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Intermediate Level – Study Pieces

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Click on each of the courses below to see the full series of video tutorials for that piece. Remember that for each of these pieces, there is a downloadable resources folder containing a PDF transcription, as well as the required audio files. Each of these courses is approximately 45 minutes in length.

Slap Bass Study #5

This course will teach you to play a Larry Graham-style composition that utilises slap bass grooves, popped double stops, tenths and more.

Slap Bass Study #6

This course will teach you to play a Stanley Clarke-style composition that utilises chord strumming, popped double stops, tenths and more.

Fingerstyle Study #1

This study piece is a 12-bar blues. The bass plays a walking bassline here, albeit one with a lot of variations. There’s also a short bass solo.

Fingerstyle Study #2

This is a jazz-funk composition that is based around some heavily syncopated bass grooves that are challenging to both read and play.

Fingerstyle Study #3

This piece is a jazz-funk fingerstyle workout built around harmony that is relatively static. As a result, the bass part has more of an improvisational feel to it.

Chordal Fingerstyle Study

This piece is a solo bass composition that explores the use of the chordal fingerstyle technique. It also includes some unusual licks based on the whole tone scale.

Tenths Study

This study piece explores how tenths can be used effectively on the bass, both as support for a melody, and as part of a groove.

Harmonics Study

This is a solo bass composition that explores the potential of harmonics. In working through this piece you’ll hear how harmonics can be used to play melodies and chords.

Plectrum Study #1

This study is a rock track written with a focus on playing more complex sixteenth note-based lines with the plectrum. It also features some unison lines.

Plectrum Study #2

This study piece has a funk flavour and is played with a swung sixteenth note feel. It also makes use of some strummed double stops.

Slap Bass Study #1

This slap study is played with a shuffle feel. In addition, this piece also features tenths, popped double stops, and some tricky unison parts.

Slap Bass Study #2

This study piece is also played over the shuffle feel. It also makes use of tenths, strummed chords, plucked double stops and fretting hand slaps.

Slap Bass Study #3

This study was written with a number of intermediate level techniques in mind, specifically tenths and fretting hand slaps. This piece also includes a challenging bass solo.

Slap Bass Study #4

This piece has a heavier feel to it and was written as a resource for practising sixteenth note-based slap grooves at slow tempos. It also utilises popped double stops.

Two-Handed Tapping Study #1

This unusual piece is played over a relatively static tonality. The bass is used in a highly rhythmic fashion, creating a continuous sixteenth note pulse.

Two-Handed Tapping Study #2

This slow tempo two-handed tapping study is a solo piece that features some simple melodic ideas integrated with accompaniment parts.