Authentic bass guitar transcriptions with notes and tablature for every song from Red Hot Chili Peppers' classic album. The album covers a surprising variety of styles from bass-heavy funk (Funky Monks) to sweet melody (Under TheBridge) from hip-hop (Give It Away) to metal (Blood Sugar Sex Magic) with every known emotion represented!All bass parts have been fully transcribed. Also includes vocal line and lyrics.

101 authentic funk and disco bass lines in standard notation and tablature with useful demonstration CD included. Bass lines of the era that sent the world to the dance floor were intricate and sometimes complex and Josqin des Pres guides you through this style.

Your ultimate guide to the secrets and techniques of the Slap Bass style. Bass ace Ed Friedland gives you a step-by-step guide to this complex high-energy playing style. Starting with the basic right-hand skills Freidman progresses to cover such disciplines as:Slapping popping left-hand integration dead notes and more dangerous techniquesA dedicated groove for each techniqueGrooving with a drum machineFunk historySlow demos tips on sound and how to create your own grooves

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.

Outta Sight Funk and R&B Riffs for Bass is designed to help both Bass players and Keyboard players improve their Bass playing technique with a wide range of different Funk riffs and grooves. The book starts off with easier examples and gradually increases in difficulty as the examples become more syncopated. Each of the 55 example riffs has been recorded three times on the accompanying CD: played through twice with drums & percussion guitars and keyboards at the regular tempo; Rhythm tracks at the regular tempo to practice along with; and a slowed down track of the Bass part with just a click track so you can hear precisely what the Bass part isplaying.

Josquin Des Pres: The New Sound Of Funk Bass provides over 90 Bass lines played over 45 fully produced tracks reminiscent of old school funk combined with new groove R

This method features 50 funk grooves for all Bass players willing to have fun while practicing their instrument for hours. To make the approach of these 50 funk grooves easier a preliminary chapter is entirely dedicated to the playing techniques (plucking of course but also slap palm mute ghost notes shakes double stops pull-offs hammer-ons slides...) as well as to the style rhythmic specificities (straight and swung sixteenth notes sixteenth rests staccatos...). The DVD demonstrates all these grooves played «in situation» at the actual tempo then slowly. The MP3 Audio CD allows you to play them over long play-along tracks (from 3 to 4 minutes each meaning more than 6 hours of music in total!) at actual tempo as well as at slow tempo (two tracks per groove) so you will be able to practice at your own pace and in the best conditions. 50 Funk Grooves For The Bass is an ideal method for those who want to play actual complete grooves in the style of the greatests: James Brown The Meters Bootsy Collins Parliament The Commodores Earth Wind and Fire Tower of Power Maceo Parker and The Temptations. This method features 50 funk grooves for all Bass players willing to have fun while practicing their instrument for hours. To make the approach of these 50 funk grooves easier a preliminary chapter is entirely dedicated to the playing techniques (plucking of course but also slap palm mute ghost notes shakes double stops pull-offs hammer-ons slides...) as well as to the style rhythmic specificities (straight and swung sixteenth notes sixteenth rests staccatos...). The DVD demonstrates all these grooves played «in situation» at the actual tempo then slowly. The MP3 Audio CD allows you to play them overlong play-along tracks (from 3 to 4 minutes each meaning more than 6 hours of music in total!) at actual tempo as well as at slow tempo (two tracks per groove) so you will be able to practice at your own pace and in the best conditions. 50 Funk Grooves For The Bass is an ideal method for those who want to play actual complete grooves in the style of the greatests: James Brown The Meters Bootsy Collins Parliament The Commodores Earth Wind and Fire Tower of Power Maceo Parker and The Temptations.

Red Hot Chili Peppers-The ninth album by the California funk-rockers continues the band's progression into a deeper soulful and more melodic sound as already displayed the multi-platinum albums Californication and By The Way. After bridging the gap between the US college-radio alternative scene and the rock mainstream with a barrage of hi-energy funk-inspired punk in the late 1980s Red Hot Chili Peppers have refined their sound and embraced the accessible simplicity of The Beatles and Buddy Holly. The resulting album boasts some of the most beautiful melodies of their career complemented by John Frusciante's stunning and inventive guitar arrangements.Every song from thedouble-album has been carefully and accurately transcribed in this matching folio for Bass guitar complete with melody line and full lyrics including Dani California Snow (Hey Oh) and Tell Me Baby.

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.

Now you can play the bass grooves note for note from the masters of funk bass Larry Graham and Rustee Allen. This collection features 13 of their best transcribed for bass with the vocal line.

Bass Play-Along Volume 5-The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the 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. 

Level 1-Described as the ?New spiritual warrior for the Funk? by legendary bass pioneer Bootsy Collins Freekbass teaches you step-by-step how to lay down the funk! You start at the beginning by learning how to properly holdand tune your bass left and right hand technique and the G major scale. You quickly graduate to key funk elements like slap

Piano Adventures®-Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series.Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics each lesson in this Funk/R&B volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature.You'll also get extremely useful tips scale diagrams chord grids photos and more to reinforce your learning experience plus access to online audio featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book.This volume covers a huge variety of funk and R&B bass styles techniques and concepts are covered including: the pocket; fingerstyle funk; slap & pop techniques; hammer-ons andpull-offs; staccato & tenuto; funk fills and phrasing; dynamics; funk jazz; acid jazz; James Brown Fun; Bootsy Collins style; Larry Graham style; Louis Johnson style; Flea style; and more.

Jerry Barnes Bassist for Roberta Flack Chaka Khan Whitney Houston and others shows you twenty-seven of the ultimate funk/R&B Bass patterns in this lesson filmed in 1999.He covers classic patterns from the 1960s to '80s plus exciting performances with Bass Drums and a full band.Includes a lesson booklet with complete transcriptions with tab.