Playing with Style - Bass

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

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Here is something for everyone, introducing students to many different styles of bass playing: rock 'n roll, blues, swing, funk, reggae, classical, alternative, country, be-bop, ska, bossa nova, heavy metal, gospel, two-hand tapping, etc. Examples focus on basic patterns, chord progressions, and playing with a band. The companion CD features all examples recorded with a professional band. Audio includes band examples with and without bass - students can hear it and play along. 25 examples included, written in bass clef and tab. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Licks and Phrases / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Learning to play Bass Guitar is a great experience but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you familiarise yourself with the instrument and then gets you playing -fast!Full-colour pictures clear diagrams and really practical advice combine to make Start-Up Bass Guitar do exactly what it says on the cover. You'll start off on the right track and that makes everythingelse come more easily.Contents include:Choosing equipmentHolding your BassTuningTips on practiceReading musicPlaying riffsPlayingscalesAlternating BassWalking Bass linesBlues Reggae Funk Rock and Latin-style Bass lines

Bass Lesson Goldmine Series-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 access to online audio 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;memorising 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.

Par DESPREZ JOSQUIN. When Leo Fender invented the electric bass in the early 1950s, little did he know the musical revolution that would follow. Dozens of musical styles were born as a direct result of his invention. Mel Bay's Encyclopedia of Bass Riffs is an overview of over 40 different musical styles, covering 50 years of electric bass playing. Through a wide variety of stylistic examples, this book explores many musical genres that may have never existed without the electric bass guitar. These examples will undoubtedly add diversity to your musical vocabulary and supplement your style. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Rock and Jazz - Licks and Phrases / Répertoire / Guitare Basse

Ideal for beginners, 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 early grades 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

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy. The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach! Rockschool's grade exams are made up of the following elements: * Performance pieces * Technical exercises * Sight reading or Improvisation And Interpretation * Quick Study Piece * Ear Tests * General Musicianship / Guitare Basse / niveau : Débutant / Partition + Cd

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy. The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach! Rockschool's grade exams are made up of the following elements: * Performance pieces * Technical exercises * Sight reading or Improvisation And Interpretation * Quick Study Piece * Ear Tests * General Musicianship / Guitare Basse / niveau : Débutant / Partition + Cd

This comprehensive method includes every conceivable aspect of jazz bass performance. It begins with the teaching of the basics using illustrations of hand positions basic theory the first position how to read music fingering accelerated fingerboard studies a fingerboard note location chart to the 12th fret four-string studies rhythm studies syncopated rhythms and dotted notes. The book then introduces the second through seventeenthposition scale and arpeggio studies accelerated fingerings using two-octave scales and various arpeggios chord applications rhythm patterns extension fingerings and harmonic minor and harmonized major scales using diatonic7th chords. Part IV consists of theory for the bassists chord construction relating chord symbols and numbers and the harmonized major natural harmonic and ascending (jazz) melodic minor scales. Diagrams of 26 chords withthe transposition charts using 'G' and 'C' fingerings are included. Each progression covers many playing styles encountered by the modern bassist including: walking 2-beat syncopated rhythms(funk) Latin bebop changes pop-rock blues traditional blues deadened-string technique funk playing plus full chord progressions within tunes. Chords are suggested for the very diverse bass lines syncopated patterns scales and arpeggios. Written instandard notation with chord diagrams.

Your ultimate guide to the secrets and techniques of the Slap Bass style. Bass ace Ed Friedland gives you a step-by-step guide to this complex high-energy playing style. Starting with the basic right-hand skills Freidman progresses to cover such disciplines as:Slapping popping left-hand integration dead notes and more dangerous techniquesA dedicated groove for each techniqueGrooving with a drum machineFunk historySlow demos tips on sound and how to create your own grooves

Par MASSIMO PALERMO. Learn bass fingerboard secrets with this quick and useful guide through the fundamental triad and seventh chord arpeggios. Learn to recognize these essential items and to easily find them over the whole neck. Each chord in Encyclopedia of Bass Arpeggios is provided with a brief introductory chart analyzing the arpeggios rising from chords and relevant inversions. The development in one and two octaves follows, considering the different positions and fingerings starting from the 3rd, the 4th, and the 5th strings. All arpeggios are presented in standard notation and tablature. Finally, a table summarizes the scales to be used with each type of chord. As well as a valuable reference for all bass players, this book gives students a fresh and comprehensive tool to practice arpeggios in a very simple and constructive way. An excellent opportunity to gain a fluent understanding of the fretboard and to hone playing skills in terms of dexterity and accuracy. For 4-string and 5-string bass. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Theory and Harmony / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : First Lessons Number of pages : 32 First Lessons Bass is intended to introduce beginning students to the fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. The material covered in this book is approximately the material covered in the first 8 lessons of private bass instruction. This book makes use of the 3-finger left hand position commonly found in double bass technique. The emphasis on left hand technique allows the student to develop a consistent fingering approach to the fingerboard, reduces unnecessary strain on the left hand, and makes the bass more accessible to younger students or students with small hands. After the left hand technique has been established, the book introduces the student to important elements of bass line construction including blues patterns, the root-fifth relationship, and common rhythmic patterns. - Introduction for beginning students to the - fundamental concepts of playing the electric bass. - Book is approximately the material covered in the - first 8 lessons of private bass instruction. - Makes use of the 3-finger left hand position - commonly found in double bass technique. - Offers student important elements of bass line - construction: blues patterns, root-fifth relationship, - and common rhythmic patterns. - Companion CD included.

This Bass method differs from others since it is entirely based on practice. You will not find riffs or licks of one or two lines but rather full pieces in the style of some of the greatest bluesmen - Otis Rush BB King Eric Clapton Freddie King Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan Magic Sam and more. Before addressing the 50 Bass lines in this method a preliminary chapter will teach you how to build lines in the blues style. In doing so you will be able to analyse what you areplaying later before learning to create your own. Youâ??ll also be introduced to structure rhythm arpeggios scales chromatic approaches and more. The included DVD allows you to listen to all of the featured Bass lines played at normal speed thenat a reduced speed in order to learn the right gestures. The MP3 CD contains backing tracks for you to play along to at two different speeds: the first being normal (the speed to be achieved) while the second is reduced to help with study. Intotal over seven hours of music is included giving you the opportunity to practice in the best possible conditions.This Bass method differs from others since it is entirely based on practice. You will not find riffs or licks of one or two lines but rather full pieces in the style of some of the greatest bluesmen - Otis Rush BB King Eric Clapton Freddie King Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan Magic Sam and more.Before addressing the 50 Bass lines in this method a preliminary chapter will teach you how to build lines in the blues style. In doing so you will be able to analyse what you are playing later before learning to create your own. Youâ??ll also be introduced to structure rhythm arpeggios scales chromatic approaches and more.The included DVD allows you tolisten to all of the featured Bass lines played at normal speed then at a reduced speed in order to learn the right gestures.The MP3 CD contains backing tracks for you to play along to at two different speeds: the first being normal (the speed to be achieved) while the second is reduced to help with study. In total over seven hours of music is included giving you the opportunity to practice in the best possible conditions.