Tapping A La Basse

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

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

For Electric Bass-In two-hand tapping on electric bass your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues alternative jazz funk and even classical. This book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique with each example demonstrated on the accompanying online audio. Try applying the techniques in this book to your favorite styles of music. Includes access to online audio.

Toutes les techniques de base (jeu au doigt, au médiator, slap, harmoniques, tapping, utilisation de pédales d'effets...), éléments de théorie musicale, walking-bass, gammes, arpèges et exercices applicatifs, grilles d'accords et d'improvisation (pop, latin et ballade).Grooves de base : Blues et Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Motown Sound, Atlantic sound, Funk, Rock. Panorama de musiques latines (Cha-cha, Tango, Montuno, Merengue, Rumba, Calypso, Baiaon, Mambo, Samba, Bossa Nova, Guajira, Guaracha, Valse Créole, Boléro, Biguine, Lambada, etc.), Salsa, Flamenco, Mariachi, Mambo cubain, Rock cubain, Reggae de Jamaïque, rythmes de Colombie, Brésil, Pérou, Équateur, Cili et Bolivie. Musiques et rythmes africains, Magreb, Somalie, Mali, Guinée, Cameroun, Zaïre, Zimbabwe, Afrique du Sud... Boogie-Woogie, les techniques de slap de Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone) et Mark King (Level 42), la basse fretless de Jaco Pastorius, les harmoniques naturelles, la basse synthé, riffs de Modern-Jazz... Un total de plus de 1000 plans et riffs dont plus de 300 enregistrés sur les 2 CD.

for 4- 5- and 6-String Basses-In this exciting new video/audio/book combo Mark Michell bassist for the progressive-rock band Scale the Summit breaks down the techniques that make him one of the most skilled bassists on the prog-rock scene. Topics include: Utilizing the full fretboard Analyzing chords Voicing chords on Bass Mixing fretted notes and harmonics Mixing chords and tapping Exploring Bass line options And more! By demonstrating his unique approach to the bass Michell will help you to unlock your own creative potential! In addition to comprehensive video demonstrations andaccompanying notation and tab for each musical example Advanced Rock Bass includes ten backing tracks each featuring a unique key center and chord progression so you can immediately begin to incorporate Michell's techniques into your own playing!

Le guide complet pour maîtriser la basse de six cordes ! Ce pack de livre/CD couvre les échelles, Arpèges, modes, formes de corde, tapping à deux mains, techniques alternatives, exercices chromatiques et concepts de la théorie. Le CD comprend 99 plein-demos. / Guitare Basse / Partition Cd

In order to be able to express yourself freely with the instrument a good technique is essential. But this technique should be discreet and become both natural and instinctive so that it can serve the music. This can be achieved by practising specific exercises like those presented throughout this method. This book details a vast practice programme covering the right hand technique first with both the traditional and the so-called ?floating thumb? positions and the different left hand techniques including physical exercises to loosen the fingers as well as preparatory exercises for hammer-ons pull-offs slides and shifts. But this method doesn?t stophere! It will let you practise ghost notes staccatos and accents not to mention chords barring tapping harmonics palm mute picking and slap techniques. Throughout the different chapters examples will help you to musically put these technical exercises into practice. The DVD gives you the opportunity to watch all the gestures in detail which will definitely help you make technical progress. In order to be able to express yourself freely with the instrument a good technique is essential. But this technique should be discreet and become both natural and instinctive so that it can serve the music. This can be achieved by practising specific exercises like those presented throughout this method. This book details a vast practice programme covering the right hand technique first with both the traditional and the so-called ?floating thumb? positions and the different left hand techniques including physical exercises to loosen the fingers as well as preparatory exercises for hammer-ons pull-offs slides and shifts. But this methoddoesn?t stop here! It will let you practise ghost notes staccatos and accents not to mention chords barring tapping harmonics palm mute picking and slap techniques. Throughout the different chapters examples will help you to musically put these technical exercises into practice. The DVD gives you the opportunity to watch all the gestures in detail which will definitely help you make technical progress.

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

The Double Bass part for Michael Hurd’s Swingin’ Samson an enormously fun pop cantata. Divided into six sections this lively and toe-tapping show is fabulous for schools or amateur performance. Highlights of the cantata include the scene in a barber’s shop with a background of snipping scissors. This is followed by a splendid music-hall song where the whole audience can join in! The finale describes the Philistine’s party - set as a square dance - at the end of which Samson pulls down the whole building! Bring the house down with this wonderful 10 minute cantata!