The hardest thing in music is to practice! In this class, Nim will teach you what to practice, how to practice and how to create your own practice routine. He will also provide you backing tracks to practice with so you will improve your bass skills and reach your goals in the shortest amount of time.
Making sure that you're playing correctly, that you're holding your bass guitar correctly and that you know how to use both hands in the right way in order to avoid bad habits. Good technique is good sound and good rhythm. It's important to know how to play effortlessly, and how to read, write and of course how to play fast.
It's often that a new advanced bass student will come for their first bass lesson with serious bad habits that will take more work than with a new beginner bass student. In order for you to understand music in any style, you need to know music theory - the 'rules' of music!
Please have a look below for what Nim teaches in his bass lessons for intermediate bass players. If you're after something specific, like a song you want or need to learn, how to play slap bass, how to work on your rhythm, how to be prepared for an audition/recording, then Nim can help!
Intermediate
Chords/Arpeggios 1 and 2 Octaves -
Inversions for Triads and sept chords
Extended arpeggios - add 9,11,13
Xdim, Xalt, Xmaj7#11, Xm7b9, Xm7b13,
Xm7b5 b9, b13 X7sus4, X7sus2
Scales 1 and 2 and a half Octaves -
The Modes -Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolidian, Aeolian, Locrian.
Pentatonic scales - major, minor, blues (5 positions),
Symmetric scales -
Whole tone scale, half/whole diminshed scale, whole/half diminshed scale
Intervales over the scales (Two Octaves) -
3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6th, 7th, octaves, 9th and 10th
Patterns over the scales (Two Octaves) -
3 notes pattern, 4 notes pattern. 5 notes pattern, 6 notes pattern Forward, Backwords and '1 and 1'.
Techniques -
Advanced mute 'Finger style', Advanced bass slap, Advanced thumb playing, Tapping, haromics and false Harmonics.
Songs/Bass lines/Groove/Solo -
Bass pieces, From bach to Jaco,
Bass solos, Bass lines.
Chords on the bass -
Inversions as chords -Major/Minor Tridas
Inversions as chords - Sept chords
Jazz -
Walking bass lines, 2-5-1, approach notes, advanced chart reading, soloing over changes, melodies, transcribing
Advanced chart reading -
Triplets, 16th and 32th. Dotted notes
Book this class as a private group!