Bass Guitar Licks

Supplemental Guide

“BASS GUITAR SECRETS!” – SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDE

49 Template Type Fills/Licks

49 Template Fills & Licks

BASS GUITAR SECRETS! – HOM E STUDY COURSE

Supplemental Guide – 49 Fills & Licks

 2005 Alex Sampson / Bass Guitar Tips 14781 Memorial Drive, Suite #1067, Houston. TX. 77079 http://www.BassGuitarTips.com Phone 217.636.4248

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1 49 Template-Type, No-Fail Fills and Licks Ok the following short report is an additional supplement to the “Bass Guitar Secrets!” Home Study Course Volume 2… Inside I’ll provide you with 49 easy to use, no-fail fills and licks you can use to instantly add flare to any song and join most any type of chords expertly... Most all the riffs here are based on the 7 options we discussed in the course. …And while they are not meant just to be copied verbatim... They are and should serve as idea jumper cables, so I encourage you to; 1) Make them your own by changing stuff around… Joining more than one of them back to back, adding vibratos and other articulations you learnt about in the course… Change the tempos, the phrasings etc. to play them faster or slower. A great way to do this is to listen to a riff once, start up your backing music and sing back the lick from memory to fit the song. When you can sing it, you can play it. 2) Emphasize different degrees than I do by starting and ending on different degrees within the chord. You don’t always have to start and end on the root. 3) Practice moving them around to different keys… 4) Play them a maximum of five times and try to replicate them on your fretboard from memory in different octaves… 5) N.B. Sound files are provided for 30 of the 49 licks… This way you have some homework to put YOUR OWN voice to the remaining 19 licks. That said, let’s get right into the riffs.

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Chord Lick

1

D Min

2

C Maj

3

A Min

4

A7

5

D Maj7

6

G7

7

D Maj6/ B Min

8

A Maj

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9

F# Min

10

A Min

11

A Maj

12

G7

13

G Min

14

G7

15

C Maj7

16

G7

17

A Min Page 4

18

A Min

19

C Min

20

C7

21

G7

22

A7

23

E Min

24

C Min

25

A7

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26

C Min7

27

Bb Maj

28

A Min

29

C Min

30

Eb Maj

31

A Min7

32

C Min

33

G Maj

34

B Maj Page 6

35

F Min

36

Bb Maj

37

Bb Maj

38

C Maj

39

A Min

40

Bb Maj

41

E Min

42

F# Dim

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43

E Maj

44

D (Any Chord)

45

G Min7

46

F Min F Dom 7

47

B Min7 B Min9

48

A7

49 C#9sus4

50

A7 Just thought I’d throw in one extra. ☺

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1 Minute Summary: Make it a part of your practice time to learn just one riff a day. But when doing so examine them carefully, look at how they relate to the chord you’re playing, what degrees they emphasize, start and end on… Learn to play them in more than one form… In different keys and octaves… at different tempos using different phrasings etc. And most of all personalize them to fit your own style.

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