The lessons are extremely clear and concise and the course is informative and helpful. Berklee announces new scholarship in honor of phishs mike gordon. The first example opposite uses the open not fretted first string. Your instructor or a guitar center associate will contact you in advance of your upcoming online lesson via text or email to confirm your online lesson details and send you a zoom lesson invite. Learn to play music bass lessons scales and technique.
Be sure to grab the backing drum track for playing along at full speed. Im so glad youre here and super excited to help you skyrocket your bass guitar playing to the next level. Teach bass guitar with emedia bass method educational edition. To use this pattern on your own in the future, all you need to do is find a starting note on the a, d, or g string, and then play the same shape around that note that we played around e, a, and b in this lesson. It soon became evident back in 2016 when i published my first lesson on youtube, that i the guy who could actually show my students how to play a bass line. Bass guitar lessons with bass tabs, notes, scales and easy. Learn bass lessons 4 fret technical exercise by musiccollegetv. Mike gordon bass lesson livestream 3202020 duration. Im about to show you a bass chord so powerful its called the power chord. More than 470 free transcriptions for bass and other instruments on basslessons. A few years ago i uploaded a handful of free video bass lessons as a showcase for my 121 private bass tuition services.
First, ill play it at full tempo, then around the 1minute mark, i cover it slowly for you to follow along. He is also a filmmaker rising low, outside out and author mikes corner. In addition to bass, gordon is an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano and guitar. Its got me picking up my bass everyday and im learning a lot. Bass guitar lessons if youre considering private bass lessons, then youve come to the right place.
The note on the second fret of the g string is an a note. Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this jazz volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. Bass 2 bass with freekbass mike gordon bass musician. Bass guitar lessons learn how to play bass the easy way. Below you will find a bunch of free bass lessons to give you a taste of what im offering at. Slap bass funky fundamentals how to play fun great sounding slap bass lines following a stepbystep system. Phish bass lesson the nine dimensions of tweezer amarguitar. For beginner, intermediate and advanced bass players.
Hosted by bill ellis, professor of fine arts at saint michael s college. Im trying to think of an example of the bass going up to play a melody in a radio song. Myers, gordo and his ledlit bass decided to treat the fans with a good ole. Now hes got his online school with instruction for keyboard, guitar, and drums. Im scott whitley, a bassist and bass tutor from burnley, uk. Greg is an extremely experienced bass teacher, having taught bass for many years to students of all abilities. For bass faces only as recorded with the esquire all american band,nyc 1181944. Offering 5 courses for bluegrass guitar from over 100 professional instructors. Instrumentally, gordon also plays banjo and guitar. From the funkiest bass grooves to the most lyrical bass solos, from the 50s up until 2020. Hardware and software requirement for multimedia youtube. He runs to the other end of the stage, picks up the guitar and then, all of a.
Drumeo online drum lessons with the worlds best drummers. Free online bass lessons in hd, covering bass scales, bass arpeggios and soloing. You can pause, rewind, and replay to see proper bass guitar fingerings and techniques at your own pace, as often as needed. If you are looking for a specific solo that you cant find here or in these other sites,please do not ask me if i know where you can find it,because i obviously dont. Bass lessons online includes free beginner bass guitar. We are very flexible with rescheduling options, so if you are ever unable to attend your regular appointment, we are able to provide lesson alternatives that suit you. If you have a hard time hearing the bass from your device, get the right cable to plug your devices audio out to the audio in of your practice amp not the bass instrument in. Two screens and led lights in the seethrough basses create a moire pattern, and gordon can change the colors by shifting fretboard positions. Greg is an extremely experienced bass teacher, having taught bass for. At the top of mike gordons resume is his role as the bass player in phish. His acclaimed solo music has gained over 50 million hits on popular video sharing sites and since the release of his debut album in 20 he has toured almost every continent on the planet, with an average of 200 concerts per year.
Mike gordon tone and sound bass gear guide jam buzz. Riley is a featured artist at the berklee college of music fiveweek program. However, the elite is a little cheaper, and it comes w a cool bridge. For other people named mike watt, see mike watt disambiguation. Just hover your mouse over bass lessons in the top menu for all of the subsections. Bass website go to my stringybass blog to see videos, photos and notes about double bass repairs, studio recording tips and much more. Organized interactive bass lessons created by a veteran bass teacher. In the early days of phish, gordon was involved in the management of the band. When concertgoers show up to see mike gordons new tour in support of his. Bass lessons this section contains all of the online bass lessons on. Free beginner bass lesson 1 learn to play music blog. Go to this concert and prepare to play with the band wired.
The lessons are practical, aimed at playing in a band. Expand your bass knowledge with the bass lesson goldmine series. Maybe lou reeds take a walk on the wild sidethats like two basses. All written content for your bass lesson is done ahead of time by jeff and emailed to you before lesson time. The mike gordon endowed scholarship will support berklee students studying bass who are also wellrounded artists, with skills in other areas. The beginner series of bass lessons online is a generic bass guitar course, meaning that you learn skills that you can apply to all music genres. Mike gordon designed his custom moire basses with ben lewry of visionary instruments. Professional bass instructor john arbo guides you in over 30 videos with splitscreens and closeups as needed. Learning how to play bass using tabs is a great option for beginners, but its no substitute for learning how to read music notation or chord charts. Mike gordon is most widely recognized as the bass player and a singer for the very popular band, phish. Mike gordon tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including 14 years, clone, ether, radar blip.
No matter what your skill level, theres a scotts bass lesson for you. And now, for the first time ever, weve brought together everything weve learned online, by helping millions of drummers around the world through video lessons and interactive communities, and offline, by working closely with many of the best drummers, teachers, and clinicians in the world, to give you the most. Stepbystep bass lessons beginner to badass is a foolproof beginners bass guitar system. See your bass amp manual and audio device manual for the right connections. Learn about how to effectively navigate various grids. Weve been teaching drum students online since 2005. Tabs are available through books, bass magazines, and on various websites online. Often when playing with a guitar or keyboard player you can follow the chords they play. Marks approach to teaching is a good fit with what i am looking for. He is best known for cofounding and playing bass guitar for. My favorite tracks are outside out, soul food man, the teacher, and the lesson. At times murawskis guitar playing is really an afterthought and acts as more. It is played with the second finger of the left hand placed just behind the second fret the note should sound full and round. Notation software there are a number of paid apps for viewing sheet music and bass tabs.
The studio comes w the cheesiest looking fake gold bridge ever, and even though its the most costly bass in the stiletto line, it aint the kinda bridge thats a seperate bridge for each string i think the cool one is called the diamond bridge. This allows the complete lesson to be hands on and focused on the details of playing. Mike gordon brought his band to san francisco for a killer performance. Mike dawes is hailed as one of the worlds finest and most creative modern fingerstyle guitar performers.
Riley hagan is a bass guitar instructor who specializes in oneonone online bass lessons. Apr 20, 2020 bass tablature, or bass tabs, are a simple system of music notation to help you learn to play bass guitar. This excellent bass training software includes over 200 songs and exercises and over 30 videos teaching bass lines and fills, walkups, walkdowns, syncopation, reading tablature, reading notation, intervals, scales, triads and more. Principally because i have some unique concepts and frameworks that help the penny drop.
Gordon began experimenting with a modulus quantum 5 bass guitar on stage with phish as early as october 31, 1994. Our online bass guitar courses have taught, honed and improved the playing of over 25,000 bass guitarists. The main series of lessons presumes a small but nonzero amount of. Just click the bass website link below and the green new free bass lesson content tab to make your choices. The guitar and basscrafted specifically for this tour by ben lewry of oakland. Brown eyed girl has a bass moment, but thats not really a melody, thats just a bass line, and all right now by free is a bass line. Not necessarily bass specific, but im in love with the jordan rudess online conservatory. Take a look at jeffs archived video bass lessons, youtube bass lessons and online bass tabs to get an idea for the things that you can learn and. Mike gordon bass solo at the beginning of weekapaug groove at cuyahoga falls. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica, and percussion. In this lesson you will learn a common major triad pattern. In this new bass lick lesson, were going to combine harmonics and double stops with a mixolydian scale fill. Mike gordon bass lesson livestream 3202020 youtube.
Mike gordon from phish, joins victor wooten at the victor wooten bass nature camp. This page lists 117 bass solo transcriptions that are available somewhere on the internet here you can find more about the best web sites that offer free and paid solo transcriptions. Mike gordon is a bass player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band phish. Learn bass guitar part 3 strap position by musiccollegetv. If you want full access to all of my complete online bass lessons, interactive forum, member directory, messaging system, live bass guitar sessions, bass groove throwdowns. Constructing bass lines isnt hard but it can be if you dont have the right information.
Mike gordon lights up san francisco with ledbass, reel, and. Bass tablature, or bass tabs, are a simple system of music notation to help you learn to play bass guitar. One free program everyone should download is musescore2. Instructors will be teaching from guitar center lessons rooms. This is the first in a series of lessons whose focus is on constructing bass lines. Each bass lesson contains a manageable portion of practical information and exercises. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion. Hes the keyboardist for dream theater, went to julliard at age 9. Mike gordon has to be one of the most criminally underrated bass players in rock history. Although there are many free lessons and transcriptions on our site for beginning and advanced players, nothing beats individual guidance, for those just starting and for advanced players. Not only is he a great bass player, but hes a great teacher.
You can use these lessons for 4, 5, or 6string bass guitar, and for acoustic bass guitar. Scott whitley is creating free bass lesson videos patreon. Mike dawes guitar lessons fingerstyle master course. Phish bass lesson the nine dimensions of tweezer youtube. After about 12 months i started to received more and more views and people started to subscribe to my youtube channel.
Studybass bass lesson index free online bass lessons. Be bop as recorded with the dizzy gillespie quintetnyc 191945 marco accattatis. And here are the full backing tracks for you to jam along with jam tracks for easy blues groove lesson. Because the open 1st string is a g note it is called the g string. This is a structured plan of all the mark j smith video bass lessons divided by topic. It allows you to open popular notation files and write and playback your own music notation. Dec 02, 2017 learn bass guitar the dorian mode by musiccollegetv. Phish bass lesson the nine dimensions of tweezer duration. If you are a fan of the songs mike gordon wrote with phish or of the album he made with leo kottke i would highly reccomend inside in. Bassist mike gordon sits down for a live qa discussion and recording with his muiderman 5string bass on instagram. Karina rykman shares story of soundcheck jam with phish at. I can honestly say that the slap bass course by marc the bass wizard is one of the best investments that ive ever made. These are movable triad patterns and by just playing the same pattern at other frets you will change keys. Michael eliot mike gordon born june 3, 1965 is an american bass guitarist and vocalist most recognized as a founding member of the band phish.
Panel discussion with recording artist and producer norbert putnam and phish bassist mike gordon. We are in the process of updating all bass lessons on the site, so be sure and also look in each subsection section for other bass lesson that have not yet been updated yet. At the guitar gym, we understand that life gets busy sometimes. A multiinstrumentalist, he also participates in multiple side projects and is currently touring as a solo artist. May 10, 2019 learn about how to effectively navigate various grids. For this debut article, i am very excited to have one of the most revolutionary bassists out there, mike gordon from phish and his own band.
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