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

This method is aimed at beginners who want have fun while developing their Bass Guitar technique. 50 Linee Di Basso Per Principianti contains no less than 50 Bass lines that are simple and accessible to beginners. The Bass lines in this book draw influence from some of the best known artists of all time including The Beatles AC / DC Bob Marley Deep Purple Eric Clapton Elvis Presley The Police ZZ Top James Brown Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding U2 Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones and more. Each Bass line is accompanied by an explanation to help you overcome any technical rhythmic or theoretical difficulties you might experience and the DVD Video allows you to listen to theBass lines at a normal then reduced speed giving you the chance to learn how to make the correct gestures and choose the most suitable fingerings. The MP3 CD includes the featured lines played at two different speeds: the first is normal â?? i.e. the speed to be achieved while the second has been reduced to help with study. Backing tracks are also included of 3-4 minutes each allowing you the opportunity to practice in as many different conditions as possible. More than 7 hours of music is included in total. This method is aimed at beginners who want have fun while developing their Bass Guitar technique.50 Linee Di Basso Per Principianti contains no less than 50 Bass lines that are simple and accessible to beginners. The Bass lines in this book draw influence from some of the best known artists of all time including The Beatles AC / DC Bob Marley Deep Purple Eric Clapton Elvis Presley The Police ZZ Top James Brown Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding U2 Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones and more.Each Bass line is accompanied by an explanation to help you overcome any technical rhythmic or theoretical difficulties you might experience and the DVDVideo allows you to listen to the Bass lines at a normal then reduced speed giving you the chance to learn how to make the correct gestures and choose the most suitable fingerings.The MP3 CD includes the featured lines played at two different speeds: the first is normal â?? i.e. the speed to be achieved while the second has been reduced to help with study. Backing tracks are also included of 3-4 minutes each allowing you the opportunity to practice in as many different conditions as possible. More than 7 hours of music is included in total.

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.

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Bass Method is the newest addition to the family, and features clear, well-paced instruction covering popular styles like rock, blues, country, and jazz. Lots of photos and diagrams make learning easy, and the included DVD contains iPod-compatible video for the visual learner. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Bass Method - the first and best choice for today's beginning bass students. Book 1 covers all the necessities including how to hold your bass, tuning your bass, right- and left-hand technique, the basics of reading music, notes on all four strings, scales, licks, songs, how to read TAB, and playing slides and accents.

Showcasing the tremendous often unrealized potential of the bass guitar Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten have put together this version of their groundbreaking Bass Extremes album/book project now available on DVD for the first time ever. Steve and Victor demonstrate how the bass guitar can supply bass lines piano and guitar-like comping figures lead solos and percussion parts in styles ranging from bebop to new age and heavy metal. Each piece highlights different aspects of their amazing techniques - like Steve's three-finger technique or his awe-inspiring command of harmonics and chord voicings or Victor's incredible funk grooves or his thumb and two-handedtapping techniques. Between each performance segment Steve and Victor walk you note-for-note through the licks and techniques that make up each song explaining and demonstrating everything at slow speeds.

Bass Recorded Versions-Red Hot Chili Pepper's eighth studio album Californication saw the return of the passionate guitar wizardry of John Frusciante to reunite the band's strongest line-up and at its best. It was some task to make analbum that lived up to the epic Blood Sugar Sex Magic or the acclaimed One Hot Minute but the Chili Peppers seemed to manage it with this raw uncompromising album that saw a significant move towards melody ratherthan suggestive rhythm. This folio contains authentic bass guitar transcriptions (transcribed from the original recordings) in both standard notation and tablature of all of Flea's bass line including Scar Tissue Around The World Californication and Purple Stain.

Tapping is a technique that involves playing notes with both hands directly on the neck of the Bass Guitar. It was popularised by virtuosos such as Adam Nitti Stuart Hamm Victor Wooten and Billy Sheehan but has become more and more popular with amateur players for the unique and futuristic sounds it can produce. With Tapping A La Basse you can learn everything necessary to master this cool technique. In four chapters this method will help you learn how to make strange and wonderful sounds with two-handed tapping. The first chapter details linear tapping the second will teach you how to create great riffs and licks with tappedarpeggios the third lets you combine tapping and chords while the fourth and final chapter will reveal polyphonic tapping. While some technical exercises are revealed this method is primarily based on practising ensuring that you master all the techniques through playing them.  The accompanying DVD is a great help in letting you hear and visualise how the tapping should sound and be played. Two different speeds enable you to see how it's done at normal speed then slowed down so you can play along and gradually get to grips with the style. With technical and musical examples within this method you will gain all the details needed to grasp Bass Guitar tapping!

Always wanted to play Bass? Then get on the FastTrack and make it happen now! FastTrack method books give you a fast way to learn how to play that new instrument (or the one that's been sitting in the closet for a few years). Skeptical because other method books haven't worked for you? That's exactly why we wrote these! They're designed for the player who wants to learn on their own terms with the help of some user-friendly instruction professional audio and video examples and cool music to play along the way. Don't worry: we're not going to just show you a few tricks to play one or two songs. You're going to get everything you need to startplaying (this is a Hal Leonard book after all!) but then in a couple of weeks you'll become the player you've always wanted to be ready to move into the songbooks filled with songs by the Beatles Clapton Hendrix and more. And just in case that's not enough to convince you the last section of all FastTrack Starter Packs (Guitar Bass Keyboard and Drums) include the same songs so that you and your buddies can form a band and jam together. So yes it IS time to reignite those rock star dreams!Includes notes and tab.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

In order to be able to express yourself freely with the instrument a good technique is essential. But this technique should be discreet and become both natural and instinctive so that it can serve the music. This can be achieved by practising specific exercises like those presented throughout this method. This book details a vast practice programme covering the right hand technique first with both the traditional and the so-called ?floating thumb? positions and the different left hand techniques including physical exercises to loosen the fingers as well as preparatory exercises for hammer-ons pull-offs slides and shifts. But this method doesn?t stophere! It will let you practise ghost notes staccatos and accents not to mention chords barring tapping harmonics palm mute picking and slap techniques. Throughout the different chapters examples will help you to musically put these technical exercises into practice. The DVD gives you the opportunity to watch all the gestures in detail which will definitely help you make technical progress. In order to be able to express yourself freely with the instrument a good technique is essential. But this technique should be discreet and become both natural and instinctive so that it can serve the music. This can be achieved by practising specific exercises like those presented throughout this method. This book details a vast practice programme covering the right hand technique first with both the traditional and the so-called ?floating thumb? positions and the different left hand techniques including physical exercises to loosen the fingers as well as preparatory exercises for hammer-ons pull-offs slides and shifts. But this methoddoesn?t stop here! It will let you practise ghost notes staccatos and accents not to mention chords barring tapping harmonics palm mute picking and slap techniques. Throughout the different chapters examples will help you to musically put these technical exercises into practice. The DVD gives you the opportunity to watch all the gestures in detail which will definitely help you make technical progress.

Instructional DVD for 6-String Bass-Oteil Burbridge has played bass with the legendary Allman Brothers Band since 1997. Bandmate Derek Trucks calls him 'the Michael Jordan of the bass.' In this comprehensive and entertaining DVD Oteil discusses the fine points of bass playing and musicianship including: Rhythm concepts African Latin jazz funk poly rhythms and basic drumming concepts; Harmony chord structure and shapes for the six-string bass; Listening to artists from various styles of music; Emotional and spiritual aspects of music how to let our emotions out in music so we can make a spiritual connection with others; Relative pitch singing along with what you play; Thinking melodically breaking musical ideas into bite-sized parts; and much more. 59 minutes.

Constructing Bass Lines-In this 2-DVD set John Moyer of the multi-platinum selling band Disturbed shares the bass techniques that have made him a key part of propelling the band into metal history! Learn how he uses his pick to attack the strings and create an aggressive sound and techniques like octaves and fifths hammer-ons pull-offs and slides. John teaches how he adds transition notes chromatically to make bass lines flow. He reveals his signature method for writing syncopates bass lines and teaches you to combine simple and complex techniques to create a sound that ???cuts??? through. John created custom backing tracks for this program that you will use to apply what you learn. It's packed withtechniques that every aspiring metal bassist must know!Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links with instructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.

This book by Berklee bass prof Anthony Vitti will help you make your bass lines more creative unique and memorable. Tap into the groove and evolve your bass lines by using fills. This book brings you beyond the basics and helpsyou incorporate figures into your lines that are natural to the groove and applicable to many styles. The play-along recordings let you hear the fills in context then practice them with a rhythm section.

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. This method book explains how percussive slap bass works with the drums, and how playing percussively will make you 'lock' tighter with the drummer. Included are sections on building a percussive groove, pop control, moving patterns, individual string control, slap without pops, slapping with tensions, double pops, slapping with dyads, triplets, Flamenco thumb technique, odd meters, applied grooves, and a special section for a rhythm section workout. Notation and tablature are clearly explained with instructions on left hand muting and many slapping tips. This method will make your grooves sound fuller, making your playing mode more valuable to your rhythm section. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Rock and Blues - Licks and Phrases / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures