Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals. For Rockschool's 2018-2024 Bass series Rockschool have commissioned arrangements of titles reflecting popular music's rich heritage in all its forms and have tailored each piece to make it exactly right for the grade. You can also use titles from Rockschool's Classics series as part of the syllabus. The arrangements have been written and performed by top session musicians who have worked with some of the biggest names in rock metal and pop. The tracks were recorded at Real World's acclaimed recordingstudios and feature live instruments and first rate performances for an unrivalled level of feel authenticity and musicianship. Featuring: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer The Supremes - Ain't Too Proud To Beg Otis Redding - (Sittin' on) The Dock Of The Bay Gnarls Barkley - Crazy Mary J Blige - Family Affair The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary 6 Rockschool Originals Plus: Band and artist fact files with recommended listening In-depth walkthroughs of every track Easy-access downloadable audio Example tests and exercises

Jason Raso???s Soloing on Electric Bass: A Chord Tone Approach provides the next step following his first book for Mel Bay Publications Improvising on Electric Bass. The primary focus of this second book is to help you develop a more melodic approach to solo bass playing. The author suggests avoiding root notes concentrating instead on chord tones of a 3rd 5th and 7th as fertile ground to begin revising your approach to more creative soloing. Following a series of standard notation exercises exploring intervals and goal notes in all keys Jason presents a dozen original solo etudes in notation and tablature.

Pentatonic scales are probably the most used scales in music. They are widely employed in jazz rock blues fusion pop and practically in all kinds of music around the world. This fact makes the pentatonic scale a very important part of learning to play.This book focuses on the most frequently used pentatonic sales including the ethnic and the exotic scales.Each scale in this reference guide is introduced by a brief summary showing the scale structure and construction the main chord over which the scale works well and a list of relevant scales that with their colour and flavour affinities give rise to a similar melodic effect with the same soundcharacteristics. The development over one and two octaves follows together with fingerings and tablature for four and five-string basses.

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!