Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the Bass Guitar? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your Bass playing quest, then All About Bass is it.Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing your favourite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn interesting titbits on Bass makes and models, care and maintenance, other fretted instruments, and other fun stuff about the bass.This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes:An introduction to Bass.Step-by-step music reading instruction.How to play by ear and improvise.Background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs.Performing tips.CD includes over 90 tracks for demo and play-along.Over 40 popular songs, including All Shook Up, Another One Bites the Dust, Get up (I Feel like Being) a Sex Machine, I Got You (I Feel Good), Message in a Bottle, Paperback Writer, You Can't Hurry Love and many more. / Guitare Basse

An Essential Study Of Blues Grooves For The Bass. Par ROSE FRANK DE. Essential Blues Bass Grooves, within the School of the Blues® Lesson Series, presents 46 bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and TAB. This book is accompanied by a CD recording of all examples (played by author Frank De Rose) along with the background music. This method is for all skill level players. This series is designed for students of other instruments to play together. If you have friends that play harmonica, guitar, keyboard or drums, tell them about this series so that you can play together. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Blues - Licks and Phrases / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Here is something for every blues bassist, studying blues patterns and chord progressions. Examples focus on basic patterns, chord progressions, and playing with a band. Covered here are Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, swing, gospel, zydeco, Texas, and other different styles of blues bass playing. The companion CD features all examples recorded with a professional band. Audio includes band examples with and without bass so students can hear it and play along. 25 examples included, written in bass clef and tab. / Niveau : Débutant / Blues - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Basse Tablatures

Apprenez à jouer ces moreceaux de blues à la basse grâce aux partitions (notations standards et tablatures) et au CD. / Guitare Basse / Partition + Cd

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

Cette méthode va vous enseigner les bases du blues à la basse, par l'apprentissage et la pratique de lignes et grooves spécifiques. Ainsi, au fil des 7 chapitres qui la composent, vous découvrirez la structure typique du blues, mais aussi comment l'accompagner, que ce soit du point de vue rythmique (ternaire ou binaire) ou harmonique (notes des accords, sixte, chromatismes, gammes pentatoniques...). Chacune de ces notions est bien sûr abondamment mise en pratique, avec une multitude de grilles inspirées des plus grands maîtres du style. Des standards du blues que vous aurez beaucoup de plaisir à jouer, et qui, parallèlement, élargiront votre culture musicale, tout en vous faisant progresser dans la pratique de la basse. Bien évidemment, tout ce que vous aurez appris ici vous servira également ailleurs, c'est-à-dire dans d'autres styles musicaux (rock, pop, métal, jazz...).?Car, en musique, le blues est à la base de bien des choses ! Sur le disque joint à la méthode, vous trouverez plusieurs fichiers audios et vidéos. Les vidéos (mp4) présentent en images les multiples lignes de basse telles qu'elles doivent être jouées, à vitesse normale puis au ralenti. Les enregistrements audios (mp3), pour leur part, proposent les playbacks correspondants, là encore à deux tempi différents.?Vous pourrez donc y jouer à votre tour les lignes proposées, et dans un deuxième temps développer librement vos propres accompagnements, à l'aide des apprentissages divulgués. / Guitare Basse

A Study in Musical Styles for Bass. Par ENSIGN MARC. A good bass player should be able to comfortably play in almost any style of music in almost any given situation. The goal of this book is to reveal the vast world of different musical styles that may be encountered during the lifetime of a bass player. Each chapter begins with a small history of the musical style. Knowing how each of these styles is related can improve playing by way of borrowing grooves and ideas from one to the other. The groove book is designed not only to teach you how to play these different styles, but also how to enjoy playing them. Written in standard notation only. Includes access to online audio. / Niveau : 2 / Pédagogie / Etude / Guitare Basse

Membre fondateur de Jefferson Airplane et Hot Tuna, Jack Casady présente son célèbre style basse pour vous apprendre. Avec l'aide du partenaire Jorma Kaukonen à la guitare et chant, Casady vous donne un aperçu candid de son approche. Six de ses plus grandes pièces de Bass sont disséqués et exploré comme Casady démontre ses techniques préférées, y compris : les variations Octaves compilation Vibrato tonale Casady explique comment la combinaison de ces techniques, couplée à une bonne connaissance de l'idéogramme, peut être utilisée pour créer des genre que construire dans l'enthousiasme et l'énergie. Bientôt, vous allez appliquer ses idées pour définir votre propre genre et des mélodies en feu. Le disque est complète avec un guide complet de notation et de tablature pour tous les exemples. / Guitare Basse

Par TAUZIN BRUNO. Voici le deuxième volume des “100 meilleurs riffs de basse”. A l’instar du premier, et comme l’indique clairement son titre, celui-ci recense 100 nouveaux riffs pour les bassistes. Mais pas n’importe quels riffs bien sûr... des riffs mythiques dans l’esprit des plus grands tubes de la musique moderne, tous styles confondus (funk, blues, rock, hard, reggae...), ces morceaux qui ont traversé les décennies, qui font partie de la culture «bassistique», qu’il faut absolument connaître et savoir jouer. Chacun des 100 riffs de basse présentés dans ces pages est agrémenté d'une explication pouvant être technique et/ou théorique, afin de vous aider à les affronter plus aisément. Tous les riffs, sans exception, sont repris sur le CD MP3 joint à la méthode, ce qui vous permettra de lever le voile sur des mises en place parfois difficiles à aborder avec la seule partition. La plupart de ces riffs sont abordables par le plus grand nombre... le principe même d’un riff réussi reposant souvent sur la simplicité et l’efficacité ! Bref, voici un ouvrage 100% plaisir... qui vous permettra d’épater rapidement votre entourage ! A la manière de Hysteria, I’d Rather Go Blind, La Grange, Roundabout, Longview, Hollywood Swinging, Smooth Criminal, Manic Depression, Beds Are Burning, Them Changes, Thank You, Jungle Boogie, Ruby Lee, A View To A Kill, Don’t Look Back in Anger, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Human Nature, The Riddle, On A Plain, Hey Ya !, Blitzkrieg Bop, Tainted Love, Free Fallin’, Good Vibrations, Wicked Game, Zombie, Get Off My Cloud, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Beautiful Day, Take On Me, You Shook Me All Night Long, Ain’t No Sunshine, Locked Out Of Heaven, Jamming, God Put A Smile On Your Face, Superfly, Cold Sweat, September, Rescue Me, Everlong, Sex Machine, All Right Now, Runaway, Welcome To The Jungle, La Bamba, Super Bad, Got To Give It Up, Californication, Dock Of The Bay, Suck My Kiss, Nothing’s Too Good For My Baby, Bad, Master Blaster, Dark Necessities, Blame It On The Boogie, Just Kissed My Baby, Synchronicity II, People Say, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Island In The Sun, Jeremy, Around The World, One Nation Under The Groove, Whipping Post, Tell Me Something Good, Badge, The Joker, London Calling, Sugar Daddy, Psycho Killer, Flashlight, The Less I Know The Better, Hot Motion, Disco Inferno, Chameleon, Higher Ground... et tant d'autres encore !/ Recueil / Guitare Basse

Cet ouvrage révolutionnaire aura vous brouillage immédiatement. Quel que soit votre niveau de connaissances musicales, c'est une méthode simple et amusante pour les étudiants de tous âges qui veulent commencer à jouer la guitare basse. POP dans le CD qui l'accompagne et jam avec le groupe dans une variété de styles musicaux, rock, blues, country et funk. / Guitare Basse / 38 pages / Partition + Cd

Par RASO JASON. 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. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Pédagogie / Tablatures / Guitare Basse

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : Blues Series : McCabe's 101 Series Number of pages : 40 This collection showcases a variety of bass patterns that can be applied to blues recordings and performances, even by the novice. Included among the 101 patterns are ten standard blues turn-arounds and ten standard blues endings that can be used in literally thousands of songs. In addition, the book provides several pages of valuable music theory and other information on blues progressions. In notation and tablature. The companion CD is in split-track play-along format with each bass played four times.

A Step-by-Step Method for Developing Extraordinary Technique on the Bass Guitar. Bass Chops covers a cross section of musical genres with a unique step-by-step approach for strengthening your overall facility on the instrument. The lessons in this book include standard notation, tab, fingerings, and video demonstrations, and are presented in theme-and-variation format - a highly effective approach to learning bass that has become very popular with students. Each lesson allows you to move at your own pace, beginning with a simple groove and gradually becoming moe intricate and complex as the lesson progresses. Styles include blues, jazz, rock, fusion, R and B, and slapping. The price of the book includes nearly two hours of video demonstrations of everyexample in the book, performed by the author himself! Access the videos online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. / Méthode / Etude / Guitare Basse

What do YOU want to PLAY today? The PLAY series has nailed down what today's musician really wants: lessons you can use anytime, anywhere. They're flat-out more convenient than private lessons, and just as valuable. The high-quality video of expert instructors will help players of all skill levels, from beginners and 'weekend warriors' to advanced students and pros. Whether you're into rock, jazz, blues, folk, country, or a little bit of everything, the PLAY series has all the resources you need at the click of a button. / Guitare Basse