Rockschool Bass Grade 6 (2024)

Bass Grade 6 will earn you valuable UCAS points towards your university application; but first, you’ll need to consult this book to learn all five shapes of the Minor Pentatonic, advanced arpeggios and changing time signatures.

What you’ll learn at Grade 6

• Chords, Double-stop slapping, changing time signatures
• All five shapes of the Minor Pentatonic scale. Dorian and Mixolydian mode, Minor 7{b}5 and Diminished arpeggios. Dominant 7th and Minor 7th chords. Stylistic Study
• Session work

Rockschool Bass Grade 6 Hit Tunes

• Jaco Pastorius – The Chicken
• HAIM – If I Could Change Your Mind
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Parallel Universe
• Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
• Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
• Luther Vandross – Never Too Much

Rockschool Originals | Bass Grade 6

• Shadow Realm
• Delicate
• Third Quarter