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

Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals. For Rockschool's 2018-2024 Bass series Rockschool have commissioned arrangements of titles reflecting popular music's rich heritage in all its forms and have tailored each piece to make it exactly right for the grade. You can also use titles from Rockschool's Classics series as part of the syllabus. The arrangements have been written and performed by top session musicians who have worked with some of the biggest names in rock metal and pop. The tracks were recorded at Real World's acclaimed recordingstudios and feature live instruments and first rate performances for an unrivalled level of feel authenticity and musicianship. Featuring: Weather Report - Palladium Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Primus - Tommy The Cat Chaka Khan David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster 6 Rockschool Originals Plus: Band and artist fact files with recommended listening In-depth walkthroughs of every track Easy-access downloadable audio Example tests and exercises

Expand your bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Rock 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 2 audio CDs featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book!This volume covers a huge variety of rock bass styles, techniques, and concepts are covered, including: first position notes- basic fingerstyle- basic slapping- fingerstyle rakes- drop D tuning- memorizing the fretboard- arpeggios- harmonics- Paul McCartney style- John Entwistle style- Geddy Lee style- Billy Sheehan style- Flea style- gallop rhythm- tapping- techno bass- walking- where to pick- and much more! / Guitare Basse

This superb folio contains Paul McCartney's bass lines from ten of The Beatles' greatest hits. In standard notation and bass guitar tab with top line lyrics and chord symbols. Features useful playing hints and helpful technical information on the equipment actually used on the original recordings. Songs include: Get Back · Got to Get You into My Life · I Want to Hold Your Hand · Taxman · The Ballad of John and Yoko · We Can Work It Out · and more.