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World-renowned acoustic and electric bassist/composer John Patitucci is one of the most influential jazz musicians of his generation. His amazing career includes work with a hall of fame of artists including B.B. King Bonnie Raitt Wayne Shorter Herbie Hancock Natalie Cole and his incredible association with Chick Corea spanning three decades. In 1997 John served as Master of Ceremonies at the inaugural Bass Day celebration a festival that brought together the world?s greatest bassists. In this hour-long DVD John performs Coltrane?s ?Giant Steps? and five of his original compositions on both acoustic bass and 6-string electric bass. Experience John?s masterfultechnique in solo duo trio and quartet settings. Following the performance John hosts a candid question and answer session with the audience on all topics from his own personal bass setup to composing. Special features include DVD-ROM content with the complete video formatted for computer and iPod a preview of John Patitucci Electric Bass and a preview of Billy Sheehan: Bass Day ?97.

This book was written for bassists who wish to learn to read music as well as for those who wish to sharpen their music reading skills. The studies in the book progress from beginning to professional levels and represent anvariety of styles that modern bassists are likely to encounter in real-world musical situations. For those conversant in music's universal language a whole world of musical styles ideas and sounds is always available. Thisbook aims to sharpen the skills of serious student bass players so that they may partake of this endless stream of ideas information and inspiration. Standard notation only. None of the exercises in this book contain fingeringindications. This omission was made in order to make these exercises useful to players of all types of bass instruments both electric and acoustic. The author strongly recommends that students work through this book with thesupervision of a qualified teacher. If you are a professional musician the author hopes this book will help you stay in top sight-reading form giving you an edge in a highly competitive market. If you are a novice bassist thisbook will help you hone your skills in becoming a skilled professional.

With Online Audio-Blues music is a sturdy adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This 5 1/2 by 8 'Qwikguide' is designed to help the bassist become more versatile. Eachblues Bass pattern in this book is played over four bars of C7. By practicing all 50 licks over the same chord progression students can learn the basic concept of improvisation: how to play a variety of musical phrases over thesame chord or chord changes. Each example is written in both notation and tablature exactly as it is recorded.The accompanying online audio featuring Larry McCabe's Heat-Seeking Missile Blues Band is recorded instereo with Drums and rhythm Guitar in the center bass Guitar on the left and lead Guitar on the right. The licks are recorded at a moderate tempo for ease of learning. The rhythm Guitar parts heard on the CD are taught in MelBay's 101 Bad to the Bone Blues Guitar Rhythm Patterns. The lead Guitar parts are taught in Mel Bay's Famous Blues Guitar Lines.

The Language of Music and How to Speak It-Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime game-changing bassist in the early- 90s via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Launching his solo career a few years later with A Show of Hands it soon became apparent that Wooten was also a major musical force thanks to an organic and highly original approach to music and music education. In this book/online video package Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor reveals his musical soul. In Part 1 he outlines his ten essential elements of music including such important and under-emphasized areas as emotion and feel dynamics tone phrasing space and listening. This section deals more with Victor s concepts and approaches and are more theoretical in nature. In Part 2 Victor addresses the personal lessons using text notation tablature and video footage to cover such key topics as warming up and hand-strengthening tone harmonics thumb technique tapping looping and soloing. This section is a more how to approach with hands-on demonstrations. Throughout Victor underscores this vital material with a groove first ethic as well an accent on being musical and creative three mandatory ingredients to becoming a highly-sought-after professional bassist. All of which makes Victor Wooten Bass Workshop a must-have tool for bass players at all levels. Includes online 4 hrs. of video that can be streamed or downloaded.

If you want to spend more time making music and less time bogged down in mind numbing theory then this book is for you. The best entry level book for wannabe bassists - the Xtreme series provides a funky and fresh teaching method for beginners through a series of easy-to-follow lessons exercises true stories and superstar tips. Whether it be electric guitar drums DJing or singing our team of Xtremists are here to guide you.In Xtreme bass resident groove mistress Deep guides you through a 10-lesson programme that covers everything from tuning up and using a pick to mastering techniques such as slap bass. With a free audio CD profiles of 10 of the greatest bass players ofall time and easy-to-follow guidelines that will help you to play just like them Xtreme bass arms you with all you need to be able to create some of the funkiest bass grooves in no time.

The motto in this tutorial is 'Gained in practice for use in practice'! What awaits you here? No one- or two-bar riffs and licks but complete chord progressions performed in the style of illustrious blues guitar players such as Otis Rush B.B. King Eric Clapton Freddie King Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan or Magic Sam! The motto in this tutorial is 'Gained in practice for use in practice'! What awaits you here? No one- or two-bar riffs and licks but complete chord progressions performed in the style of illustrious blues Guitar players such as Otis Rush B.B. King Eric Clapton Freddie King Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan or Magic Sam! In the preliminary chapter of this tutorial you will first be taught how to piece basslines together in blues. This wonâ??t only allow you to comprehend the 50 basslines presented here but in a second step it will also enable you to create your own ones. For that you need to learn about structure rhythm arpeggios scales chromaticapproaches ... in sum to get to know blues by delving into it! The DVD included in the tutorial offers you the possibility to mindfully observe all 50 basslines â?? first at actual playing speed then at a slower speed. This again gives you the opportunity to closely follow the movement of the hands to choose the right fingerings and keep a steady beat(!) For its part the MP3 CD is composed of as many backing tracks as there are basslines in the tutorial; the 50 backing tracks are recorded at two different tempi: the intended tempo (actual playing speed) and the rehearsal tempo (slower speed). On the backing track at actual playing speed the bass is only present during the first round then it disappears yielding the floor to you. The backing tracks provided here are of an appropriate length (about 4 to 5 minutes each which sums up to almost 7h of musical practice). This means that you have enough time at your disposal to practice under the best conditions.

La méthode de référence du bassiste débutant ! Cette méthode d???initiation à la basse (électrique) constitue indéniablement le meilleur moyen pour le bassiste débutant de progresser dans la pratique de son instrument. Tout d???abord parce que cetteméthode est extrêmement complète qu???elle aborde tous les éléments qu???un apprenti bassiste se doit de maîtriser : techniques de jeu rythme grooves... Ensuite parce que cette méthode est excessivement progressive. Tout y est enseigné et donc aussiassimilé petit à petit en utilisant graduellement la théorie musicale comme une aide et non comme une contrainte. Enfin parce que cette méthode est incroyablement ludique.On y joue de la basse dès les premières leçons on y apprend des morceaux àla manière des plus grands artistes (The Beatles U2 Coldplay Red Hot Chili Peppers Michael Jackson The Police Jaco Pastorius etc...) et on se fait plaisir avec des playbacks à profusion. Le DVD joint à la méthode constitue une aidecomplémentaire de tout premier ordre puisqu???il permet d???entendre mais aussi et surtout de visualiser tous les exemples musicaux tels qu???ils doivent être joués. De son côté le CD MP3 fourmille de playbacks en tout genre permettant de mettre enapplication tous les exemples et autres morceaux de la méthode et de se préparer au jeu en groupe.

Perfect for bassists who have already started and are ready to take the next step into contemporary styles. Also for experiencd players who want to enhance their knowledge. Starting with a review of reading music this book explains the basics of music theory as it relates to being a great bass player with an easy step-by-step approach. Before you know it you'll be using major scales triads and 7th chords to create cool-sounding bass lines for the most important chord progressions all bassists need to know. Learn the basics of blues and funk styles to lock in with a drummer. Students teachers and self-taught players alike will enjoy this thorough easy to use method.

A founding member of both Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna Jack Casady presents his celebrated Bass style for you to learn. With the aid of bandmate Jorma Kaukonen on guitar and vocals Casady gives you a candid insight into his approach. Six of his greatest Bass parts are dissected and explored as Casady demonstrates his favourite techniques including:Octaves Comping Vibrato Tonal variations Casady explains how the combination of these techniques coupled with a good knowledge of the fretboard can be used to create basslines that build in excitement and energy. Soon you will applying his ideas to set your own basslines and melodies on fire. The disc iscomplete with a full notation and tablature guide to all examples.

Louis Johnson bassist writer and producer is considered one of the foremost bass players in contemporary music. Now for the first time this uniquely gifted guitarist puts his exceptional talent to work for you by developing one of the most exciting instructional bass guitar packages today! With this DVD you'll learn a fantastic selection of popular bass techniques like thumping choking snapping and slapping. Louis takes you step-by-step through an unbelievable assortment of blistering licks grooves and solos. Get ready to start playing like you never dreamed possible! 51 minutes.

The Foundation of Effective Bass Lines-As a Bass player scales will be no stranger to you. You'll likely be used to practicing them up and down in different sequences and in different keys to improve your chops but do you really know how to apply them in a musical way?With the Bassist's Guide To Scales Over Chords you'll learn how these two topics are intertwined in a logical and fundamental manner. This key concept is paramount in learning how to create and improvise functional and memorable Bass lines or solos reliably time and again.If you're stuck in a root-note rut or find yourself always coming back to the same old tired patterns this book is for you. Itincludes 136 audio tracks and 17 extended backing tracks for download or streaming online.

This book will give bassists insight into many of the scales used in jazz. Each scale is presented with standard notation tablature and fingering patterns for both one octave and two octaves. The book starts with the basic majorscales then delves into the modes (Lydian Phrygian etc.) altered scales bebop scales pentatonic scales blues scales and symmetric scales (diminished scales whole-tone scales and chromatic scales). If you are not familiarwith these terms don't fear; they are explained clearly in the book. Along the way the authors offer advice and exercises to help you use the scales in improvisation. While not going into great depth or giving numerous examplesfor each scale this book will give the bassist a thorough understanding of the wide variety of scales available for improvising. Plan to spend some time practicing and working out your own patterns once you have mastered the onesin the book. The scale fingerings presented are applicable to both electric and upright Bass.

Comme l?évoque clairement son titre cette méthode enseigne les bases du jeu en slap à la basse une technique emblématique et ô combien attirante pour la plupart des bassistes. Ainsi au fil des 7 chapitres qui la composent vous découvrirez tout d?abord les techniques de base du slap que sont le ?tapé du pouce? et le ?tiré?. Vous serez alors en mesure d?aborder les effets de jeu qui combinés aux techniques précédentes font merveille : notes mortes hammer-on pull-off glissés et tapé main gauche. Chacun de ces gestes sera bien entendutravaillé séparément par le biais de quelques exercices progressifs avant d?être abondamment mis en pratique sur une multitude de grooves bien sentis. Sur le disque joint à la méthode vous trouverez plusieurs fichiers audios et vidéos. Les vidéos (mp4) présentent en images les multiples grooves tels qu?ils doivent être joués à vitesse normale puis au ralenti. Les exercices ?techniques? étant pour leur part proposés à une vitesse adaptée seul un enregistrement les expose en vidéo. Les enregistrements audios (mp3) quant à eux proposent les playbacks correspondant aux multiples grooves là encore à deux tempi différents. Vous pourrez donc à votre tour et surtout à votre rythme y jouer les lignes et grooves proposés. Comme l?évoque clairement son titre cette méthode enseigne les bases du jeu en slap à la basse une technique emblématique et ô combien attirante pour la plupart des bassistes. Ainsi au fil des 7 chapitres qui la composent vous découvrirez tout d?abord les techniques de base du slap que sont le ?tapé du pouce? et le ?tiré?. Vous serez alors en mesure d?aborder les effets de jeu qui combinés aux techniques précédentes font merveille : notes mortes hammer-on pull-off glissés et tapé main gauche. Chacun de ces gestes sera bien entendutravaillé séparément par le biais de quelques exercices progressifs avant d?être abondamment mis en pratique sur une multitude de grooves bien sentis. Sur le disque joint à la méthode vous trouverez plusieurs fichiers audios et vidéos. Les vidéos (mp4) présentent en images les multiples grooves tels qu?ils doivent être joués à vitesse normale puis au ralenti. Les exercices ?techniques? étant pour leur part proposés à une vitesse adaptée seul un enregistrement les expose en vidéo. Les enregistrements audios (mp3) quant à eux proposent les playb

This book contains exciting moving and grooving original and innovative Bass lines from Detroit-born Peter Washburne. His innovative approach makes use of the Bass as an instrument capable of creating incrediblemusical ideas and compositions.In this book you will learn intricate complex and fun Bass lines which make you the Bass player shine like a pro at center stage! These Bass lines are functional and melodic and soundincredible with or without additional instruments.This book will help open new performance possibilities for the contemporary Bassist. Written in standard notation and TAB. Includes access to an online audio recordingfeaturing Peter Washburne's performance of each composition.