Hip-Hop Grooves for Bass: Bass Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

Learn some of the essential skills and techniques of funk bass with ultra-quick and effortless style of Bill ???The Buddha??? Dickens. In this terrific book and CD method he lays bare his incredible arsenal of funk skills in a carefully structured format that allows you to incorporate these amazing techniques into your own music. Learn: Thump pluck hammer and ghost-note techniques Basic intermediate and advanced variations Hip-hop grooves The Buddha Rope Advanced Riffs Six complete play-along tracks

Electric Bass. Fingerstyle funk bass playing can be found in many styles of modern music. Some of those styles include: funk soul fusion contemporary jazz hip-hop pop and dance. This book focuses on advanced rhythmicstudies. It is loaded with grooves and funky progressions. The companion free downloadable audio files feature all of the examples recorded with a full band. There are play-along tracks for many of the full band examples availablefor download as well. This can help students focus on groove and time. All examples are written in bass clef and tablature. Free audio files available.

Have you ever heard a Drum hook that just makes you want to stop what you are doing and dance? Now you can learn to play beats just like the your favorite drummers. This book and accompanying audio provide you with the toolsnecessary to become a great Hip Hop drummer.The examples focus on how to play creative beats in steady time using only the hi-hat snare and bass Drum. Mastering the examples in this book will allow you to play and flowthrough grooves using these fundamental parts of the Drum kit.

Can you learn how to swing? Yes and this book will show you how giving you a huge vocabulary of creative triplet grooves and fills to play in every style. The book does this by taking common comfortable 16th-note patterns and adapting them into a triplet feel. The results are amazingly musical and refreshingly creative and will give any drummer tons of new ideas to play within any swing-based groove.Jeff Salem covers many concepts including solidifying your basic triplet grooves in various styles moving around the drumset with triplets incorporating the bass drum into your fills creating interesting triplet grooves using 16th note-based rhythms applyingparadiddle concepts to triplet grooves and fills incorporating rests into your swung phrases and more.In the later chapters the triplet rhythms presented are applied to fills that can be used in blues R&B rock and hip-hop settings and are also applied specifically to jazz concepts to broaden your independence and vocabulary in a traditional swing setting.An introductory section with basic triplet feels and a listening guide is designed to start beginning-level drummers on the right path to understanding swing-based styles.The book comes complete with an MP3 CD presenting play-along tracks in many styles which are designed for you to apply the concepts learned in the book. The disc also includes demonstrations of nearly every example in the book.

Par RICHARDSON DAWN. Block Rockin' Beats” has tons of cool grooves and fills for the intermediate to advanced drummer. This book reflects recent musical trends by focusing on funky rock, hip hop, jungle and drum 'n' bass influenced patterns for the drum kit. As time marches on, popular music continues to evolve and change. 'Block Rockin' Beats” is designed to give the drummer more ideas and tools to help function in a musical environment that was not only influenced by jazz, blues, gospel, country, soul, latin and funk styles - but also shaped by D.J.s, samplers and electronic music. Drummers are often called upon now to replace or ad to programmed drums in the recording studio. For live shows, live drumming might be melded together with electronic elements or D.J.s, or both Rock and popular music are incorporating so many different elements and styles at this point, it's hard to keep track! Update your rhythmic vocabulary with some 'Block Rockin' Beats. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Rock - Technic / Etude / Batterie