Contains jazz solos written for ten of the most common jazz standard progressions. The author suggests using these solos as a springboard for improvisation.
DetailsPublisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.Author(s): Frank VignolaLength: 11 in.Width: 8.5...
Fretless bass is a unique instrument. The approach to playing fretless bass is much more like playing upright bass than to fretted bass. This book will cover many of the important techniques required to become a good fretless bassist. Some of...
Featured here are classic R&B/Soul bass grooves from the 1940's -1970's; Rhythm and Blues bass lines mixing Motown, Memphis (soul/gospel) and New Orleans (funk) feels. 30 examples written in standard bass clef notation and TAB and all are contained...
The influence of Rock & Roll music can be found in about every style of contemporary music. This book focuses on many classic R & R style grooves. The grooves vary in difficulty from beginner to intermediate. All 50 examples are recorded on an...
This book/CD set teaches 101 jazz bass patterns played over chords and chord progressions that are fundamental to the harmonic language of jazz. This is a very useful collection of major, Dorian, and Mixolydian patterns, eight bar patterns,...
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...
Here are 120 cool, useful 2-bar ii-V riffs that can give you some new harmonic outlooks on this commonly used progression. Turn these riffs into bass lines or grooves. Learn them in as many different positions as possible by using each of your four...
How low can you go? The 5-string bass stretches the limits of normal bass playing to give you notes that are needed for many styles of contemporary music—including gospel, Latin, funk, metal, and pop. This book teaches you how to incorporate the 5th...
This book was created for the bassist who has mastered the basics of slap bass and wants to expand his or her skills. Many of this book's examples were written to fine tune individual string control -- the ability to thumb or pop on any string at...
In two-hand tapping on electric bass, your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues,...
El curso perfecto que te enseñará cómo tocar el bajo. Cubre todas las notas del diapasón; ejercicios con la mano derecha e izquierda, y mucho más. Aprenderás rápidamente los ritmos de cumbia,...
En este video aprenderás a tocar ritmos más complejos de cumbia, ranchera, vals, balada, mambo, merengue y chacha. También aprenderás Armonía, escalas, arpegios, ejercicios y mucho más... y así,...
Discover the fascinating world of slap bass with this innovative course. With this instructional DVD you’ll learn to slide, hammer, pull, slap and otherwise attack the bass strings to create your own unique style in playing cumbia, salsa, cha-cha,...
This superb study book or method supplement for any bass student contains 19 bass rhythm parts in a mixture of popular styles, including shuffles, reggae, rock, swing, standard walking bass, be-bop, "newgrass," syncopated Latin lines, the jazz...
Learn to play arpeggios on the bass with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book, a supplement to the Hal Leonard Bass Method or any other bass method. The Bass Arpeggio Finder contains more than 1,300 arpeggio shapes, covering 28 different...
