101 Bass Tips: Bass Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

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

Tab. Tone. Technique.-This is not your typical Bass tab book. In this new Tab+ series from Hal Leonard we provide you guidance on how to capture the Bass tones for each song as well as tips and advice on the techniques used to play the songs. Where possible we've confirmed the gear used on the original recordings via new and previously published interviews with the bassists producers and/or engineers. Then we make general recommendations on how to achieve a similar tone based on that info. Some of the songs will be easy to play even for advanced beginner students and others might present a much greater challenge. In either case we've identified key technique that shouldhelp you learn the songs with greater ease. This volume will help you master 25 must-know Bass classics including: Another One Bites the Dust Around the World Blurred Lines The Boys Are Back in Town Freewill Hey Joe The Joker London Calling My Generation Sledgehammer Strange Brew Sweet Emotion You Can Call Me Al Young Lust and more.

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. Lesson One: Basic fingerpicking patterns, bass runs, intermediate fingerpicking patterns, arpeggios, basic rock and blues beats. Fred teaches the songs 'Nine Pound Hammer?, 'Careless Love?, 'Red River Valley?, 'Worried Man Blues?, 'House of the Rising Sun? and more. Lesson Two: Fingerpicking syncopation, blues backup techniques, Boogie Bass pattern, turnarounds and licks. Songs: 'Railroad Bill?, 'Hesitation Blues?, 'Betty and Dupree? and more. Lesson Three: Country Fingerpicking, hammer-ons. Songs include: 'Bury Me Beneath the Willow?, 'Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms?, 'Leaning On The Everlasting Arms? and more. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 40 pages / niveau : Débutant/Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75

Learning to play Bass Guitar is a great experience but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you familiarise yourself with the instrument and then gets you playing -fast!Full-colour pictures clear diagrams and really practical advice combine to make Start-Up Bass Guitar do exactly what it says on the cover. You'll start off on the right track and that makes everythingelse come more easily.Contents include:Choosing equipmentHolding your BassTuningTips on practiceReading musicPlaying riffsPlayingscalesAlternating BassWalking Bass linesBlues Reggae Funk Rock and Latin-style Bass lines

Over 180 scales at your fingertips in twelve keys written in standard notationand tablature with fingering suggestions and five different scale positions that cover the entire fretboard. Presented in a handy-sized book thatfits into your guitar case.

Plus 11 More Top Hits-12 hit songs from today's top artists comprise this fantastic pop songbook all arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar. Featuring all of the most popular tunes from some of the brightest and best young stars this sheet music isideal for a pop lover who wants to play all the Chart Hits Now. With the uplifting bouncy rhythms of All About That Bass the beautiful melodies of George Ezra's Blame It OnMe and the sheer pop perfection that is Uptown Funk this collection contains all of the best contemporary singers and songwriters in one songbook. Whether you're Thinking Out Loud with Ed Sheeran orimagining you're Taylor Swift in your Wildest Dreams there is something for every pop lover with Chart Hits Now  the series that puts the best tunes that you've heard on the radio at yourfingertips.  Every song is arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar so you'll get standard notation with full vocal melody and Piano parts as well as Guitar chord symbols and boxes and full lyrics. Thisreally is everything you need to sing play and strum your favourite songs by artists like Meghan Trainor One Direction Take That Sam Smith and Tom Odell. You'll be able to astound your family and friends with how quicklyyou've learned these tunes exactly as the singers and performers play them. These songs are perfect for performance or just practising the art of playing great pop music their lovely melodies and catchy lyrics will stay in yourhead for days! Chart Hits Now is the perfect pop sheet music songbook for pianists singers or guitarists to learn the cream of the contemporary pop crop. The best songs you've heardover the past few weeks and months by the Taylors Ezras Smiths and One Directions of the music world are put at your fingertips with this pop sheet music collection of 12 Top Hits.

Learn to lay down phat and funky grooves or the deepest-darkest thunder only the low B tuning can deliver! The 5-string bass is being employed far more than ever in wider ranging styles and Brian Emmel's 5-String Bass Method helps you make the step to 5-string. Besides discussing how to adapt to the differences in the 5-string versus the 4-string this book explores the various ways of using the 5-string practice tips different techniques and practical applications to various genres demonstrated through songs on the accompanying CD.

Tipbook-This owner's guide for electric guitarists and bassists features numerous tips on auditioning and buying a (Bass) Guitar choosing new strings maintenance and tuning and other aspects that are unique to an Electric Guitar. This book also includes chapters on the history and the production of these instruments as well as an index a glossary and the unique Interactive Tipcodes that allow you to hear online audio examples.