Funk Bass: Bass Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

Level 1-Described as the ?New spiritual warrior for the Funk? by legendary bass pioneer Bootsy Collins Freekbass teaches you step-by-step how to lay down the funk! You start at the beginning by learning how to properly holdand tune your bass left and right hand technique and the G major scale. You quickly graduate to key funk elements like slap and pop thump pluck groove and timing. Learn octaves and how to put major and minor triads into fullprogressions. Funk is a core style and the techniques are used in many genres of music. This program is a must for all aspiring bass players!Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's onlinelesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links with instructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play musicusing The Rock House Method.

A Guide to the Techniques and Philosophies of Funk Bass. The Hal Leonard Funk Bass Method is your complete guide to learning funk bass. It uses real funk songs to teach you the basics of grooving and soloing funk bass in the style of Flea Victor Wooten Marcus Miller Rocco Prestia and many others. Songs include: Brick House · Can't Stop · Fire · Higher Ground · I'll Take You There · Let's Groove · Pick up the Pieces · Stay · Sumthin' Sumthin' · What Is Hip · and more.

Jon Liebman. Critically acclaimed as the best single source for the techniques used to play funk and slap-style bass! Features several photos and a special section on equipment and effects. A book for everyone - from beginners toadvanced players. Includes a foreword by John Patitucci and is endorsed by Rich Appleman of the Berklee College Of Music Will Lee Mark Egan Stuart Hamm and many others. Includes a 58-minute audio CD accompaniment.

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

Questo metodo si rivolge a tutti i bassisti che hanno voglia di divertirsi e di esercitarsi a lungo suonando non meno di 50 grooves Funk! Per affrontare serenamente queste 50 linee di basso Funk lo studio inizia con un capitolo preliminare dedicato alle principali tecniche di esecuzione (palm mute ghost notes shake double stops slide hammer-on pull-off slap?) nonché alle particolarità ritmiche (sedicesimi e relative pause lo staccato?) di questo stile musicale. Il DVD Video permette inoltre di scoprire tutti questi grooves suonati in vere condizioni musicali a velocità normale poi ridotta. Il CDAudio MP3 invece vi dà la possibilità di interpretarli su delle basi musicali di lunga durata (da 3 a 4 minuti ognuna ossia più di 6 ore di musica in tutto!) a velocità normale poi ridotta (due registrazioni per ogni groove). Potrete in questo modo esercitarvi nelle migliori condizioni possibili. In breve si tratta di un metodo ideale per suonare veri grooves completi alla maniera dei più grandi: James Brown The Meters Bootsy Collins Parliament The Commodores Earth Wind and Fire Tower of Power Maceo Parker The Temptations...

The purpose of this method is to bring you back to the golden age of bass the 60’s and 70’s and the musical styles that really made it shine: Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Soul and Funk. These styles deeply influenced modern music especially in the way the bass was used giving it a prominent and even key role. At the menu of this method certainly a must-have for any serious bass player here are 25 bass lines... to have fun above all but also to let you make progress musically as well as technically. To give you the keys to these major styles a preliminary chapter will describe their distinctive features (sound scales and arpeggios influential bassists...). The accompanyingdisc contains audio and video files. The videos (mp4) show all the bass grooves as they should be played at normal tempo then at slow tempo. The audio recordings (mp3) contain the corresponding play-along tracks in two different tempos too. You will then be able to practise the featured grooves and maybe even develop your own ideas... in the Old School style ! The purpose of this method is to bring you back to the golden age of bass the 60’s and 70’s and the musical styles that really made it shine: Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Soul and Funk. These styles deeply influenced modern music especially in the way the bass was used giving it a prominent and even key role. At the menu of this method certainly a must-have for any serious bass player here are 25 bass lines... to have fun above all but also to let youmake progress musically as well as technically. To give you the keys to these major styles a preliminary chapter will describe their distinctive features (sound scales and arpeggios influential bassists...). The accompanyingdisc contains audio and video files. The videos (MP4) show all the bass grooves as they should be played at normal tempo then at slow tempo. The audio recordings (MP3) contain the corresponding play-along tracks in two differenttempos too. You will then be able to practise the featured grooves and maybe even develop your own ideas... in the Old School style !

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Riffs for Bass is designed to help both Bass players and Keyboard players improve their Bass playing technique with a wide range of different Funk riffs and grooves. The book starts off with easier examples and gradually increases in difficulty as the examples become more syncopated. Each of the 55 example riffs has been recorded three times on the accompanying CD: played through twice with drums & percussion guitars and keyboards at the regular tempo; Rhythm tracks at the regular tempo to practice along with; and a slowed down track of the Bass part with just a click track so you can hear precisely what the Bass part isplaying.

A Comprehensive Method For Electric And Upright Bass. Par GERTZ BRUCE. La maîtrise de la basse est une méthode approfondie pour basse électrique et dressées conçu pour guider les bassistes de maîtrise. Elle débute avec la construction des temps forts et compétences rythmiques, une base solide sur laquelle tous les basse jouant doit être enraciné. Suite à cela, les étudiants apprendre un large éventail de rainures et pratique de la lecture de tous les styles de musique : Blues, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Fusion (y compris les compteurs impairs), Jazz, Latin, Baroque, classique et plus. Formation oreille incorporée dans la méthode améliore les aptitudes des élèves d\'écoute, enseigner aux étudiants d\'entendre les rythmes, les mélodies et les progressions de corde. Leçons de théorie aident les élèves à comprendre le fonctionne de la basse dans la musique. Les étudiants étudient également improvisation de pièces de bass et de solos sur les changements de la corde, articulation (doigt et technique de la prosternation), des objectifs de rendement, visualisation et bien plus. Chaque volume se déplace logiquement au prochain niveau même joueurs chevronnés peuvent combler les trous dans leur technique en passant par la méthode du livre I et en déplaçant sur la technique d\'une plus grande... / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Methods / Méthode / Guitare Basse