Bass Lessons

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.

Learn how to use string raking to improve your bass right-hand technique, create smoother lines, and move efficiently across the strings.

Learn how to use open strings in a C blues walking bass line to improve fretboard navigation, create smoother position shifts, and add chromatic movement.

Learn how ghost notes, Am pentatonic shapes, and sixteenth-note feel can turn a simple bass line into a tight, percussive groove without cluttering the mix.

Learn two major pentatonic bass shapes and use them to create grooves, fills, slides, and smoother movement across a I-IV-V chord progression in G major.

This Bass Gym lesson turns a Bach-style C minor sequence into a practical bass exercise for dexterity, stamina, memory, and control across the neck.

Learn how to build a funk bass groove using a simple theme, dead notes, Dorian movement, and tasteful fills that support the pocket.

Build your slap technique with this Bass Gym lesson on “Dare I Say,” a punk-funk bass exercise inspired by Rob Trujillo, King Crimson, and odd sounds.

Learn how to add James Jamerson-inspired Motown movement to your bass lines with chord tones, pentatonic notes, voice leading, and chromatic motion.

This Bass Gym exercise turns an E7 warm-up into a funky groove workout using chromatics, Mixolydian ideas, arpeggios, and left-hand coordination.