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Bass Guitar: Foundations 2 (non-credit)
This is a non-credit course and will not provide high school credit or instructor feedback/communication.
Bass Guitar: Foundations 2 continues addressing topics covered in Bass Guitar: Foundations 1. Students will explore more advanced concepts such as dynamics, expanded range, scalar patterns, intervals, and beginning improvisation. Incorporating these elements will help students take their bass playing to another level. Students are introduced to more famous and influential bass players in order to broaden students’ perspective and understanding of the instrument. Students can expect to encounter a variety of listening and playing assignments, as well as lesson quizzes and exams, and will create a portfolio of recordings that reflect the progress they make.
Price: $95.00
Subjects: Bass Guitar, Music
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COURSE OVERVIEW:
Lesson 1: Articulations
- Dynamics
- Staccato and legato
- Bends
- Vibrato
- Harmonics
Lesson 2: Expanding Your Range on the Fretboard
- Playing scales up the neck
- Playing arpeggios up the neck
Lesson 3: Note Identification Practice
- Strategies for learning the fingerboard
- Advanced scalar patterns
Lesson 4: Intervals
- Interval Patterns
- Major scale in thirds
- Combining thirds and scale fragments
- Embellishing your bass line
Lesson 5: Improvisation
- Beginning improvisation
- Beginning transcription
- Transcription practice
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Working instrument
- Reliable access to a computer and internet
- Recording device for recording assignments (phone, tablet, camera, computer, etc.)
- Tuner (electronic tuner, computer program, or phone app are all suitable)