Free Bass Guitar Lessons

If you're a bassist, there's less reason to pay for music lessons in today's world because there are plenty of free bass guitar lessons available on the Internet. Whether you're just starting out or you're a more advanced player looking to refine your playing style, you can find the lessons you need to take your bass playing to the next level. The following article will show you some of the best resources on the web for improving your bass playing.

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Many websites advertise free bass lessons, but in reality they are really trying to get you pay a monthly fee to access most of their materials. While this can be a decent investment if you find the right site, the websites listed below offer one hundred percent free lessons for bass guitar players.

• Gibson Guitars – Gibson Guitars has an excellent website filled with free bass guitar lessons with titles like double-stop boogie bass guitar, the vertical and horizontal approaches of bass playing, essential insights for the bass guitarist, and even a lesson on creating a practice schedule.

• Fender Player's Club – Like Gibson Guitars, Fender also has a website dedicated to helping their customers learn how to play their instruments. The lessons at this site are arranged in four categories: beginner, intermediate, advanced and legendary. Players can view lessons on such topics as bass grooves, jazz bass, slab bass and upright bass. The lessons are available in tab form and have audio clips so you can follow along.

• Cyber Fret Bass - Cyber Fret Bass is a website dedicated to helping bass guitar players improve their playing. Audio and video lessons are provided as well as tablature for many different types of lessons like natural harmonics on the bass, drop D bass tuning, arpeggios, scales, theory and much more. The lessons range from those oriented towards the beginner to those geared toward the advanced player. You and your bass could spend a lot of time together in front of this excellent website.

• Harmony Central – Harmony Central is a website every bass player should bookmark. The beginning lessons on the site deal with bass line construction and take the new player through the role of the bass line, beyond the root note, chords and bass lines. You'll also learn about major scales, keys, chord changes and the circle of fifths. More advanced lessons here deal with slapping and tapping lessons for players who are interested in pushing the limits of traditional bass guitar playing.

• Play Bass – This British website is hosted by a true teacher of the instrument. The site is divided into two sections: bass basics and advanced bass playing. The basics section helps beginning players with all aspects of bass playing from buying equipment, how to read bass tabs, using a pick versus playing with your fingers and much more. The advanced section talks about tuning with a tuner and practicing. Players will also learn about bass arpeggios, bass scales, slap bass, tapping, different tuning and advanced bass tabs.

Now that you have plenty of free bass lessons to choose from, the next thing to do is begin practicing. While everyone needs to create the practice schedule that works best for them, most guitar players feel that the best way to improve your playing is to set aside a small amount of time every day to practice. Whether it's in the morning before you start your day or in the evening before you go to bed, try to get in a rhythm with your practice schedule. Pick a lesson a day and try to work through it. The regular practice schedule will help you build on what you're learning as well as help you get and keep your fingers in shape..

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