Online Bass instruction

[Zimthebassist]

Well I got my bass yesterday and i'm looking for some good free online instruction sites anyone got any?

[LiamPodmore]

www.StudyBass.com and do a youtube search for Dmanlamius76. He has loads of video lessons on there and his website.

Liam

[MalcolmAmos]

Print this off. Learn where the notes are using the box pattern in this link.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showth...67#post9372867
Gotta learn where the notes are so you can make music come from your bass. OK first things first how do you make sounds on your bass? Good question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQJTbOx654&feature=fvw OK now that we can make some noise lets turn that noise into music.

Song is in the Key of G. Place your pattern and the G major scale notes are waiting for you.
Get to where you can move the generic box pattern around your fretboard playing in the C, G, D, A and E Major scales.
C scale = these notes; C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C octave. Place the pattern on the root C note and look what happened.
G scale = these notes; G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G octave. See how the pattern placed that F# under your fingers.
D scale = these notes; D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D octave. Yep not only the F#, but also the C# came in automatically.
A Scale = these notes; A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#, A octave. Same thing. The pattern placed the G# for you.
E Scale = these notes; E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#, E octave. Four sharps by just following the pattern.

Yep, this is going to be fun. OK you went up scale - now come back down. C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, B, A, G, F, E, D, C. Get your fingers doing what they have to do and get you ear learning how the good notes sound. Pretty soon you will be able to hear a bad note, when you do correct it and go on.

Now you can memorize what notes are in each scale or let the box pattern automatically place the correct notes under your fingertips. I went the box pattern way right at first, and recommend it as a fast way to get music coming from your bass.

And yes www.studybass.com is a friend. Will help you with how to hold your bass, how to tune it, how to mute it and just about everything you will need to know to get started. Start on the first page and keep going. Ask specific questions here and..... get this down and then we will get into how to build some bass lines using that major scale box pattern. What's a bass line? That's what we play, the bottom end, the chord tones. More later.

Remember you bought that bass to.....

Have fun.

[stantonl]

Found this site the other day while surfing around: http://www.how-to-play-bass.com/index.html I'm not necessarily endorsing it, but it may help to get a couple of songs under your belt quickly.

[Green1]

Its not free, but Roy Vogts Teach me bass guitar is really good.

[Zimthebassist]

Thanks

[stantonl]

Originally Posted by Green1

Its not free, but Roy Vogts Teach me bass guitar is really good.

+1

[SBassman]

Somebody say more: why is the Vogt course good?

[Green1]

Originally Posted by SBassman

Somebody say more: why is the Vogt course good?

For me, I like it because its organized and presented well. Each lesson starts out with theory. Then Roy will take the theory and apply it to a song, he breaks it down at several different tempos, there are multiple camera angles, split screens, etc. You can loop any of the sequences, then at the end of the lesson you can play along with the band, both with Roy and without, so you are the bass player. Again there are slow and fast tempos. There is an on screen real time fretboard. The lessons ramp up pretty quickly, I am on 4 of 20 and its fairly challanging. The thing I like the most is that Roy shows you how to apply the theory to musical situations. Hope this helps.

[Stumbo]

You might want to take a look at the link in my sig. below for some great TB info that will help you on your bass learning journey.

Good luck.

[stantonl]

Check out the link in my sig for a thorough review of Teach Me Bass Guitar course. I'm currently on lesson 9 and have been writing about my progress through the course.

[seckhala]

Why take online lessons from someone you can't see or interact with? I am have been taking bass lessons from Russ Rodgers (Atlanta, GA) http://www.russrodgersbassguitar.com . I live in Calif and could not find a true bass teacher in my area. Then I found Russ. Russ offers weekly personal on-line lessons using SKYPE and its video calling feature. This has worked out great...much better than I had hoped. Russ is an excellent teacher. While he is a taskmaster he as great patience and will not allow you to move forward until you get the current material down....no matter how long it takes. Also, since this is a video call, Russ can correct your technique instantly.
So if you don't have a good bass teacher in your area, you might want to consider using a remote teacher. The technology works great.