Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Everything is covered here - starting with all the basics like octaves, hammer-ons and pull-offs. It then builds into the most advanced slap techniques including double and triple pops, flamenco thumb technique, and plucks. There are lessons in upright bass slap, as well as modal harmony studies. The grooves cover a wide range of styles that include jazz fusion, walking lines, fingerstyle conversion, pop/dance, funk/soul, bluegrass, Dixieland, etc. These lessons have something for almost any student - written in bass clef and tablature with CD. / Niveau : Débutant / Rock - Methods / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

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 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

(Downes Mike)-This is a comprehensive approach to the construction of improvised bass lines. Intended for beginners and professionals alike the book deals with playing in '2' creating walking bass lines 3/4 time using a 'broken feel' modal and slash-chord harmony ballads and much more. Each chapter is full of fundamental and advanced concepts and ideas accompanied by transcribed examples from the masters of jazz bass playing. Mike Downes is currently the head of the bass departement at prestigious Humber College in Toronto. He is much in demand as a clinician and he continues to be one of the most sought after bassists in Canada.

Par SNIDERO JIM. Exact transcription, as played by Dennis Irwin, plus 21 simple bass lead sheets.See and hear how a well known bass player phrases and articulates and comp for the soloist on the mp3 CD.Play along with one of todays finest, swinging New York rhythm sections: Mike LeDonne on piano, Dennis Irwin on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums. Use the book/CD sets for private lessons, for self-study, or in any combination up to a full jazz ensemble, including flute and clarinet. If you are more advanced you may want to use the book to develop your sight reading abilities, for transcribing the bass lines off the CD (then check against the book) or for just having fun playing along with a great jazz rhythm section.The Jazz Conception Series is also perfectly suited for the class room. It can be used to develop younger students jazz style in a big band or small group. In an improvisation class the teacher can use the etudes as studies in improvisation. The Study Guide provides an analysis of each etude, along with practice assignments for each etude.Please note that mp3 CDs may not work on some (older) CD players./ Recueil / Guitare Basse

Par SNIDERO JIM. Jazz Conception is a new and exciting way for players at all levels to learn the language of jazz! Each book features 21 solo etudes based on chord changes to standards and blues.The same 21 etudes transposed and adapted for the main jazz instruments. See and hear how a well known soloist phrases and articulates and play along with or without the soloist.Play along with one of todays finest, swinging New York rhythm sections: Mike LeDonne on piano, Dennis Irwin on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums. Start out fairly easy, then get progressively more difficult.Use the etudes as a bridge to solos of the masters that are usually more complicated and involved.Learn melodies and lines that will give you a solid jazz vocabulary and musicality.Use the book for private lessons, for self-study, or in any combination up to a full jazz ensemble, including flute and clarinet.If you are more advanced you may want to use the book to develop your sight reading abilities, for transcribing the etudes or for just having fun playing along with a great jazz rhythm section. Use as an improvisation study, learning how to construct a swinging, logical solo ? works especially well in combination with the Study Guide.The Jazz Conception Series is also perfectly suited for the class room. It can be used to develop younger students jazz style in a big band or small group. In an improvisation class the teacher can use the etudes as studies in improvisation. The Study Guide provides an analysis of each etude, along with practice assignments for each etude. / Jazz / Recueil / Trombone Basse

Par HILAND MIKE. A very thorough study of blues bass lines covering many different blues styles from Texas swing to jazz and rock blues. Along with specific instruction and analysis, plenty of sample blues bass lines are included. Great for beginners to advanced players, this book will teach you everything you need to know to play the blues. In notation and tablature. This package includes a play-along stereo CD demonstrating most of the exercises in the book. Most of the exercises are recorded with bass and drums only, with the last few lessons adding electric guitar. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Blues - Methods / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

A large-scale solo piece using the blues form and jazz language changing meters contrasting tempi and vocal sounds to fuse the jazz world with the world of concert music in a unique way. The composer is one of the world's foremost exponents of contemporary bass music. Duration c.4'.Grade: Advanced

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Blues Series : Complete Number of pages : 196 A very thorough study of blues bass lines covering many different blues styles from Texas swing to jazz and rock blues. Along with specific instruction and analysis, plenty of sample blues bass lines are included. Great for beginners to advanced players, this book will teach you everything you need to know to play the blues. In notation and tablature. This package includes a play-along stereo CD demonstrating most of the exercises in the book. Most of the exercises are recorded with bass and drums only, with the last few lessons adding electric guitar.

Everything is covered here starting with all the basics like octaves hammer-ons and pull-offs. It then builds into the most advanced slap techniques including double and triple pops flamenco thumb technique and plucks. There are lessons in upright bass slap as well as modal harmony studies. The grooves cover a wide range of styles that include jazz fusion walking lines fingerstyle conversion pop/dance funk/soul bluegrass Dixieland etc. These lessons have something for almost any student; written in bass clef and tablature with CD.

Jazz Play-Along Volume 150-For use with all B-flat E-flat C and BC instruments the Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices included as audio files to download online this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY each tune includes a split track with: ? Melody cue with proper style and inflection ? Professional rhythm tracks ? Choruses for soloing ? Removable bass part ? Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE each tune also has: ? An additional full stereo accompaniment track(no melody) ? Additional choruses for soloing.In this special instructional edition technical concepts used in jazz improvising are covered in detail - from scales to chord progressions to II-V-I patterns. And in true Jazz Play-Along fashion there are also plenty of play-along tracks based on common chord progressions and songs so you can apply the concepts you learn right away in context. Topics covered include: essential chord-to-scale relationships ? making music with scales ? chord tones ? adding chromatics ? other scales ? fundamental harmony ? the II-V-I progression ? advanced harmony ? ?must-know? progressions ? improvising ? modern concepts in improvising ? suggested listening.