Arpeggio Essentials for Bass: A Step-by-Step Guide

Understanding harmony and chord construction can totally change how you approach bass playing and music. It will allow you to create melodic bass lines and riff, fills, solos and will improve your overall musicianship.
In this video we look at a lesson from the new Ultimate Music Theory For Bass course over at Talkingbass and delve into the nuts and bolts of basic harmony. You'll learn how to construct and learn triads and develop the perfect foundation for moving forward in your playing.
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[@talkingbasslessons]

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[@verdamplangher]

Thousands of tutorials and hundrets of hours on KZbin- Mark gets it combined and professionaly explained in 19 minutes . Greetings from Germany😊

[@dmuir5578]

Thank you, very clear and easy to understand.

[@foshizol]

Ahh man, I wanted to hear you play that fretless. Oh well, thumbs up anyway.

[@davidbalan6571]

These Arpeggios are the most basic and common triad you're likely to encounter so they're important learning for any bass beginner. Play around with them , play them and down the neck try playing through some chords progression and add some of those extra chord tones into the mix .

[@villa1425]

Love this!!

[@derkallert9017]

I really recommend Marks courses. He is such a good teacher and the talking bass platform in all is so helpful. Worth every Cent and second.

[@douglasjennings1465]

Thank I been trying to understand this concept over 50 years finally someone explains it for those who learn at different level

[@albertsonferreira1427]

Hi Mark can you do a tutorial on how to play Elevate by St Lucia. Thanks, Cheers

[@HikaruKenRyu-LightsabreJutsu]

Mark, love that bass .. what is it? (The plain one, not the purple scifi beast, though it is super cool too!)

[@miguele.antonetti9999]

🤟🏼

[@mauriciobar4728]

Genial

[@andrewawood3658]

Another great tutorial on chords chord tones and arpeggios The building blocks for bass lines 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@peterbridge7940]

As always, an excellent and well presented video. Although I started playing in 1964 I never really had any music lessons and I have only "played" for about five in a half years due to a 51 year gap and then Covid and then moving to France. The relevance of his is that your video made me realise. I know quite a lot that I have picked up a lot in imperceptible small bursts but what you showed brought it all together. I thought that arpeggios implied fairly lengthy sequences of notes such as at the beginning of House of the rising Sun. I never looked at the definition. Was your guitar and amp set to be reasonably treble based? Clearly I don't have ability or experience but the sound you got when you played chords was brilliant. It would have sound a very muddy on my Gibson EBO with a 50 watt valve amp and two 18 in speakers How much of playing chords I'm getting a decent sound is down to the ability to finger and hold the notes and to the settings on the guitar and amp? I have no desire to play or to use lots of chords, but I do think in some heavy rock tracks 3 or even 4 note chords would sound brilliant and not just using a first and the fifth. Thanks

[@BenD_Bass]

Is that a new bass? If not I think I commented the same thing last video you used this bass lol

[@keithbolger5152]

A really helpful lesson thanks Mark

[@twilight2559]

Thanks Mark!

[@prasanth1969]

👌👍

[@LucS0042]

What bass were you using there in the intro?

[@talkingbasslessons]

It's my very first bass, a Westone Thunder Jet. I created bigger cutaways, carved out the bottom of it so it stood on the ground easier and took out the frets. I'm going to fix a lot of the issues with it and see if I can get it back to a working state. Needs new pickups and the truss rod needs fixing. I might get a new fretboard too.

[@pissman4206]

mark you’re the best!