Bass Chops

Learn To Burn: Electric Bass is intended for the Bass player who wants to stretch his or her limits and begin playing outside his or her comfort zone. Starting with just the right hand the materialcovers warm-ups scales chords and etudes that will help you develop ideas and expand your technique.Different musical styles and time signatures are presented along with all the chords that comprise most western music.Working through this book will help you acquire limitless chops and become the bassist with the tastiest ideas - the one that other musicians will want to play with.

Brian Emmel. Develop your own bass grooves and chops over various slap-related styles of music. Matching CD features recordings of all examples. For advanced beginning to intermediate bassists.

Learn To Burn: 5-String Bass Guitar (Book/CD Set) will show you how, and much more. The book starts you off with right-hand technique exercises to increase finger speed. Next, the material takes you through the scales and chords that comprise most western music, through the whole range of the bass. Before you know it, the bass will be lighting up with infinite possibilities. This freedom makes playing an extended range instrument so gratifying. The etudes section will get you thinking about idea development through an array of styles and time signatures, while simultaneously giving your chops a workout. You can use this book to help connect the ears, hands and mind. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Méthode / Guitare Basse

David Gross presents the first steps to becoming a master Bass Guitarist in this exciting tutorial. The first of two DVDs this set of lessons concentrates upon many of the key disciplines of the Bass including:Building chops through scales and modesWorking in every position across the fretboardAnalysing chord tones and making sense of progressionsExotic and unusual scalesEar-trainingDynamic soloing

Big Band Play-Along Volume 6-These revolutionary play-along packs let you sit in with a professional big band without the pressure of playing solo. They're perfect for current players who want to practice their chops and for those former players who want to get back in the swing!Each volume includes: easy-to-read authentic big band arrangements; professional recordings of all the big band instruments including the lead part.Accessible authentic and easy-to-read big band arrangements for 10 hot Latin grooves: Água De Beber (Water to Drink); At the Mambo Inn; Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much); The Look of Love; Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...); Mas Que Nada; One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So);Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado); Ran Kan Kan; St. ThomasFeatures a professionally recorded play-along CD.

In this comprehensive book jazz guitarist Michael Anthony addresses the need to build flexibility and technical proficiency in a way consistent with the melodic motifs of contemporary music. Though the warm-ups arenumbered there is no order that must be followed. The guitarist may approach them according to his or her interest and inspiration. They include: arpeggios scale patterns melodic minor forms chord-melody groups stretching andcontrary motion double-stops octave displacement walking bass with comping two line phrases 'out of the box' geometric shapes overlapping rhythms long arpeggios and diminished scale patterns. The finish line exemplifiesarpeggios outlining I-VI-II-V7 progressions in major and minor. In the words of Michael Anthony 'I find that isolation of the right and left hand is useful but ultimately it is the timing and coordinationof the two that is necessary.' The benefits of these warm-ups are threefold: 1. Technical improvement. 2. Fingerboard knowledge. 3. Ear training.Extreme Warm-Ups And Chops Builders For Guitar iswritten in notation and tablature.

Par AEBERSOLD JAMEY. Play along with piano and bass! 'Killer' drum tracks from a special remix of the Volume 70, 'Killer Joe' play-a-along with all the explanation necessary to get your drum chops together! Special stereo separation on the CD allows you to play along with the bass and piano (listen to both sound samples below - one with drums and the other without drums. ) Includes all the baisc styles you'll need to start gigging tomorrow. / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Batterie

Broadway by Special Arrangement is a collection of eleven songs arranged for the instrumentalist wanting to play in a Jazz style -without the need to learn to improvise. The 'classically' trained amateur or professional performer or the intermediate-level student (III-IV) will enjoy playing these expertly arranged Broadway melodies just for fun or to include as a light piece on a recital or solo-feature concert performance. The ballads and medium-tempo and up-tempo swing tunes are arranged with a play through of the melody followed by a written-out 'variation chorus a return to the melody and an earcatching ending. The piano bass and drumaccompaniment CD will put you right in the band. The CD includes both the solo instrument with the accompaniment track and an accompanimet-alone track for each selection. The inexperienced performer can learn the appropriate style of playing and be comfortable playing in the jazz style before playing along with the rhythm section track. All of the instrument books are for the most part compatible with only minimal changes in the 'variation' section to accommodate the ranges (sometimes including octave options) and unique characteristics of the instruments -but all can be played together. The three-line piano accompaniment book provides a rhythmic 'comping' with chord voicings written out plus the flute part to help in following the soloist or even for the pianist to take a chorus. For the jazzer here is a chance to learn Broadway tunes and to explore playing ballads and the swing style of popular standards. Chord symbols are included to allow for improvistation. By combining his jazz-keyboard chops his 25 years as an instrumental instructor and his superb composing and arranging skills Carl Strommen presents a fully playable exciting and tastefully arranged collection of these immortal and memorable Broadway titles.