It's time to take center stage to deliver all the pyrotechnics usually associated with six-string guitar shredders! Shredding Bass Guitar takes you there through in-depth lessons on building technique, dexterity, and speed. It shows you how to shred using chords, arpeggios, and scales, and covers heavy metal and funk techniques like tapping, string skipping, and slap and pop. Lessons and examples are in the styles of bass masters Billy Sheehan, Les Claypool, Steve Harris, Victor Wooten, Stanley Clarke, and others. Shredding Bass Guitar provides a fresh perspective on the four-string electric bass and is a must-have for any bassist looking to take their playing to a new level. The accompanying CD features all the examples from the book. Features * In-depth lessons for developing technique, dexterity, and speed * For pick-style and fingerstyle players * Covers techniques like string skipping, tapping, two-handed tapping, wide-interval skipping, slap and pop, double thumbing, double popping, and more About the Author David Overthrow is an author, educator, and virtuoso bassist. After attending Berklee College of Music, he began performing with a wide variety of artists throughout the U.S. and Europe, playing rock, funk, jazz, and R and B. David is Director of Music at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He has written for Bass Guitar magazine, authored numerous electric bass methods, and taught three instructional videos for Alfred Music. David has performed with such luminaries as Pat Metheny, Stanley Clarke, Mike Stern, Trey Anastasio, Paul Gilbert, Zakk Wylde, and Sonny Landreth. / Guitare Basse

Learn the techniques that every truly great bass player needs to know! From basic slapping and popping to machine-gun riffing, this programme has something for bass players at every level. The one-on-one lessons with bassist/instructor Chris McCarvill show you how to apply the techniques popularised by Marcus Miller, Larry Graham and Louis Johnson. You'll learn the four elements of Slap and Pop as well as advanced techniques like octaves, fifths, muting, double slapping, sliding, the snap, bending notes and using effects. By the end of this programme you'll be the funkiest bass player around! / Niveau : Facile / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Guitare Basse Tablatures

More Easy Pop Bass Lines correlates with Book 2 of the Hal Leonard Bass Method, giving beginning students great pop and rock songs to play while they are still learning.More Easy Pop Bass Lines includes 20 favourites, such as Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Jet Airliner, Paranoid, Ramblin' Man, Summer of '69 and more. / Guitare Basse

Grades 2-3. The Faber Graded Rock and Pop Series Bass Songbook: Grade 2-3 provides the perfect resource for the budding rock and pop musician. Specially arranged to follow the parameters for Grades 2 and 3 as set out by Trinity for the 'own choice song” option in their Rock and Pop exams, each song also includes handy hints and tips and a fantastic sound-alike backing track suitable for practice, performance and the exams. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Guitare Basse

The Faber Graded Rock and Pop Series: Bass Songbook - Grades 4-5 provides the perfect resource for the budding rock and pop musician. Specially arranged to follow the parameters for Grades 4 and 5 as set out by Trinity for the 'own choice song” option in their Rock and Pop exams, each song also includes handy hints and tips and a fantastic sound-alike backing track suitable for practice, performance and the exams./ Recueil / Guitare Basse

Une compilation de partitions de 8 chansons de Pop Metal spécialement arrangées pour chant et basse (notes et tablatures). Inclus un CD avec pistes démo et pistes playback pour vous exercer à votre rythme. / Guitare Basse / Partition + Cd

Cette méthode rassemble 50 grooves ou lignes de basse dans le style Pop / Folk, à la manière des plus grands groupes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (The Beatles, Tim Buckley, David Bowie, Tracy Chapman, Oasis, Nick Drake, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, J-J. Goldman, Coldplay, Francis Cabrel, Keane...). Ces lignes - outre le plaisir évident que vous aurez à les jouer - vous permettront de découvrir et de travailler toutes les techniques propres à la basse Pop / Folk : utilisation des notes de l'accord, mais aussi des notes de passage et des renversements - utilisation des techniques de main gauche que sont le glissé, le hammer et le pull-off, etc... Pour vous aider dans leur approche, chaque ligne de basse est précédée d'un texte explicatif qui en détaille les difficultés d'ordre technique, rythmique et théorique. Le DVD Vidéo permet d'entendre et de visualiser l'ensemble des 50 lignes dans le détail, à vitesse normale puis au ralenti, vous donnant ainsi la possibilité d'effectuer les bons gestes, de choisir les bons doigtés et de jouer rythmiquement 'en place? ! Le CD mp3 est pour sa part composé d'autant de playbacks qu'il n'y a de lignes de basse. Soit 50 playbacks, joués à deux tempi différents : le tempo d'objectif (vitesse réelle) et le tempo de travail (vitesse lente).?Sur le playback à vitesse réelle, la basse est présente lors de la première tournerie puis s'efface pour vous laisser la place ! Enfin, ces playbacks sont volontairement de longue durée (environ 5 minutes chacun, soit plus de 8 heures de musique en tout !), pour vous donner le temps de vous exercer dans les meilleures conditions possibles. / Guitare Basse

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

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Everything is covered here - starting with all the basics like octaves, hammer-ons and pull-offs. It then builds into the most advanced slap techniques including double and triple pops, flamenco thumb technique, and plucks. There are lessons in upright bass slap, as well as modal harmony studies. The grooves cover a wide range of styles that include jazz fusion, walking lines, fingerstyle conversion, pop/dance, funk/soul, bluegrass, Dixieland, etc. These lessons have something for almost any student - written in bass clef and tablature with CD. / Niveau : Débutant / Rock - Methods / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

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 tapped arpeggios, 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! / Guitare Basse

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Met l'accent sur les deux sujets plus populaires dans le monde bass aujourd'hui : slap bass et multiples à cordes basses. Couvre une grande variété de techniques de gifle triple y compris les pop, double pop et contrôle de la chaîne individuels. Met également l'accent sur la théorie de la musique derrière la gifle basse comme les intervalles, accords, gammes et leur application. Ecrit en standard bass clef et tablature - tous les exemples inclus sur le CD audio de compagnon. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Rock and Blues - Licks and Phrases / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

This book is great for electric bassists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. Beginning with a brief review of reading standard music notation and TAB, this book takes you further into using scales to build bass lines, techniques such as slap & pop, string muting, and walking bass lines. You'll be introduced to ideas such as modes, tetrachords, passing tones and varying rhythmic activity. Author David Overthrow keeps things fun and interesting without sacrificing any important details. A must for any serious bass players.