Omnibus Edition revised-This Omnibus Edition contains the complete Absolute Beginners Bass course in one complete and convenient package! The Absolute Beginners method has been designed to tellyou everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your Bass Guitar. This edition also features a unique download card with professional demonstration and accompaniment tracks allowing you to start playing musicright away.In one great book you'll get:A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanationsPractical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up playing and maintenanceAudio tracks on the accompanying download card show you how things should soundFull-length accompaniment tracks to play along with!This complete OmnibusEdition of Absolute Beginners Bass Guitar contains possibly all the information and practical guidance you'll need to learn the very basics of the Bass right up to playing your first tunes. Writtenby established bassist and teacher Phil Mulford you will be introduced to the parts of the Bass Guitar tuning and how to hold it before rapidly learning your first notes grooves bass lines and by the end of book 2 riffs slapping funk and a full song!If you are looking for an 'owner's manual' approach to learning to play the Bass Guitar that makes it easier than ever before look no further than this collated edition of AbsoluteBeginners now featuring a practical download card.

Tipbook-This owner's guide for electric guitarists and bassists features numerous tips on auditioning and buying a (Bass) Guitar choosing new strings maintenance and tuning and other aspects that are unique to an Electric Guitar. This book also includes chapters on the history and the production of these instruments as well as an index a glossary and the unique Interactive Tipcodes that allow you to hear online audio examples.

Build your bass vocabulary in a variety of styles with this comprehensive collection!Styles covered include blues jazz rock funk R&B country Latin hip-hop gospel and more.The CD includes all 150 grooves for demonstration and play-along.Endorsed by Stuart Hamm Brian Bromberg Alexis Sklarevski Rocco Prestia and others!

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.

Comme l?indique clairement son titre cette méthode qui s?adresse aussi bien aux débutants qu?aux bassistes confirmés est intégralement dédiée à la techniquedu jeu au médiator à la basse. Cette technique longtemps réservée aux guitaristes a vu sa pratique se développer massivement chez les bassistes de tous horizons durant les dernièresdécennies. A tel point d?ailleurs qu?elle est aujourd?hui aussi importante à maîtriser que la technique du jeu en buté. Et ce tant pour le son spécifique qu?ellegénère que l?incroyable précision qu?elle permet notamment à des tempi élevés. Avec cette méthode vous apprendrez tout d?abord à tenir le médiatorde la meilleure des manières mais aussi à placer au mieux la main qui le tient sur la basse. Vous pourrez alors aborder vos premiers exercices ?techniques? sur des cordes à vide avant de groover?musicalement? sur les arpèges et les gammes. Vous y aborderez bien sûr les différentes techniques de main droite (aller/retour découpage rythmique) avant de les combiner avec celles de lamain gauche (ghost notes hammer-on pull-off). Et tout cela au travers de multiples lignes et grooves binaires ou ternaires dans divers styles musicaux. Tout un programme ! Sur le disque joint à la méthode voustrouverez plus de 200 fichiers audios et vidéos. Les vidéos (mp4) reprennent en images tous les exemples exercices et autres grooves pour vous aider à lever le voile sur les difficultés techniquesqu?ils engendrent. Les enregistrements audios (mp3) pour leur part proposent les playbacks correspondant aux nombreuses lignes de basse présentées afin de vous permettre de tester ?en situation?

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. Each book has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the best opportunity to show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This book for BassGuitar: is suitable for all exam boards contains ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for GCSE level is accompanied by a CD of professionally recorded backing tracks It includes songs by: Muse The Beatles Bon Jovi The Killers Chuck Berry Razorlight Metallica AC/DC Bob Marley A YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other songs for cultural context allowing the student to explore ideas for their own interpretation.

Explore the creative process through your Bass Guitar with this unique book/CD experience!You'll learn to cultivate the artist within you by opening your mind identifying your strengths and weaknesses and examining the many mental and physical aspects or being a bassist.In addition you'll find plenty of fun and challenging music examples plus an audio CD with over 80 tracks!For ALL Bass players - electric acoustic or upright!

Avec pas moins de 25 lignes de basse Reggae et Ska cette méthode va vous régaler pendant un bon bout de temps. Mais pas seulement... En effet l?idée étant ici d?apprendre tout en jouant de progresser tout en se faisant plaisir ces grooves vous permettront aussi de découvrir toutes les techniques qui contribuent à faire de bons accompagnements dans le style. Un chapitre préliminaire plus didactique vous aidera d?ailleurs à en aborder sereinement les principales difficultés. Enfin en s?inspirant des plus grands artistes d?hier et d?aujourd?hui(The Skatalites Bob Marley / The Wailers UB40 Madness The Specials Jimmy Cliff Alpha Blondy Burning Spear Peter Tosh...) ces 25 morceaux offrent un vaste tour d?horizon des styles Reggae et Ska à la basse. Sur le disque joint à la méthode vous trouverez plusieurs fichiers audios et vidéos. Les vidéos (mp4) présentent en images les 25 lignes de basse telles qu?elles doivent être jouées à vitesse normale puis au ralenti. Les enregistrements audios (mp3) pour leur part proposent les playbacks correspondants là encore à deux tempi différents. Vous pourrez donc y jouer à votre tour les grooves proposés ou en profiter pour développer librement vos propres idées d?accompagnement dans le style.