It's time to take center stage to deliver all the pyrotechnics usually associated with six-string guitar shredders! Shredding Bass Guitar takes you there through in-depth lessons on building technique, dexterity, and speed. It shows you how to shred using chords, arpeggios, and scales, and covers heavy metal and funk techniques like tapping, string skipping, and slap and pop. Lessons and examples are in the styles of bass masters Billy Sheehan, Les Claypool, Steve Harris, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, and others. Shredding Bass Guitar provides a fresh perspective on the four-string electric bass and is a must-have for any bassist looking to take their playing to a new level. The accompanying CD features all the examples from the book. Features * In-depth lessons for developing technique, dexterity, and speed * For pick-style and fingerstyle players * Covers techniques like string skipping, tapping, two-handed tapping, wide-interval skipping, slap and pop, double thumbing, double popping, and more About the Author David Overthrow is an author, educator, and virtuoso bassist. After attending Berklee College of Music, he began performing with a wide variety of artists throughout the U.S. and Europe, playing rock, funk, jazz, and R and B. David is Director of Music at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He has written for Bass Guitar magazine, authored numerous electric bass methods, and taught three instructional videos for Alfred Music. David has performed with such luminaries as Pat Metheny, Stanley Clarke, Mike Stern, Trey Anastasio, Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, and Sonny Landreth. / Guitare Basse

Ideal for intermediate bass guitar players, the book covers several styles of bass playing with example music in both the book and on the provided audio CD. Written as a practice aid for the improvisation part of the LCM Bass Guitar exam, the sections are expertly designed to progress at the perfect pace for the intermediate player. The CD backing tracks are all professionally recorded and cover a wide range of styles from the last three decades. The book enables the reader to develop bassline creation skills, explaining the necessary theory along the way using tablature, notation and diagrams. Whether or not you intend to take an LCM bass exams, this book is simply the best introduction to improvising bass guitar. / Exams / Etude / Guitare Basse

Showcasing the tremendous often unrealized potential of the bass guitar Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten have put together this version of their groundbreaking Bass Extremes album/book project now available on DVD for the first time ever. Steve and Victor demonstrate how the bass guitar can supply bass lines piano and guitar-like comping figures lead solos and percussion parts in styles ranging from bebop to new age and heavy metal. Each piece highlights different aspects of their amazing techniques - like Steve's three-finger technique or his awe-inspiring command of harmonics and chord voicings or Victor's incredible funk grooves or his thumb and two-handedtapping techniques. Between each performance segment Steve and Victor walk you note-for-note through the licks and techniques that make up each song explaining and demonstrating everything at slow speeds.

This is part of a series of inter-related instrumental workbooks for keyboard guitar bass guitar and percussion. Planned so that concepts are carefully introduced consolidated and extended this is the second of three workbooks each containing twenty-five units. They support and complement the teacher’s resource through an innovative approach that encourages a creative attitude towards learning an instrument. Many sections contain work on improvisation and sight-reading and alternate units provide an ensemble piece arranged for all the instruments covered by this project. Each book covers the same curriculum requirements regardless of instrument however this book acts both asa classroom resource and as an introduction to the art of bass guitar technique.

Fast Track DVD is an exciting new way to quickly learn how to play that Bass Guitar you just bought.Each of the Fast Track DVDs are filmed in hi-definition and features on-screen music with tons of full-band examples. It's like having a private lesson that you can pause fast-forward or rewind any time you want. What's better is that across the series (Drums Guitar Bass Keyboard) the last three full-band songs are the same so you can play along with your fellow new instrumentalists as a band!

Bass Play-Along Volume 35-The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the online audio tracks to hear how the bass should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. Songs: Could You Be Loved ? Get Up Stand Up ? Is This Love ? Jamming ? No Woman No Cry ? Stir It Up ? Three Little Birds ? Waiting in Vain. Pick up the corresponding Guitar and Drum Play-Along volumes so your whole band can jam along!

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 Language of Music and How to Speak It-Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime game-changing bassist in the early- 90s via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Launching his solo career a few years later with A Show of Hands it soon became apparent that Wooten was also a major musical force thanks to an organic and highly original approach to music and music education. In this book/online video package Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor reveals his musical soul. In Part 1 he outlines his ten essential elements of music including such important and under-emphasized areas as emotion and feel dynamics tone phrasing space and listening. This section deals more with Victor s concepts and approaches and are more theoretical in nature. In Part 2 Victor addresses the personal lessons using text notation tablature and video footage to cover such key topics as warming up and hand-strengthening tone harmonics thumb technique tapping looping and soloing. This section is a more how to approach with hands-on demonstrations. Throughout Victor underscores this vital material with a groove first ethic as well an accent on being musical and creative three mandatory ingredients to becoming a highly-sought-after professional bassist. All of which makes Victor Wooten Bass Workshop a must-have tool for bass players at all levels. Includes online 4 hrs. of video that can be streamed or downloaded.

Demystify the Fretboard and Reveal Your Full Bass Potential!-Finally a music theory book designed for bass players of all levels! With this comprehensive workbook you'll expand your fretboard knowledge and gain the freedom and confidence needed to tackle any musical challenge.Rather than overwhelm the reader with lots of complex theory that may be useful for jazz guitarists or keyboard players this book and audio pack focuses on the elements that are essential for the bass player throughout like how to write bass lines lay down a solid foundation and improvise.Features hundreds of examples to study and practice including loads of ?real world? bass lines and play-along audio tracks tojam to! Includes over 200 demonstration and play-along audio tracks and three bass fretboard theory video lessons online for download or streaming.

Extreme bass player Bryan Beller (Steve Vai, Dethklok, Mike Keneally, Dweezil Zappa) explores how he combines tone, technique, and artistry to play some of the most demanding music in the industry. Nearly two hours of live performances include fellow musicians Mike Keneally, Joe Travers, Kira Small, and others, PLUS a breakdown of drums and bass for three Dethklok songs with special guest drummer Gene Hoglan that no Dethklok fan will want to miss! Other titles include Bryan's 'Seven Percent Grade' and 'Love Terror Adrenaline,' Keneally's ''Cause of Breakfast,' Steve Vai's 'Freak Show Excess,' and more. Special features include PDFs of all bass transcribed exactly as Bryan performs it in the video. Learn to master your mind and achieve your signature tone no matter what type of music you're called upon to play! Total DVD run time: 3 hrs, 40 min. / Guitare Basse

Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime, game-changing bassist in the early- 90s, via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck