Piano Adventures®-Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series.Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each lesson in this Funk/R&B volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature.You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids photos and more to reinforce your learning experience plus access to online audio featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book.This volume covers a huge variety of funk and R&B bass styles techniques and concepts are covered including: the pocket; fingerstyle funk; slap & pop techniques; hammer-ons andpull-offs; staccato & tenuto; funk fills and phrasing; dynamics; funk jazz; acid jazz; James Brown Fun; Bootsy Collins style; Larry Graham style; Louis Johnson style; Flea style; and more.

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Suitable for the intermediate-advanced level bassist, this book contains 10 pieces by J. S. Bach in arrangements by Josquin Des Pres for the Bass Guitar. Johann Sebastian Bach is recognised as one of the world's greatest musicians. Known primarily as an organist and then only later recognised as a composer, Bach transformed the conventional structures of preludes and fugues. J.S. Bach For Bass will open up a whole new world of phrasing for the aspiring bassist. Selections include: Prelude #1 in C Major, Suite #1 in G Major, Suite #2 in D Minor, Suite #3 in C Major, Partita #1 in B Minor, Partita #2 in D, Partita #3 in E Major, Sonata #1 in G Minor and Sonata #3 in C Major. This book is written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio./ Répertoire / Guitare Basse

Classic Funk And R And B Grooves For Bass is an overview of stylistic examples that capture the essence of R

Jerry Jemmott a écrit le livre à la basse RandB, et il est ici ! Ce pack de livre/CD examine la philosophie personnelle de Jerry de musique et enseigne les secrets pour maîtriser la basse de blues, de soul et de funk. Comprend un CD avec de nouvelles compositions qui démontrent les techniques qu'il utilisé avec des artistes comme Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, B.B. King et Freddie King légendaires. Comprend les transcriptions de la note-pour-note, notes globales perfor-mance, une bio approfondie et photos rares. / Guitare Basse

The motto in this tutorial is 'Gained in practice for use in practice'! What awaits you here? No one- or two-bar riffs and licks but complete chord progressions performed in the style of illustrious blues guitar players such as Otis Rush B.B. King Eric Clapton Freddie King Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan or Magic Sam! The motto in this tutorial is 'Gained in practice for use in practice'! What awaits you here? No one- or two-bar riffs and licks but complete chord progressions performed in the style of illustrious blues Guitar players such as Otis Rush B.B. King Eric Clapton Freddie King Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan or Magic Sam! In the preliminary chapter of this tutorial you will first be taught how to piece basslines together in blues. This wonâ??t only allow you to comprehend the 50 basslines presented here but in a second step it will also enable you to create your own ones. For that you need to learn about structure rhythm arpeggios scales chromaticapproaches ... in sum to get to know blues by delving into it! The DVD included in the tutorial offers you the possibility to mindfully observe all 50 basslines â?? first at actual playing speed then at a slower speed. This again gives you the opportunity to closely follow the movement of the hands to choose the right fingerings and keep a steady beat(!) For its part the MP3 CD is composed of as many backing tracks as there are basslines in the tutorial; the 50 backing tracks are recorded at two different tempi: the intended tempo (actual playing speed) and the rehearsal tempo (slower speed). On the backing track at actual playing speed the bass is only present during the first round then it disappears yielding the floor to you. The backing tracks provided here are of an appropriate length (about 4 to 5 minutes each which sums up to almost 7h of musical practice). This means that you have enough time at your disposal to practice under the best conditions.

World-renowned acoustic and electric bassist/composer John Patitucci is one of the most influential jazz musicians of his generation. His amazing career includes work with a hall of fame of artists including B.B. King Bonnie Raitt Wayne Shorter Herbie Hancock Natalie Cole and his incredible association with Chick Corea spanning three decades. In 1997 John served as Master of Ceremonies at the inaugural Bass Day celebration a festival that brought together the world?s greatest bassists. In this hour-long DVD John performs Coltrane?s ?Giant Steps? and five of his original compositions on both acoustic bass and 6-string electric bass. Experience John?s masterfultechnique in solo duo trio and quartet settings. Following the performance John hosts a candid question and answer session with the audience on all topics from his own personal bass setup to composing. Special features include DVD-ROM content with the complete video formatted for computer and iPod a preview of John Patitucci Electric Bass and a preview of Billy Sheehan: Bass Day ?97.

The Bass has been called 'the most important instrument in any band.' The Bass player must create interesting lines under the chord changes keep the 'time flow' or 'pulse' steady and keep the form of the song together. Walking Jazz Lines For Bass is designed to help bassists create beginning to advanced walking patterns (smooth-sounding lines) that can be used in jazz blues R&B gospel Latin and country music. Byexplaining the basics of intervals chords and scales the author builds a framework for understanding bass line patterns. This book presents one- and two-measure patterns that can be used in playing the blues rhythmchanges the II-V-I progression and 20 popular jazz standards. Walking Jazz Lines For Bass is written in standard notation with chord symbols. The audio gives you the opportunity to play with one of thefinest rhythm sections around. It is in stereo with the bass and drums on the left and Piano and Drums on the right. Since the examples in the book are presented both with sample Bass lines and as chord progressions only you caneither follow along with the Bass or practice your own lines with the audio as your accompaniment. Access to online audio is included.

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no Bass. This gives you theopportunity to work on your blues Bass patterns. I have used several different keys and tempos throughout these Play-Along Trax. These Play-Along Trax give you a very realistic example of how you would play live with aband.Music examples are kept fairly simple to make sure this book is accessible to Bass players just above the beginning level. For best understanding of these techniques refer to Mel Bay's Blues Bass Level 1(MB21063BCD).Lastly all the references in this book are written for a right-handed four string electric Bass. If you play a 5 string Bass you just need to extend the examples to include your B string. If you playleft-handed then you need to reverse any references to the left and right hands. We will use standard music notation along with Bass tablature (TAB) for this book. Includes access to online audio.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Rock & Blues Series : Easiest Number of pages : 24 A concise, easy-to-understand bass method in notation and tablature. This text will acquaint the bass player with basic chord progressions, chord notes, walking bass patterns, and a contemporary solo in the keys of C, G, F, B, B-flat, D, D minor, A, E-flat, A minor, G minor, E, E minor, A-flat, and C minor. Also included is a handy reference section on bass chords, including major, minor, diminished, augmented and many other chords in all keys.

Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book/CD pack by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique.Liebman teaches: chromatics - scales and arpeggios - string-crossing and advanced patterns - slapping and popping - and more - all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R and B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination - not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying CD contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along. / Guitare Basse

The master of slap bass funk bass giant Larry Graham shows you an hour of intensive bass work featuring exclusive reunion performances with special guests: legendary rock/R'n'B group Sly And The Family Stone's original drummer Greg Errico and Graham Central Station's original keyboard player Robert ‘Butch’ Sam. They play several songs analyzing performances and techniques while looking back and discussing their activities in the '60s and '70s. With his lifetime musical partners Larry's funk spirit explodes on this DVD. Experience ‘real’ funk history! 62 minutes.