Bass Lessons

What should beginner bassists practice? Ryan Madora shares three essentials for building consistent technique, fretboard confidence, and steady eighth-note timing.

We’re welcoming Anthony Muthurajah to No Treble with a new twice monthly lesson series, Anthony’s Bass Corner (ABC). His first lesson explores voice leading with random triads.

Learn to create funky bass lines with minor pentatonic shapes, upbeat syncopation, and simple variations in this Low Rider-inspired Keep It Groovy lesson.

Learn three major triad shapes on bass with this Keep It Groovy lesson, using a G–C–D–C progression in 6/8 to practice chord tones and move around the neck.

Learn to build a Motown-inspired bass line with a simple chord progression. Use roots, fifths, sixths, and rhythm to create a classic soul groove of your own.

Learn how Duck Dunn’s bass line locks with the drums on Albert King’s “Born Under a Bad Sign,” including its pickup, feel, form, and key rhythmic cues.

Learn how chord inversions work on bass, what slash chords like D/F# and G/B mean, and how to use them to create smoother, more musical bass lines.

Marek Bero puts your A minor pentatonic chops to the test with a fast Bass Gym workout featuring funky sixteenth notes, syncopation, and position shifts.

Ryan Madora and drummer George Sluppick break down the Bo Diddley beat, showing how bass and drums lock in and turn the groove funky at slower tempos.

Marek Bero builds a funky pick-style bass groove using dominant arpeggios, blues scales, and fast sextuplets played with hammer-ons.

Learn how to build a killer bass groove over two chords using rhythm, chord tones, pentatonic scales, slides, fills, and call and response.

Marek Bero’s “Super Slap Wednesday” starts with laid-back funk before shifting into a fast workout for slap speed, rhythm and coordination.