Fun With the String Bass

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

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Warm-up exercises are some of the most important things a bassist can learn. This 5 1/2' x 8' QWIKGUIDE(TM) book/CD set focuses on warming up the left and right hands. The goal of these warm-ups is to provide sufficient preparation before a performance to avoid strain or other injury. There are sixty warm-up examples, with special sections for five- and six-string bass. Written in tablature only. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Technic / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

As the original bassist for the seminal death metal band Cannibal Corpse, author Alex Webster offers invaluable insight into the realm of metal bass guitar. This exclusive book/online audio provides detailed, hands-on training, featuring vital bass guitar techniques and concepts. Extreme Metal Bass further demonstrates how these techniques can be applied in real-life situations within the context of a song. No matter what brand of metal you subscribe to - from classic metal to modern metal and beyond - Extreme Metal Bass will supply the bass skills you crave. Extreme Metal Bass also includes enhanced online audio with demonstration and play-along tracks of all the examples in thebook, plus play-along MIDI drum files for optimum practicing. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each 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. This book is designed for players who use a standard-tuned five-string bass (low to high: B-E-A-D-G). If you do not have a five-string bass, a four string (tuned B-E-A-D) will work for much of the material presented. / Méthodes et pédagogie / Guitare / Guitare basse / HAL LEONARD

For 4 and 5 String Bass Set. Par BRUNEL BUNNY. Bunny Brunel has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Al Dimeola, Al Jarreau, and many other jazz and fusion greats. Bunny has compiled over 250 pages of 'nuts and bolts' basics needed to play contemporary bass. Applicable to either 4- or 5-string bass, this comprehensive text covers position playing, utilizing scales and modes, chords and harmony, creating bass lines, improvising, fingering, and much more! In notation only with fretboard diagrams. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / All Styles - Technic / Recueil / Guitare Basse

Par BAY WILLIAM. Une collection de 47 solos facile-à-play, big-note, un niveau sur folkloriques favoris pour les jeunes élèves de la contrebasse. Conçu pour construire une technique, plage et endurance tout en conservant l'intérêt des élèves. Plaisir à jouer et sert idéalement un supplément à n'importe quelle méthode. Tous les solos dans ce texte peuvent être joué ensemble dans l'ensemble avec le plaisir avec violon - Fun avec violoncelle - et s'amuser avec les livres de Bass. Comprend de nombreux airs préférés : Hail ! Grêle ! Tous ici du Gang-, j'ai été Workin ' sur le Railroad et beaucoup d'autres. / Niveau : Débutant / Folk - Solos / Recueil / Guitare Basse Electrique

Bass Bible Book, Second Edition Book/2-Cd Set. Par WESTWOOD PAUL. The English bassist Paul Westwood is one of the most in demand bass players of our time. His Bass Bible is the ultimate method book for every bass player. It contains a fascinating journey through the world of techniques, styles, grooves, and their evolution, using more than 1000 musical examples in all! This book is designed like a dictionary of musical phrases, which can be opened at the point that interests you. Learning a whole series of musical phrases, riffs, rhythms and patterns provides the basic language for performing within a group. Each section of the book captures the essence of a particular style, providing a springboard from which to start improvising. In notation and tablature for 4-string bass. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Rhythm/Backup / Méthode / Guitare Basse

Founding member and innovative bass player with the classic rock group Yes Chris Squire is a major force in the band's revolutionary sound. His unique approach to the bass in an integral part of the recognition that Yes receives as one of the most influential groups on rock music history. The band Yes was formed in the late 1960s and Chris is the only original band member that still performs with the band today. In this in-depth interview with Chris Squire taped in 1990 Chris reveals some of his earliest aspirations in music to his prolific contributions as the bass player with Yes. Chris demonstrates his unique style in songs performed on the90125 World Tour after the release of Yes' double-platinum album ?Owner of a Lonely Heart.? Live performances include ?Changes ? where he plays a potent 8-string bass; plus ?I've Seen All Good People ? ?'Round About ? ?I'm Running ? and ?Cinema.? Chris gives us a close look at the styles and technique he uses with a unique collection of basses. With a rebellious and visionary style Chris says It's down to must attacking things really. So step into the world of Chris Squire with fascinating musical history bass riffs and riveting live concert footage.

With DiY Electric Bass there are no limitations to how, when, or where you learn. This clear and easy-to-follow approach is your blueprint to playing right away. No teacher is necessary since lessons are simple to follow---with corresponding video lessons and audio accompaniments. The included media is available to stream or download, so you can watch video lessons, hear examples, and play along anywhere you have a computer or mobile device. Do it yourself---even if you have never touched a bass! No prior musical knowledge is needed. Make your dreams come true with this perfectly priced book and media package. / Guitare Basse

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. This method book explains how percussive slap bass works with the drums, and how playing percussively will make you 'lock' tighter with the drummer. Included are sections on building a percussive groove, pop control, moving patterns, individual string control, slap without pops, slapping with tensions, double pops, slapping with dyads, triplets, Flamenco thumb technique, odd meters, applied grooves, and a special section for a rhythm section workout. Notation and tablature are clearly explained with instructions on left hand muting and many slapping tips. This method will make your grooves sound fuller, making your playing mode more valuable to your rhythm section. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Rock and Blues - Licks and Phrases / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

This comprehensive method includes every conceivable aspect of jazz bass performance. It begins with the teaching of the basics using illustrations of hand positions basic theory the first position how to read music fingering accelerated fingerboard studies a fingerboard note location chart to the 12th fret four-string studies rhythm studies syncopated rhythms and dotted notes. The book then introduces the second through seventeenthposition scale and arpeggio studies accelerated fingerings using two-octave scales and various arpeggios chord applications rhythm patterns extension fingerings and harmonic minor and harmonized major scales using diatonic7th chords. Part IV consists of theory for the bassists chord construction relating chord symbols and numbers and the harmonized major natural harmonic and ascending (jazz) melodic minor scales. Diagrams of 26 chords withthe transposition charts using 'G' and 'C' fingerings are included. Each progression covers many playing styles encountered by the modern bassist including: walking 2-beat syncopated rhythms(funk) Latin bebop changes pop-rock blues traditional blues deadened-string technique funk playing plus full chord progressions within tunes. Chords are suggested for the very diverse bass lines syncopated patterns scales and arpeggios. Written instandard notation with chord diagrams.

Warm-up exercises are some of the most important things a bassist can learn. This 5 1/2' x 8' QWIKGUIDE(TM) book/CD set focuses on warming up the left and right hands. The goal of these warm-ups is to provide sufficientpreparation before a performance to avoid strain or other injury. There are sixty warm-up examples with special sections for five- and six-string bass. Written in tablature only.

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no Bass. This gives you theopportunity to work on your blues Bass patterns. I have used several different keys and tempos throughout these Play-Along Trax. These Play-Along Trax give you a very realistic example of how you would play live with aband.Music examples are kept fairly simple to make sure this book is accessible to Bass players just above the beginning level. For best understanding of these techniques refer to Mel Bay's Blues Bass Level 1(MB21063BCD).Lastly all the references in this book are written for a right-handed four string electric Bass. If you play a 5 string Bass you just need to extend the examples to include your B string. If you playleft-handed then you need to reverse any references to the left and right hands. We will use standard music notation along with Bass tablature (TAB) for this book. Includes access to online audio.