Welcome to the Bass Guitar Player Ebook tutorial section. You'll find plenty of scale and triad theory, some other instrument info and some cool videos from you tube with insane bass players showing off their stuff. I'm always adding to this site, so remember to check it next time you have question about technique or theory.
Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi for Bass Guitar
The Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi for Bass guitar is the sweet fuzz you've been looking for. Now on sale at http://sunburymusicshop.com in Australia for AU$129 and includes free postage. That's a huge saving by buying online. I know this sounds like more of an ad rather than a post, and you're mostly right, but we're are you going to find that price in Australia. Check eBay if you'd like, it won't do you any good, you won't find a better price.
For too long Australian Music retail stores have been under the thumb of the Australian Wholesalers. We pay too much for our muso stuff in this country. I've seen erbie ball guitar strings in shops for $16 or $17 dollars, check out this price: save over 50% on SunburyMusicShop.Com on your Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Strings
Anyway, back to this awesome Pedal!
True Bypass
Tailor your drive/distortion sound with sustain, tone and volume knobs
A dry switch that mixes your dry bass with the Bass Big Muff Pi's distortion
A bass boost EQ switch that reintroduces your low frequencies when tone is set for high frequencies
Based on the Russian Big Muff
Tough and compact die-cast chassis
The Prodigy reborn with underworld insticts comes to life wielding the drive of the original classic Big Muff Pi and the earthy support of a bass tailored design with no loss of low end. This is the pedal that bass players who loved the Big Muff sound have been waiting for.
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Cheap Rotosound Strings in Australia
Newly launched guitar string store http://sunburymusicshop.com is taking advantage of the high Australian dollar and offering Rotosound, Elixer, D'Addario, Ernie Ball, and more at up to 50% off retail prices. For too long we in Australia have had to put up with ugly profiteering of importers jacking up our retail prices. Well no more. Sunbury Music Shop is an online alternative giving the best prices on strings in Australia and all with free postage.
All stock is in Australia, no drop ship. Say no to paying too much for you strings.
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David Hull Tutorial for Mozart - Turkish Rondo
David Hull is pretty awsome on bass. This tutorial is for Advanced Bass Players, there some amazing two hand tapping that even some more advanced bass players will struggle with.
A tutorial on how to play David Hull's arrangement of the Turkish Rondo. Transcription available at www.dehamusic.com
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Seventh Chords
This is an overview of seventh chords. They can be difficult to remember and this page is devoted to all the regular seventh chords.
What makes it difficult to remember all the seventh variations is that some 7th chords have flattened 7th interval and others don't. This resource was written as much for myself as for you. A seventh chord is created in general terms from a major, minor, augment, diminished or suspended triad with a seventh above the root.
Major Seventh Chord - ROOT, M3,P5, M7
Dominant Seventh Chord - ROOT, M3, P5, m7
Minor Seventh Chord - ROOT, m3, P5, m7
Half-Diminished Seventh Chord - ROOT, m3, ˚5, m7
Seventh Chord with Flatted 5th - ROOT, M3, ˚5, m7
Seventh Chord with Suspended Fourth - ROOT, P4, P5, m7
What we can see is that the M7 is only used for a Major Seventh Chord and all others listed here use the m7. Without that knowledge it makes it very difficult to explain certain chords to students. I found myself being questioned about a dominant seventh chord having a flattened seventh. It was in my early days of 'hack' teaching and was thrown because I had never bothered to consider the fact.
Anyway, if you need some sort of explanation of why the seventh in a seventh chord is flattened I've got one for you. The m7 is tonally effective because it is a m3 above the P5. That will have to do, otherwise use the comment, 'it's just is now let's practice advanced diminished arpeggios for the rest of the lesson'.
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A Diminished Arpeggio 2
This is another 5 String Bass Diminished Arpeggio. As all of the other is a closed pattern so that it can be moved around to create Arpeggios in different keys. There are now 4 variations of the Diminished Arpeggio on the site, two for 4 string and two for 5 string. The 4 string ones can be used on a 5 string bass by ommitting the B String.
So as for the other arpeggios on the bass player site, here is the fretboard pattern, notation and TAB.
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A Diminished Arpeggio 1
This A Diminished Arpeggio is for a 5 string bass. Starting on the 10th fret of the B string makes the stretch to the third note not so bad but, if you were to try an E Dimished with this same pattern you might do yourself some damage. A regular size hand should be able to do the stretch, as long as you warm-up first.
So remember this - WARM-UP! Play some major scales up the neck and slowly move down the neck to increase the stretch.
This pattern is movable and as long as you respect the fret spacing you'll be able to play a dimished arpeggio in any key, starting on the B string.
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A Diminished Arpeggio 2
This is a 4 string bass arpeggio for an A Dimished Chord. It is a closed pattern so it is movable. An arpeggio should be played like a sweep and two notes are not supposed to ring together as that would create a chord, therefore not an arpeggio. In this posting we'll have a go at variation 2.
This pattern unlike variation 1 moves up the neck of the guitar. I find that it adds a bit of intensity to the arpeggio, it's a little more aggressive. A benifit of this arpeggio is that if you are moving upwards it is easy to link up to another arpeggio.
This pattern like most others I have on this site are movable to create Arpeggios in different keys.
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A Diminished Arpeggio 1
This is a 4 string bass arpeggio for an A Dimished Chord. It is a closed pattern so it is movable. An arpeggio should be played like a sweep and two notes are not supposed to ring together as that would create a chord, therefore not an arpeggio.
This variation moves lower down the neck and in my opinion when played feels passive but decisive. This diminished pattern is supplied below with notation and TAB for 4 string bass.
You will notice that the first note in this pattern is the root, played on the fifth fret of the E string. If the entire pattern was moved two frets higher then you would have a B Diminished Arpeggio. Move the pattern around and get used to it's feel and next time you called on to play over a dimished chord you can pull this one out.
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G Major Scale
G Major scale pattern in graphical, tab and notation. This Major Scale Pattern starting with it's root note on the E string can be moved up and down the neck of the guitar to create other Scales. This works like a barre chord. The pattern shown is one that would be refered to as a 'closed' pattern. An open pattern would be one that utilizes some open sounded strings. If the pattern was to be presented with open string then it would not be a movable pattern.
For information on how to construct a Major scale check out Major Scale Theory
This is a movable pattern along the E string. Whatever the root note is with the pattern is the key of the scale.
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C Major Scale
This a standard looking C Major Scale on Bass Guitar. It is a movable pattern and the starting note of the scale will indicate the key. The pattern shown in the image is one full octave. Fingering is shown below the tab and for those of you that like to look at music notation that is included as well.
This pattern can be replicated on any instrument tuned in fourths such as guitar, double bass and 5 string bass.
See the Major Scale Theory page for more information on how to construct major scales.