2024 Summer Cohort plus course

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Summer 2024 Cohort Add-on

Course

The Music for the Bass Player online course with added support and accountability.

$330

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Unit 20

Course

Active Motivation • Future Bass Self • Kung Fu • Bach Bass • Two Octave Arpeggios • Modes Review • Styles Lab Motown • Sir Duke • Motivation

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Unit 19

Course

Martial Arts of Music • Pentatonic Primer • Permutations • HO PO Permutations • Theory Practice • Scales Drills in Octaves • Blues 1 • Quiz • Rockin Mixolydian • Heavy Phrygian • Styles Lab: Blues • Stevie Wonderland • Feedback Loops

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Unit 18

Course

Modes • HO PO Permutations • Modes • Sixths Reversed • More Walking Bass Lines Explorations • II V I Improvisation Shortcut • Big Jumps in Scales • Practice Tips

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Unit 17

Course

The Cycle Walking Bass Primer • Pedaling exercises • Permutations fingers fixed • Scale practice fifths and sixths • Styles Lab: Walking Bass • Cycle Tune: Let’s Disco • Minor Naming • Milestone of Theory • Emotion

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Unit 16

Course

Slow wins • Minor Scales • More Spider Drills • Four-Note Chords • Scalar Drills in Fourths and Fifths • Minor Differences • Quiz • Minor Call and Response • Grooves • Hip Harmonic Minor • Harmonic Major • Martial Arts

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Unit 15

Course

A Delightfully Demanding Task • Spider Drills • Four Note Chord Permutations • Diatonic Cycle in Bb • Scales Prac • Scales in Fourths • Quiz • Diminished Triads through the cycle • Tritone Substitution • Styles Lab: Pop • Breaks

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Unit 14

Course

Four-Note Chords • What's Your Theory • Permutations with Fixed Finger • Open String Orientation and Workout with Inversions • Dia Cycle in D, G • Diatonic Thirds • Skills for Scales • TT Double Stops • Quiz • Funk • Terrific Tritone • Keep it light

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Unit 13

Course

Triad Inversions • Sus/Poly/Slash Chords • Spider and Hazard Kung Fus • Open String Orientation • Diatonic Cycle in A and C • Variations • Quiz • Scalar Groupins of Twos • Styles Lab: Reggae • Mister Blister • Music THeory Magic

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Unit 12

Course

Fretting Hand Fitness • The Diatonic Cycle • HO PO Permutations • Diatonic Triads • Quiz • Minor Triad Improvisation • Cycle and positions • Creative Notefinder B# • Diatonic Jam • Tiny Habit

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Unit 11

Course

Triads • Fluid Playing • Hammer-ons and Pull-offs • Chords Strengthener • Scalar Studies in Groups of Threes Reversed and Fours • Triads through the Cycle • Quiz • Cycle Improvisation • Notefinders in A# minor and Gb • Triad Songs • Confidence

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Unit 10

Course

Review Week • Hidden Thoughts • Mystery Permutation • Interval Review • Quiz • Say and Play • Interval Grooves with a Twist • EarTraining Primer • Slower = Faster

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Unit 9

Course

Phrasing and Technique • Scales Practice • Permutation Journey • Skills for Scales • Quiz • Bassline Creation w Scalar Fragments • Triple Combo • Creative Notefinders in Fb and G# • Major Scale Songs • NN/SD

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Unit 8

Course

Diagonal Permutations • Coordination drills • Inversions • Quiz • Compound Intervals • Grooves with 1-5-8-10ths • Groove and Fill with slies • Notefinders Db and E# minor • These are the Days... • Shining Stars • Effective Practice

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Unit 7

Course

The Tritone • Natural Inclinations • Permutations • Coordination • Whole Tone Scale Jam • Quiz • Groove and Fill • Blues Scale • Groove and Fill with Slides • Notefinder Cb and D# • The Power of Habit

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Unit 6

Course

Permutations • Open String Practice • Sixths and Sevenths • Pedaling Drills • Going Disco • Notefinders Ab and C# • Chromatic Approaches • Habits of Top Practicers

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Unit 5

Course

Kung Fus • Fourths and Fifths • Overgripping • StringCrossing Drills • Money Groove • Creative Notefinder B and F# • Hotel Californiaish Grooves • Practice Strategies

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Unit 4

Course

Steps to Success • Spatial Orientation Plucking Hand Drills and Permutations • Practice w me! • Notefinder • Beautiful Theory Practice • Grooves on dots with seconds • Creative Notefinder Bb and Eb • Build your own groove with Thirds • Attention

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Unit 3

Course

Heroes • Spatial Orientation of the Plucking Hand • Name-a-dot • Whole Steps and Half Steps (The Second Part 1) • Creative Notefinder • Guess the Tune • Mirror Neurons • Chromatic Approaches and the Blues

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Unit 2

Course

PORA Method • Plucking Hand Technique • Notenaming drills • Rock the Prime • Hip Rockin's 6 • Notefinders in C and F • Practice Tips

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Unit 1

Course

Welcome • Permutations • NoteNaming Drills • D Minor Pentatonic • Groove and Fill • Laying the foundation of how the Bass Works and how Music Works!