5 Concepts for Bassists (That Will Change Your Playing)

BASS FUNDAMENTALS COURSE: https://payhip.com/b/hRPsD Join my Patreon for in depth video lessons, lick breakdowns, advanced chords and soloing:   / bassnebula   Here is a summary of the concepts discussed: 1. Major Scale Intervals (0:16 - 2:40): Instead of playing scales as a linear sheet of sound, focus on the emotional quality of intervals. By understanding how specific jumps (like root to seventh or sixth) make you feel, you can craft more expressive and storytelling-driven basslines. 2. Pentatonic Motifs (2:41 - 4:47): Break away from playing pentatonic shapes up and down. Instead, create simple motifs and move them through different shapes across the fretboard. Linking these shapes without pauses helps create fluid, interesting, and less cliché fills. 3. Pentatonics of Chord Tones (4:48 - 6:38): Rather than just playing standard chord tones, try playing pentatonic scales built off of the specific chord tones (e.g., playing an E minor pentatonic over a C major 7 chord). This adds colorful, sophisticated harmonic layers to your playing. 4. Spread Seventh Chords (6:39 - 8:45): Widen your harmonic voicing by spreading out seventh chords. Instead of standard root-position arpeggios, try structures like 1-5-7-3. This use of wider intervals, including fifths and fourths, sounds more open and modern. 5. Chord Voicings Across Modes (8:46 - 10:35): Apply a specific, preferred chord voicing to every mode within a key. By treating these voicings as flexible shapes that can be moved through a scale, you can explore new colors and textures beyond traditional scale-based lines.