Solo Bass Masterclass with Stu Hamm
Summary
There’s something special about being able to pick up your bass and make music completely on your own—no backing track, no band, just the instrument.
In this masterclass, legendary bassist Stu Hamm teaches you how to play ‘Open Note Aria,’ an unaccompanied solo bass piece that sounds great and gives you so much to dig into as a player.
Along the way, you’ll work with major and minor arpeggios, move through different areas of the fretboard, and learn how Stu uses open strings to create smooth transitions between lower and upper positions. It’s a really useful technical approach that can help you become more comfortable and fluid across the entire neck.
Inside, you’ll learn:
- How to play Stu Hamm’s ‘Open Note Aria’ from start to finish
- Major and minor arpeggio shapes across the fretboard
- How to use open strings to move smoothly between positions
- Efficient fingerings for navigating larger stretches of the neck
- Barring techniques for building fuller arpeggio shapes
This is for bass players who want to explore solo bass while building greater technical freedom across the fretboard. Some of the fingerings will give your hands a workout, but Stu breaks the underlying techniques down step by step before you tackle the full piece.
By the end, you’ll have a really cool solo bass piece you can play completely on your own, and some useful new tools for moving around the instrument with more confidence and musicality.
