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Great Bass Lessons!
Learn to Play Bass
  • Complete comprehensive bass guitar lessons curriculums from Beginner to Intermediate Bass
  • Over 2000 bass, guitar and keyboard lessons featuring more than 16,000 3-5 minute guitar videos
  • Exercises, notation and tab
  • Pop songs
  • From the founders of National Guitar Workshop and DayJams

Here is what you can expect from WorkshopLive’s bass lessons:

WorkshopLive combines a growing list of over
16,000 extraordinary videos, superb audio and helpful graphics to give you the most effective music instruction available. You will feel as if our award-winning instructors are sitting right in the same room with you, helping you every step of the way, making your bass lessons easy to follow and digest.

You have the flexibility to customize your bass lesson experience in many ways.

Customize your experience:

  • Animate the fretboard with note names, fingerings or scale degrees
  • Slow down the tempo without changing
    the pitch
  • Display animated bass tab or standard notation
  • Loop the exercise playback to master each technique
  • Print out your lessons to practice offline
Bass Lessons Video View

Bass Lessons Player View
Bass Teachers

Professional Bass Teachers:

Meet our professional music teachers. Each teacher has a personal page with a summary of lessons, video greeting, samples of their music and a detailed biography.


Meet some of our excellent bass teachers: Alfredo Grado, Chris Kuffner, Dave Overthrow, Sharon Ray, Matt Scharfglass, and Tracy Walton.


The best part about taking bass lessons on WorkshopLive is that you can take lessons from all these great teachers. Change teachers and styles anytime you are in the mood. Try out new bass lessons anytime.

Bass Lessons:

WorkshopLive’s Bass Lessons feature several great teachers that specialize in many different styles of music. We feature bass lessons and courses such as Absolute Beginner Bass Lessons and Rock Bass Lessons.


For the beginner, our bass teachers will explain everything you need to know to get started. Our bass lessons begin with advice on buying a bass and an amplifier to demonstrations on how to play with your left and right hands, to simple grooves. Our beginner lessons for bass will give you a solid foundation in understanding and hearing scale degrees, major and minor triads, the pentatonic scale, and different bass techniques, including playing with a pick and slide technique. These skills will be applied to playing Blues, Shuffle and Swing Eighths.

Bass Lessons and Courses

Customer Testimonials about WorkshopLive’s Bass Lessons:

Here is what one of our subscribers recently had to say about WorkshopLive’s bass lessons:

"I am 40 years old and recently took up the bass. I have learned more from WorkshopLive than I did from the guy who ‘taught’ me how to play.....
Now I can jam with the guys and actually know what I'm doing. The lessons are great. I guess you CAN teach an old dog new tricks."

      Lance L
      Casper, Wyoming

Check out what hundreds of other customers have to say about our lessons on our customer testimonial page.

Music Industry Leaders:

D’Addario, Roland, and Fender have all partnered with WorkshopLive, recognizing WorkshopLive as a leader in providing quality online bass lessons.

To learn more, watch our lesson previews or try an interactive sample lesson.


Are you ready to become a better player? Sign up for one of WorkshopLive's subscriptions and for as low as $29.95 a month you get complete access to all WorkshopLive's lessons on all instruments. A yearly subscription is just $4 a week!


Discover the WorkshopLive community and make the most of your learning experience: Use our Lesson Catalog, practice with the Cool Tools, read articles including reviews, how-to’s, tips, musician profiles, and more music-related content. Ask questions and join a discussion in the WorkshopLive Forum, or go to our blog "The Practice Room" and learn about trends in the music business, notable record releases, cool gear; you name it.