It’s amazing how creative you can be playing these simple patterns on the bass

By Jon Liebman
November 28, 2024

In the last couple lessons, I showed you different ways of playing interesting bass lines using only 3-note arpeggios, both major and minor. 

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to combine major and minor arpeggios, playing a repetitive, two-chord progression.

Wait’ll you see how you can expand your creativity while working within a closely defined framework, all the while keeping things as simple — or as busy — as you like. The results may surprise you!

Then, as has become our custom in these lessons, you’ll get some encouragement for learning the “shapes” of these arpeggios and playing them on parts of the bass that are (currently) less familiar to you. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the symmetry of the bass, enabling you to become intimately familiar with the entire fingerboard. Pretty awesome, eh?

Watch the video and give this stuff a try. Be sure to share to leave a comment below, sharing your takeaways. I’d love to hear from you.

Let’s play bass!

Jon