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Your First Real Songs on Bass

6 lessons: from chord names to playing a whole song with someone.

Any song on the site shows you its root notes in the chord names. Start there, then add eighth notes, walks and the root-fifth-octave shape, on songs you know.

6 lessons~30 days
Start Lesson 1
1
songs10 min

Any song, from its chord names

The letter at the front of a chord is your note. Here is where to find it.

2
songs15 min

Knockin' on Heaven's Door: playing with the record

Four notes, slow, and your first time locked in with a real band.

3
songs15 min

Zombie: same notes, more drive

Change nothing about the notes. Change how you play them.

4
songs20 min

Let It Be: walking to the next chord

Your first notes that are not the root, and how to choose them.

5
songs20 min

Stand By Me: root, fifth, octave

A shape that works on any root, and gives you a whole bass line.

6
songs15 min

Pick your own, and find a drummer

Any song on the site, and the thing bass is really for.

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