For Electric Bass-In two-hand tapping on electric bass your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues alternative jazz funk and even classical. This book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique with each example demonstrated on the accompanying online audio. Try applying the techniques in this book to your favorite styles of music. Includes access to online audio.

Bass Lesson Goldmine Series-Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series. Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each of these 100 Jazz Lessons includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids photos and more to reinforce your learning experience plus access to online audio featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book.A huge variety of jazz Bass styles techniques and concepts are covered including: lessons for upright and electric Bass; warm-ups; string crossing; fretting hand independence; handsynchronicity; sound and projection; tenths; jazz waltz; pedal points; interval cycles; beat manipulation; various scales; tritone substitution; using a bow; and much more.

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.

This pack provides both the original FastTrack book/audio pack along with an instructional DVD making learning to play Bass Guitar easier and faster than ever before!

The ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and a professional-quality CD with 71 full-demo tracks. This series can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers forprivate or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CD.

Hailed as the 'greatest bass player who ever lived ' Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) lives on through his groundbreaking legacy of musical brilliance. And now for the first time one of Jaco's private students imparts the wisdom gained from one-on-one lessons with the bass genius himself.Complete with songs solos techniques theory and personal experiences with Jaco this one-of-a-kind book/online audio is finally here to give the world what it craves - Bass Guitar lessons with Jaco Pastorius. We've even included a few scans of actual pages of Jaco's personal practice book ? in his own handwriting ? for the ultimate personal Jacoexperience. The accompanying online audio includes tracks of all the examples in the book. The song list includes: Chromatic Fantasy; Continuum; Donna Lee; Havona; Opus Pocus; Portrait of Tracy; Teen Town and more.

This is the bass method students and teachers have been waiting for. Learn the notes of the bass with riffs like Day Tripper and Stand by Me reading rhythms and tab with classics by the Who and Red Hot Chili Peppers fingerstyle and pick technique with songs like Roxanne and Low Rider and much more. The method's unique well-paced and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before and music from popular artists like the Beatles Nirvana and Green Day will keep them playing and having fun. The online audio includes audio examples of each exercise.

Bass Lesson Goldmine Series-Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series. Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics 100 Blues Lessons includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids photos and more to reinforce your learning experience plus access to online audio featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book.A huge variety of blues Bass styles techniques and concepts are covered including: blues scale; 12-bar blues; turnarounds; swing blues; the box shape; the Rhumba; 12/8 slow blues; palm muting;string bending; arpeggios; understanding chord symbols; playing with the kick Drum; Chicago blues; Texas blues; New Orleans blues; double stops; Willie Dixon style; Tommy Shannon style; Jack Bruce style and much more.

A linear approach for 4- 5- and 6- string bass by Gary Willis. A comprehensive source for learning the theory and geometry of the bass fingerboard.

The Fast track books form a series of instruction books with CD for guitar bass keyboard and drums. They're easy to use with step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams so the complete beginner can quickly master basic playingtechniques and learn to play great songs. What's more Fast Track is different from any other instruction book. Each tutor has an accompanying songbook with CD featuring music from famous artists... The Beatles Eric Clapton Billy Joel Jimi Hendrix and many more. In fact Fast Track has everything for the complete beginner who wants to play like a top professional.