ISBN 9781619110854. 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 rhythmic studies. 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 available for 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.

ISBN 9781619114937. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Gleaned from years of teaching, performance, and listening experience -bass players at all levels will benefit from studying the numerous exercises, grooves, and musical examples offered in this book. Whether you are into funk, RandB, fusion, jazz, rock, punk, reggae, alternative music, or any other style; the slap technique will find a niche in your bass playing vocabulary. Chapter headings include: Technique, Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs, Ghost Notes, Left Hand Slap, Open Strings, Double Slap, Double Stops, Double Pops, Other Licks and Tricks, and Advanced Grooves and Solos Using All Techniques. The author strongly advises the student to play each lesson slowly until the exercise or principle being illustrated is thoroughly mastered. Written in notation and tablature. Audio and video download available online.

ISBN 9781619116245. 8.5 X 11 inches.

A very thorough study of blues bass lines covering many different blues styles from Texas swing to jazz and rock blues. Along with specific instruction and analysis, plenty of sample blues bass lines are included. Great for beginners to advanced players, this book will teach you everything you need to know to play the blues. In notation and tablature.This package includes a play-along stereo online audio recording demonstrating most of the exercises in the book. Most of the exercises are recorded with bass and drums only, with the last few lessons adding electric guitar. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619119758.

An in-depth study of contemporary bass technique by highly acclaimed jazz bassist, Bernard Brunel. This book of exercises completes and compliments Mel Bay's Complete Book of Bass Essentials. Subjects covered in the 5 lesson divisions include: finger studies, patterns and exercises on major modes, harmonic minor modes, melodic minor modes, harmonic major modes and the diminished and whole-tone scales. Each lesson includes fretboard diagrams of the mode or scale used as well as standard notation to help the student develop good reading skills.

ISBN 9781610657556.

This book is designed to give five-string electric bass players an understanding of the bass fingerboard. Such knowledge is essential for the creation of melodic bass lines. Bass players must be able to perform on their instruments to the utmost of their abilities. To do so, they need the same tools that make any musician a powerful performer. The first set of tools consists of scales and arpeggios, which are the basic units from which all melodies and chord progressions are derived. This book will teach you, with a minimum of pain and lost sleep, to play these patterns over the entire range of this beautiful instrument. Written in notation, tablature, and fretboard diagrams. Includes access to online audio containing every exercise in the book.

ISBN 9781619116856. 8.5 X 11 inches. Blues music is a sturdy, adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This QWIKGUIDE is designed to help the bassist become more versatile. Each blues bass pattern in this book is played over four bars of C7. By practicing all 50 licks over the same chord progression, students can learn the basic concept of improvisation: how to play a variety of musical phrases over the same chord or chord changes. Each example is written in both notation and tablature exactly as it is recorded. The accompanying audio, featuring Larry McCabe's Heat-Seeking Missile Blues Band is recorded in stereo with drums and rhythm guitar in the center, bass guitar on the left, and lead guitar on the right. The licks are recorded at a moderate tempo for ease of learning. The rhythm guitar parts heard on the online audio recording are taught in Mel Bay's 101 Bad to the Bone Blues Guitar Rhythm Patterns. The lead guitar parts are taught in Mel Bay's Famous Blues Guitar Lines. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619114913. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. While still available in two separate volumes (93234 and 93235) Roger Filiberto's widely-used beginning bass method is now available in one comprehensive book! Includes handy arpeggio charts featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and dominant seventh chords, plus their upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained widespread acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study! Includes audio and video download files online.

ISBN 9781619115262.

Welcome to the School of the Blues Lesson Series! This book and recording were created to help give you context to all the music you worked so hard to learn. The recorded Play-Along Trax have no bass. This gives you the opportunity to work on your blues bass patterns. I have used several different keys and tempos throughout these Play-Along Trax. These Play-Along Trax give you a very realistic example of how you would play live with a band.Music examples are kept fairly simple to make sure this book is accessible to bass players just above the beginning level. For best understanding of these techniques refer to Mel Bay's Blues Bass, Level 1 (MB21063BCD).Lastly, all the references in this book are written for a right-handed four string electric bass. If you play a 5 string bass you just need to extend the examples to include your B string. If you play left-handed then you need to reverse any references to the left and right hands. We will use standard music notation along with bass tablature (TAB) for this book. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781513459516. 8.75x11.75 inches.

This book presents selected studies by masterful 19th-century classical guitar composer Fernando Sor, arranged and edited for bass. Drawn from several of Sors collections of studies, this publication aims to provide electric bass players with material that is both didactic and enjoyable to play but could also be used in recital programs. A set of duets provides more advanced players with further study material. Written in standard notation and tablature.

ISBN 9781619115163. 5.5 x 8 inches. This Qwikguide shows bassists how to play along with popular jazz chord progressions. The examples demonstrate how to use triads, arpeggios, scales, and passing tones in swing, be-bop, bossa nova, and ballad styles. The sample bass lines are all written in tablature for the 4-string bass, making it easy to learn fingerings and positions. Comes with access to online audio that presents each example twice, once as bass solo with accompaniment (piano and drums) and then as accompaniment only.

ISBN 9781513455242. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

This book shows how to develop bass fingerboard knowledge quickly, easily and accurately. Is uses visual group theory to transform unmistakable models into chord forms and arpeggios for all triad and seventh-chord types in root position and inverted. Because the examples illustrate by fingerboard patterns rather than by written notes, music readying is not needed to understand the material.

ISBN 9781609748104. 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.

ISBN 9781610659123. Fretless bass is a unique instrument. The approach to playing fretless bass is much more like playing upright bass than to fretted bass. This book will cover many of the important techniques required to become a good fretless bassist. Some of these include slides, intonation development, and sustain. The 100 examples are written in bass clef and TAB (to suggest positions). All examples included on companion audio. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781609748500. This is a very valuable study and reference book for the bass player. Four different scale and chordal arpeggio forms are shown for each major, minor, and dominant seventh chord. In each key the basic I-IV-V7 chord progression is shown in four different locations on the bass fingerboard. Also included are whole tone and chromatic scales. Finally, numerous movable chordal arpeggio forms are presented on 12 types of chords.

ISBN 9781610652056. The ability to read, play, and make a convincing, consistent groove in a sixteenth note rhythm is one of the more formidable challenges facing a contemporary rhythm section player. This book attempts to address that challenge by supplying chord progressions with different syncopated rhythmic patterns. Practice of these exercises will lead to an understanding of the style, and ability to execute the rhythms common to funk. Comping Styles for Bass is a collection of 36 different progressions with both guitar and bass parts written out, so a bass player can see what the guitar is doing and also get used to reading bass parts in a funk style. It includes a online audio which demonstrates the progressions in a trio setting of guitar, bass, and drums. It is a useful tool for learning to interact with a rhythm section. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619118157.

Classical and Contemporary Studies for Bass Guitar combines essential studies from 19th century composer Giovanni Bottesini; the aPaganini of bassa, with contemporary studies by Gilbert Isbin; one of the leading European composers for guitar, lute and bass. These 33 studies will help build not just your technique, but reading abilities and overall musicianship. The material is intended for serious bass students and can be played on a fretted or fretless bass. While Bottesini's works lie firmly in the classical genre, Isbin's studies bring in elements of classical, jazz and world music. All the studies are written in standard bass clef notation as well as tablature. Includes access to online audio recorded by Rob MacKillop for each study.

ISBN 9781619119222.

Explore the fretboard and engage your creativity in playing the most awesome musical instrumenta the electric bass! Extreme Bass Grooves reflects the authoras ability to create inspired, rhythmic electric bass compositions that can be played solo or with an ensemble, virtually inviting another instrumentalist to improvise over the bass and percussion lines. Each groove features unique fingering concepts and techniques that will enhance your fretboard knowledge, add new licks to your repertoire, and fuel your desire to become a better bass player. More than simply bass studies, these repetitive, alternately aggressive or hypnotic figures or licks encourage improvisation and would make a refreshing addition to a collegiate recital program. Written in standard bass clef notation and tablature, the collection includes access to online audio of 18 bass and percussion tracks suitable as a foundation for improvisation by any chromatic instrument.