Learn to play bass and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about buying a bass guitar, tuning and holding it, fingering and picking styles, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation and tablature. You will then move right along to playing different notes, scales, and bass lines, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and TAB. You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including rock, Heavy Metal, Blues, country, and jazz. Near the end of the book you will be introduced to the concept of playing from chord sheets, which will assist you in coloring your and others' musical creations with your own unique, rockin' style. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play from popular bass TAB folios and be ready to play in a band. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * TAB licks and bass lines * Bass fingerboard chart * Complete chord chart * Photos showing hand positions and more The accompanying DVD features educator Jared Meeker teaching every lesson and performing all the songs. The DVD also includes TNT 2 software that lets you customize audio tracks for practice. Use it to slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys. You may also stream the video and download the TNT 2 software from a browser. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way. / Guitare Basse

Led Zeppelin III was recorded in 1970 and is said to be a breakthrough album due to the collaboration of all band members, who contributed their unique talent and ideas to write these songs. In addition, the album introduced an element of acoustic and folk rock sound to their already established rock-and-roll reputation. When first introduced, nearly one million advance orders were placed, and the album spent a total of four weeks at the top of the Billboard chart. All songs in the book come complete with authentic bass TAB. Immigrant Song; Friends; Celebration Day; Since I've Been Loving You; Out On The Tiles; Gallows Pole; Tangerine; That's The Way; Bron-Y-Aur Stomp; Hats Off To (Roy) Harper.

Tapping is a technique that involves playing notes with both hands directly on the neck of the Bass Guitar. It was popularised by virtuosos such as Adam Nitti, Stuart Hamm, Victor Wooten and Billy Sheehan, but has become more and more popular with amateur players for the unique and futuristic sounds it can produce. With Tapping A La Basse, you can learn everything necessary to master this cool technique.In four chapters, this method will help you learn how to make strange and wonderful sounds with two-handed tapping. The first chapter details linear tapping, the second will teach you how to create great riffs and licks with tapped arpeggios, the third lets you combine tapping and chords, while the fourth and final chapter will reveal polyphonic tapping. While some technical exercises are revealed, this method is primarily based on practising, ensuring that you master all the techniques through playing them. The accompanying DVD is a great help in letting you hear and visualise how the tapping should sound and be played. Two different speeds enable you to see how it's done at normal speed, then slowed down so you can play along and gradually get to grips with the style. With technical and musical examples within this method, you will gain all the details needed to grasp Bass Guitar tapping! / Guitare Basse

Dean Peer is an internationally acclaimed solo bass artist and is widely recognized as the autority on the use of bass harmonics. In this book Dean reveals his revolutionary techniques for expanding the range of the bass guitar using harmonics. Dean begins with basic techniques then shows you how to create fabulous linear lines and chord voicings using his remarkable techniques for false and dual node harmonics. All music is written in standard notation and tablature and all the examples are contained on the included CD.

Questo metodo presenta 50 linee di basso Rock nello stile dei più grandi gruppi di ieri e di oggi: AC/DC The Police The Who Weezer Guns ?n? Roses Foo Fighters Rolling Stones Red Hot Chili Peppers Led Zeppelin Soundgarden Aerosmith ecc. Queste linee - oltre al piacere di suonarle - vi permetteranno di scoprire e di lavorare su tutte le tecniche proprie del basso Rock: l?esecuzione lineare in ottavi gli slides le legature ascendenti e discendenti l?uso delle corde a vuoto i salti di corda i bends la precisione ritmica l?energia? Il DVD Video permette di ascoltare e soprattutto visualizzare le 50 linee di basso avelocità normale poi ridotta dandovi in questo modo la possibilità di effettuare i gesti giusti scegliere le diteggiature adatte nonché suonare a tempo! Il CD mp3 invece è composto da tante basi musicali quante linee di basso ossia 50 playalongs suonati a due velocità diverse: la prima è quella normale cioè la velocità da raggiungere mentre la seconda è ridotta per aiutarvi nello studio. Sappiate che sulla base musicale a velocità normale il basso è presente all'inizio per poi sparire e darvi il cambio! Inoltre questi playalongs hanno una durata volontariamente lunga (da 3 a 4 minuti ognuno ossia più di 7 ore di musica in tutto!) per darvi il tempo di esercitarvi nelle migliori condizioni possibili.