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| BASS MAGIC | FRETBOARD HARMONY |  | Fretboard Harmony is where you are going to learn the bass fretboard inside and out. One of the things that can really hold you back as a bassist is not knowing the fretboard well enough. Musical ideas can get crushed by trying to find on the fretboard what you hear in your head. These lessons will get you to really know the fretboard. You'll be practicing everything in all keys, all positions, working on shifting positions, single string exercises, playing scales, arpeggios, and modes around the circle of fifths, and much much more. | |  | There is even a section on "modern electric fingerings" called 5 Fret Stretches which breaks out of the traditional one finger per fret concept and will show you how to cover a 5 fret area in one position. The lessons are broken down to correspond to the music theory lessons. After you've learned a new concept in Music Theory, you'll be able to go to the Fretboard Harmony lessons and really expand your knowledge of the fretboard in that concept.  | | For guitarists trying to learn the bass, these lessons will be extremely valuable. The bass fretboard can be harder to play than the guitar fretboard. We're sure that some guitarist are screaming, "No way! There's even less strings to learn!". This is exactly the problem. Since there are fewer strings, there are fewer notes per position. That means to play the same idea on a bass, you're going to have to do more left hand shifting. You'll have to really know the fretboard and have your left hand ready. That's where these exercises come in. You are going to learn it all: scales, arpeggios and even bass chords. You are going to learn a total mastery of your bass fretboard. | It is also the total musical approach to applying what you learn on the fretboard. You will play everything in a musical situation that will really make it fun, and even more importantly, bring out the precision practice and creativity of what you are learning so that you are always playing and learning in a constant musical environment.
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