As the original bassist for the seminal death metal band Cannibal Corpse, author Alex Webster offers invaluable insight into the realm of metal bass guitar. This exclusive book/online audio provides detailed, hands-on training, featuring vital bass guitar techniques and concepts. Extreme Metal Bass further demonstrates how these techniques can be applied in real-life situations within the context of a song. No matter what brand of metal you subscribe to - from classic metal to modern metal and beyond - Extreme Metal Bass will supply the bass skills you crave. Extreme Metal Bass also includes enhanced online audio with demonstration and play-along tracks of all the examples in thebook, plus play-along MIDI drum files for optimum practicing. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include 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 book is designed for players who use a standard-tuned five-string bass (low to high: B-E-A-D-G). If you do not have a five-string bass, a four string (tuned B-E-A-D) will work for much of the material presented. / Méthodes et pédagogie / Guitare / Guitare basse / HAL LEONARD

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

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.

Bass Play-Along Volume 3-Volume 3. The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite 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! Songs: Crazy Little Thing Called Love · Crocodile Rock · Maneater · Message in a Bottle · My Life · No Reply at All · Peg · Suffragette City.

Bass Play-Along Volume 52-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 purchase price includes online access to audio for download or streaming. Songs: Badge - Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) - Politician - Strange Brew - Sunshine of Your Love - Swlabr - Tales of Brave Ulysses - White Room.

Continuing the tradition of the fantastic Bass Along series, this Play-Along edition features 10 of the best Hard Rock songs through the years. With easy-to-read notation and tab lead sheets, as well as an MP3 CD, you'll be playing along to these hard rock anthems in no time.The Hard Rock songs featured in this collection come from bands like Linkin Park, Alice In Chains and Foo Fighters, among many more. The Bass Along series is unique for having simple and easy to use notation, as well as tab, that allow you to quickly see what you need to play and how to play it. The MP3 CD features high-quality backing tracks, including each song as a full version with vocals and a play-along version, ensuring you get the Bass Guitar part exactly right. / Guitare Basse

The 50 Walking Basslines comprised in this coursebook are aimed at bassists at double bassists and first and foremost at the jazz enthusiasts among them. They will most certainly experience a whole heap of pleasure with the playing materials provided here.All 50 Walking Basslines are based on chord progressions that recall some of the greatest jazz standards of all time: Autumn Leaves Someday My Prince Will Come Giant Steps Blues For Alice Anthropology Blue Bossa Stella By Starlight So What Take Five Black Orpheus My Funny Valentine All The Things You Are In A Sentimental Mood Satin Doll and Take The ATrain to name but a few.To teach you all the particularities of the 50 Walking Basslines presented here and eventually enable you to piece some together yourself an entire chapter of this coursebook has been dedicated to the fundamental principles procedures and techniques behind this type of bassline. You therewith have a realistic chance of becoming an expert on the subject.For its part the MP3 CD is composed of as many backing tracks as there are walking basslines in the coursebook; these can be played along to at two different tempi: the intended tempo (actual playing speed) and the rehearsal tempo (slower speed). On the backing track at actual playing speed the Bass is only present during the first round then it disappears yielding the floor to you. The backing tracks provided here are of proper length (about 5 minutes each which sums up to almost 6h of musical practice). This means that you have enough time at your disposal to practice under best conditions enough time to thoroughly internalize these 50 walking basslines and hence compose your own ones.

Worship Band Play-Along Volume 4-The Worship Band Play-Along series is a flexible and innovative tool for worship leaders and bands. Each volume offers five separate correlated book/CD packs: Keyboard Guitar Bass Drumset and Vocal.Bands can use the printed music and chord charts to play live together and members can rehearse at home with the CD tracks. Worship leaders without a band can play/sing along with the CD for a fuller sound. The eight songs in each volume follow a similar theme for easy set selection and the straight-forward arrangements are perfect for bands of any level.The CDs are playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recordingto any tempo without changing pitch to learn the songs at their own pace.Volume 4 includes: Beautiful One; God of All; He Is Exalted; In Christ Alone; Lord Most High; Lord Reign in Me; We Want to See Jesus Lifted High; Worthy Is the Lamb.

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.

The Total Jazz Bassist is a complete jazz method, giving equal treatment to electric and double bass. Covering such styles as bebop, Latin, funk, and fusion, this book provides examples and lessons that will help you become a well-rounded bassist. You'll learn to develop walking bass lines, how to solo, bass lines and solo patterns for blues changes, major and minor two-five-one progressions, dominant 7th chord scales, and more! A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is also included.

Par GALPER HAL. For All musicians wishing to learn fantastic bass lines. While reading from the book, play along with the bassist on the recording (sold separately) until you feel you’ve mastered his “feel” and nuances. Then, using the special stereo separation on all of our Play-A-Long recordings, switch the bassist off and play along by yourself with just the piano and drums! This book (like all the Aebersold bass line transcription books) is a great study in professional bass line construction, and is a natural companion to the Aebersold Play-A-Longs. Combo instructors can use this book to give their bass students instant, professional bass lines. Includes notes in bass clef withchord symbols above each measure. THIS BOOK: Transcribed bass lines to the chord changes of: A Foggy Day, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Have You Met Miss Jones, I Can’t Get Started, I Could Write A Book, I Love You, It Might As Well Be Spring, I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face, My Favorite Things, My Foolish Heart, My Funny Valentine, Old Devil Moon, Our Love Is Here To Stay, September Song, Speak Low, Summertime, and The Party’s Over. / Rép International / Recueil / Guitare Basse

Bass Play-Along Volume 10-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!

Intergalactic Bass by Carlo Mombelli is based on the scale types that are necessary to master and understand the chord/scale relationships found in many styles of music. By keeping things simple and uncluttered each page consists of only one scale type illustrated on a bass guitar neck with the correct fingering a vital part of organizing the hands. The more organized the hands the easier it is to play. The arpeggio shape is super-imposed over the corresponding scale in order to create an understanding of the chord/scale relationship. This is better explained with diagrams and not notation. However because it is a goodidea to associate finger positions with their notational equivalents notation is also included. A simple but comprehensive jazz theory section is also included. This will help the student gain a deeper understanding of harmony and further insight into how to apply the scales found in this book.