Soloing on Electric Bass

Jason Raso???s Soloing on Electric Bass: A Chord Tone Approach provides the next step following his first book for Mel Bay Publications Improvising on Electric Bass. The primary focus of this second book is to help you develop a more melodic approach to solo bass playing. The author suggests avoiding root notes concentrating instead on chord tones of a 3rd 5th and 7th as fertile ground to begin revising your approach to more creative soloing. Following a series of standard notation exercises exploring intervals and goal notes in all keys Jason presents a dozen original solo etudes in notation and tablature.

A Comprehensive Guide with Detailed Instruction for Acoustic and Electric Bass-The Hal Leonard Jazz Bass Method is your complete guide to learning jazz bass. Author Matthew Rybicki guides you through the essential knowledge you need to create your own walking bass lines and improvised solos in the classic jazz style. This book with online audio access uses standard chord progressions and songs to teach you about accompanying and improvising in the style of players like Ray Brown Paul Cahmber Scott LaFaro and many others. Lessons include: walking basics; chords and scales; blues; rhythm changes; string raking; soloing; technique; chord substitution; pedal points and ostinato; standard notation plus tab for electric bass; and much more! Audio isaccessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

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

If you want to play blues guitar like B.B. King Eric Clapton or Buddy Guy then this eighty minute DVD will get you on track. Starting at the beginning with first-position key-of-E blues licks Fred Sokolow shows how to play leadand backup like a modern blues guitarist. Includes a 48 page tab music PDF booklet. You'll learn: Several moveable scale patterns and licks for soloing. Moveable chords and chord based licks for backup.How to play melodies chord backup and improvised solos on blues classics Stormy Monday Everyday I Have The Blues Killing Floor and Baby Please Don't Go. Intros and endings. Enough theory to understandthe 12-bar blues structure and be able to play backup and solo in any key. Boogie bass lines vibrato note-bending and more