Legendary Bassist Billy Sheehan reveals the secrets and techniques that have made him one of the most respected players of all time. This bass master will add new dimensions to your playing developing your style and skills. This Book and DVD feature advanced techniques such as Tapping Neck bends and Pitch harmonics as well as a look at Sheehan's influences his home system and the licks and warm-up exercises he uses. A comprehensive method that combines the text book with a multi-functional DVD.

Improve your bass guitar technique and musicality by studying the music of the masters. Classical Favorites for Electric Bass is a collection of solos and duets featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Dragonetti and other composers of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. Some of these pieces are well-known and others are a bit off the beaten path, but each composition encourages technical and musical development in players who want to expand the scope of the electric bass beyond traditional bass lines. This book is written in standard bass clef notation and tablature and is recommended for the intermediate to advanced player.Improve your bass guitar technique and musicality by studying the music of the masters. Classical Favorites for Electric Bass is a collection of solos and duets featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Dragonetti and other composers of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. Some of these pieces are well-known and others are a bit off the beaten path, but each composition encourages technical and musical development in players who want to expand the scope of the electric bass beyond traditional bass lines.This book is written in standard bass clef notation and tablature and is recommended for the intermediate to advanced player. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Classique / Date parution : 2019-05-27/ Tablatures / Guitare Basse

Anyone interested in learning to play electric bass can pick up this book and get started right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything from basic to advanced techniques. Beginning concepts include the basics of the instrument, reading music, and building bass lines using scales, modes, and chord progressions. For the intermediate player, it takes you further into using scales, techniques such as slap and pop, string muting, walking bass lines, modes, tetrachords, passing tones, and varying rhythms. The book concludes with ideas designed to guide you into high-level bass playing, such as rhythm changes, tritone substitution, odd time signatures, chord playing, a study of Latin grooves, reggae, ska, and advanced funk bass lines. Whether you are starting to learn the bass or are an advanced player looking to give your playing more nuance, Electric Bass Method Complete is all you will ever need. An MP3 CD demonstrating examples in the book is included. / Guitare Basse

Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book/CD pack by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique.Liebman teaches: chromatics - scales and arpeggios - string-crossing and advanced patterns - slapping and popping - and more - all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R and B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination - not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying CD contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along. / Guitare Basse

On this 2 DVD set legendary heavy metal bassist David Ellefson reveals the fundamental skills required to play metal bass.On DVD 1 you'll learn the basics like holding the bass hand positioning and reading tablature. Key metal elements like playing with a pick and your fingers how to mute scale basics exercises and alternate tunings are also covered. Learn rhythms & timing octaves & fifths and how to create a great bass sound.On DVD 2 David reveals his personal secrets to riff-oriented bass lines and rips through advanced chords scales and metal bass techniques like the gallop half step demonic tones hammer-ons and pull-offs. Play the bass linesalong with the custom drum and guitar backing tracks and experience how it feels to play in a metal band.

Mike Hiland's Complete Blues Bass provides a very thorough study of blues bass lines covering many different styles from Texas swing to jazz and rock blues. Along with specific instruction andanalysis plenty of sample blues bass lines are included. This book is suitable for beginning-advanced players and will teach you everything you need to know to play the blues. The music is written in bothnotation and tablature and recordings of the exercises featured in the book are available to download online. Most of the exercises are recorded with Bass and Drums only with the last few lessons adding Electric Guitar.

The Bass has been called 'the most important instrument in any band.' The Bass player must create interesting lines under the chord changes keep the 'time flow' or 'pulse' steady and keep the form of the song together. Walking Jazz Lines For Bass is designed to help bassists create beginning to advanced walking patterns (smooth-sounding lines) that can be used in jazz blues R&B gospel Latin and country music. Byexplaining the basics of intervals chords and scales the author builds a framework for understanding bass line patterns. This book presents one- and two-measure patterns that can be used in playing the blues rhythmchanges the II-V-I progression and 20 popular jazz standards. Walking Jazz Lines For Bass is written in standard notation with chord symbols. The audio gives you the opportunity to play with one of thefinest rhythm sections around. It is in stereo with the bass and drums on the left and Piano and Drums on the right. Since the examples in the book are presented both with sample Bass lines and as chord progressions only you caneither follow along with the Bass or practice your own lines with the audio as your accompaniment. Access to online audio is included.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Blues Series : Complete Number of pages : 196 A very thorough study of blues bass lines covering many different blues styles from Texas swing to jazz and rock blues. Along with specific instruction and analysis, plenty of sample blues bass lines are included. Great for beginners to advanced players, this book will teach you everything you need to know to play the blues. In notation and tablature. This package includes a play-along stereo CD demonstrating most of the exercises in the book. Most of the exercises are recorded with bass and drums only, with the last few lessons adding electric guitar.

Mastering Electric Bass is the conclusion to the electric bass method books. This is designed to take the student into high-level bass playing including studies of Latin grooves reggae ska and advanced funk bass lines. It is the perfect launching pad to journey into a lifetime of excellent bass playing. This comes with an accompanying CD.

Hal Leonard Bass Method 500 Grooves - All Styles - All Levels-500 expertly written bass lines riffs and fills in a wide variety of musical genres are included in this comprehensive collection to help players expand their bass vocabulary.The examples cover many tempos keys and feels and include easy bass lines for beginners on up to advanced riffs for more experienced bassists ? all with high-quality full band audio demonstration tracks. Incorporating special techniques such as bends chords octaves melodic runs and more a huge assortment of practical ideas for practice and performance are provided. Styles covered include blues country EDM funk and R

Suitable for the intermediate-advanced level bassist this book contains 10 pieces by J. S. Bach in arrangements by Josquin Des Pres for the Bass Guitar.Johann Sebastian Bach isrecognised as one of the world's greatest musicians. Known primarily as an organist and then only later recognised as a composer Bach transformed the conventional structures of preludes and fugues. J.S. Bach ForBass will open up a whole new world of phrasing for the aspiring bassist.Selections include: Prelude #1 in C Major Suite #1 in G Major Suite #2 in D Minor Suite #3 in C Major Partita #1 in BMinor Partita #2 in D Partita #3 in E Major Sonata #1 in G Minor and Sonata #3 in C Major. This book is written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Tab. Tone. Technique.-This is not your typical Bass tab book. In this new Tab+ series from Hal Leonard we provide you guidance on how to capture the Bass tones for each song as well as tips and advice on the techniques used to play the songs. Where possible we've confirmed the gear used on the original recordings via new and previously published interviews with the bassists producers and/or engineers. Then we make general recommendations on how to achieve a similar tone based on that info. Some of the songs will be easy to play even for advanced beginner students and others might present a much greater challenge. In either case we've identified key technique that shouldhelp you learn the songs with greater ease. This volume will help you master 25 must-know Bass classics including: Another One Bites the Dust Around the World Blurred Lines The Boys Are Back in Town Freewill Hey Joe The Joker London Calling My Generation Sledgehammer Strange Brew Sweet Emotion You Can Call Me Al Young Lust and more.

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 withbassist/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 likeoctaves 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!