With Online Audio-Blues music is a sturdy adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This 5 1/2 by 8 'Qwikguide' is designed to help the bassist become more versatile. Eachblues 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 thesame chord or chord changes. Each example is written in both notation and tablature exactly as it is recorded.The accompanying online audio featuring Larry McCabe's Heat-Seeking Missile Blues Band is recorded instereo 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 CD are taught in MelBay's 101 Bad to the Bone Blues Guitar Rhythm Patterns. The lead Guitar parts are taught in Mel Bay's Famous Blues Guitar Lines.

Featuring Pat Martino, Dennis Chambers And Richard Drexler. Par BERLIN JEFF. Bass legend Jeff Berlin brings his unique teaching philosophies to life on this special DVD. Known throughout the world for his one-of-a-kind bass playing, Jeff started The Players School of Music in Clearwater, Florida and immediately introduced study concepts that go against the grain of the general music education system. Jeff discusses his non-metronome and non-tablature points of views, offering instead different ways to improve your time and develop your bass playing abilities. Harmonic exercises are used that will open doors to bass players wishing to explore new tonalities and melodic possibilities. This is a special DVD full of educational information, live playing demonstrations, and learning philosophies, the kind of which you will find nowhere else. Jeff Berlin plays with an all-star band in the video including Pat Martino (guitar), Dennis Chambers (drums) and Richard Drexler (keyboard). / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Jazz - Methods / Méthode / Guitare Basse

Bass Play-Along Volume 25- Your chance to play all the best Nirvana songs along with a professionally recorded backing track. Includes the classics Smells Like TeenSpirit and Come As You Are .The   Bass Play-Along   Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD 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. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!

This book contains exciting moving and grooving original and innovative Bass lines from Detroit-born Peter Washburne. His innovative approach makes use of the Bass as an instrument capable of creating incrediblemusical ideas and compositions.In this book you will learn intricate complex and fun Bass lines which make you the Bass player shine like a pro at center stage! These Bass lines are functional and melodic and soundincredible with or without additional instruments.This book will help open new performance possibilities for the contemporary Bassist. Written in standard notation and TAB. Includes access to an online audio recordingfeaturing Peter Washburne's performance of each composition.

This comprehensive method includes every conceivable aspect of jazz bass performance. It begins with the teaching of the basics using illustrations of hand positions basic theory the first position how to read music fingering accelerated fingerboard studies a fingerboard note location chart to the 12th fret four-string studies rhythm studies syncopated rhythms and dotted notes. The book then introduces the second through seventeenthposition scale and arpeggio studies accelerated fingerings using two-octave scales and various arpeggios chord applications rhythm patterns extension fingerings and harmonic minor and harmonized major scales using diatonic7th chords. Part IV consists of theory for the bassists chord construction relating chord symbols and numbers and the harmonized major natural harmonic and ascending (jazz) melodic minor scales. Diagrams of 26 chords withthe transposition charts using 'G' and 'C' fingerings are included. Each progression covers many playing styles encountered by the modern bassist including: walking 2-beat syncopated rhythms(funk) Latin bebop changes pop-rock blues traditional blues deadened-string technique funk playing plus full chord progressions within tunes. Chords are suggested for the very diverse bass lines syncopated patterns scales and arpeggios. Written instandard notation with chord diagrams.

Description The Art of Solo Bass is a jumping off point, a place to glimpse the possibilities of the electric bass. This book examines the use of chords and chord/melody in performance, arranging, composing and the development and exploration of new techniques. From using chords to enhance and embellish your groovin’ bass lines, to developing a comping style to perform with an ensemble and finally to create solo arrangements and compositions for practice and performance. The Art of Solo Bass will open new horizons for you, the bass player. This is a step-by-step tutorial into the techniques, theory and practical application of solo bass. The Art of Solo Bass includes actual arrangements, recordings, notation and tablature to guide you along the way.

The Mel Bay Electric Bass Chord Reference Wall Chart is a fantastic addition to help you play the Bass! It clearly presents chord arpeggio diagrams for fourteen chord types from each chromatic root. Also includes a bassnote finder chart through fret 15 for the 4-string bass. Dimensions: 35' x 24' durable coated paper.

Description Ideal for teaching electric bass to children and teenagers, as well as an excellent foundational text for bassists with no previous music experience. Cover tuning, hand positions, note reading, rhythms, picking, solo playing, and offers bass patterns, scale studies, and solos in the keys of C, G, F, D, E-flat, B-flat, D minor, A, A minor, G minor, E, E minor, A-flat, C minor, and F minor. In the Mel Bay teaching tradition, this book presents essential music theory concepts as required by the music at any given point in the book, building solid musicianship throughout. Standard notation. In SPANISH only. Also available in English as item #94097.

Ideal for teaching electric bass to children and teenagers as well as an excellent foundational text for bassists with no previous music experience. Cover tuning hand positions note reading rhythms picking solo playing and offers bass patterns scale studies and solos in the keys of C G F D E-flat B-flat D minor A A minor G minor E E minor A-flat C minor and F minor. In the Mel Bay teaching tradition this book presents essentialmusic theory concepts as required by the music at any given point in the book building solid musicianship throughout. Standard notation. In SPANISH only. Also available in English as item #94097.

A working knowledge of scales and their applications to chord progressions is paramount for bassists. Mel Bay's Bass Scale Chart provides standard notation and tab fingering diagrams construction formulas in whole and halfsteps and application (usage) for the most common scales used today. This easy to read and understand chart is packed full of scalar information. A 'must have' for aspiring bassists.

Cualquiera que sea su nivel Ud encontrará en este libro material para ampliar su cultura musical y para disfrutar tocando las más grandes melodías de la música clásica en su bajo.Todos los grandes compositores que han dejado huella en la historia de la música (Mozart Bach Beethoven Tchaïkovski Verdi Brahms Wagner Vivaldi...) están presentes en nuestro libro a través de sus mejores obras. Melodías conocidas de todos los mayores ?éxitos? de la música clásica que uno podrá presumir saber tocar al bajo.Transcritas en solfeo y cifra y con lasposturas que le vienen mejor al toque al bajo dichas maravillosas melodías están grabadas en el CD adjunto en unas versiones variadas y modernas (con uno o más efectos: chorus distorsión delay...). Tendrá también a su disposición un playback completo para tocar cada una de ellas ?en situación?... ¡Una maravilla!

Led Zeppelin were perhaps Rock's most lauded and revered Super Group made up of the best musicians in every position. With the dynamic chemistry of Page and Plant and the untimely death of Bonham bassist John Paul Jones is often overlooked but was just as important as the other memebers. His melodic thunder helped to push and drive their music forward and his songwriting arrangements and musical ability immeasurably added to their sound. This Bass Guitar Workshop DVD lesson from Lick Library is an exclusive and informed lesson tutorial for five of Bass Legend John Paul Jones' classic lines. Phil Williams breaks everything into absorbable chunks so that you can learnthe bass techniques that laid the foundations for progressive rock. With performances of each track easily understood instructions and demonstrations and also includes a section of Bass techniques and style to get that authentic JPJ sound!