50 Blues Basslines: Bass Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

A Guide to the Essential Styles and Techniques-A complete guide to mastering the techniques and stylistic details of the Blues Bass Guitar using classic blues songs and standards to get you playing in the right way straight away.Learn to lay down solid basslines for straight blues shuffles and other important variations. You will discover a host of songs by the kings of the blues including Muddy Waters Freddie King Otish Rush and The Allman Brothers by getting to grips with the actual riffs used on the original recordings.Song include Born Under A Bad Sign Hoochie Coochie Man Pride And Joy and Sweet Home Chicago.

The 50 Walking Basslines comprised in this coursebook are aimed at bassists at double bassists and first and foremost at the jazz enthusiasts among them. They will most certainly experience a whole heap of pleasure with the playing materials provided here.All 50 Walking Basslines are based on chord progressions that recall some of the greatest jazz standards of all time: Autumn Leaves Someday My Prince Will Come Giant Steps Blues For Alice Anthropology Blue Bossa Stella By Starlight So What Take Five Black Orpheus My Funny Valentine All The Things You Are In A Sentimental Mood Satin Doll and Take The ATrain to name but a few.To teach you all the particularities of the 50 Walking Basslines presented here and eventually enable you to piece some together yourself an entire chapter of this coursebook has been dedicated to the fundamental principles procedures and techniques behind this type of bassline. You therewith have a realistic chance of becoming an expert on the subject.For its part the MP3 CD is composed of as many backing tracks as there are walking basslines in the coursebook; these can be played along to at two different tempi: the intended tempo (actual playing speed) and the rehearsal tempo (slower speed). On the backing track at actual playing speed the Bass is only present during the first round then it disappears yielding the floor to you. The backing tracks provided here are of proper length (about 5 minutes each which sums up to almost 6h of musical practice). This means that you have enough time at your disposal to practice under best conditions enough time to thoroughly internalize these 50 walking basslines and hence compose your own ones.

Par AEBERSOLD JAMEY. For All musicians wishing to learn fantastic bass lines. While reading from the book, play along with the bassist on the recording ( Volume 70 'Killer Joe', sold separately) until you feel you’ve mastered his 'feel' and nuances. Then, using thespecial stereo separation on all of our Play-A-Long recordings, switch the bassist off and play along by yourself with just the piano and drums! This book (like all the Aebersold bass line transcription books) is a great study in professional bassline construction, and is a natural companion to the Aebersold Play-A-Longs. Combo instructors can use this book to give their bass students instant, professional bass lines. Includes notes inbass clef with chord symbols above eachmeasure. THIS BOOK: Transcribed bass lines to the chord changes of: Killer Joe, Blue Moon, Sweet Georgia Brown, Sugar, Misty, Stop-Time Blues, Girl From Ipanema, Bb New Orleans Blues, Mr. PC, You Stepped Out Of A Dream, Ladybird, Afternoon InParis, 3/4 Blues. / Rép International / Recueil / Guitare Basse

Invitez chez vous 6 grands noms du jazz pour une leçon paritulière. Chacun prend en charge une leçon : Joe Pass : accords et substitution d'accords - Emily Remler : Swing, Charleston rythmes, tonalité - Brian Setzer : substitution d'accrods de blues et accompagnement jazz - Duke Robillard : passage de tonalité, phrasé swing, le style de Charlie Christian - Tuck Andress : indépendance, walking basslines, accords - Joe Beck : chord voicings et mélodies. Pour suivre ces explications, la partition en solfège et tablature apparaît sur l'écran, chaque main est filmée : elles vous sont montrées simultanement ce qui facilite la compréhension. 31 min Sous titres français. / Guitare / Dvd

Designed fopr beginning bassists this book and CD set provides everything you need to start playing blues bass. Learn various grooves in both straight and swing feel all within the contexts of such styles as rock-blues jazz-blues and many more. The lessons include details of scales and chords that are clear and easy to digest and will help you create an abundance of blues-inspired basslines.A play-along jam CD is included and will help you prepare for working with a real live band!

2 - Essentials Of Fingerstyle Blues-The second in Happy Traum's tutorial series for the novice guitarist introduces you to the world of fingerstyle blues guitar. Building upon the basics established in the first DVD (Catalogue No. HL00641834) Traum's lessons will give you the skills to create bass pulses with your thumb whilst picking out the tunes and syncopations on the upper strings. The result is a rich self-accompanying sound full of groove and swing!Traum's Easy Steps method reduces these key techniques into smaller modules that can be digested quickly and easily. Through carefully constructed exercises these techniques become gradually more complex and advanced allowing your playing to growat your own pace.You will learn how to break up your chords as well as the funky 'Lightnin' Hopkins Lick'. There are shuffle and boogie-woogie basslines solo riffs scales and chord progressions all just waiting to be absorbed into your playing to develop your own unique country-blues sound.