The ALL TIME BEST Bass Guitar Exercise
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2025
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This bass guitar exercise is an absolute beast. It's no exaggeration to say that this WILL improve your technique, ear, composing, jamming, transposition skills, and more.
Not all in one go, of course, but - with work - there's a HUGE amount of music contained within this exercise.
You will be playing the mode, seventh arpeggio, pentatonic, and the seventh chord built on each degree of a G Major scale.
Free PDF with TAB/notation plus all the mode, arpeggio, pentatonic, and chord shapes: onlinebasscour...
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I don’t understand why this doesn’t have a million likes.
Thanks, Andrew! Your like is enough for me.
@@OnlineBassCourses I've been slowly working my way through your book, R&B, Soul & Motown. My instructor loves it and had all his other students order it.
@@AndrewBrownAndy Wow, that's amazing! Thanks for letting me know...
Because millions of people are gone def. 🫨😂
Thank you Dan! Incredible lesson! Thanks to you I learned the modes/degrees of the major scale and actually understand it all! Now I just have to practice, practice, practice until my fingers just know what to do. Thank you for adding the chords, love this lesson! The bass player in the band my husband is in quit, leaving me the opportunity so I jumped on it. You said in one of your lessons to join a band, so I did, even though I wasn't sure I was ready. I needed to learn how to write bass lines very quickly. Through watching your videos (over and over) I've developed some beautiful bass lines. My husband is the drummer he says he is so proud of me, that my bass lines are very melodic and are adding so much to the music. (How many bassist get to live with a drummer and an excellent one at that) It is truly thanks to your lessons! Your teaching style is so easy to understand! I'm looking forward to practicing all this tonight! You are such an excellent teacher! To anyone reading this, watch everything you can from Dan Hawkins and see your bass playing improve dramatically! Thank you sooooooo much Dan! ❤
This is awesome! I've practiced this for over an hour now and honestly could stay up all night practicing. I just cannot say enough about how awesome this lesson is! AND it doesn't make my brain explode anymore! Taking me to the next level and always leaving me wanting more! Thank again Dan, I really appreciate it! 👍😁
Thanks so much, Nancy - you’ve made my day! Huge respect to you for putting in so much time and effort and for joining a band. That’s great. Keep it up. 🙏👍👊
And thank you, Nancy (I'm assuming you're the "Nancy" Dan mentioned)!
Sweet as can be playing Bass can be as fun with Dan's teachings.
This is a great exercise, every time it pops up in my UA-cam feed I watch it all the way through because it’s been a great tool to help sharpen my skills. Thank you for the content and I look forward to the next lesson.
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Just been watching and couldn’t help but pick up my bass and had that lovely felling of things clicking into place, so thank you very much for a cracking lesson more like that please
Great stuff, Matt - keep it up!
GREAT EXERCISE! LOVE THAT YOU ADDED THE CHORD SHAPE AT THE END AS WELL!!... LOOKING FOWARD TO PLAYING IT ALL! GREAT JOB AND THANK YOU!!
Have fun, Joann!
This is a great exercise program for practicing several different techniques. While you can work on note and chord proficiency, you can turn this into a timing and rhythm exercise as well.
Thanks Dan
Thanks for watching, Paul.
Thank you Dan. Very useful info on your channel. I'm a performing musician for 30 years (45 years self taught guitarist and went back to University for a BA in it, and now I play bass too - in several bands). I was having a hard time finding much in the way of lessons that I could relate to on UA-cam. Either it would be stuff for beginners that I already knew, or more advanced but not explaining things in ways that made it engaging or fun. Thank you!
Thanks, Elizabeth. That’s really nice of you to say! 🙏🙏👍
Oh my GOD,Dan,i thought i would never understand the modes,after your exercise they are easy, ijust thank GoD for you man!
Thanks, Willie. Once it clicks, it clicks!
Thank you Dan.
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THIS IS ON MY LIST TO LEARN,
THANKS, DAN
Cheers, Mark! 🙏
Thanks again Dan, thanks to the last lesson I finally understand modes - adding pentatonics is a great idea, cheers!
That’s great - keep it up!
Great lesson! Putting this into the toolbox.
This is great!!!
Thank you very muck. The books are amazing.
Thanks very much!!
Thanks dan for your teaching
Found it!! I was looking for this for a few weeks. This is such great information. Thanks for sharing...
Ah yes, just pointed you to this one! 😂
@@OnlineBassCourses This is a daily practice for me. Love it!!
Damn, the exercise just got even better. Ever since you posted the 1st one, I've been doing it for 45 minutes to an hour daily and it improved my technique and ear greatly, but I didn't focus too much on the theory behind it, but now I understand the vast options this gives me and can be applied to any key. One question, how would you practice it on the 5 string bass? I think that shapes stay the same, right?
I practiced the 1st version on all 5 strings: I'd start with C major and do all the shapes on A string, then G major and all shapes on E, then D major and all shapes on B. Should I continue doing it like that, or change something?
With your free lessons, Funk bass course and great 1 on 1 lessons with my teacher and daily 2-3 hours of, what would most consider boring, practice, it's all starting to make sense.
You're the man, Dan!
Really happy it’s all making sense! Yes, you can continue the patterns on a 5 string until you kind of run out of strings. The pattern will start the same and then you’ll run out of strings but you can visualise it as the same pattern extending itself down another string. Works with 6 string too.
Just saw your beginner to bassist site. Looks really good. When I can I will enroll because its put together in a logical way that covers a lot of the important stuff. I have a 4 and 5 string. Gonna try to learn fretboard and some ear training first.
Thanks, Robert. Check out my free courses on that site. They’ll help you.
Thank you Dan. greetings!
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Hi Dan thanks for this priceless lesson and pdf. I’m working on this lesson and having a lot of fun and learning so much as I go. This would be a great exercise in one of your books. Have you thought of adding this exercise to one of your upcoming books? If so I’d buy it in a New York minute. Have a great life bass player! 😃
Thanks so much! I have very similar ones in my Creative Bass Technique Exercises book. I do want to write a follow up to that.
@@OnlineBassCourses I’d look forward to another book from you. I love your books!
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Love both of these exercises
Awesome.thaks for info below
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Thanks, Dan!
My pleasure, Michael. 🙏
Awesome lesson
Thanks, Ralph.
Hey Dan, if you keep adding such great lessons on UA-cam I’m never going to finish the Funk course lol!
😅 hopefully they’ll mostly work together.
GREAT stuff Dan!
Thanks, Sara. 🙏🙏
Awesome Dan
Thanks for all you do👍🎶
My pleasure!
Brilliant!
Dan, love your lessons. Can I ask, do you do a monthly subscription for your lessons?
Thanks, Chris. No, I don’t - all my UA-cam lessons (and the ones on my site) are free.
I have a couple of premium courses, a few books, and a donation page which is how I do it all full time and for free.
More views help so spread the word! 🙏🙏
I am so sorry but I need to write it one more time, sei il numero uno ☝️
Thanks!
Hi Dan, wouldn't you play a dominant pentatonic over the mixolydian mode?
Hi Paul. I’ve never heard of a dominant pentatonic. Major pentatonic works well over it but - in a blues context - a bit of minor can work really well too!
Sooo - still trying to understand the WHY of the modes. so if the band is playing an Am chord, normally I'd be using the minor pent or possibly aeolian, and if the band is playing an A Major chord, I'd be playing major pent or possibly A Ionian scale. So what Modes gives me is 2 "new" scales to use when they are playing Am - dorian and phrygian. and 2 new scales to use when they are playing Amajor - Lydian and mixolydian ?
Not really… I know it seems confusing! It’s all about how those chords function. That means, if the A Major is the I chord then it’s that Ionian mode. If the A Minor is the vi chord then it’s Aeolian. Dorian would not be an option in this case. So it’s all about context. If you message me some different scenarios, I’ll do a video on it. It’s easy once you get it!
@@OnlineBassCourses - thank you!! here are a couple examples - sooo. if the chords are I-IV-V in key C... I'm thinking C-F-G are all major chords, - I should use the same major triad shape for all 3 and the same major pent shape for all 3. If I were to use a mode, I would use Ionian for all 3 but your saying Ionin, lydian, mixolydian are what i should be thinking if i want to embellish past the arpegio and pentatonic shapes? If the chord sequence includes a ii chord, I'd use Ionian but theory says use dorian? When I was going thru your funk course you introduced the dorian mode and I assumed it could be used for every minor chord occurrence. oops. So i need to learn 7 modes if the song is in a major key and another 7 modes if the song is in a minor key? (no wonder 95 percent of riffs are pentatonic - though u said that in one of your videos) - thank you so much. PS. cant wait for the soul course to be released, I have the book and and ready to go!!
@@franknemeth2593 Thanks, Frank. I'll try and do a video addressing some of these questions. Basically, learn the mode created on each degree of a major scale (they're EXACTLY the same for the relative minor - just starting from the 6th note of the major scale) as well as the associated arpeggio/chord. That will teach you how they 'function' within a key. That's your answer(s) right there...
do you have music published anywhere I can listen to?
Thanks for the interest. This is a playlist of some songs I've played bass on: ua-cam.com/play/PL9Tplpr-VMm-NgRU5cLGCQYxK2L1zVqK3.html
Thank you Dan love your 3 E's examples, explinations, and exercises ❤👍🏾👏🏾
Nice! I like the 3 Es… 🙏👍
Super! Cool! Thank you very much 😍👍🏻
My pleasure! 🙏👍
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