Supplemental

Guide

“BASS GUITAR SECRETS!” – SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDE

49 Template Type Fills/Licks

49 Template
Fills & Licks
 BASS GUITAR SECRETS! – HOM E STUDY COURSE

Supplemental Guide – 49 Fills & Licks

 2005 Alex Sampson / Bass Guitar Tips

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49 Template-Type,
1
No-Fail Fills and Licks

Ok the following short report is an additional supplement to the “Bass

Guitar Secrets!” Home Study Course Volume 2…

Inside I’ll provide you with 49 easy to use, no-fail fills and licks you can use
to instantly add flare to any song and join most any type of chords expertly...
Most all the riffs here are based on the 7 options we discussed in the course.

…And while they are not meant just to be copied verbatim... They are
and should serve as idea jumper cables, so I encourage you to;

1) Make them your own by changing stuff around… Joining

more than one of them back to back, adding vibratos and other
articulations you learnt about in the course… Change the tempos, the
phrasings etc. to play them faster or slower.

A great way to do this is to listen to a riff once, start up your backing

music and sing back the lick from memory to fit the song. When you
can sing it, you can play it.

2) Emphasize different degrees than I do by starting and ending on

different degrees within the chord. You don’t always have to start
and end on the root.

3) Practice moving them around to different keys…

4) Play them a maximum of five times and try to replicate them on

your fretboard from memory in different octaves…
5) N.B. Sound files are provided for 30 of the 49 licks… This way
you have some homework to put YOUR OWN voice to the
remaining 19 licks.

That said, let’s get right into the riffs.

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# Chord Lick

1 D Min

2 C Maj

3 A Min

4 A7

5 D Maj7

6 G7

D Maj6/
7
B Min

8 A Maj

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9 F# Min

10 A Min

11 A Maj

12 G7

13 G Min

14 G7

15 C Maj7

16 G7

17 A Min

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18 A Min

19 C Min

20 C7

21 G7

22 A7

23 E Min

24 C Min

25 A7

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26 C Min7

27 Bb Maj

28 A Min

29 C Min

30 Eb Maj

31 A Min7

32 C Min

33 G Maj

34 B Maj
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35 F Min

36 Bb Maj

37 Bb Maj

38 C Maj

39 A Min

40 Bb Maj

41 E Min

42 F# Dim

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43 E Maj

44 D
(Any Chord)

45 G Min7

F Min
46
F Dom 7

B Min7
47
B Min9

48 A7

49 C#9sus4

50 A7
Just thought I’d throw in one extra. ☺

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1 Minute Summary: Make it a part of your practice
time to learn just one riff a day. But when doing so
examine them carefully, look at how they relate to
the chord you’re playing, what degrees they
emphasize, start and end on… Learn to play them in
more than one form… In different keys and octaves…
at different tempos using different phrasings etc.
And most of all personalize them to fit your own
style.

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