Fun With the String Bass

For 4 and 5 String Bass Set. Par BRUNEL BUNNY. Bunny Brunel has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Al Dimeola, Al Jarreau, and many other jazz and fusion greats. Bunny has compiled over 250 pages of 'nuts and bolts' basics needed to play contemporary bass. Applicable to either 4- or 5-string bass, this comprehensive text covers position playing, utilizing scales and modes, chords and harmony, creating bass lines, improvising, fingering, and much more! In notation only with fretboard diagrams. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / All Styles - Technic / Recueil / Guitare Basse

Par MASSIMO PALERMO. Learn bass fingerboard secrets with this quick and useful guide through the fundamental triad and seventh chord arpeggios. Learn to recognize these essential items and to easily find them over the whole neck. Each chord in Encyclopedia of Bass Arpeggios is provided with a brief introductory chart analyzing the arpeggios rising from chords and relevant inversions. The development in one and two octaves follows, considering the different positions and fingerings starting from the 3rd, the 4th, and the 5th strings. All arpeggios are presented in standard notation and tablature. Finally, a table summarizes the scales to be used with each type of chord. As well as a valuable reference for all bass players, this book gives students a fresh and comprehensive tool to practice arpeggios in a very simple and constructive way. An excellent opportunity to gain a fluent understanding of the fretboard and to hone playing skills in terms of dexterity and accuracy. For 4-string and 5-string bass. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Theory and Harmony / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Play-Along Tracks For Developing Your Blues Bass Performnace Skill. Par ROSE FRANK DE. Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no bass. This gives you the opportunity to work on your blues bass patterns. I have used several different keys and tempos throughout these Play-Along Trax. These Play-Along Trax give you a very realistic example of how you would play live with a band. Music examples are kept fairly simple to make sure this book is accessible to bass players just above the beginning level. For best understanding of these techniques refer to Mel Bay's Blues Bass, Level 1 (MB21063BCD). Lastly, all the references in this book are written for a right-handed four string electric bass. If you play a 5 string bass you just need to extend the examples to include your B string. If you play left-handed then you need to reverse any references to the left and right hands. We will use standard music notation along with bass tablature (TAB) for this book. / Niveau : Débutant / Blues - Play Along / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Learn scales and their chord relationships with this 5-String Bass Scale Chart from Corey Dozier.The chart is small enough to take with you on the go allowing you to incorporate it into yourdaily warm-ups. Moveable scale diagrams help you to play each scale in any key and tabs are included alongside notation.Give your Bass all the attention it deserves.

This clear comprehensive Corey Dozier Wall Chart includes four movable scale diagrams for each scale on the 5-string Bass. Learning and practicing these scales will allow you to play the correct notes whencreating Bass lines and will provide you with a solid musical foundation. Ideal for display in your bedroom or practice room this chart will help you to develop the muscle memory needed to shred scales in every key.

Intermediate/Advanced. When Charlie Parker made his famous with strings recordings, jazz musicians realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their own creativity. Legendary players soon followed suit, making a with strings album almost an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards arranged by jazz great and award-winning arranger Lennie Niehaus. Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (p) Tyrone Wheeler (b) Steve Davis (d) Peter McHugh (Violins) Alan Oldfield (Synth Strings) Includes: # I Cover The Waterfront # Fools Rush In # You Go To My Head # September In The Rain # You're My Everything # You and The Night and The Music # Autumn In New York # When Your Lover Has Gone # Namely You # Lover, Come Back To Me

It's time to take center stage to deliver all the pyrotechnics usually associated with six-string guitar shredders! Shredding Bass Guitar takes you there through in-depth lessons on building technique, dexterity, and speed. It shows you how to shred using chords, arpeggios, and scales, and covers heavy metal and funk techniques like tapping, string skipping, and slap and pop. Lessons and examples are in the styles of bass masters Billy Sheehan, Les Claypool, Steve Harris, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, and others. Shredding Bass Guitar provides a fresh perspective on the four-string electric bass and is a must-have for any bassist looking to take their playing to a new level. The accompanying CD features all the examples from the book. Features * In-depth lessons for developing technique, dexterity, and speed * For pick-style and fingerstyle players * Covers techniques like string skipping, tapping, two-handed tapping, wide-interval skipping, slap and pop, double thumbing, double popping, and more About the Author David Overthrow is an author, educator, and virtuoso bassist. After attending Berklee College of Music, he began performing with a wide variety of artists throughout the U.S. and Europe, playing rock, funk, jazz, and R and B. David is Director of Music at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He has written for Bass Guitar magazine, authored numerous electric bass methods, and taught three instructional videos for Alfred Music. David has performed with such luminaries as Pat Metheny, Stanley Clarke, Mike Stern, Trey Anastasio, Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, and Sonny Landreth. / Guitare Basse

Four Double Basses. Eight well-known Christmas carols in a new guise. Score and parts.The Programme of Christmas Carols was first performed in New Orleans in 1976. In its original version the players were required to wear Dickensian costume and a seasonal narrative preceded each of the carol arrangements. The texts appear below.Duration without text: c.20 minutesDuration with text: c.45 minutesIntroduction by Robert RoheThe introductory text assembled with the kind assistance of Father Peacock of Loyola University of New Orleans was designed for use where the receptivity of the audience warrants. So little is known about thebeloved Christmas carols it is fitting that a brief sketch of the carols' past be used to enhance the familiar music.If desired the introductory text may be omitted at the discretion of the performers.The brief text preceding each carol should be used to acquaint the audience with what to expect from a quartet that will be playing the unexpected. The text also will pace the program and will extend performance time to around 45 minutes.In performance the bass viol quartet of New Orleans wore peaked caps and turtle necked sweaters to simulate the street performers of Dickens' time. The choice of four string basses for this program was to bring the closest relatives of the true viol into play.History and development of the Christmas CarolThe celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ has been observed for nearly 2 000 years through the ritual of the Christian Church with part of that ritual being devoted to celebration in song. In those early days church music was sung only no musical instruments taking part in the service.The type of song used by the church had the name 'plain-song'. It was a single line of melody plain and unadorned sung by one or more voices. By the year 1660 A.D. it had developed a second name 'The Gregorian Chant' after Pope Gregory who encouraged the use

Founding member and innovative bass player with the classic rock group Yes Chris Squire is a major force in the band's revolutionary sound. His unique approach to the bass in an integral part of the recognition that Yes receives as one of the most influential groups on rock music history. The band Yes was formed in the late 1960s and Chris is the only original band member that still performs with the band today. In this in-depth interview with Chris Squire taped in 1990 Chris reveals some of his earliest aspirations in music to his prolific contributions as the bass player with Yes. Chris demonstrates his unique style in songs performed on the90125 World Tour after the release of Yes' double-platinum album ?Owner of a Lonely Heart.? Live performances include ?Changes ? where he plays a potent 8-string bass; plus ?I've Seen All Good People ? ?'Round About ? ?I'm Running ? and ?Cinema.? Chris gives us a close look at the styles and technique he uses with a unique collection of basses. With a rebellious and visionary style Chris says It's down to must attacking things really. So step into the world of Chris Squire with fascinating musical history bass riffs and riveting live concert footage.

Bass Bible Book, Second Edition Book/2-Cd Set. Par WESTWOOD PAUL. The English bassist Paul Westwood is one of the most in demand bass players of our time. His Bass Bible is the ultimate method book for every bass player. It contains a fascinating journey through the world of techniques, styles, grooves, and their evolution, using more than 1000 musical examples in all! This book is designed like a dictionary of musical phrases, which can be opened at the point that interests you. Learning a whole series of musical phrases, riffs, rhythms and patterns provides the basic language for performing within a group. Each section of the book captures the essence of a particular style, providing a springboard from which to start improvising. In notation and tablature for 4-string bass. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Rhythm/Backup / Méthode / Guitare Basse

Warm-up exercises are some of the most important things a bassist can learn. This 5 1/2' x 8' QWIKGUIDE(TM) book/CD set focuses on warming up the left and right hands. The goal of these warm-ups is to provide sufficientpreparation before a performance to avoid strain or other injury. There are sixty warm-up examples with special sections for five- and six-string bass. Written in tablature only.

Instructional DVD for 6-String Bass-Oteil Burbridge has played bass with the legendary Allman Brothers Band since 1997. Bandmate Derek Trucks calls him 'the Michael Jordan of the bass.' In this comprehensive and entertaining DVD Oteil discusses the fine points of bass playing and musicianship including: Rhythm concepts African Latin jazz funk poly rhythms and basic drumming concepts; Harmony chord structure and shapes for the six-string bass; Listening to artists from various styles of music; Emotional and spiritual aspects of music how to let our emotions out in music so we can make a spiritual connection with others; Relative pitch singing along with what you play; Thinking melodically breaking musical ideas into bite-sized parts; and much more. 59 minutes.

Par BAY WILLIAM. Une collection de 47 solos facile-à-play, big-note, un niveau sur folkloriques favoris pour les jeunes élèves de la contrebasse. Conçu pour construire une technique, plage et endurance tout en conservant l'intérêt des élèves. Plaisir à jouer et sert idéalement un supplément à n'importe quelle méthode. Tous les solos dans ce texte peuvent être joué ensemble dans l'ensemble avec le plaisir avec violon - Fun avec violoncelle - et s'amuser avec les livres de Bass. Comprend de nombreux airs préférés : Hail ! Grêle ! Tous ici du Gang-, j'ai été Workin ' sur le Railroad et beaucoup d'autres. / Niveau : Débutant / Folk - Solos / Recueil / Guitare Basse Electrique