All 210 weekly bass lessons from In the Shed 2020-2025
Get all 210 weekly video lessons from IN THE SHED which were recorded between 2020-2025.
The 'In the Shed' membership is changing for 2025 and moving over to Patreon, so I am selling all 210 weekly lessons which were a part of the ITS membership. These were weekly jazz bass lessons and observations, on topics that came up with my private students and also material that I was working on at the time. They range from about 3 min to 20 min long. Once purchased, the videos will be available in your Gumroad library to stream at any time.
I've sorted the videos into 10 categories - SOUND • WALKING BASS • TIME KEEPING/POCKET • HARMONY CONCEPT/PHILOSOPHY/PRACTICE • RHYTHM/ODD TIME • INTONATION • TUNES • SOLO/IMPROVISATION • EAR TRAINING
• SOUND
Lesson 48 - Consistency with Sound
Lesson 51 - Left Hand for Sound
Lesson 75 - Love your Sound
Lesson 150 - Right Hand Ray Pizz
• WALKING BASS
Lesson 22 - Walking/Dorian
Lesson 40 - Flubadadums
Lesson 43 - F Blues (Bass challenge)
Lesson 46 - Superfluous skip notes
Lesson 49 - Creating interesting bass lines through chords
Lesson 57 - Skip note fingering
Lesson 62 - Note length 2 feel
Lesson 63 - Left hand pull offs
Lesson 70 - Walking on sus chords
Lesson 77 - Using walking bass to visualize the neck on electric
Lesson 79 - Walking Bass don't hammer on slur
Lesson 83 - Walking bass don'ts No. 2 - 3rd to root
Lesson 84 - Anticipations on slow walking
Lesson 92 - Walking bass don'ts No. 3 - too much dynamics
Lesson 118 - Walking in odd bar phrases
Lesson 140 - Diminished walking exercises on minor progressions
Lesson 153 - Walking the diminished on the 1 chord
Lesson 186 - My common blues changes
• TIME KEEPING/POCKET
Lesson 1 - Up tempo
Lesson 4 - Pocket (Waynes)
Lesson 17 - Swing on e. bass
Lesson 18 - Playing without drums
Lesson 23 - Drummers with bad time
Lesson 30 - Ballads that slow down
Lesson 35 - Drum genius/swing
Lesson 42 - Upbeats to center our groove
Lesson 53 - The 1 in funk
Lesson 58 - Electric open string exercise
Lesson 71 - Note length
Lesson 80 - Ahead, behind and on the beat
Lesson 86 - Very useful tempo exercise
Lesson 102 - Accenting when alternating fingers
Lesson 105 - Swinging with Afro-Cuban grooves
Lesson 122 - Broken/Modern feel solutions
Lesson 130 - Playing rests
Lesson 134 - Playing with Intent
Lesson 136 - Triplety tumbao feel
Lesson 147 - Leaving out the downbeat
Lesson 149 - Elvin Jones Mozambique groove
Lesson 154 - Give it up or turn it a loose (James Brown bass line)
Lesson 155 - Ari Hoenig group pulse exercise
Lesson 157 - Offbeats are the key to grounding your pulse
Lesson 163 - Playing into an accent
Lesson 167 - Simple but very hard quarter note exercise
Lesson 172 - Bad habit muting on double bass
Lesson 178 - Transitions between sections
Lesson 182 - Right hand playing space/metronome on 1 & 3
Lesson 189 - Playing funk on upright
Lesson 200 - Counting through drum solos
Lesson 208 - Playing duo and without drums
• HARMONY
Lesson 2 - Melodic Minor
Lesson 37 - Triads on the diminished
Lesson 41 - Augmented axis triads
Lesson 45 - Harmonic minor triads
Lesson 64 - Diminished chords
Lesson 74 - Major triads/slash chords
Lesson 89 - Harmonic minor modes
Lesson 107 - Dim and maj#9 resolutions on the 1
Lesson 142 - Favorite cadences
Lesson 146 - Scales
Lesson 159 - Melodic minor voice leading through minor 2-5
Lesson 161 - 1st inversion on slash chords
Lesson 177 - Triads on the V chord
Lesson 188 - Hearing and understanding diatonic pop chords
Lesson 206 - Upper structure triads on dominant chords
• CONCEPT/PHILOSOPHY/PRACTICE
Lesson 21 - Attention to details
Lesson 29 - Upright set up and posture
Lesson 32 - Listening in the moment
Lesson 33 - Pedal board
Lesson 47 - Preparing for a pop gig
Lesson 52 - Structuring practice
Lesson 56 - Keeping it simple
Lesson 59 - Wisdom from Ziv Ravitz and Lage Lund
Lesson 60 - Thoughts on composition
Lesson 65 - Practice/routine
Lesson 67 - What I'm always practicing
Lesson 72 - Excessive movement
Lesson 90 - Psychological awareness in the moment
Lesson 100 - Holiday chops
Lesson 106 - Curating a set/album
Lesson 111 - Pre-gig set up
Lesson 113 - Listening 2.0
Lesson 114 - Too much pre-arranging when playing tunes
Lesson 115 - Flow
Lesson 116 - Simandl is my Bible
Lesson 135 - Thoughts on Practicing
Lesson 152 - Getting back on the practice horse
Lesson 156 - Metaphors for notes
Lesson 160 - Thoughts on interaction
Lesson 162 - Bad habits when you're not playing seriously
Lesson 164 - What I'm practicing on electric
Lesson 170 - The Jazz Bass -Theist explained
Lesson 176 - Practice, play, perform pieces of music
Lesson 179 - Ways to get off your phone
Lesson 180 - How you perceive time
Lesson 181 - Vocalizing what you play
Lesson 190 - Recording in the studio advice
Lesson 192 - Play the composition on its own
Lesson 204 - Latest thoughts on practicing
Lesson 207 - Impulsive vs Rational
• RHYTHM/ODD TIME
Lesson 3 - 5 & 7 modulation within a bar
Lesson 8 - Rhythms over the barline
Lesson 12 - Triplet exercise
Lesson 19 - Upbeat/offbeat quarter note triplets
Lesson 25 - 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 time feel
Lesson 36 - Metric modulation
Lesson 50 - Dotted 16th rhythmic independance exercise
Lesson 61 - Internalizing difficult rhythms
Lesson 85 - Using common claves to metric modulate
Lesson 87 - Hard rhythm processing
Lesson 88 - Half-notes to other rhythms
Lesson 91 - Triplets in groups of 4
Lesson 98 - Practicing 9/8, 9/4
Lesson 99 - 7/8, 7/4 practicing
Lesson 110 - Singing/clapping half notes in odd time
Lesson 123 - Working out 5 over 4
Lesson 124 - How to get 5 over 3 easily
Lesson 125 - The beauty of 9
Lesson 126 - Practical/musical practice from 4 to 5 to 4 modulations
Lesson 127 - Getting to 7 from 3 using the 2,2,3
Lesson 128 - Walking 7 over 4 on a blues
Lesson 129 - Moving clave's in 5/4
Lesson 138 - 21/8
Lesson 139 - 4 over 3 (slow)
Lesson 141 - Useful triplet independence exercise
Lesson 144 - Offbeat triplet exercise w the metronome on 3/4
Lesson 145 - Rhythms with Shai Maestro on the road
Lesson 165 - Slow triplets with double time feel
Lesson 166 - Offbeat 16th note exercise/reverse partito alto
Lesson 171 - Bass line accents on bebop heads
Lesson 174 - Beat emphasis practice
Lesson 184 - Scales with different subdivisions
Lesson 185 - 8th note triplet to waltz 3/4
Lesson 187 - How I practice 3:5 on the bass
Lesson 196 - Clapping accents of triplets
Lesson 197 - All triplets diagram
Lesson 198 - Polyrhythm 8:3
Lesson 199 - Playing tunes in a big 3
• INTONATION
Lesson 11 - Intonation
Lesson 76 - Shifting
Lesson 93 - Intonation fixes
Lesson 104 - More intonation exercises
Lesson 193 - Ab minor intonation exercise
Lesson 209 - Double-stop Hymn (and pdf)
• TUNES
Lesson 5 - Countdown
Lesson 6 - Takling an Ari Hoenig tune
Lesson 14 - Rhythm changes
Lesson 15 - Turnarounds
Lesson 16 - Sean Wayland's Arc is Enough
Lesson 27 - All the things/Functional harmony
Lesson 34 - Brazilian music
Lesson 66 - Walking on the Sorcerer
Lesson 68 - It's Alright with Me bridge
Lesson 69 - You so something to me bridge
Lesson 82 - Very Early ears
Lesson 96 - Diminished discrepancy on It's Alright with Me
Lesson 108 - Walking on Toy Tune
Lesson 109 - Cachao bass line with clave
Lesson 117 - Peace
Lesson 119 - Practicing a difficult passage on 317 East 32nd st
Lesson 133 - Tumbao
Lesson 137 - Walking on Well You Needn't
Lesson 143 - Spots of Time
Lesson 148 - Equinox
Lesson 158 - Stablemates melody and chords
Lesson 191 - 2nd line jazz tunes and bass lines
Lesson 194 - Miyako
Lesson 195 - E.bass on Spots groove and changes
Lesson 201 - Windows
Lesson 202 - Nardis
Lesson 203 - You Know I Care
Lesson 205 - Tricotism/Humpty Dumpty
Lesson 210 - Hindsight
• SOLO/IMPROVISATION
Lesson 7 - Creativity with the notes you have
Lesson 9 - Metronomics exercise
Lesson 10 - Bass intros/outros
Lesson 13 - Visualizing the neck
Lesson 20 - 8th note feel
Lesson 24 - Meaningless 8th notes
Lesson 26 - Creating from nothing
Lesson 28 - Stumbling across a bass line
Lesson 31 - Playing the rhythm of a melody
Lesson 38 - Solo on uptempo swing
Lesson 44 - Chops/speed
Lesson 54 - Bass solos on funk
Lesson 55 - 8th note articulation
Lesson 73 - Miroslav Vitous/Ben Street exercise
Lesson 78 - Space solo
Lesson 81 - Soloing on ballads
Lesson 95 - Exploring new cadences
Lesson 97 - Herbie Hancock on practicing playing fast
Lesson 101 - Deconstructing chord sequences
Lesson 103 - Finding the right pace and flow in a ballad
Lesson 112 - Arpeggios in solos
Lesson 121 - Early/late cadences
Lesson 131 - Right hand chops e. bass exercise
Lesson 132 - Cherokee chops exercise
Lesson 151 - Voice leading in the melody
Lesson 173 - Pentatonic/blues licks
Lesson 175 - Arpeggios on Blues for Alice
Lesson 183 - The expression of one note/phrase
• EAR TRAINING
Lesson 39 - Ear training
Lesson 94 - Deciphering chords from bass lines
Lesson 120 - Learning by ear in rehearsals
Lesson 168 - Doug Weiss/Gary Peacock/Ornette Coleman pitch/tone exercise
Lesson 169 - Doug Weiss pitch exercise applied to the melodic minor