This lesson is taught by Danny “Mo” Morris as a part of the collection of video instructions at JamPlay Bass. Danny is a professor in the bass department from Berklee College of Music. Aside from his role in the Bass and Ensemble Departments, Danny teaches a course on Artistry Creativity and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts Department. Danny has authored courses for Berklee’s catalogue and courses for Berklee Online. Besides teaching, he remains busy gigging regularly and recording tracks for singers, songwriters and instrumentalists.
In this Lesson set Danny breaks down the essentials needed to create fresh sounding bass lines over common chord progressions. He uses chord theory, basic rhythm technique and a keen musical sense to help even the most basic grooves come to life!
Below is a video of Danny with an introduction the lesson “Creating Original Bass Lines Lesson”. See details of the entire lesson series below. Become a member of JamPlay bass to access the “Creating Original Bass Lines” lesson and hundreds of other beginner, intermediate, and advanced level bass guitar lessons.
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In total this lesson is structured into 31 Sections:
- Lesson 1: Introduction to the Series
- Lesson 2: Groundwork
- Lesson 3: Working with Scale Degrees
- Lesson 4: Using Triads
- Lesson 5: Applying Pentatonic Scales
- Lesson 6: Scale Fragments
- Lesson 7: Applying the Natural Minor Scale
- Lesson 8: Playing with 6/8 Time
- Lesson 9: Playing over Sus4 Chords
- Lesson 10: Diatonic Harmony
- Lesson 11: Seventh Arpeggios
- Lesson 12: The “Hendrix” Chord
- Lesson 13: Funky #9
- Lesson 14: Major/Minor Pentatonic Ideas
- Lesson 15: Major/Minor Ideas over Progression
- Lesson 16: Developing Your Rhythm Sense
- Lesson 17: Changing Tonalities
- Lesson 18: Leaving Space
- Lesson 19: Changing Tonalities #2
- Lesson 20: Changing Tonalities #3
- Lesson 21: Changing Tonalities #4
- Lesson 22: Stacking Chords
- Lesson 23: Stacking Minor Chords
- Lesson 24: Stacking Chords – Sus2 Chords
- Lesson 25: Stacking Power Chords
- Lesson 26: Stacking Power Chords – Minor Progression
- Lesson 27: The V to I Resolution
- Lesson 28: Warming Up & Timbre
- Lesson 29: More on Triads
- Lesson 30: Blues Forms & Bass Lines
- Lesson 31: Slow, Jazzy Blues
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