How to Play Melodies on Bass Guitar (#63)

Learn how to play melodic bass lines, solos and lead lines.

This lesson will help you master a really easy technique that will help you learn how to play bass melodies and how to write melodic bass riff, just like the many iconic bass line we love to listen to and play.

There's so much musical information in this lesson, that I've produced a 30+ Page PDF Workbook for the lesson.

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You will learn:
An easy way to create melodies in minutes
Where to play melodies on the bass so that they sound great
How to use only 3 notes can transform you bass lines and bass solos
Easy improvising ideas
How to use the major scale to play melodies
How to use the major pentatonic scale to play melodies
The easiest way to use chord arpeggios, so they sound musical
How to use rhythm in your bass lines bass
How to use rhythm in your solos
How to play melodies on bass
Using different playing techniques
Easy patterns and shapes

This lesson is perfect for anyone who wants to play more melodic and memorable bass lines and solos.

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The Lesson Timeline
0:00 Intro
0:57 Create Easy Melodies with only 3 Notes
1:22 Bass Line #1 - 3 Note Melody
2:51 Bass Line #2 - 3 Note Melodic Bass Line
3:37 Break down of Bass Line #2
4:33 Bass Line #3 - Targeting the 3rd
5:51 Analysis of Bass Line #3
6:50 Bass Line #4 - Ending on the 3rd
8:13 Analysis of Bass Line #4
8:44 Bass Line #5 - Using the 5th
10:02 Analysis of Bass Line #5
10:40 Two Notes guaranteed to help your melodies sound beautiful
11:25 Bass Line #6 - Using the 2nd and 6th
12:42 Summary

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Here are some links to lessons in which I've looked at chord arpeggios, major scales and pentatonic scales.

Pentatonic Scales:    • Pentatonic Scales  

Using Chord Arpeggios:    • Using Chord Arpeggios  

Using Scales:    • Using Scales  

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About Academy of Bass

I'm Keith Peberdy a professional musician and educator of almost 30 years. In that time, I've taught many 1,000's of bass players.

The Academy of Bass is an on-line bass school founded to help bass players of all abilities to simply play better bass. Whilst I aim to deliver easy to understand lessons, my main focus is to show you how to take what you've learned, practice it and give you a bunch of great ideas to develop it, so that you can get it into your own playing.