Take over John Entwistle and be the Bassist for the Who!Containing eight of their biggest songs this book includes specially recorded sound-alike Cd with full performance demonstrations and backing tracks to play and sing along to. Eight of their greatest songs transcribed for Bass Guitar from original recordings for Bass Guitar in standard notation and tablature with vocal line. Includes a fantastic sound-alike CD!

Fast Track DVD is an exciting new way to quickly learn how to play that Bass Guitar you just bought.Each of the Fast Track DVDs are filmed in hi-definition and features on-screen music with tons of full-band examples. It's like having a private lesson that you can pause fast-forward or rewind any time you want. What's better is that across the series (Drums Guitar Bass Keyboard) the last three full-band songs are the same so you can play along with your fellow new instrumentalists as a band!

Learn to play bass and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about buying a bass guitar, tuning and holding it, fingering and picking styles, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation and tablature. You will then move right along to playing different notes, scales, and bass lines, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and TAB. You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including rock, Heavy Metal, Blues, country, and jazz. Near the end of the book you will be introduced to the concept of playing from chord sheets, which will assist you in coloring your and others' musical creations with your own unique, rockin' style. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play from popular bass TAB folios and be ready to play in a band. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * TAB licks and bass lines * Bass fingerboard chart * Complete chord chart * Photos showing hand positions and more The accompanying DVD features educator Jared Meeker teaching every lesson and performing all the songs. The DVD also includes TNT 2 software that lets you customize audio tracks for practice. Use it to slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys. You may also stream the video and download the TNT 2 software from a browser. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way. / Guitare Basse

J.S. Bach For Electric Bass contains three famous duets and five solo pieces arranged for Bass Guitar by Bob Gallway Ph.D. This is an innovative collection of J.S. Bach pieces for electric bass complete with historical analysis instruction and playing suggestions. Includes: Two-Part Invention No.4 in D Minor; Two-Part Invention No.1 in C Major; Sinfonia from Partita 2 in C Major for Solo Harpsichord and five more selections.

With Online Audio-Essential Blues Bass Grooves within the School of the Blues Lesson Series presents 46 Bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues Bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and TAB. Thisbook is accompanied by an audio recording of all examples (played by author Frank De Rose) along with the background music. This method is for all skill level players. This series is designed for students ofother instruments to play together. If you have friends that play Harmonica Guitar Keyboard or Drums tell them about this series so that you can play together. Access to audio available online.

Dean Peer is an internationally acclaimed solo bass artist and is widely recognized as the autority on the use of bass harmonics. In this book Dean reveals his revolutionary techniques for expanding the range of the bass guitar using harmonics. Dean begins with basic techniques then shows you how to create fabulous linear lines and chord voicings using his remarkable techniques for false and dual node harmonics. All music is written in standard notation and tablature and all the examples are contained on the included CD.

Bassists today need to be familiar with all styles of music in order to increase their versatility and become in-demand players. With over 100 bass lines covering a multitude of musical styles and techniques, Bass Line Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for the modern bassist. This encyclopedia, geared towards the electric bass guitar, is a compendium of bass lines from popular music styles of the 1950s to the present. The genres covered include Chicago blues, Texas blues, surf, doo wop, heavy metal, punk, funk, bebop, modal jazz, reggae, bossa nova, samba, bluegrass, Texas swing, and many more. With historical overviews and real-world examples from every popular style a working bassist would need to know, Bass Line Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference guide that every bassist should have in their collection. / Guitare Basse

A founding member of both Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna Jack Casady presents his celebrated Bass style for you to learn. With the aid of bandmate Jorma Kaukonen on guitar and vocals Casady gives you a candid insight into his approach. Six of his greatest Bass parts are dissected and explored as Casady demonstrates his favourite techniques including:Octaves Comping Vibrato Tonal variations Casady explains how the combination of these techniques coupled with a good knowledge of the fretboard can be used to create basslines that build in excitement and energy. Soon you will applying his ideas to set your own basslines and melodies on fire. The disc iscomplete with a full notation and tablature guide to all examples.

You are beginning to play the bass and would like to make progress while having fun and without delay? Then you are holding the right method in your hands! On the menu no less than 50 simple bass lines accessible to beginners and inspired by the greatest artists past and present: The Beatles AC/DC Bob Marley Deep Purple Eric Clapton Elvis Presley Police ZZ Top James Brown Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding U2 Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones... In order to help you each bass line is preceded by an explanatory text detailing its technical rhythmical and theoretical aspects. Difficulty increases progressively throughout the pages. The Video DVD allows you to hear andmoreover to watch these 50 bass lines as they should be played giving you the opportunity to see the correct moves to pick the right fingers and to be rhythmically accurate! The mp3 CD contains as many tracks as bass lines that is 50 play-along tracks featuring two different tempos: the objective tempo (normal) and the practice tempo (slow). On the normal tempo track the bass plays over the first cycle and is mute hereafter to let you take the place! Lastly these tracks have a deliberately long duration (3 to 4 minutes each more than 7 hours of music then!) to give you time to practise in the best possible conditions. You are beginning to play the bass and would like to make progress while having fun and without delay? Then you are holding the right method in your hands! On the menu no less than 50 simple bass lines accessible to beginners and inspired by the greatest artists past and present: The Beatles AC/DC Bob Marley Deep Purple Eric Clapton Elvis Presley Police ZZ Top James Brown Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding U2 Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones... In order to help you each bass line is preceded by an explanatory text detailing its technical rhythmical and theoretical aspects. Difficulty increases progressively throughout the pages.The Video DVD allows you to hear andmoreover to watch these 50 bass lines as they should be played giving you the opportunity to see the correct moves to pick the right fingers and to be rhythmically accurate! The mp3 CD contains as many tracks as bass lines that is 50 play-along tracks featuring two different tempos: the objective tempo (normal) and the practice tempo (slow).On the normal tempo track the bass plays over the first cycle and is mute hereafter to let you take the place! Lastly these tracks have a deliberately long duration (3 to 4 minutes each more than 7 hours of music then!) to give you time to practise in the best possible conditions.

Pentatonic scales are for the Bass Guitar as the alphabet is for language. An essential base for everything else this method can be seen as a passport to the four stringed instrument. This method charts the essential minor pentatonic scale the major pentatonic as well as other five-note scales called hybrid pentatonics. However this method is not merely a boring list of scales the theory and techniques that are discussed are included as part of numerous musical examples of grooves and solos. The accompanying MP3 CD allows you to listen to all the technical and musical examples helping you to clarify difficulties of interpretation. Including around 7 hours of music intotal the CD is invaluable. Pentatonic scales are for the Bass Guitar as the alphabet is for language. An essential base for everything else this method can be seen as a passport to the four stringed instrument. This method charts the essential minor pentatonic scale the major pentatonic as well as other five-note scales called hybrid pentatonics. However this method is not merely a boring list of scales the theory and techniques that are discussed are included as part of numerous musical examples of grooves and solos. The accompanying MP3 CD allows you to listen to all the technical and musical examples helping you to clarify difficulties of interpretation. Including around 7hours of music in total the CD is invaluable.

Par DESPREZ JOSQUIN. When Leo Fender invented the electric bass in the early 1950s, little did he know the musical revolution that would follow. Dozens of musical styles were born as a direct result of his invention. Mel Bay's Encyclopedia of Bass Riffs is an overview of over 40 different musical styles, covering 50 years of electric bass playing. Through a wide variety of stylistic examples, this book explores many musical genres that may have never existed without the electric bass guitar. These examples will undoubtedly add diversity to your musical vocabulary and supplement your style. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Rock and Jazz - Licks and Phrases / Répertoire / Guitare Basse

An Essential Study Of Blues Grooves For The Bass. Par ROSE FRANK DE. Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues® Lesson Series, presents 46 bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and TAB. This book is accompanied by a CD recording of all examples (played by author Frank De Rose) along with the background music. This method is for all skill level players. This series is designed for students of other instruments to play together. If you have friends that play harmonica, guitar, keyboard or drums, tell them about this series so that you can play together. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Blues - Licks and Phrases / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Bass Play-Along Volume 35-The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the online audio tracks to hear how the bass should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. Songs: Could You Be Loved ? Get Up Stand Up ? Is This Love ? Jamming ? No Woman No Cry ? Stir It Up ? Three Little Birds ? Waiting in Vain. Pick up the corresponding Guitar and Drum Play-Along volumes so your whole band can jam along!