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Music & Bass Library

Your complete hub for learning bass — fretboard fluency, harmony, groove, technique, and gear that actually supports your sound.

Whether you’re a beginner building your foundation, an intermediate player trying to unlock consistency, or an improviser trying to hear deeper into the music, this library gives you a clear path forward.

Everything here is shaped by the same philosophy that drives my teaching:

simple ideas → clear shapes → better ears → musical freedom.

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If you’re new to my work, this page helps you navigate everything I’ve written about bass, musicianship, and developing your sound.

Each category below represents a focused learning path — so instead of bouncing randomly between tutorials, you can move with intention:

  • understand your fretboard
  • hear harmony more clearly
  • build expressive technique
  • develop deeper groove
  • choose gear that supports your voice

Pick the area you want to grow in, and I’ll guide you from there.

Categories

Fretboard & Notes

Your fretboard should feel like home — not a maze.

These guides help you see, hear, and feel the neck through shapes, intervals, tonal centers, and simple frameworks that build true fretboard fluency.

If you want your fingers to stop guessing and start responding to your ear, start here.

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This category reinforces concepts like interval recognition, note mapping, triad shapes, positional awareness, and ear-first navigation.

Jazz Harmony & Shapes

Jazz isn’t about memorizing theory — it’s about hearing relationships, understanding movement, and using shapes that unlock melodic direction.

Here you’ll explore guide tones, diminished and augmented frameworks, drop-2 shapes, modal colors, and triad pairs — all designed to help you hear harmony from the inside out.

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This category explains concepts like chord tones, voice-leading, functional harmony, substitution, shape-based improvisation, chromatic resolution, and harmonic gravity.

Technique & Groove

Technique isn’t about speed — it’s about control, consistency, touch, and time feel.

These guides dive into right-hand accuracy, finger exercises, harmonics, slap technique, tone shaping, muting, articulation, and the mechanics behind great pocket.

Everything here comes from two decades of playing jazz, funk, gospel, and groove-driven music — filtered through a “make it musical, not mechanical” approach.

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This category includes concepts like timing, rhythmic phrasing, touch, articulation, pocket, dynamics, tone shaping, muting technique, and expressive control.

Bass Fundamentals

Every musician’s journey begins with the essentials — and even after 20+ years of playing, I still revisit them.

These beginner-friendly guides cover the core building blocks of musicianship: technique basics, simple scales, beginner chords, foundational shapes, practice routines, and essential concepts that support everything else you’ll eventually play.

If you’re just starting — or want a clearer, simpler foundation than the one you learned years ago — this is your safest and strongest starting point.

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In this category, you’ll find beginner bass lessons, basic technique, scale patterns, chord basics, rhythm foundations, structured practice routines, and foundational musicianship.

Gear Reviews

The right gear won’t make you a better musician — but it can make playing more inspiring.

Every review here is written from my personal real-world experience. I focus on tone, feel, reliability, build quality, and how the gear actually performs on bass.

Pedalboards, multi-guitar stands, preamps, acoustic-electrics, apps, ear-training tools — if I’ve used it, gigged it, or tested it, you’ll find my honest take here.

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In this category, you’ll find bass gear reviews, tone shaping tools, DI/preamp comparisons, pedalboard setup, acoustic-electric bass, and ear training software.

Creative Life & Tools

Music isn’t just technique, theory, or fretboard fluency — it’s the life around it.

The late-night ideas, the small breakthroughs, the practice habits that actually stick, the tools that keep you moving, and the mindset shifts that help you show up with clarity.

This category is where I share the deeper side of being a musician: creativity, productivity, artistic burnout, inspiration, personal workflows, practice systems, and real-world reflections from 20+ years of learning, teaching, and making music through real life.

If you’re looking for content that supports your process, not just your technique — start here.

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In this category, you’ll find creative systems, practice management tools, ear-training workflows, artistic mindset, productivity methods, music career ideas, and reflections that support the whole musician — not just the hands-on-the-instrument part.

Recommended Learning Paths

Here are some guided sequences that can provide you with a clear route from “curious” to “confident.”

Beginner Path

If you’re just getting started:

  1. Bass Fundamentals
  2. Basic Technique & Groove
  3. Fretboard & Notes (Intro Level)
  4. Your First Improvisation Concepts
  5. How to Practice Bass Guitar
  6. Number System

This path builds your coordination, confidence, and clarity.

Fretboard Fluency Path

For players stuck “thinking too much” on the neck:

  1. Learn the Notes (Shape-Based Approach)
  2. Tonic Gravity & Interval Recognition
  3. Arpeggios & Melodic Bass Fills
  4. Transcribing Solos

This sequence leans into ear-first navigation, interval relationships, and develops your neck awareness.

Jazz Improvisation Path

For players ready to hear deeper into the harmony:

  1. Guide Tones
  2. Triad Pairs
  3. Diminished & Augmented Colors
  4. Drop-2 Shapes for Bass
  5. Soloing Over Rhythm Changes
  6. Chord Melody
  7. Contrary Motion

This path builds your harmonic vocabulary, voice-leading, and musical direction.

Groove & Technique Path

For players wanting better feel, time, and articulation:

  1. Right-Hand Accuracy
  2. Timing & Groove Concepts
  3. Harmonics + Tone Shaping
  4. Slap Technique (Musical Focus)
  5. Fluidity & Articulation Studies

This path reinforces your pocket, develops your nuance, touch, and expressive mechanics.

Gear & Setup Path

For players wanting a clean, organized, inspiring setup:

  1. Small Pedalboard Setup
  2. Preamps & DI Reviews
  3. Multi-Guitar Stand
  4. Strings & Tone Concepts
  5. Acoustic-Electric Bass Reviews

This path helps you build a setup that supports (not distracts from) your playing.

Most Popular Guides

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