These parts are great for learning how to go beyond the root note with style and taste and understand the note choices great bass players use to build a bass part.

Once you’ve learned the part we build each play-through section into full-length bass part, together with the backing track that you can play from beginning to end.

The difficulty level is highlighted within each lesson and broadly goes from Beginner-Plus to Intermediate-Plus. This means you’ll be able to play each part if you follow the lesson closely but will have much more understanding of the notes, scales and techniques behind the part if you’ve worked through the Musicademy Beginner and Intermediate Bass courses.

Each of our Song Based Lessons comes with a free No Lyric Chord Chart to help you while you learn the song.

If you would prefer you can also purchase the full version of the EveryKey Chord Chart.

The missing link between chord charts and lead sheets, all for non music readers!

• 12 PDF chord charts per song, one for every key (+ a Nashville Numbers chart)
• Chords and lyrics arranged across 4 bar sections, under beat counts
• Clear, easy-to-follow segmented song sections
• A suggested song structure (Int, V1, Ch 1, V2, Bridge etc)
• Structure precisely mirrors Worship Backing Band’s MultiTracks
• Strumming pattern and 5 capo charts (G E D C A shapes) for guitarists
• Web link to easy-to-play guitar chord diagrams for all open capo keys (G E D C A)

(Due to licensing restrictions we are not permitted to provide full lyric chord charts free-of-charge.)

We will be adding a new Electric, Acoustic or Bass Guitar Song Based Lesson each week for the foreseeable future.

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A series of 20-30 minute bass guitar lessons teaching you an exclusive new bass part to a well known worship song. Bass tutor, Matt Weeks guides you through the song in a step by step manner and is joined at the end of the lesson by guitarist Andy Chamberlain so you can put all your worship bass instruction together in a play through of the song.

And of course once you’ve learnt the licks, tricks and techniques to that song you can then apply the techniques to other worship songs too.

Do also check out the Worship Bass Collection for more song based lessons on bass.

A very simple chord chart is provided for each song (we are not allowed to provide more complex charts free of charge due to licensing restrictions). If you would like to purchase a more complex chart, including lyrics and more please go to http://www.worshipbackingband.com/uk/index.php/chord-charts where we have a wide selection.

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Improve your licks, tricks and chops by learning pro session bass parts to 20 worship songs. Presented by Matt Weeks, who teaches you how a session player approaches a song whilst remaining creative and tasteful.

20 bass guitar lessons teaching you how a session player approaches a song whilst remaining creative and tasteful. Learn Matt Weeks’ session bass parts and radically enlarge your vocabulary of bass licks, tricks and chops.

Each lesson lasts an average of 25 minutes and breaks down every technique into bite sized portions, all played through slowly and then built back up to speed again. Finally every lesson goes through a full song play through at the end so you can master every note at full speed. For 4 and 5 string basses.

Who is it for?

Existing bass players who want to improve their playing in the context of learning worship songs. These are not beginners lessons. Some sit between Beginners and Intermediate in terms of difficulty, others move towards the Advanced level. But even if you can’t manage all the techniques in a lesson, there will be plenty of other learning for you.

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A step-by-step worship bass course that will teach total beginners the fundamental skills to become a competent bass player. Lessons use use both a detailed technique based curriculum and worship songs plus plenty of exercises, play alongs and backing tracks for practice

You’ll learn how to:

• Play open, fretted, long and short notes and develop left and right hand technique
• Create different grooves in time with the kick drum
• Play worship songs in different keys using major and minor scales
• Discover intervals, Nashville numbering and transposing
• Use arpeggios, octaves, passing notes and harmony lines
• Learn and play along to Blessed Be Your Name, Here I am to Worship, Hosanna, Everlasting God and Beautiful One

Plus gear guide, practice tracks and tips from some of the world’s best known worship leaders and bassists including Chris Tomlin’s bass player Jesse Reeves.

This course covers a years’ worth of worship focused lessons

Who is it for?

Suitable for complete beginners and guitarists transferring to bass.

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Improve your playing skills and ability to produce creative tasteful bass lines. You will learn how to:

• Develop your timing, skills and learn a range of new grooves
• Play in different styles using slap, string skipping, damping, and chromatic runs, pedalling and harmonics
• Develop your music theory knowledge of intervals, major, minor and chromatic scales
• Learn about chord construction, substitutions and inversions
• Play by ear, indifferent keys using Nashville numbering
• Develop your positional playing and left and right hand technique
• Use 10ths and arpeggios for creating melodic bass lines
• Create fills and licks using pentatonic scale shapes
• Develop 16th note playing and sub division awareness
• Improve your communication, dynamics and learn three steps to shaping a bass line

Designed for existing bass players who want to broaden their skills. Do also check out the Bass Song Learner lessons and Worship Bass Collection for further song-based instruction.

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By following this course you will learn:

• A whole range of pro standard usable bass licks you can add to your library
• Ghost notes and damping techniques
• 16th note groove ideas
• Positional playing and where to make full use of the fretboard
• Tasteful melodic lines and fills based on scalic ideas
• Where to use chromatic gospel lines.
• Ideas for using passing notes, arpeggios and pedalling in context

All techniques taught for use on both 4 and 5 string basses.

Bass parts created and taught by top session musician Matt Weeks, whose credits include Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Chris Tomlin, Brian Doerksen, Paul Baloche, Graham Kendrick, Vineyard Music and many others.

Who is it for?

The parts are taught in a copy, learn and play along style so many ability levels can learn the bass parts. But players will get the most use from Advanced Bass if they first have a solid understanding of the full fretboard, keys, scales and arpeggios and chord construction – all outlined in the Musicademy Intermediate Bass Course.

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