Includes added material and CD with selected exercises play-along tunes and demos. A complete approach to improvising arco jazz with step-by-step instructions exercises and diagrams. Transcriptions of Slam Stewart Jimmy Blanton Paul Chambers Eddie Gomez and John Goldsby. Includes compositions by and for famous bass players. Highly recommended!

A Comprehensive Guide with Detailed Instruction for Acoustic and Electric Bass-The Hal Leonard Jazz Bass Method is your complete guide to learning jazz bass. Author Matthew Rybicki guides you through the essential knowledge you need to create your own walking bass lines and improvised solos in the classic jazz style. This book with online audio access uses standard chord progressions and songs to teach you about accompanying and improvising in the style of players like Ray Brown Paul Cahmber Scott LaFaro and many others. Lessons include: walking basics; chords and scales; blues; rhythm changes; string raking; soloing; technique; chord substitution; pedal points and ostinato; standard notation plus tab for electric bass; and much more! Audio isaccessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Text: English / deutsch Completely revised and enlarged edition! Jazz Bass Compendium is one of the most comprehensive method books. 208 pages filled with information and aspects on jazz bass playing. The right hand: position, effect on sound and timing, exercises, three finger technique, drops The left hand: position, shifting positions, intonation, pizzicato technique, vibrato Coordinating both hands Bass lines: rhythm, pulse, timing, walking bass, two-beat feel, arpeggios, diatonic passing notes, leading notes, chromatic lines, scales and tetrachords, pentatonic scales, bass lines over II V progressions, harmonic clichés, pedal point, rhythmic embellishments, bass lines on standard chord progressions, straight 8ths bass lines, Latin bass lines The elements of sound Various improvisation concepts Arpeggios Studies and etudes on the chord changes to Sunny, Footprints, I Hear A Rhapsody, Solar, Confirmation Upper structure voicings Phrasing and articulation Scales and scales studies, chord-scales, breaking up scales Practice concepts, different learning fields 4 bass duets and one solo, including Georgia On My Mind, Blues 4U and More Bass Hit Sigi Busch is one of the most respected European jazz bassists/educators. He heads the jazz departement at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany.

Bass Clef Edition-Bass Clef Edition. Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Instrumentalist is a collection of original pieces by master trombonist and composer J.J. Johnson. Designed as study material and playable by any Bass Clef instrument these pieces (the harmonies of which are based on well-known standards) run the gamut of the jazz experience featuring common and uncommon time signatures and keys and styles from ballads to funk. They are progressively graded so that both beginners and professionals will be challenged by the demands of this wonderful music. Published in both treble and bass clef editions this book also includes text to guide the player as well as a biographyof Johnson.

16 funky pieces for the beginner Jazz Bass player with CD backing tracks and further listening suggestions. 2 Examples include 'Bass by the Bay' (Calypso 145 bpm - Listen to St. Thomas on Sonny Rollin's album 'Saxophone Collosus') and 'Ol' Orleans'(New Orleans Second Line feel 149 bpm - listen to Dr. John's album 'Gumbo').

Cet ouvrage propose une suite d'exercices musicaux originaux, très progressifs, destinés en premier lieu aux contrebassistes débutants. En suivant les différents chapitres de cette initiation, vous trouverez ainsi de précieux conseils sur les bases du jeu de la contrebasse Jazz, abordant tour à tour des difficultés et des enseignements dont l'évolution reste aussi efficace que progressive. L'auteur, qui est aussi accompagnateur d'orchestres de Jazz, vous livre ici son savoir, ses connaissances, de manière simple et intelligible. Il vous initie à l'art de bien poser vos notes sur l'instrument, à la lecture, à la connaissance des gammes et modes, ainsi qu'à l'interprétation jazz sous toutes ses formes (standard, ballade, 3/4, walking, anatole...). Enfin, le DVD Vidéo reprend chaque exercice pour en faciliter la compréhension, alors que le CD Audio vous propose de nombreux playbacks sur lesquels vous pourrez mettre en application les enseignements mais aussi vous exercer en toute liberté.

Le nouveau livre de Jazz Etudes est maintenant disponible. 12 Etudes de jazz, chacun d'un traitant d'un sujet spécifique. / Contrebasse

Comme son titre l'indique clairement, la vocation première de cette méthode est de vous faire pratiquer la contrebasse jazz au travers de nombreux exemples et autres morceaux complets. Cet ouvrage sera l'occasion de travailler la construction des lignes de contrebasse et plus spécifiquement les notions de notes réelles, notes de passage et autres gammes, arpèges, modes, accords enrichis, cadences et anatoles, qui vous permettront d'élaborer par la suite vos propres walkings. De nombreuses tourneries vous sont proposées dans les tonalités principales, afin de vous familiariser avec les enchaînements d'accords courants et fréquents dans le jazz. Une sorte de dictionnaire des plans de contrebasse, pratique et didactique ! Enfin, le DVD Vidéo reprend chaque exercice pour en faciliter la compréhension, alors que le CD Audio vous propose de nombreux playbacks sur lesquels vous pourrez mettre en application les enseignements mais aussi vous exercer en toute liberté. / Contrebasse