Learn to play bass and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about buying a bass guitar, tuning and holding it, fingering and picking styles, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation and tablature. You will then move right along to playing different notes, scales, and bass lines, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and TAB. You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including rock, Heavy Metal, Blues, country, and jazz. Near the end of the book you will be introduced to the concept of playing from chord sheets, which will assist you in coloring your and others' musical creations with your own unique, rockin' style. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play from popular bass TAB folios and be ready to play in a band. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * TAB licks and bass lines * Bass fingerboard chart * Complete chord chart * Photos showing hand positions and more The accompanying DVD features educator Jared Meeker teaching every lesson and performing all the songs. The DVD also includes TNT 2 software that lets you customize audio tracks for practice. Use it to slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys. You may also stream the video and download the TNT 2 software from a browser. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way. / Guitare Basse

Tapping is a technique that involves playing notes with both hands directly on the neck of the Bass Guitar. It was popularised by virtuosos such as Adam Nitti, Stuart Hamm, Victor Wooten and Billy Sheehan, but has become more and more popular with amateur players for the unique and futuristic sounds it can produce. With Tapping A La Basse, you can learn everything necessary to master this cool technique.In four chapters, this method will help you learn how to make strange and wonderful sounds with two-handed tapping. The first chapter details linear tapping, the second will teach you how to create great riffs and licks with tapped arpeggios, the third lets you combine tapping and chords, while the fourth and final chapter will reveal polyphonic tapping. While some technical exercises are revealed, this method is primarily based on practising, ensuring that you master all the techniques through playing them. The accompanying DVD is a great help in letting you hear and visualise how the tapping should sound and be played. Two different speeds enable you to see how it's done at normal speed, then slowed down so you can play along and gradually get to grips with the style. With technical and musical examples within this method, you will gain all the details needed to grasp Bass Guitar tapping! / Guitare Basse

Ideal for any bassist looking to explore new styles this one-on-lesson includes loads of exercises diagrams patterns styles and real-life applications to study and practice. The 43-track accompanying CD lets you play along with recorded examples to further fine-tune your jazz chops!

Big Band Play-Along Volume 4-Easy-to-read authentic big band parts for ten terrific jazz tunes with a professionally recorded play-along CD that lets instrumentalists perform as part of a big band.

Bass Play-Along Volume 44-This volume in the Bass Play-Along series contains 8 songs by the Californian thrash metal band Megadeth arranged for Bass Guitar.The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the Bass should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks.The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player and is enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch.This book includesthe songs Hangar 18 Head Crusher Holy Wars...The Punishment Due Peace Sells Sweating Bullets Symphony Of Destruction Train Of Consequences and Trust.

Ce pack de livre/CD par le bassiste professionnel Glenn Letsch fournit les outils de base pour basse électrique solide, fondamentale en jouant. Il couvre des sujets que tous les joueurs doivent savoir, tels que : une main gauche et droite technique appropriée - lecture de notation standard et la tablature - théorie de la musique et application - isométries basse - échelles - oreille formation - et plus ! Le livre a aussi répond aux questions fréquemment posées et fournit une section spéciale de routines de pratique pour le bassiste de début. Le CD comprend 99 demos. / Guitare Basse

Bass For Beginners is a basic textbook that provides the tools for solid fundamental electric bass playing. This book will lay the foundation so you can acquire good playing habits and eliminate bad ones. Discussesproper left- and right-hand technique with standard notation and tablature music theory and application bass isometrics scales and ear training. Accompanying audio CD includes 99 demo tracks.