This short course covers some basic considerations: the setup of your instrument, muting techniques, and the various different ways in which tapping can be notated. As you work through this material, you might find the following courses useful (all included in the monthly subscription cost): Beginner Level – Tapping – Basic Tapping Technique Beginner Level […]

Two-handed tapping requires you to use the fingers on each hand in a very different way: rather than plucking the strings with one hand and fretting notes with the other, you will now be ‘tapping’ notes directly on the fretboard with each hand. This can be tricky at first since your fingers – particularly those […]

Now that you have begun working on a series of coordination and finger strengthening exercises, you’ll no doubt be ready to incorporate some more musical ideas into your practice routine. This video course is the first of two that will help you to begin playing arpeggios on the bass using the two-handed tapping technique. A […]

The tapping technique is great for playing chords on the bass as it enables us to play notes in both the low and higher registers simultaneously. This means that it is possible to play chords with better separation between the notes than we would be able to achieve simply from just fretting a chord. As […]

This course expands on the previous tapping arpeggios course and adds sevenths to the triad arpeggios that were covered at last time. You will find that adding sevenths to the basic major, minor and diminished chord types creates some considerably more colourful chords and arpeggios. As you work through this material, you might find the […]

Now that seventh arpeggios have been covered in detail, the next step is to begin playing them as chords. As is the case with basic triads, there are many different ways to voice seventh chords on the bass. This video course will cover some of the most effective ways of playing them and will demonstrate […]

Having studied chords and arpeggios in detail, it might seem obvious that two-handed tapping can be used for playing accompaniment parts. Being able to sound multiple notes in each hand is essentially using the same approach that a pianist would take when playing through a chord progression. This video course will show you how to […]

These courses cover the fundamentals, including the basic anatomy of the instrument, how to tune it, and how to begin learning where all of the notes live. It will also cover the basic music theory that you’ll need in order to follow along with the exercises. Don’t forget to hit the Download Resources button above […]

These courses cover basic picking hand techniques such as fingerstyle and plectrum playing. Effective fretting hand technique is also addressed in these videos. Don’t forget to hit the Download Resources button above to receive the PDF that accompanies these lessons! This course is 29 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can […]

In this course you’ll learn to play some simple basslines that use the open E-string and two notes found within the first few frets. These notes are the F# at the second fret and the G at the third. Don’t forget to hit the Download Resources button above to receive the PDF that accompanies these […]