Rock Bass - At a Glance: Bass Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

At a Glance - Scales & Modes For Bass pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional bassist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic and the hi-def DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information and popular song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action.Scales & Modes for Bass features these lessons: Major and Minor Scale Shapes Pentatonic Scale Shapes the Seven Modes and Mixolydian Bass Grooves. Song examples include: Barracuda • California Girls • Carry On Wayward Son •Detroit Rock City • Dream On • Lay Down Sally • Smoke on the Water • Sultans of Swing • What's Going On • You Give Love a Bad Name • and more.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Basic Series Number of pages : 32 This superb study book or method supplement for any bass student contains 19 bass rhythm parts in a mixture of popular styles, including shuffles, reggae, rock, swing, standard walking bass, be-bop, newgrass, syncopated Latin lines, the jazz waltz, and country western. Performance notes are included with each tune explaining how to use position and fingering markings, when to shift position, how to count and play syncopated rhythm patterns, and more. Bass parts are in notation and tablature with fingerings and positions, and guitar lead and chord parts are shown. In addition, there are sections dealing with slap/pop and hammer-on techniques. Includes a handy base line manual and a chord arpeggio chart. The unique one-glance fingerboard chart shows musical notation exactly where it appears on the frets.