Bass Guru

Hudson Music is pleased to offer exclusive lesson content from Bass Guru™. Bass Guru features lesson “packs” taught by pro bass players demonstrating and sharing other insights and techniques. Each lesson demonstrates various techniques, groove playing, soloing, musical styles, getting sounds, and many other insights. Inside, you’ll find a variety of lessons in many different styles such as rock, jazz, funk and latin, each presented in lessons specifically tailored for beginner, intermediate and advanced players. Each lesson demonstrates various techniques, groove playing, soloing, musical styles, and many other insights.

Fretless: Articulation & Phrasing

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Mark Egan shows you the techniques that will help you get the nuance and emotion out of your fretless to make it really sing.

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Fretless: The Right Hand Attack and Touch

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Mark Egan focuses on the oft neglected right hand and helps you to improve your attack and touch. The lessons are also useful for fretted players looking for right hand guidance. For beginning players.

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Fretless: The Left Hand

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Mark Egan introduces some fun exercises for the fretless bass that will help you with your left hand strength, dexterity, and intonation. The lessons are also useful for fretted players looking for left hand guidance. For beginning players.

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Fretless – First Notes

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Mark Egan gets you started with your new fretless bass by giving you a comprehensive set of seven exercises that focus on intonation.

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Fretless – Overview and Basics

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Mark Egan’s introduction to fretless bass. You’ll learn how to set up your fretless, use equalizers and effects, and get your first notes using fret lines.

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Strengthening Time Feels Using Polyrhythms

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In this pack, Linda Oh shows you how you can use a metronome and polyrhythms to strengthen your time feel. This is a very rich pack whose concepts will take much practice to master. Not for the faint of heart! (For advanced players.)

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Swinging the Electric Bass

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In this pack, Linda Oh explores how to swing the electric bass while building walking bass lines. You’ll get tips on feel, tone, technique, and harmonic construction. The lessons are of an intermediate level and will have you swinging in no time.

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Hybrid-Synthetic Claves: Odd-Time Exercises

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This seventh pack in Lincoln Goines’ series Working With the Language of Rhythm: Afro-Cuban and Brazilian Groove Concepts for Bass explores odd-time claves or what Lincoln calls hybrid-synthetic claves. For intermediate to advanced players.

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Brazilian Grooves

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This sixth pack in Lincoln Goines’ series Working With the Language of Rhythm: Afro-Cuban and Brazilian Groove Concepts for Bass explores the Samba, Samba Funk, Partido Alto, and Baiao grooves.

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6/8 and Subdivisions Over a Common Pulse

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Explores the 6/8 clave and how to switch back and forth to 4/4 over a common pulse.

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Let’s Funkify! Applications to Other Styles

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This fourth pack in Lincoln Goines’ series Working With the Language of Rhythm: Afro-Cuban and Brazilian Groove Concepts for Bass introduces you to more grooves including the cha-cha, slap tumbao, and Mozambique.

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Fretboard Navigation 1: Triads – Part 1

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Felix introduces you to a powerful set of exercises that he has developed to help you learn to navigate your fretboard in new and exciting ways. This series is of an intermediate to advanced level and will have you seeing the neck in a totally new light.

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