Bass
Choose your bass type — chords, scales, and progressions for every string configuration.
4-String Bass
Standard EADG tuning. The classic bass guitar — chords, scales, and fretboard diagrams.
5-String Bass
BEADG tuning with extended low range. Chords and scales using the full 5-string fretboard.
6-String Bass
BEADGC tuning with both extended low and high range. Full 6-string bass coverage.
Brand new to bass? Start the Beginner Bass Path
The free Beginner Bass Path takes you from zero to playing real songs in ten ordered steps — the parts of the bass, tuning, fingerstyle plucking, locking in with the drums, roots and fifths, and your first walking lines. Each step links straight to its lesson, and you can mark steps complete to track your progress.
Start with tuning and string count
Four-string bass is the default EADG map for most rock, funk, pop, and jazz parts. Five-string bass adds a low B for modern worship, metal, and low-register session work. Six-string bass adds a high C for chord melody, solo lines, and extended harmony.
Open bass scales for position practice, use bass exercises for right- and left-hand drills, or compare bass gear basics when string count, scale length, pickups, and strings are part of the decision.
Practice tools for bass
Free in-browser practice tools tuned to this instrument: the bass tuner with reference tones and microphone pitch detection, a metronome with a speed trainer for locking in time, the bass line generator for walking lines in any style, and the bass solo builder. Learn the neck with the fretboard note trainer, quiz your ears with the ear trainer, and build full backing lines with the song builder. Browse all practice tools.
Then lock it in with the guided bass practice routines — timed root-and-arpeggio drills with daily streaks and badges.