A complete new series of instruction book and CD packs for the beginning guitarist bass guitarist or harmonica player. Master the basics of playing your chosen instrument plus a complete guide to playing in the styles ofcountry folk blues and rock. A good introduction to the Fast Forward Series. Step into the exciting world of major minor modal blues rock and jazz scales. A complete guide to using scales to build speed endurance andfretboard fluency for beginning bass players.

Following on from his extremely successful Guitar Grimoire Adam Kadmon returns with the most complete book of bass patterns and voicings ever written! This book is literally a Bass Guitar encyclopedia with thousands of diagrams charts and graphs detailing the harmonies of the scales diatonic modes and their variants all over the fretboard. Complete explanation of all extended harmonies and altered chords. The Bass Grimoire is the essential volume for every bass guitarist's library whether as a reference for all professional Bass sorcerers and as educational tool for magician's apprentices!

Bassists today need to be familiar with all styles of music in order to increase their versatility and become in-demand players. With over 100 bass lines covering a multitude of musical styles and techniques, Bass Line Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for the modern bassist. This encyclopedia, geared towards the electric bass guitar, is a compendium of bass lines from popular music styles of the 1950s to the present. The genres covered include Chicago blues, Texas blues, surf, doo wop, heavy metal, punk, funk, bebop, modal jazz, reggae, bossa nova, samba, bluegrass, Texas swing, and many more. With historical overviews and real-world examples from every popular style a working bassist would need to know, Bass Line Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference guide that every bassist should have in their collection. / Guitare Basse

Pentatonic scales are for the Bass Guitar as the alphabet is for language. An essential base for everything else this method can be seen as a passport to the four stringed instrument. This method charts the essential minor pentatonic scale the major pentatonic as well as other five-note scales called hybrid pentatonics. However this method is not merely a boring list of scales the theory and techniques that are discussed are included as part of numerous musical examples of grooves and solos. The accompanying MP3 CD allows you to listen to all the technical and musical examples helping you to clarify difficulties of interpretation. Including around 7 hours of music intotal the CD is invaluable. Pentatonic scales are for the Bass Guitar as the alphabet is for language. An essential base for everything else this method can be seen as a passport to the four stringed instrument. This method charts the essential minor pentatonic scale the major pentatonic as well as other five-note scales called hybrid pentatonics. However this method is not merely a boring list of scales the theory and techniques that are discussed are included as part of numerous musical examples of grooves and solos. The accompanying MP3 CD allows you to listen to all the technical and musical examples helping you to clarify difficulties of interpretation. Including around 7hours of music in total the CD is invaluable.

A Guide to the Techniques and Philosophies of Funk Bass. The Hal Leonard Funk Bass Method is your complete guide to learning funk bass. It uses real funk songs to teach you the basics of grooving and soloing funk bass in the style of Flea Victor Wooten Marcus Miller Rocco Prestia and many others. Songs include: Brick House · Can't Stop · Fire · Higher Ground · I'll Take You There · Let's Groove · Pick up the Pieces · Stay · Sumthin' Sumthin' · What Is Hip · and more.

A concise collection of bass chords in all 12 keys. This chart shows all major minor augmented diminished minor 6th major 7th and suspended 4th added 7th chords. Root notes are clearly marked as diamonds and all the otherchord tones are shown as circles for ease of playing. Also includes a chart showing names and locations of notes on all frets and strings enharmonic equivalents and their positions within the bass clef.

This Musicians Institute Master Class edition is the the complete guide to understanding and applying chord structures on the bass guitar. Learning to play chords will enhance your ability to hear chord progressions and qualities improve your composition and arranging skills and strengthen your soloing chops and overall musicianship. This thorough book covers all you need to know including double stops major and minor triads diminished and augmented triads seventh chords chordal song arrangements different styles a chord glossary and more! The online audio features 76 demo tracks of all the exercises in the book.

The Bass Deck. The Bass Deck is simply the easiest book of scale and arpeggio patterns. This unique guide has been designed for every beginning bass player to be able to start playing immediately the most popular scales and arpeggios used today. The patterns are illustrated on a realistic diagram with suggested fingerings. A must for every aspiring bassist. This can easily fit inside a gig bag or hard case so you can refer to it wherever you are.

Bass players: customise your warm-up routine with this fantastic collection of stretches coordination exercises pentatonic scales major and minor scales and arpeggios that are sure to limber up your fingers and hands and get you ready to play in top form!

Max Palermo's practical approach for playing scales over any chord progression to strengthen your bass lines groove patterns and solo ideas. For 4 and 5-string bass.

A chords manual for 4 and 5 string Bass with more than 950 positions. Written by Tony Corizia an elite highly acclaimed Italian Bass artist this book is easy to read and understand. Corizia has painstakingly checked every position described in this text.

Media Type : Chart Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 4 A concise collection of bass chords in all 12 keys. This chart shows all major, minor, augmented, diminished, minor 6th, major 7th, and suspended 4th added 7th chords. Root notes are clearly marked as diamonds and all the other chord tones are shown as circles for ease of playing. Also includes a chart showing names and locations of notes on all frets and strings, enharmonic equivalents, and their positions within the bass clef.

Learn to use the entire fretboard with Bass Scale Finder. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most important scale types. Basic scale theory is also presented to help you apply these colorful sounds in your own music.

A working knowledge of scales and their applications to chord progressions is paramount for bassists. Mel Bay's Bass Scale Chart provides standard notation and tab fingering diagrams construction formulas in whole and halfsteps and application (usage) for the most common scales used today. This easy to read and understand chart is packed full of scalar information. A 'must have' for aspiring bassists.

Fingerings Exercises and Proper Usage of the Essential Five-Note Scales-The pentatonic is one of the most widely used scales in music. This book teaches fingerings for these essential five-note scales all over the neck and how to use them to create solid functional bass lines. The audio contains 56 tracks and features full-band demonstration examples. Covers: major and minor pentatonic scales; one- and two-octave scale patterns; pentatonic modes and their applications; soloing with pentatonic scales; and much more! Audio is accessed online for download or streaming using the unique code inside each book.