101 authentic funk and disco bass lines in standard notation and tablature with useful demonstration CD included. Bass lines of the era that sent the world to the dance floor were intricate and sometimes complex and Josqin des Pres guides you through this style.

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.

Stuff!... A new instructional book and CD series featuring tips from renowned instructors. Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book and CD pack for Bassists. Provides valuable tips on performing recording the music business instruments and equipment (including electronics) grooves fills soloing techniques care and maintenance and more. Covers rock jazz blues RandB and funk through demos of authentic grooves. The accompanying CD includes many of the examples in the book performed both in solo bass format and in a full-band setting so you can hear how important concepts fit in with other instrumentsand ensembles. Topics include: arpeggios chucking fretless bass ghost note isometrics raking slapping and popping walking bass lines zydeco bass and more!

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.

The complete guide to bass-The term ???12-bar blues??? has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz rock 'n' roll and other forms of popular music.This book and CD package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. It covers many blues styles including country Chicago Texas swing RandB blues-rock and funk blues. You'll also learn the blues bass scales and a history of the bass in blues music. The CD includes 51 full-band tracks!

Bass players of all levels will find a wealth of practical music knowledge in this special book and audio package. Acclaimed bassist and composer Sean Malone will take you on a journey through the fascinating realm of the written language of music using easy-to-understand terms and concepts musical examples diagrams and much more! The accompanying online audio provides ninety-six tracks of examples demonstrations and play-alongs. Lessons include: Properties of sound Fundamentals Rhythm and Meter Scales and Modes Intervals Keys Chords Bass notation Standard notationand Tablature And much more!!

Grammy nominee and fretless bass pioneer Bunny teams up with best selling author and session bass player Josquin Des Pres to offer the first book/cd tutorial dedicated solely to the development of skills on the fretless bass.

Perfect for beginning to advanced players this book/download pack by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing improving and maintaining bass guitar technique.Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales and arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping and popping; and more ? all in styles ranging from rock funk and RandB to jazz disco reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed improved dexterity better accuracy and heightened coordination ? not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying audiotracks include all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along.

Bass Play-Along Volume 13-The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the online audio 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 online audio is available for streaming or download using the unique access code printed inside the cover.This pack includes the songs All My Loving • Back in the U.S.S.R. • Day Tripper • Eight Days a Week • Get Back • I Saw Her Standing There • Paperback Writer andTaxman.

Bass Play Along Volume 41-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 also 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. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!

Learn Create and Apply Your Own Blues Bass Lines-Explore various 12-bar blues forms the shuffle feel walking lines box patterns tone turnarounds passing tones and transitions to establish a great blues groove with this book!Use the accompanying audio to play along with a professional band in shuffle slow blues rhumba and blues rock styles. You will also learn how to lock in with the drummer in order to complement the other instruments in an authentic blues band.