Beginner foundations

Bass Guide

Lock the groove before you lock the notes.

The bass lane teaches the four-string foundation: posture, plucking-hand evenness, root-note grooves, and time. Single-note tab + monophonic mic feedback today; richer fingering work comes later.

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Setup And Plucking-Hand Evenness

Bass is rhythm before melody — start there.

  • Anchor the thumb on the pickup or the next-lower string. Stay relaxed.
  • Alternate index + middle fingers for even attack.
  • Practice a single string at a steady eighth-note pulse before changing strings.

Read Bass Tabs

Same idea as guitar tabs but only four strings.

  • Top line is the high G string; bottom is the low E.
  • Start with E-string roots before moving across strings.
  • Walk between roots a fifth apart (E → A → D) to feel where bass sits in a band.

Recommended First Win

Time-feel first, technique second.

  • Tune the bass.
  • Play a steady eighth-note E for 30 seconds without a click slipping.
  • Use Coach Joy to flag any timing drift you can't hear yourself.

Bass Fretboard + Tab Preview

Four-string bass fretboard tuned E-A-D-G with a steady eighth-note root walk. Enable the mic and the matching frets light up as you play.

E-A-D root walk · 92 BPM
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Enable the microphone and play a clean single note to see it light up on the fretboard. The riff plays without input — the tab shows what to play and when.

Adaptive Sight-Reading

Open lab →

Eight bars at a time, 12 levels deep. Tap how it felt and the next exercise adjusts — struggle drops you a rung, nail it and you climb. Each instrument has its own ladder, so progress on one won't inflate another.