‘Improve your time’ for Bass players: Downloads

This series is divided into 12 installments.

Part 1 – 8 are available to download and the final four installments will become available through March, April, May and June 2011.

If you’d like to pick and choose, each installment can be purchased separately for £1.79. You can also purchase a ‘season pass’ which includes the tracks for all 12 installments at the cut down price of only £15.99. (a saving of more than 25%!) As the new installments become available, you will be automatically sent download links.

Before you get started, click here to read the introduction to the series.

Individual downloads:

You can download free pdf lessons with scores and guidance for playing in 3, parts 1 & 2! Click here.

1. Country Waltz
2. Jazz Waltz
3. All Blues-style groove

1. Funk in 3
2. All blues style (2 against 3)
3. All Blues Style (4 against 3)

You can download free pdf lesson with scores and guidance for playing in 3, parts 1 & 2! Click here.

1. Take five-style
2. Seven days-style
3. New Orleans groove in 5

1. Fast funk groove in 5
2. Rock groove in 5
3. Bluesy vamp in 5

You can download the free pdf lesson with scores and guidance for playing in 6! Click here.

1. Fusion groove in 6
2. Afro 6/8 feel
3. Funk in 6

The free pdf lessons with scores and guidance for playing in 7 (parts 1 & 2) will be available in April.

1. Funk in 7
2. Dirty funk in 7
3. Reggae in 7

1. Shifting to half time in 7
2. Creating a shuffle illusion in 7
3. Prog rock in 7
4. Prog rock in 7 (variation)

The free pdf lesson with scores and guidance for playing in 9 will be available in May.

1. Irish 9
2. Funk 9
3. Nasty Dance 9

(coming soon)

The scores and guidance for playing in 11 are available in the current issue of Bass Guitar Magazine (Issue 65 April 2011)

1. Blues in 11
2. Funk in 11
3. Retro groove in 11

(coming soon)

The scores and guidance for playing beyond 11 will be available in the next issue of Bass Guitar Magazine (Issue 66 May 2011)

1. 15/16 Funk Groove
2. 21/16 Metal
3. 25/16 Shuffle Groove

(coming soon)

The scores and guidance for playing Southern Comfort will be available in the June issue of Bass Guitar Magazine (Issue 66)

Full playalong song: Southern Comfort

(coming soon)

The scores and guidance for playing ‘Double Shifts’ will be available in the July issue of Bass Guitar Magazine (Issue 67)

Full playalong song: Double shifts