Thump: A Lesson in Slap Bass
Bassist/educator Grant Stinnett made his No Treble debut in 2011 with a new bass lesson video series. In this, his first, he focused on a slap-based, percussive bass technique widely known as double thumbing (aka double thumping) technique…
3. Practical Theory: Improvising over a Minor 7 Chord
MarloweDK’s three-part series on Practical Theory lessons began with an approach to improvising over a minor 7 chord…
This 6-part series remains a No Treble reader favorite. The series covers basic thumb slapping, ghosted notes, muting, hammer-ons and plucking/popping and more.
5. Looping Lesson: Programming the Behringer FCB1010 with Mobius
This is a lesson based around use of the popular Behringer FCB1010 MIDI foot controller surface for hand-free control of the freely available and very capable, Mobius looping software from Jeffrey Larson at Circular Labs…
6. Lesson: Scale Patterns from Tetrachord Combinations
In this lesson, Evan introduces the concept of tetrachords, and how they change the way we look at scales….
7. A Lesson on Live Looping for Bass
Live looping is not only a popular topic with No Treble readers, it is also at the center of many of the favorite videos we’ve featured. So we decided to break down live looping into a lesson…
8. Lesson: Minor Tetrachord Patterns
Evan builds upon the first tetrachord lessons with a look at the melodic minor and harmonic minor modes…
9. Lesson: Practicing Chord Changes
There are many ways to get better at the changes on a particular tune, but this approach works really well. ..
10. Lesson: Basic Line Construction Types
Jon shares some concepts behind basic line construction types through demonstrating the back and forth from i to V to ii to V, and so on…
MDK! I owe that guy gratitude, for inspiration, never mind all the lessons & teaching.
MarloweDK is most deserving of this. He’s a true source for inspiration and knowledge.
I tip my figurative hat.