Soloing for Bass

The Improviser's Bass Method by Chuck Sher, is the complete method book for electric or upright Bass. This is a well tested and proven method, endorsed by bass greats such as Eddie Gomez, Rufus Reid and others, this is acomprehensive start-to-finish method for bass that includes everything from, holding your instrument to improvising with other musicians. Taking into account both beginners and more experienced players, the book isfilled with charts of how all the scales and chords lie on the fingerboard, hundreds of foundation exercises to help bassists gain mastery of their instrument, ideas for constructing bass lines, soloing and more. Alsoincludestranscriptions of bass lines and solos by dozens of the greatest jazz bassists, all of which combine to form a fabulous method.

Jazz Play-Along Volume 115-For use with all B Flat E Flat C and bass clef instruments the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians.With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time.FOR STUDY each tune includes a split track with:Melody cue with proper style and inflectionProfessional rhythm tracksChoruses for soloingRemovable bass partRemovable piano part.FOR PERFORMANCE each tune also has:An additionalfull stereo accompaniment track (no melody)Additional choruses for soloing.

Jazz Play-Along Volume 91-For use with all Bb Eb and C instruments the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before.FOR STUDY each tune includes a split track with:Melody cue with proper style and inflectionProfessional rhythm tracksChoruses for soloingRemovable bass partRemovable piano partFOR PERFORMANCE each tune also has:An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody)Additionalchoruses for soloing.10 songs: Bemsha Swing • Blue Monk • Bright Mississippi • Bye-Ya • Let's Call This • Pannonica • Rhythm-a-ning • 'Round Midnight • Shuffle Boil • Ugly Beauty.

A Look Inside Scales. Par GATELY EARL. Bien qu'il existe de nombreux livres d'échelle fine sur le marché, aucun d'entre eux n'est vraiment aller à l'intérieur des échelles d'explorer les divers intervalles, échelles harmonisées dans les triades et 7ths diatonique, tons voisin pour atteindre certains chromatisme et sur la façon d'employer les multiples utilisations des écailles (modes) en superposant les sur les accords données à élargir et à leur couleur. Une variété de progressions de corde, tirées de diverses formes, sont utilisés dans les idées pour Soloing, avec analyse complète. Le livre couvre les échelles harmonisée de la Major, ascendant mineure mélodique et le mineur harmonique. Egalement couverts sont les échelles symétriques : l'échelle diminué de moitié-étape/ensemble-étape, échelle toute étape moitié diminuée, ton entiers et les écailles chromatique, plus le Major, Minor, altéré majeur et Blues mineur Pentatonics et le III majeur harmonique échelle. Companion CD inclus. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Jazz - Technic / Etude / Guitare Basse

For use with all Bb, Eb, C, and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time.For study: each tune includes a split track with:Melody cue with proper style and inflectionProfessional rhythm tracksChoruses for soloingRemovable Bass partRemovable Piano partFor Performance, each tune also has:An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody)Additional choruses for soloingThis volume features 10 songs: Dear Old Stockholm, Gypsy in My Soul, I Hear a Rhapsody, Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good), Mean to Me, On Green Dolphin Street, Pure Imagination, Robbin's Nest, Rosetta and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. / Tout Instrument

Ready to take your playing to the next level? Renowned bassist Gary Willis presents valuable how-to insight that bassists of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying 64-track online audio provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including: techniques improvising and soloing equipment practicing ear training performance theory and much more.

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.

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!

Jason Raso???s Soloing on Electric Bass: A Chord Tone Approach provides the next step following his first book for Mel Bay Publications Improvising on Electric Bass. The primary focus of this second book is to help you develop a more melodic approach to solo bass playing. The author suggests avoiding root notes concentrating instead on chord tones of a 3rd 5th and 7th as fertile ground to begin revising your approach to more creative soloing. Following a series of standard notation exercises exploring intervals and goal notes in all keys Jason presents a dozen original solo etudes in notation and tablature.

A topic not often broached for bass guitar improvising a solo can be a scary and mysterious situation for many bass players. Have no fear! This excellent book/CD pack delivers all you need to become a master soloist no matter what style of music you play. Featuring loads of solo exercises clear and concise theory discussion and plenty of play-along tracks you'll learn the tricks and tools of soloing for bass. Covers: major scale modes melodic minor scale modes harmonic minor scale modes symmetrical scales modal interchange key-center playing scale substitutions superimposition and more!

Comprend 2 CDs de Marc Johnson isolation pour chaque exercice. (Marc a été le bassiste avec Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Lyle Mays, etc.).Comprend les transcriptions des solos de bass par : Eddie Gomez, John Patitucci, Scott La Faro, Jimmy Haslip, George Mraz, Gary Wilominique Di Piazza / comprend également : plus de 150 pages d'exercices pour vous aider à créer des solos de plus belles, ressemblant à corne - nombreuses transcriptions de Marc Johnson astounding solos improvisés sur les bandes d'accompagnement - compléter des chapitres sur: 1) choix de Mode de Notene, des exercices de phrasé 2) dans un Mode3) Choix de Notes sur une corde donnée, 4) typiquement Jazz Licks, 5) pratiquant l'isolation sur des airs / Guitare Basse

The conclusion to this power-packed electric bass method begins with a brief review of important concepts from the intermediate book. Designed to guide the student into high-level bass playing, this book makes advanced concepts like Rhythm Changes, tritone substitution, odd time signatures and chord playing easy to understand. Includes a study of Latin grooves, reggae, ska and advanced funk bass lines. Also covered are topics such as improvisation (soloing) and practicing. The perfect launching pad into a lifetime of great bass playing.