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

The function of the bass player in rock music is multi-dimensional. In How to Create Rock Bass Lines, you'll explore common rock drum beats, popular rock chord progressions, and the scales and techniques you'll need to add melody to your playing. By combining all of these elements, you'll learn how to create bass lines that lock in with the drummer and complement the other instruments. You'll also take a look at examples in the style of rock bass greats like Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones, Flea, John Entwistle, and Tom Hamilton, to see how these masters put their own unique spin on the rock format. The book includes loads of demo and play-along tracks available online for download or streaming. / Guitare Basse

With DiY Electric Bass there are no limitations to how, when, or where you learn. This clear and easy-to-follow approach is your blueprint to playing right away. No teacher is necessary since lessons are simple to follow---with corresponding video lessons and audio accompaniments. The included media is available to stream or download, so you can watch video lessons, hear examples, and play along anywhere you have a computer or mobile device. Do it yourself---even if you have never touched a bass! No prior musical knowledge is needed. Make your dreams come true with this perfectly priced book and media package. / Guitare Basse

Par BAY WILLIAM. A concise collection of bass chords in all 12 keys. This chart shows all major, minor, augmented, diminished, minor 6th, major 7th, and suspended 4th added 7th chords. Root notes are clearly marked as diamonds and all the other chord tones are shown as circles for ease of playing. Also includes a chart showing names and locations of notes on all frets and strings, enharmonic equivalents, and their positions within the bass clef. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Chord Book / Etude / Guitare Basse

Par WOOTEN VICTOR. Highly regarded as a bass innovator, Victor Wooten has made a name for himself laying down the low-end for both Béla Fleck and during his guest stints with the Dave Matthews Band, and in his own successful solo career. The Best of Victor Wooten features his playing on 14 great tunes, which Wooten transcribed himself! This deluxe songbook includes note-for-note transcriptions of: Amazing Grace - Blu-Bop - Cherokee (Indian Love Song) - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - Sex in a Pan - A Show of Hands - The Sinister Minister - You Can't Hold No Groove - and 6 more, as well as Wooten's performance notes for each song, an insightful biography, an article on his gear, and fantastic photos!/ Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Accurate bass tab transcriptions and professional backing tracks for six of Bob Marley 's greatest hits. What you get in this pack: On the CDs Full demo with bass showing you how the song should sound. Accompaniment track without bass for you to play along with on your own bass. In the Music Book. Music, chords and full lyrics. Learn the bass part from the TAB or the standard notation. / Guitare Basse

Victor Lemonte Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetime, game-changing bassist in the early- 90s, via his highly innovative playing with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Launching his solo career a few years later, with A Show of Hands, it soon became apparent that Wooten was also a major musical force, thanks to an organic and highly original approach to music and music education. In this book/online video package, Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It, Victor reveals his musical soul.In Part 1, he outlines his ten essential elements of music including such important and under-emphasized areas as emotion and feel, dynamics, tone, phrasing, space, and listening. This section deals more with Victor s concepts and approaches and are more theoretical in nature.In Part 2, Victor addresses the personal lessons, using text, notation, tablature, and video footage to cover such key topics as warming up and hand-strengthening, tone, harmonics, thumb technique, tapping, looping, and soloing. This section is a more how to approach with hands-on demonstrations. Throughout, Victor underscores this vital material with a groove first ethic, as well an accent on being musical and creative three mandatory ingredients to becoming a highly-sought-after professional bassist. All of which makes Victor Wooten Bass Workshop a must-have tool for bass players at all levels. Includes online 4 hrs. of video that can be streamed or downloaded. / Guitare Basse

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.

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

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

Par MONOXELOS DINO. This handy DVD takes the bass student through all the basic bass chords starting with the easy to play forms and moving into the standard and more difficult fingerings. Chords are shown in all keys. Chords include major 7, minor 7, 6, minor 6, 9, diminished, augmented and many more. DVD format makes navigating easy - each chapter represents a root name of a chord and shows all the chord variants. / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Chord Book / Accessoire / Guitare Basse

Bass Play-Along Volume 56. Par SEGER BOB. The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the guitar 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 online audio includes 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. This volume features 8 of Seger's best: Against the Wind - Fire Lake - Her Strut - Hollywood Nights - Mainstreet - Night Moves - Old Time Rock & Roll - Rock and Roll NeverForgets. The Bass Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the audio 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 online audio includes 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. This volume features 8 of Seger's best: Against the Wind - Fire Lake - Her Strut - Hollywood Nights - Mainstreet - Night Moves - Old Time Rock & Roll - Rock and Roll NeverForgets./ Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Chris Kringel's Essential Bass Guitar Techniques uses carefully crafted exercises alongside inspiring musical examples to teach the 21 skills that every Bass player should know.If you're tired of faking your way through your favorite songs because you've always neglected to learn that one special technique, you need this book. Stop skipping over the intricate details and start sounding like a seasoned professional.Would Jaco Pastorius have been so innovative without great finger style technique and the use of harmonics? Can you imagine a Red Hot Chili Peppers song without Flea's slap bass? Or how about Primus without Les Claypool's quirky slap and tap technique? With the help of the 86 included audio tracks, which can be accessed online, Essential Bass Guitar Techniques will teach you all of these skills and more. / Guitare Basse