Dan Hawkins | Improvising is easier with patterns. Here's a root, 5, major 6th set of notes that works over major chords. | Instagram

Dan Hawkins | Here's a little exercise using modes over an E major 7 to E minor 7 chord progression and how to turn those notes into something a little... | Instagram

NEW LESSON: learn how to improvise chord progressions and bass lines using 7th chords (and pentatonic and the humble root note). Complete lesson including chord shape PDF: https://buff.ly/Tu8VkhX | Dan Hawkins - Online Bass Courses

Learn this bass technique for chords. | Dan Hawkins - Online Bass Courses

This is a useful pattern for killer bass fills. Full lesson: https://buff.ly/NZKdYqT | Dan Hawkins - Online Bass Courses

Loads of songs are built on diatonic harmony (chords from a major or minor key). Knowing these chords and arpeggios is useful for writing bass lines and for figuring them out by ear. Learn them well... Full lesson: https://buff.ly/zTDTGMW | Dan Hawkins - Online Bass Courses

Learn a great jazz fusion bass riff: Cantaloupe Island – Herbie Hancock. Full lesson - 5 Jazz Standards Every Bassist Needs to Know: https://buff.ly/5csuclo | Dan Hawkins - Online Bass Courses

The Dorian mode is excellent for making up funk bass lines and is used a lot in jazz (especially over the ii chord in a ii-V-I chord progression). Here are two simple one-octave patterns to learn. | Dan Hawkins - Online Bass Courses