Alfred's Basic Bass Scales & Modes


Book Description

This book provides a fast and fun way to learn how to use scales and modes, giving you a strong foundation for your bass playing. Knowing the scales and modes and being able to identify their sounds will give you a better command of the fretboard. The book covers which scale or mode is best to use with each chord, associated musical styles, interval patterns, neck position diagrams, standard music notation, TAB, and much more!




Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass


Book Description

Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass is a quick reference guide aimed at music students of all levels, tackling the scales commonly used in improvising and bass line construction. This book further develops topics dealt with in the preceding Essential Scales for Electric Bass, concentrating on new and advanced scales that will provide the bassist with a wider variety of sounds and colors to add more personality to his playing. Each scale in the book is preceded by an introductory chart summarizing the theory and practical application. The development in all the keys follows in standard notation and tablature, together with fingering for 4- and 5-string basses. Topics include: melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished, whole-tone, and blues scales.




Basix Scales and Modes for Guitar (Book & CD)


Book Description

This book is a fast and fun way to learn how to use scales and modes from day one, and provides a strong foundation upon which to build. Contains 14 essential scales and modes, licks in the styles of famous guitarists, and guitar TAB, neck position and standard music notation. The online audio includes accompaniments for songs and exercises.




Essential Scales for Electric Bass


Book Description

Scales are one of the foundations of good playing and Essential Scales for Electric Bass is a quick and simple guide for music students of all levels, specifically tackling this important topic. It is designed to help the bass player acquaint himself with using the scales as tools to expand his musical dimension. The book will help any bassist compose riffs and bass lines, enriching the sounds with new and diverse nuances to achieve personal objectives.




Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory, Self Study: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians, Book & 3 CDs [With 3 CDs]


Book Description

Alfred's Essentials of Jazz Theory is designed for jazz enthusiasts and musicians who want to learn jazz concepts and terminology. To get the most out of this course, it is recommended that you have a good understanding of basic theory, such as the lessons in Books 1-3 of Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory. The book contains lessons with both written and music reading exercises and ear-training and listening are addressed through the included CDs. Each unit is complete with a review section. Playing and/or singing along with each example is encouraged throughout the book. The Self-Study Course includes lessons, a complete answer key to check your work, and three listening and ear-training CDs.




Encyclopedia of Scales & Modes for Electric Bass


Book Description

A master catalog of major, minor, pentatonic, and blues scales in the keys of C, D, E, F, G, A and B. In addition, the Mixolydian, Dorian, Phrygian, and Locrian modes are presented in each key. A fingerboard diagram appears at the top of each page. the scale or mode is shown in numerous positions on the fingerboard, and a riff is shown in notation and tablature utilizing each scale or mode. This comprehensive text also includes charts showing the history of scales and modes, formulas, practice tips, key charts, circle of fifths, and much more.




Serious Electric Bass


Book Description

Bass basics, major scales and modes, harmonic and melodic minor scales and modes, arpeggio patterns and symmetric scales (whole tone and diminished). Serious Electric Bass is a definitive, comprehensive, user-friendly guide for electric bassists of all levels.




Jimmy Haslip's Melodic Bass Library


Book Description

An indispensable book on scales and modes for the bass guitarist. The lessons contain diatonic, modal, pentatonic, whole tone, and diminished scales as well as modes of both the harmonic and melodic minor scales, Eastern, Middle Eastern, and other exotic scales of Jimmy's own invention.




Scales & Modes for Bass


Book Description

This book is a fast and fun way to learn how to use scales and modes. Learning scales and modes and being able to identify their sounds will give you a better command of the fretboard. Each chapter has two sections. The first section describes the scale or mode, lists the chords it works well with, musical styles it is most commonly used with and shows the intervals of the scale or mode. The second section shows the scales and modes, in most cases, in five different positions on the neck. Positions are shown in neck position, standard music notation and TAB.




Complete Electric Bass Method


Book Description

This book is great for electric bassists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. Beginning with a brief review of reading standard music notation and TAB, this book takes you further into using scales to build bass lines, techniques such as slap & pop, string muting, and walking bass lines. You'll be introduced to ideas such as modes, tetrachords, passing tones and varying rhythmic activity. Author David Overthrow keeps things fun and interesting without sacrificing any important details. A must for any serious bass players.