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- 0.1 |
The
Bass: It's Parts & What They Do
Tuning Your Bass |
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- 0.2 |
Playing Technique: Right Hand vs. Left
Hand |
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- 0.3 |
Getting to Know Your Bass & Understanding
Notation |
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- 0.4 |
The Bass-ics: Rhythm, Melody, & Harmony |
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Level 1 |
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- 1.1 |
Finger Exercises -
One Finger Per Fret - Quarter Notes |
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1.2 |
Open String Names &
Numbers - Muting - Whole & Half Notes |
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1.3 |
1E String - Open E, 1st Fret F,
3rd Fret G |
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1.4 |
2A String - Open A, 2nd Fret B,
3rd Fret C |
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1.5 |
12 Bar Blues -
Tablature |
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1.6 |
3D String - Open D, 2nd Fret E,
3rd Fret F |
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1.7 |
4G String - Open G, 2nd Fret A -
Octaves |
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1.8 |
Notes on the 5th Fret - Chord
Progressions |
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1.9 |
Diatonic Scales (7 Note Scales): C^
(Major)
Half Step & Whole
Step Pattern - Remember: E/F
& B/C |
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1.10 |
Introducing Sharps (#) and Flats (b) -
Eighth (8th) Notes & Rests - Common Time & Cut Time (Alla-Breve) |
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1.11 |
Key Signature - Sequencing, aka the "Moveable Box"
- Accidentals |
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1.12 |
Major & Minor Triads - Using Triads with
Chord Progressions |
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1.13 |
Triplets - Sixteenth (16th) notes & Rests -
Standard Bass Patterns
- Dotted Quarter Notes |
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1.14 |
Bass Parts: Root & 5th - Major, Minor,
Aug. & Dim. - Country, Folk, & Polka Bass Lines |
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1.15 |
Bass Parts: Power Chord -
Augmented & Diminished Triads |
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1.16 |
Punk & Rock Bass Lines |
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1.17 |
Level 1 Test: Learn
Several Entire Songs |
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Level 2 |
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- 2.1 |
Pentatonic Scales |
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- 2.2 |
Playing In All Keys - Using Triads To
Create Bass Lines |
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- 2.3 |
Common Traditional Bass Lines |
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- 2.4 |
Arpeggios (1,3, 5, & 7): Building on Chords
- Basic Scale Exercises |
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- 2.5 |
Diatonic Scales: Modes |
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- 2.6 |
Playing Minor Ideas - Blues, Funk, & Rock Bass Lines -
Diatonic Scales: A Aeolian & B Locrian
Key Signature ~ Relative Major & Minor |
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2.7 |
Building Walking Bass Lines - More Playing in all Keys - Notes on
the 7th & 8th Frets - Theme & Variation |
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2.8 |
More Walking Lines |
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2.9 |
Slap & Pop Technique |
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2.10 |
Right Hand Hammering
(Tapping) |
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2.11 |
Reading Melodies - Chromatic
Scales - Vibrato |
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2.12 |
Arpeggios to the 9th,
11th, 13th, & 15th |
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2.13 |
Bossa, & Latin Bass
Lines |
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2.14 |
Metal - Scale & Melodic
Patterns - Dynamics |
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2.15 |
Level 2 Test:
Transcribe A Bass Line |
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Level 3 |
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- 3.1 |
Harmonic &
Melodic Minor Scales |
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- 3.2 |
Diminished
& Whole Tone Scale |
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- 3.3 |
All Scales 2 Octaves
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Intermediate Scale Exercises |
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- 3.4 |
Intermediate Walking Jazz Bass Lines |
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- 3.5 |
Altered
Chords & Scales |
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- 3.6 |
Funk Bass
Lines - Intermediate Thumb Technique |
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- 3.7 |
Intermediate Bass Chords - Advanced Muting |
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- 3.8 |
Intermediate Folk, Country, Rock, & Metal Bass Lines |
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- 3.9 |
Intermediate 12 & 16 Bar Chord Progressions |
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- 3.9 |
Core Jazz
Melodies - Intermediate Sequencing |
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- 3.10 |
Level 3
Test: Transcribe A Bass Solo |
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Level 4 |
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- 4.1 |
All Scales
Lowest to Highest Note - Working With the Metronome |
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- 4.2 |
Advanced
Thumb Technique & Bass Chords - Tritone Substitution |
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- 4.3 |
Advanced
Chord Progressions - Ballads |
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- 4.4 |
Advanced
Folk Lines: Traditional, Gospel, Americana, & Dixieland |
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- 4.5 |
World
Music: Common Bass Lines From Other Cultures |
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- 4.6 |
Intermediate Classical Bass Lines |
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- 4.7 |
Advanced
Latin Bass Lines: Brazilian, Salsa, & Montuna |
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- 4.8 |
Advanced
Soloing: Bebop & Metal Melodies |
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- 4.9 |
Advanced
Soloing: Classical Melodies |
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- 4.10 |
Mixed & Odd
Meter Time Signatures |
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- 4.11 |
Contemporary Session Bassists - Fusion Bass Lines |
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Level 5 |
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- 5.1 |
In the
future there will be additional resources for bassists to connect with
other musicians and jobs. |
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Bassist's
Songbook |
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Rhythm & Blues
African American
Roots
- Amazing Grace - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Down By The Riverside
- Down In The Valley - Funga A La Feeya - Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho - Kum Ba Ya -
Motherless Child - No Body Knows The Trouble I've Seen
- Rock-A-My-Soul - Swing Low Sweet
Chariot - This Train - Wade In The Water - We Shall Overcome
Blues
- All Your Love (I Miss Loving) -
Baby Please Don't Go - Bad Love -
Back Door Man -
Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At
Yourself) -
Better Off With The Blues -
Bo Diddley -
Boom Boom - Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) -
Born Under A Bad Sign - Born With A
Broken Heart - CC Rider - Cherry
Red Wine - Chicago Smokeshop - Cincinnati Jail -
Crossroads - Don't Throw Your Love On Me So
Strong - Everyday I Have The Blues - Evil - Five Long Years
- Further On Up The Road - Give Me Back My Wig - Good Morning
Little Schoolgirl - Hide Away - Hoochie
Coochie Man - How Many More Years -
Hurts Me Too - I Ain't Superstitious - I Can't Be Satisfied -
I Can't Quit You Baby - I Just Want To Make
Love To You - I Need You So Bad - I Smell A Rat - I'll Play
The Blues For You - I'm Ready -
Ice Pick - Key To The Highway -
Killing Floor - Kind Hearted Woman Blues -
Let The Good Times Roll - Little Red Rooster - Look At Little
Sister - Look On Yonder's Wall -
Mannish Boy - Mary Ann - Messin' With The
Kid - Moon Is Full - Mustang Sally - My Babe - Need
Your Love So Bad - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
- On My Knees - On The Road Again - Phone
Booth - Rock Me Baby - Rollin' And Tumblin' - Same Thing
- Seventh Son - Sky Is Crying - Smokestack Lightnin' -
Somebody Loan Me A Dime - Spoonful
- Statesboro Blues - Still Alive And Well
- Still Got The Blues - Stormy Monday -
Stumble - Sweet Home Chicago -
Sweet Little Angel - T-Bone Shuffle -
Things That I Used To Do - Thrill Is Gone - Thunderbird - Tin Pan
Alley - Tore Down - Walkin' The Dog -
Wang Dang Doodle - You Shook Me
R & B/Motown/Early Soul (Early 60's - Early 70's)
- 634-5789 - ABC - Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ain't Too
Proud To Beg - Bernadette - Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) - Bring
It On Home To Me - But It's Alright - Cold Sweat, Pt. 1 - Cool
Jerk - Dancing In The Street - Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Dock Of The
Bay - For Once In My Life - Get Ready - Get Up (Sex Machine) -
Green Onions - Groove Me - Groovin' - Hard To Handle - Higher
And Higher - Hold On I'm Comin' - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie,
Honey Bunch) - I Got The Feelin' - I Got You (I Feel Good) - I
Heard It Through The Grapevine - I Just Want To Celebrate - I Second
That Emotion - I Want You Back - I Was Made To Love Her - I'll Come
Running Back To You - I'll Take You There - I've Been Loving You Too
Long - In The Midnight Hour - It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Knock On
Wood - Land Of A Thousand Dances - Mr Pitiful - My Girl -
Nowhere To Run - Pain In My Heart - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone -
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - Please Accept My Love - Push And Pull
- Reach Out, I'll Be There - Respect - Road Runner - Rockin'
Robin - Send Me Some Lovin' - Shaft - Shop Around - Shot Gun -
Sir Duke - Soul Finger - Soul Limbo - Soul Man - Stand By Me -
Standing In The Shadows Of Love - Stop! In The Name Of Love - This
Masquerade - This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) - Time Is
Tight - Tired Of Being Alone - Under The Boardwalk - Uptight
(Everything's Alright) - What's Going On - Wrap It Up - You Don't
Know Like I Know - You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Progressive Blues/Texas Blues (Mid 1960’s
- Today)
- Black Hearted Woman - Blue On Black - Changes - Couldn't
Stand The Weather - Crossfire -
House Is Rockin' -
Lenny - Mary Had A Little
Lamb - Scuttle Buttin’ - Pride And
Joy - Red House - Texas Flood -
Tuff Enuff - Wham
Funk/Disco (Early 70's - 80's)
- Bad Girls - Boogie Nights - Boogie
Oogie Oogie - Brick House - Can You Handle It - Car Wash
- Cissy Strut - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy -
Dance With Me - Dazz - December
1963 (Oh, What A Night) - Disco Inferno - Do It ('Til You're
Satisfied) - Dr. Funkenstein - Fantastic Voyage - Fire -
Funkytown - Get Down Tonight - Get
Off - Good Times - Higher Ground - I
Love The Night Life - I Wish - It's Your Thing -
Kung Fu Fighting - Le Freak - Let's
Get It On - Let's Groove - Lopsy Lu - Love Games - Love
Rollercoaster - Low Rider - Macho Man -
Mr Big Stuff - Native New Yorker -
Never Can Say Goodbye - One Nation Under A Groove - Pick Up
The Pieces - Power - Respect Yourself - Run For Cover - Sex In A
Pan - Shadow Dancing - Shaft - Shining
Star - Stay - Stay With Me Tonight - Stayin’ Alive -
Super Freak - Superstition - That's The
Way (I Like It) - We Are Family - Word Up -
Y.M.C.A. - You Should Be Dancing
Pop/Dusties/Contemporary Soul
- Beat It - Dancing Machine -
Fight The Power 'Part 1' - Smooth Operator - Sumthin', Sumthin' -
Thriller |
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Country
Folk/Western/Americana (1800’s - PreWWI)
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America (The Beautiful) - Aura Lee - Buffalo Gals - Casey Jones
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Chinatown, My Chinatown -
Dixie -
Frankie And Johnny - Girl I Left Behind Me -
Home On The Range -
Mule Skinner
Blues -
Nobody Knows (The
Trouble I've Seen) - Polly Wolly Doodle - Red River Valley - Rock
My Baby With A Dixie Melody - She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain -
Shenandoah - Simple Gifts - Star-Spangled Banner -
Stay A Little
Longer (The Hoedown Fiddle Song) -
Streets of Laredo
- Susanna - Swanee River - This Land Is Your Land - Tom Dooley
- Wildwood
Flower -
Will The Circle Be
Unbroken - Worried Man Blues - Yankee Doodle
Classic Country (Post WWI – Post WWII)
- Blue Moon of Kentucky - Dark Hollow - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Happy Trails - Hello Walls - Hey Good Lookin' - I Am A Man Of
Constant Sorrow - I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - I'm So
Lonesome I Could Cry - If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) - If
You've Got The Money , I've Got The Time - It Wasn't God Who Made
Honky Tonk Angels - Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Keep On The Sunny
Side - Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream - Lovesick Blues -
Move It On Over - Rawhide -
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette) -
Tennessee Waltz - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
- Wabash Cannonball - Walking The Floor Over You - Your Cheatin'
Heart
Rockabilly Era (Early 50's – Early 60’s)
- All Shook Up - Baby Let’s Play House - Be-Bop-A-Lula -
Blue Jean Bop - Blue Suede Shoes - Boppin’ The Blues - Don't Be
Cruel (To A Heart That's True) - Ghost Riders In The Sky - Good
Rockin’ Tonight - Honey Don’t - Hound Dog - I’m Stickin’ With You
- Jailhouse Rock - Little Sister -
Matchbox - Oh, So Lonesome - Party Doll - Race With The
Devil - Ready Teddy - Rebel 'Rouser - Rocket 88 - Ruby Baby -
Stratosphere Boogie -
That's All Right
- Twenty Flight Rock
Vintage Country (Mid 60's - Early 70's)
- Act Naturally - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Boy Named Sue
- Coal Miners Daughter -
Country Gentleman
- Crazy - Delta Dawn - DIVORCE - El Paso -
Foggy Mountain
Breakdown -
Folsom Prison -
Galveston - Get Rhythm - He'll Have To Go - Hello Darlin' - Help
Me Make It Through The Night - Honey Don't - I Can't Stop Loving
You - I Fall To Pieces - I Walk The Line - King Of The Road -
Matchbox - Mystery Train - Okie From Muskogee - Ring of Fire -
Stand By Your Man - Sweet Dreams - Take It Easy - Take Me Home,
Country Roads - Walkin' After Midnight
Modern Country (Early 70's - 80's)
- Amarillo By Morning - Boulder to Birmingham - Chair - Coat of
Many Colors - Devil Went Down To Georgia - Forever And Ever, Amen
- Gambler - Go Rest High On That Mountain - He Stopped Loving Her
Today - Heartbroke - I Will Always Love You - If I Could Only Win
Your Love - Jolene - Kiss An Angel Good Morning - Love Can Build A
Bridge - Mama He's Crazy - Mamma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To
Be Cowboys -
My Baby Thinks He's A Train -
On The Other
Hand -
One More Last Chance - Only Daddy That Will Walk The Line
- Pill - Rhinestone Cowboy - Song of The South - Smoky Mountain
Rain -
Workin' Man Blues - Your Mama Don’t Dance
Contemporary Country (90's - Today)
- Ain't
Goin' Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up) - Big Time -
Blue - Boot
Scootin' Boogie - Breathe -
Chattahoochee
- Cowboy Take Me Away - Dance -
Elmira St. Boogie -
Fancy - Friends
In Low Places -
Gone As A Girl Can Get -
Grass Is Blue -
How Can I Help You Say Goodbye - How Do I Live - Hurt - I Hope You
Dance - I’m Moving On - Is There Life Out There - It's Your Love
- Let Me Touch You For Awhile -
Meet In The Middle - Mercury Blues -
Remember When -
That's What I Like About You -
You're Still
The One - Strawberry Wine -
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
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When You Say
Nothing At All - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) -
Wide Open Spaces |
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Rock 'N' Roll
Early Rock 'N' Roll
(Post WWII - Mid 60’s)
- All My Loving - Baby, Let's Play House - Because They’re Young
- Blueberry Hill -
Bus Stop -
Bye Bye Love -
Can't Buy
Me Love - Claw - Crying - Do You Believe In Magic? -
Eight Days A
Week - For Your Love - Fun, Fun, Fun - Gloria - Good Lovin' -
Great Balls Of Fire - Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Hang On Sloopy -
Happy
Together -
Hello Mary Lou -
Hippy Hippy Shake - I'm A Believer - Johnny B Goode - La Bamba -
Let’s Go Trippin’ - Louie, Louie - Maybellene - Mellow Yellow -
Nadine (Is That You) - No Particular Place To Go - Not Fade Away -
Oh Boy! - Oh, Pretty Woman - Peggy Sue - Pipeline - Poor Little
Fool - Promised Land - Raunchy - Rock And Roll Music - Rock
Around The Clock - Roll Over Beethoven - Rumble - Runaway -
She’d Rather Be With Me - Sleepwalk - Surfin' USA - Tequilla -
That'll Be The Day - Time Is On My Side - Travelin' Man - Twist
And Shout -
Wake Up Little Susie - Walk Don’t Run
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Wooly Bully
Classic Rock/British Invasion (Mid 60’s - Early 70's)
- All Day And All Of The Night -
And I Love Her
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Angie - Aqualung
- Badge - Behind Blue Eyes - Bennie And The Jets - Born To Be
Wild - Brown Eyed Girl - Chicago (We Can Change The World) - Come
Together - Day Tripper - Drive My Car -
Dear Prudence -
Eight Miles High -
Funk #49 - Get
Back - Helter Skelter -
Here Comes The Sun -
Hey Joe - Hey
Jude - Highway Star - I Can See For Miles -
I Will -
Imagine -
Joker - Lady Madonna - Layla - Laughing - Loco-Motion -
Maggie May -
Magic Bus - Man Who Sold The World -
Me And Bobby McGee
- Money - My Generation - Nights In White Satin -
Norwegian Wood
(This Bird Has Flown) - Oh Well (Part 1) -
Piece
Of My Heart -
Radar Love - San
Franciscan Nights - School's Out - Smoke On The Water - Smokin' In
The Boys Room -
Space Oddity
- Starman - Stairway To Heaven -
Stuck In The Middle With You - Substitute - Sunshine Of Your Love
- Susie-Q -
Sweet Jane -
Takin' Care Of
Business - Walk On The Wild Side - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
- White Room - Whiter Shade of Pale - Wild Thing - Won't Get
Fooled Again - You Really Got Me - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Soft Rock/Folk Rock/Southern Rock/Reggae (Late 60's - Early 80's)
- At Seventeen - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Best Of My
Love - Blue Sky - Can’t You See - Dixie Chicken - Doctor My
Eyes - Dust In The Wind - Fire And Rain -
Free Bird -
Gimmie Three Steps - Good Clean Fun - Green Grass And High Tides -
Heard It In A Love Song - Heartache Tonight - Hold On Loosely -
Hurry Sundown - I Know A Little -
I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song -
In
Memory Of Elizabeth Reed -
Jackie Blue -
Jamming -
Jessica - Jim Dandy -
Just A Song Before I Go -
La Grange
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Landslide -
Lay Down Sally -
Leader Of The Band - Leaving On A Jet Plane - Life In The Fast Lane
- Longer - Love Hurts -
Midnight Rider -
Mississippi Queen
- New Kid In Town - Our House - Ramblin' Man - Reason To Believe
- Reeling In The Years - Rhiannon - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
- Rockin’ Into The Night -
Seven Bridges Road - So Into You -
Southern Cross
- Stir It Up -
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Sweet Baby
James - Sweet Home Alabama - Take Me Home, Country Roads - Teach
Your Children - Time In A Bottle - Up On The Roof - Wild World -
Willin’ -
Wonderful Tonight
- You've Got A Friend
Hard Rock/Progressive Rock/Early Metal (Early 70's - Early 80’s)
- 25 Or 6 To 4 - All Right Now - Another One Bites The Dust -
Apostrophe - Back In The Saddle - Ballroom Blitz - Bang A Gong
(Get It On) - Barracuda - Beast Of Burden - Calling Dr. Love -
Carry On Wayward Son - Cat Scratch Fever - Cheap Sunglasses - Cold
Gin - Come Sail Away - Crazy Little Thing Called Love -
Crazy On You -
Crazy
Train - Detroit Rock City - Deuce - Double Vision - Fat Bottomed
Girls - Flying High Again - Frankenstein - Free Ride - Freeway
Jam - Hair Of The Dog - Hot Blooded -
I Just Want To
Make Love To You -
I Want You To Want
Me - If You Leave Me Now - Iron Man - Karn Evil 9 - Miss You -
Paranoid - Peace Of Mind - Rebel, Rebel - Rock And Roll All Night
- Roundabout - Runnin' With The Devil - Same Old Song & Dance -
Show Me The Way - Snortin' Whiskey - Start Me Up - Stone Cold
Crazy - Suffragette City - Surrender - Sweet Emotion - Sweet
Leaf - Tie Your Mother Down - Train Kept A Rollin’ - Walk This
Way - War Pigs (Interpolating Luke’s Wall) - We Will Rock You -
Wheel In The Sky - You're My Best Friend
MTV Era - New Wave/Corporate Rock/Punk/Glam (Late 70's - Early
90's)
- Angel - Bad Love - Black Velvet - Call Me - Can't Stand
Losing You - Decadence Dance - Don't Stop Believin' - Don’t Tell
Me You Love Me - Dream Police - Every Breathe You Take - Eye Of
The Tiger - Fantasy - Fascination Street - Fight The Good Fight
- Fool For Your Loving -
Free Fallin' -
Get The Funk Out
- Gettin’
High - Give A Little Bit - Heart And Soul -
Hurts So Good - I
Won't Back Down - I’m The Only One - Into The Great Wide Open -
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me - Jet Airliner - Lady In Red - Land
Of Confusion -
Learning To Fly -
Lights - Livin'
On A Prayer - Look At That Cadillac - Love In An Elevator -
Mainstreet - Maneater - Message In A Bottle - Money For Nothing
- Mony, Mony -
More Than Words - Night Moves -
One
Thing Leads To Another -
Pink Houses -
Rock And Roll Never
Forgets - ROCK In The USA - Rock This Town - Rock You Like A
Hurricane - Rock'n Me - Round And Round - Running Down A Dream -
Seventeen - Sexy & 17 - Shakedown - Slow An’ Easy - Spirits In
The Material World - Steppin’ Out - Stray Cat Strut -
Suite Madame Blue
- Sultans Of Swing -
Summer Of '69 -
Sweet
Talkin' Woman - Time For Me To Fly - Turn Me Loose -
Turn The
Page -
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad -
Two Tickets To
Paradise - Under Pressure - Veronica - Wait - Walk Of Life -
Walking On The Moon - Werewolves Of London - What I Like About You
- Where Have All The Good Times Gone? -
Wherever You Will
Go -
You Give Love A Bad Name - You May Be Right - You're In My Heart
- You’re
Only Lonely
Heavy Metal/Grunge (Early 80's - Late 90's)
- About A Girl - Addicted To That Rush - Always With Me,
Always With You - Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) - Been Caught Stealing
- Breaking
The Girl -
Bulls On Parade -
Cliffs Of Dover - Come As You Are - Cult Of Personality - Don’t
Treat Me Bad - Drowning In A Daydream - Far Beyond The Sun - For
The Love Of God - Grind - Highlander Boogie - Hunger Strike -
I'll See The Light Tonight - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver - Jesus
Christ Pose - Lithium - Living After Midnight - Man In A Box -
Mr. Brownstone - Nearly Lost You - No Excuses - Outshined -
Patience
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Peace Sells - Rusty Cage - Satch Boogie -
Silent Lucidity
- Smells Like Teen Spirit - Sweet Child O' Mine - Them Bones - To
Be With You - Welcome To The Jungle - White Wedding - Yankee Rose
- You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Would
Contemporary Rock (Early 90's - Today)
- 3 AM
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All I Wanna Do - All The Small Things - Building A Mystery -
Champagne
Supernova - Change The World - Come To My Window - Counting Blue
Cars - Cumbersome - Drive -
Fly Away - Fools
Shine On - Give It Away - Glycerine -
Have You Ever
Really Loved A Woman? - Hey Man Nice Shot - Hold My Hand - I’ll
Stick Around - Jumper - Loser - Lump - Machinehead - Molly
(Sixteen Candles) - My Name Is Jonas - No Rain -
Rainmaker -
Run Around
- Santa Monica - Say It Ain’t So - Seether - Semi-Charmed Life
- Slide - Smooth - Song 2 -
St. Anger -
Tears In
Heaven - This Is A Call - Under The Bridge - Violet -
You Oughta
Know -
You Were Meant For Me - Water’s Edge - Wonderwall |
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Jazz
Ragtime/Blues/New
Orleans/Creole
- After You've Gone - Ain't Misbehavin' -
Entertainer
- Farewell Blues -
House
Of The Rising Sun - Maple Leaf Rag - St. James Infirmary - St.
Louis Blues - When The Saints Go Marching In
Swing/Big Band (Pre WWII)
- Autumn Leaves - Cherokee (Indian Love Song) - Honeysuckle Rose
- How Deep Is The Ocean - I Should Care - Indiana (Back Home
Again) - Oh, Lady Be Good! - Perdido - Sophisticated Lady - Stompin' At The
Savoy - Sweet Georgia Brown - Take The "A" Train - There Will
Never Be Another You - These Foolish Things
Standards/Show Tunes/Ballads
- All The Things You Are - Body and Soul - Don't Blame Me -
Embraceable You - Georgia On My Mind - How High The Moon - I Can't
Get Started (With You) - I Cover The Waterfront - I'll Remember
April - In A Sentimental Mood - Laura - Love For Sale - Lover
Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) - Man I Love - My Funny Valentine -
Night And Day - Prelude To A Kiss - Satin Doll - Star Dust -
Summertime - Sweet Lorraine - Way You Look Tonight - What Is This
Thing Called Love? - What's New? - Willow Weep For Me -
Yesterdays - You Go To My Head
Bebop/Combo/Small Band (Post WWII)
- 'Round Midnight - Lush Life - On Green Dolphin Street -
Stella By Starlight - Tenderly
Latin/Afro-Cuban
- Agua de Beber (Water To Drink) - Black
Orpheus - Blue Bossa - Caravan -
Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune) - Girl From Ipanema
- Little Boat (OBarquino) - Night In Tunisia -
Perfidia - Song For My Father - St Thomas
- Triste
Soul Jazz/Smooth Jazz
- Linus And Lucy
Fusion |
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Traditionals & Spirituals
Children's Songs
- BINGO - If Your Happy And You Know It - Itsy Bitsy Spider -
London Bridge - Michael Finnegan - Old McDonald - Pop Goes The
Weasel - Row, Row, Row Your Boat - Skip To My Lou - There's A Hole
In The Bucket - This Old Man - Three Blind Mice - Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star
English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh
- Auld Lang Syne - Cockles And Mussels - Danny Boy - Deck The Halls - Greensleeves - He's A Jolly Good Fellow - Hey, Ho, Nobody Home -
Sea Shanty
Caribbean
- Pay Me My Money Down
Christian
- Angels We Have Heard On High - Away In A Manger - Carol Of The
Bells - First Noel - Go Tell It On The Mountain - God Rest Ye
Merry Gentlemen - Hark! The Hearld Angels Sing - I Saw Three Ships
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Joy To The World -
Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Little Town of
Bethlehem - O Come, All Ye Faithful - O Holy Night - Peace Like a
River - Silent Night - We Three Kings Of Orient Are - What Child
Is This
Christmas
- Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) - Felice Navidad (Spanish)
- Good King Wenceslas - Jingle Bells - Jolly Old St. Nicholas - O
Christmas Tree (German) - Up On The Housetop - We Wish You A
Merry Christmas
Classical
- Largo - Minuet In G - Ode To Joy
French
- Au Clair De La Lune - Frére Jacques
Jewish
- Kukuriku
- O Come, O Come Immanuel - Shalom Chaverim
Russian
- Dark Eyes
Spanish/Latin/Mexican
- La Bamba
Swedish
- Dear Old Stockholm |
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World Class Bassists/Bands |
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Abe Laboriel Sr -
Adam Nitti -
Alain Caron
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Alphonso Johnson - Anders Jormin -
Andy
Fraser/Free -
Andy West/Dixie Dregs - Anthony
Cox -
Anthony Jackson - Aston "Family Man"
Barrett/Bob Marley & The Wailers -
Ben Allison -
Ben Street - Bernard Edwards/Chic - Bernard Odum/James
Brown - Berry Oakley/Allman Brothers - Bill
Black/Elvis Presley -
Bill
"Buddha" Dickens - Bill
Gould/Faith No More -
Bill Wyman/Rolling Stones
- Billy Cox/Jimi
Hendrix -
Billy Sheehan/Niacin/Mr
Big/Steve Vai -
Bob Babbitt/Funk Brothers - Bob Cranshaw - Bobby Sheehan/Blues Traveler -
Bootsy
Collins/James
Brown/Funkadelic -
Brian Bromberg - Bruce
Thomas/Elvis Costello -
Carol Kaye -
Cecil McBee -
Charles Mingus -
Charles
"Sweet" Sherrell/James
Brown - Charlie Biddle
- Charlie Haden - Charnett Moffett -
Chris
Squire/Yes - Chris Wood/MMW -
Christian McBride
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Chuck Rainey - Cliff Lee Burton/Metallica -
Curtis Counce -
Daryl Jones - Dave Carpenter
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Dave Holland - Dave Hope/Kansas -
Dave LaRue/Dixie Dregs - Dave Schools/Widespread Panic -
David Dyson -
David Ellefson/Megadeth -
David
Friesen - David Hungate/Toto - David Piltch
- Dennis Irwin - Dominic Richards -
Donald
"Duck" Dunn/Booker T & the MGs - Doug Pinnick/King's X
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Doug Wimbish/Living
Coloür - Duff McKagen/Guns
N Roses/Velvet Revolver - Eberhard Weber -
Eddie Gomez -
Edgar Meyer
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Felix
Pappalardi/Mountain -
Flea/Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Francisco Centeno -
Frank Felix - Freddie Washington - Gary "Mani"
Mounfield/Stone Roses -
Gary Grainger - Gary
Peacock -
Gary Willis - Geddy Lee/Rush -
Geezer Butler/Black Sabbath - George "Pops" Foster -
George Mraz -
George Porter Jr/Meters -
Glen Cornick/Jethro Tull - Glen Moore/Oregon -
Greg
Lake/Emerson, Lake & Palmer -
Henry Grimes -
Jack Bruce/Cream -
Jack Casady/Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna
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Jaco Pastorius/Weather Report - James Genus - James
Jamerson/Funk Brothers - Jeff Ament/Pearl Jam -
Jeff Andrews -
Jeff Berlin -
Jerry Jemmott
- Jimmy Blanton - Jimmy Garrison -
Jimmy Haslip/Yellow
Jackets - Jimmy Johnson - Joe Osborne -
John Alderete/Racer X/Mars Volta -
John Clayton -
John Deacon/Queen -
John Entwistle/Who - John
Kirby -
John Myung/Dream Theater -
John Patitucci -
John Paul Jones/Led Zeppelin -
John Wetton/King Crimson -
Joseph Patrick Moore -
Kermit Driscoll - Larry Graham/Sly &
the Family Stone
- Larry Grenadier -
Leo Lyons/Ten Years After -
Les Claypool/Primus/C2B3 -
Lincoln Goines - Louis Johnson/Brothers Johnson - Louis
Satterfield/Earth Wind & Fire - Marc Johnson -
Marcus Miller -
Mark Egan - Mark King/Level 42
- Marshall Lytle/Bill Haley & the Comets - Matt
Freeman/Rancid -
Melvin Davis -
Me'Shell
NdegéOcello - Michael Lepond/Symphony X -
Michael Manring/Attention Deficit -
Mick Karn -
Mike Gordon/Phish - Mike Rutherford/Genesis -
Mike Watt/Minutemen - Milt "The Judge" Hinton -
Miroslav Vitous -
William "Monk" Montgomery -
Nathan
East/Eric Clapton - Nathan Watts/Stevie
Wonder - Neils-Henning
Orsted Pedersen - Oscar Pettiford -
Oteil
Burbridge/Allman Brothers - Palle Danielsson -
Paul Chambers - Paul Jackson/Herbie
Hancock & the Headhunters -
Paul
McCartney/Beatles - Pekka Pohjola - Percy Heath
- Phil Chen/Faces/Rod Stewart -
Phil Lesh/Grateful Dead
- Phil Lynott/Thin Lizzy -
Pino Palladino -
Randy Coven/Steve Vai - Ray Brown - Ray Pohlman
- Red Callender - Red Mitchell -
Reggie
Workman - Rex Brown/Pantera -
Richard Bona
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Richard Davis - Robert "Kool" Bell/Kool &
the Gang
- Robert Trujillo/Suicidal Tendencies/Metallica -
Rocco Prestia/Tower
Of Power -
Roger Glover/Deep Purple -
Ron Carter
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Ronnie Wood/Faces/Jeff Beck/Rolling
Stones - Ronnie Baker/MFSB -
Rufus Reid - Ryan Martinie/Mudvayne - Scott
Ambush/Spyro
Gyra -
Scott LaFaro - Slam Stewart -
Stanley Clarke -
Steve Bailey - Steve Harris/Iron Maiden -
Steve
Hunter -
Steve Rodby - Steve Swallow -
Stuart Hamm/Joe Satriani -
T M Stevens - Thomas
Miller/Symphony X -
Tim Bogert/Vanilla Fudge -
Tim Commerford/RATM/Audioslave -
Timothy B Schmit/Eagles
- Tom Hamilton/Aerosmith -
Tom Kennedy -
Tommy Cogbill -
Tony Levin/King Crimson -
Trey
Gunn/King Crimson -
Verdine White/Earth, Wind & Fire -
Victor Wooten - Walter Booker - Walter
Page -
Will Lee - William Parker -
Willie Dixon - Willie Weeks |
