Download or read book How to Play Bass Guitar written by Laurence Canty and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction for beginners on how to play, read music, and understand the different parts of the bass guitar.
Download or read book The Bass Player Book written by Karl Coryat and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the right-hand man for players who live and breathe bass, or for beginners who want an all-in-one guide to the instrument that “shakes the low end” of rock, pop, jazz and more. This handbook details the ins and outs of buying basses and equipment; provides set-up and electronics tips; and explores unique characteristics of landmark bass models. Chapters on technique cover bass basics, theory, fretless playing, acoustic bass, the essentials of various music styles, recording, gigging, and more. Seminal interviews with great bassists include Jeff Berlin, Stanley Clarke, John Pattitucci, Bill Wyman, and many others.
Download or read book Music Theory for the Bass Player written by Ariane Cap and published by CapCat Music Media. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Theory for the Bass Player is a comprehensive and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate and all-around more creative musician. Included with this book are 89 videos that are incorporated in this ebook. This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready to fill out the engaging Test Your Understanding questions! Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? Perhaps all the books seem to be geared toward pianists or classical players? Do you know lots of songs, but don't know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody? If so, this is the book for you! • Starting with intervals as music's basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony. • Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples and exercises, more than 180 pages of vital information are peppered with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and compelling learning approaches. • Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing and chops. • You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music (reading music is of course a vital skill, yet, the author believes it should not be tackled at the same time as the study of music theory, as they are different skills with a different practicing requirement. Reading becomes much easier once theory is mastered and learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams and patterns as illustrations, music theory is very accessible, immediately usable and fun. This is the definitive resource for the enthusiastic bassist! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px} This book and the 89 free videos stand on their own and form a thorough source for studying music theory for the bass player. If you'd like to take it a step further, the author also offers a corresponding 20 week course; this online course works with the materials in this book and practices music theory application in grooves, fills and solos. Information is on the author's blog.
Download or read book All the Good Stuff written by Janek Gwizdala and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Good Stuff is the definitive guide to what every musician is searching for - worthwhile practice that will take your playing to the next level. Written by internationally acclaimed bassist Janek Gwizdala, this practice manual is saturated with twenty years of curated exercises from a professional's arsenal. All the Good Stuff will not only solidify your technique, grow your vocabulary, and increase your musicianship, but it will teach you how to do these things for yourself for years to come. This long-awaited second edition comes to you entirely reimagined, with clearer instructions, flawless copywork, and all exercises included in all twelve keys for bass clef, TAB, and treble clef.
Download or read book Bass Guitar For Dummies written by Patrick Pfeiffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Way more than just the bass-ics Whatever you're playing—funk, soul, rock, blues, country—the bass is the heart of the band. Bassists provide a crucial part of driving force and funky framework that other members of any and work off. From John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, to "The Pixies’' Kim Deal, to James Brown's favored bassist, Jimmy Nolan, bass players have made big names for themselves and commanded respect throughout music history. In Bass Guitar For Dummies, Patrick Pfeiffer—who coached U2's Adam Clayton, among others—is your friendly guide to laying down the low end. Starting from the beginning with what bass and accessories to buy, the book shows you everything from how to hold and position your instrument to how to read music and understand chords. You'll develop your skills step-by-step until you’re confident playing your own solos and fills. Sharpen skills with instructional audio and video Discipline your play with exercises Understand chords, scales, and octaves Care for your instrument Whether you're new to the bass or already well into the groove, Bass Guitar For Dummies gives you the thorough balance of theory and practice that distinguishes the titanic Hall of Famer from the just so-so. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Bass Guitar For Dummies (9781118748800). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!
Download or read book How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days written by Michael Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days: Daily Lessons for Beginners - with free audio downloads or streaming - is presented in an easy-to-follow format to help you learn to play bass quickly. If you're looking for the best bass guitar book for beginners, look no further! Seasoned author and editor Michael Mueller has written an easy-to-follow beginning bass book methodically designed to teach you all the essential rhythms, scales, and techniques you'll need to start playing your favorite songs! Teach yourself to play bass guitar with this jam-packed book with tons of fundamental bass skills and exercises. You'll learn: Fingerstyle Technique Real-World Bass Lines Fundamental Rhythms: Basic to Advanced Major, Minor & Pentatonic Scales Plus! Hamonics Muting Technique Legato Technique Rake Technique The Blues Scales The Shuffle Rhythm Slap-and-Pop Technique Play-along tracks for this bass instruction book included! This is the perfect first lesson for beginner bass players. Also great for teaching a beginner how to play the bass! All music examples are presented in easy-to-follow tab. So, as new bass concepts are introduced, you'll be able to quickly apply them to your bass. This bass book is from the top-ranked series Play Guitar in 14 Days from Troy Nelson Music. About Michael Mueller: Over the past 20 years, Michael Mueller has authored over 20 instructional guitar books, with over 375,000 units sold. Titles include the Hal Leonard Rock Guitar Method, Acoustic Guitar Tab Method, and Scale-Chord Relationships. He has also edited countless others, including the top-selling Guitar Aerobics (Troy Nelson) and Ukulele Aerobics (Chad Johnson) titles. Additionally, he has served as the Editor at top guitar magazines Guitar One and Guitar Edge, and he's contributed to Guitar World, Jazz Times, and Sirius XM, among others. Note: To ensure that you receive a quality product and customer service, be sure to buy directly from Amazon rather than from a marketplace seller. FREE access to audio demos - download or streaming - for each music example! Free shipping with Amazon Prime.
Download or read book Walking Jazz Lines for Bass written by Jay Hungerford and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This book is designed to help bassists create beginning to advanced walking patterns (smooth-sounding lines) that can be used in jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, Latin and country music. By explaining the basics of intervals, chords, and scales the author builds a framework for understanding bass line patterns. Then the book presents one- and two-measure patterns that can be used in playing the blues, rhythm changes, the II-V-I progression, and 20 popular jazz standards. the book is written in standard notation with chord symbols. the CD gives you the opportunity to play with one of the finest rhythm sections around. It is in stereo, with the bass and drums on the left and piano and drums on the right. Since the examples in the book are presented both with sample bass lines and as chord progressions only, you can either follow along with the bass or practice your own lines with the CD as your accompaniment.Also available in Japanese from ATN, Inc.
Download or read book Steve Bailey Six String Bass written by Steve Bailey and published by Warner Bros. Publications. This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six String Bass is written to help you make the transition from either the four or five string bass to the six string. The book begins with an exploration of the low B and high C strings followed by scale studies, random note studies, technique, and chord voicings (triads, seventh chords and inversions).
Download or read book Progressive Complete Learn to Play Bass Manual written by Stephan Richter and published by L.T.P. Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you wanted to know about Bass playing, contained within one book. Takes you from beginner to professional level in all styles and techniques as well as teaching music theory in an interesting and practical way. Features rhythms and grooves, chord arpeggios, scales, harmonics, slides, hammer-ons, slapping and right hand tapping technique, along with fingerings designed to get the best sound. Uses both standard music notation and easy-read tablature. An essential guide for bass players at any level. Includes 2 CD.
Download or read book Sight Reading Mastery for Guitar written by Joseph Alexander and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exercises in Sight Reading Mastery are limitless and continually challenge, develop and improve your sight reading skills - however far you advance.
Download or read book Bass For Beginners written by Guitar Head and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing, the 7-step master plan to bass guitar mastery! Did you grow up watching legendary bassists like Les Claypool and Flea? Have you been inspired by these legends but don't know where to start your journey? Have you been told that the Bass guitar is a completely new instrument and it's going to take you years to learn it? Well, that's just not true. Most people have got it all wrong. Learning the Bass isn't as hard as you think. The bass guitar is the most underrated and underappreciated instrument, and nobody knows it better than us! A true bass aficionado knows that it's the heart of any musical piece. It ties everything together and gives music its depth. It forms the rhythmic and harmonic foundation of every band. So, if you're a bass enthusiast with no prior music experience looking for the simplest way to learn the Bass - this book is for you. With answers to basic questions like how to hold a bass guitar and what to do with your hands to more advanced questions like how to play a walking bassline - this book is the ultimate beginners' guide. You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on new classes and theory books. We've got it all in one place! All it takes is 7 easy steps - and you'll be jamming on the bass like you've known it your whole life. And that's exactly what this book does - break down the complex world of bass guitars for you! Here's what you'll find inside: The whole process of learning the bass guitar broken down into 7 simple steps. A step by step approach guaranteed to give you results even if you've never held a bass guitar before! The absolute basics - understanding tabs, rhythm and tuning of your 4-string instrument. How to play on thick metal strings - fingerstyle vs plectrums. Diagnose and fix muffled notes - one of the biggest problems faced by bass players. Decode the neck of the bass guitar - 2 simple ways to figure out the position of every single note on the bass fretboard. 65+ exercises and tips to make sure you can play what you're learning. So, where do you want to be a few weeks from now? Still fantasising about playing the bass or confidently jamming on your 4-stringed beast? What's more? The list of benefits doesn't end there. Along with free audio tracks to help you with the charts, you also get access to a private community of passionate guitarist like yourself and weekly guitar lessons delivered to your inbox. If you're ready to start your bass guitar journey and be jamming in no time, scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button right now!
Download or read book All the Better Stuff written by Janek Gwizdala and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Better Stuff is the power-packed sequel to Janek Gwizdala's critically acclaimed bass practice book, All the Good Stuff. These expertly crafted exercises will help you push yourself to the next level in your technique, ability, and musicianship, regardless of your current playing abilities. Using Janek's virtuosic playing and years of experience, All the Better Stuff will innovate your daily practice routine, excite you about where you're going, and inspire you to be just that - better.
Download or read book How to Play Bass in a Big Band written by Jeff Campbell and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2009 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is at the heart of jazz, but knowing how to play stylistically correct in a large jazz ensemble is also a necessity. How to Play Bass in a Big Band offers tips, suggestions, examples and a play along CD to help you put it all together. The repertoire covers many jazz styles from Basie to Latin and African-influenced music to ECM and contemporary jazz (the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Bob Brookmeyer, etc.). Titles: Introduction * Reading Big Band Bass Parts * Equipment * Physical Set Up of a Big Band Rhythm Section * Big Band Pieces * Basie's Blues * Shufflin' in F * Funk Unity * Morning * Joe's Thing * Leaving * Strayhorn * Big Band Discography * Jazz Bass Method Books.
Download or read book RnB Soul Motown Style Basslines written by Dan Hawkins and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RnB, Soul & Motown Style Basslines is your complete guide to mastering the essential skills of Soul bass guitar.
Download or read book Bass Players To Know written by Ryan Madora and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the aspiring musician, knowing what to listen to is just as important as knowing what to play. Bass player and writer Ryan Madora provides the reader with exactly that--a guide to listening and learning from the greats. Shining the spotlight on players who are too often confined to the background, this book highlights the session aces, band members, and career musicians whose bass lines have permeated popular culture. Madora discusses the nuances of bass playing and the stylistic choices behind classic records, top-forty hits, and funky deep cuts. An invaluable resource for professionals and hobbyists alike, Bass Players To Know features players who have contributed to the evolution of the instrument, including Ray Brown, Jack Bruce, Cliff Burton, Duck Dunn, Louis Johnson, Edgar Meyer, Willie Weeks, and many others.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Playing Bass Guitar written by David Hodge and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Bass Guitar will show you exactly how to master the fundamentals of bass and develop your own playing style. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: detailed advice on everything you need to learn to play bass, from choosing the right equipment to playing and improvising on your own; the low-down on scales, chords, arpeggios, and more; clear explanations that will have you reading tablature and music notation in no time; tips on getting the most out of your practice sessions." - back cover.
Download or read book Progressive Bass Guitar written by Gary Turner and published by L.T.P. Publications. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, lesson by lesson method covering all aspects of playing bass guitar in a group; with special emphasis on riffs, scales and arpeggios, techniques, music reading and theory as it relates to the bass guitar. You do not need to read music to use this book. Contains 48 Lessons. Also including a CD & DVD matching the lessons and exercises in the book.
