Lesson tree for students.

Hello there, and welcome to Dmanlamius.com. Learning bass guitar made nice and simple! Ok, below this text is a lesson tree for beginners. This is the order that I would suggest you learn my bass lessons. From the top, downwards... If you're not a beginner, you can scroll down and watch the lessons that you feel apply to you! The older lessons are not as good in quality as my newer ones, but are still packed full of content! Premium lessons are longer, better quality extensions of lessons that you can download to your own computer. Any purchase of lessons all helps me make more lessons! So let's get moving, Shall we? Pick up that Bass and start learning!

Note: It is important that you are confident in your progress in one video before you go to another one! If you move onto the next video un-prepared, you may lose your confidence, and are more likely to give give up! Give it plenty of time and patience, my friends. You maybe playing this instrument for the rest of your life, so time spent wisely at these stages is a good investment...

Firstly, let's start by warming up those hands and tendons, so you are ready for your lessons! Do these excercises before you pick up your bass. Try and make it habit!

Hand and tendon excercises

The Evolution of our Beginners youtube riff! All in better quality! In this lesson we will add fills to our riff and some other cool ideas. In this lesson we briefly cover:Hammer-ons.Slides.Economy of motion/finger placement.String bends.Slapping and popping the riff.We also cover alternative notes to play around the board.

Beginners Bass lesson part 1 and 2

Back to Basics

Ok, now you have a little understanding of the bass, and can play a simple riff-let's try out a simple Scale. Rollover the text to see what you'll be learning!

Also consider: And here we have the first lesson in the bucket.It's much like the YouTube beginners bass video we did, but I have added some cool octave playing in it as well.Style-wise, i'd say that it's very Grungy, and similar to early Nirvana/Pixies type stuff:Enjoy the lesson, and especially enjoy the play-along-with-me guitar video! Don't forget you get the drum track as a mp3 as well...Don't forget to tune up! This video is in standard tuning. There are plenty of online tuners that you can google if you don't have one...Enjoy the lesson, guys..oh...and the noise...it wasn't me!

How to read the notes on the Bass fretboard.

The Major scale explained!

Right, now you have even more of an understanding of the Bass! You know where a few notes are, and you know the most used scale on the Bass guitar! Let's get onto a simple song, shall we? Try these three lessons, below. After that, try the lessons beneath them!

White stripes: 7 nation army

Radiohead: Creep.

Ben.E.King: Stand by me.

Ok, how did they work out for you? If you feel you have them down, try these. They are a little more difficult, so give it time!

At this point, you maybe ready to learn songs by yourself. Well, a good way of learning songs, is by learning to read tab. I show you how in this written lesson!

So how much should you be practising now you know some stuff? Well check out this written lesson here for my advice.

How to read Tablature.

The Beatles: come together.

The Red Hot chili peppers: Under the bridge.

Michael Jackson: Beat it.

Wild cherry: Play that funky music

Ok, you have come far, and I'm proud of you! Now, let's consider some different techniques we can use on the Bass guitar. To the the left is an introduction to "tapping". To the right, are some beginners slap and pop lessons, and below is a very basic introduction to chords, and a nice application.

Slap and Pop lessons 1,2 & 3

An introduction to tapping.

Slap precision.

Once you can maintain this chord, consider my Cool chord videos. Here, I teach a lot more chords, and in each video we string them together to write a nice tune. I teach you my favourite chords, the ones I use to write my bass only music. There is also a nice bass-only version of "Hallelujah" to be learnt. Roll over each to see what you will learn!

After you are comfortable with these slap and pop techniques, move onto "Evolved" below!

An introduction to chords: Orion

Ok, now you should have some good understanding, and should know some cool stuff that you can be getting on with! Let's consider a couple more things before we move forward. I'm going to give you a simple introduction to time signatures right here. You can play along with the beats that are available.

Tips on timing.

An introduction to time signatures.

So you've come quite far, and learnt quite a lot! Well, you may have a few more questions whilst we are at this point. The most common of them are featured below!

I have fret buzz. Why?

Playing with a Pick (Plectrum)

What Bass should I buy?

I'm stuck in a musical rut!

What does "In the pocket" mean?

Got any other timing tips?

5 string or 4 string Bass?

Increasing finger strength.

Right, now if you have been practising hard, you may now be at the standard to try some of my own funk lines! Even if you are not a funk fanatic, these riffs will benefit any style and type of playing. Give them a go! They are here at my "Learn to play section!" And once you have done that, move onto my exercises. Lastly, try and jam along to some of the guitar and drum tracks I have created in the "Jam with D'man" section!

Jam with D'man!

Exercises.

Learn to play Archive!

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