Pentatonic Scale Workbook for Bass Guitar


Book Description

An excercise and reference book you can use in your regular practise routine to play each of the 12 pentatonic scales on the entire fingerboard. In each position you'll be given a simple way to play the major and minor pentatonic scale up and down in the respective key. Use it as a warm-up/technique or theory exercise and to familiarize yourself with perhaps the most fundamental of all scales. ✓ standard notation, tabulature & scale diagrams




Bass Player's Guide to Looping


Book Description

Bass Player's Guide to Looping: A Comprehensive Method to Pedal Looping on Bass [OVER 2.5 HOURS OF VIDEO INCLUDED]Bass Player's Guide to Looping is the definitive method to mastering the art of live-looping with the electric bass. Join world-renowned bassist Janek Gwizdala as he reveals every single detail of his signal chain--including illustrated pedal settings, tips on effects and gear, and proper looping techniques--giving you an endless array of tools to practice, compose, and perform live as a true artist. Whether you've used a loop pedal for years or just purchased your first one, Bass Player's Guide to Looping will help you to become the best looping bassist you can be.With purchase of this book, you also gain access to over 2.5 hours of video instruction. These videos include in-depth explanations and performances of every concept in the book, bonus footage of techniques used in solo bass performance, and live footage of looping with both a drummer in a duo setting as well as with a live band.




Bass for Beginners


Book Description

Are you ready to learn, practice & apply the most important scales in music? Bass for Beginners: Major and Minor Scales + Exercises is the ultimate intro to bass scales! Why take the time to learn bass scales? Because it will set you up for success with all the other playing you want to learn. Melodies will become more intuitive and less difficult when you know the scales behind the music. Real-World Bass Lines! This how-to bass book is divided into 16 practice sessions, each featuring an important major or minor scale pattern. From Michael Mueller, author of the hit book How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days, this title is packed full of important bass scales, exercises & bass lines. To help you learn these crucial patterns, each session of this beginner bass guitar book puts a scale through five exercises and then applies it to a real-world bass line in either a rock, pop, or reggae style, among others. You'll find 16 daily practice sessions in this bass scales book for learning: Open-Position Patterns Movable Patterns Real-World Bass Lines Scale Theory Includes multiple keys and more! Beginner bass guitar lesson exercises include: Chromatic Arpeggios Real-World Bass Lines Experience the Troy Nelson Music difference: You will always know who our authors are-we are proud of them & call them by name. Nothing to hide here. Contact our authors any time, with any questions about what you are learning, and we will quickly get back to you with an answer. We want you to have the best learning experience possible! Contact our Customer Support via our website if you have any questions about audio files or need any other support. We are here for your entire learning-to-play-bass-guitar journey. All scales, exercises, and bass lines are presented in easy-to-understand fretboard diagrams and rhythm tab so you, the beginner, can quickly apply the material to your instrument! Read it! Hear it! Play it! Music examples are presented in fretboard diagrams and tab. This practical, step-by-step guide to beginning bass guitar includes quick-and-easy access to audio tracks via download or streaming-right from troynelsonmusic.com. No signup required! About Michael Mueller: Over the past 20 years, Michael Mueller has authored over 20 instructional guitar books, with over 400,000 units sold. Titles include the #1 New Releases How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days, How to Play Ukulele in 14 Days, as well as Christmas songbooks for ukulele and bass guitar. In addition, Michael has written the Hal Leonard Rock Guitar Method, Acoustic Guitar Tab Method, and Scale-Chord Relationships. He has also edited countless others, including the top-selling Guitar Aerobics (Troy Nelson) and Ukulele Aerobics (Chad Johnson) titles. Additionally, he has served as the Editor at top guitar magazines Guitar One and Guitar Edge, and he's contributed to Guitar World, Jazz Times, and Sirius XM, among others. REMEMBER: Free access to instant streaming or audio downloads from troynelsonmusic.com is included. Thanks for the 5-star reviews! Author Michael Mueller and publisher Troy Nelson have garnered 1,000s of 5-star reviews via the breakthrough series How to Play Music in 14 Days and Strum It! Pick It! Sing It! Experience the Troy Nelson Music difference with each and every book you purchase. Get this book-and the Troy Nelson Music support system-today!




Bass Scales, Chords and Arpeggios


Book Description

Bass Scales, Chords & Arpeggios is a comprehensive reference book for all bass guitarists. Containing a huge amount of bass guitar information, this book gives you the tools you need to master the fretboard. All scales, chords and arpeggios are presented in diagram form. Scales are also shown in one octave in notation and tab (starting on C). Find new sounds to inspire your playing: use new scales in your bass lines and play chords and arpeggios all over the neck. Designed to be the only bass guitar reference book you'll ever need.




Music Theory for the Bass Player


Book Description

Music Theory for the Bass Player is a comprehensive and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate and all-around more creative musician. Included with this book are 89 videos that are incorporated in this ebook. This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready to fill out the engaging Test Your Understanding questions! Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? Perhaps all the books seem to be geared toward pianists or classical players? Do you know lots of songs, but don't know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody? If so, this is the book for you! • Starting with intervals as music's basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony. • Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples and exercises, more than 180 pages of vital information are peppered with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and compelling learning approaches. • Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing and chops. • You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music (reading music is of course a vital skill, yet, the author believes it should not be tackled at the same time as the study of music theory, as they are different skills with a different practicing requirement. Reading becomes much easier once theory is mastered and learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams and patterns as illustrations, music theory is very accessible, immediately usable and fun. This is the definitive resource for the enthusiastic bassist! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px} This book and the 89 free videos stand on their own and form a thorough source for studying music theory for the bass player. If you'd like to take it a step further, the author also offers a corresponding 20 week course; this online course works with the materials in this book and practices music theory application in grooves, fills and solos. Information is on the author's blog.




Bassist's Guide to Scales Over Chords


Book Description

(Bass Instruction). Scales are no stranger to the bass player. We practice them up and down, in different sequences, and in different keys to improve our chops. But how many people really know how to apply them in a musical way? With Bassist's Guide to Scales Over Chords , you'll learn how these two topics are intertwined in a logical and fundamental manner. This key concept is paramount in learning how to create and improvise functional and memorable bass lines or solos reliably time and again. If you're stuck in a root-note rut or find yourself always coming back to the same old tired patterns, this book is for you. It includes 136 audio tracks and 17 extended backing tracks for download or streaming online.




The Bass Player's Guide to Scales and Modes


Book Description

The Bass Player's Guide to Scales and Modes is a complete reference manual for all of the scales, modes and arpeggios used by the modern bass guitarist. Contains exercises that illustrate each scale and concept. Accompanying audio files are available as a free download from the site.




Bass Guitar


Book Description

Recommended for every bassist regardless of playing ability or musical taste. Starting with all the basics a beginner needs to know, yet it builds at a steady progressive rate through advanced and professional level techniques and applications. A scale encyclopedia, but more importantly showing every possible way to use these scales to make music with them. Over 5 years of private lessons ($5000.00 at current weekly lesson rates). Master every note, every scale, every key, in every position on the entire fretboard of your bass guitar! This is the only course you will ever need to learn scales, and play melodic bass lines and fills - And it's all in one book! * Traditional music notation and TAB, (tablature), throughout the entire book * Written for 4, 5, and 6 string bass * Improve playing ability and improvisation * Write great bass lines, melodies and fills * Understanding of key changes and modes simplified * Other books, videos, even ongoing series, don't compare * This method is highly praised by beginner through PRO players * Master your bass on the entire fretboard * Each lesson is built on what you have learned from previous pages in the book * Includes every scale known * A valued reference for as long as you play bass guitar * Professional and college level made easy * 152 JAM-PACKED PAGES ! * Cover Endorsed and Licensed by Ken Smith Basses




Building Right Hand Technique


Book Description

This book provides a master source for building agility, flexibility and speed while playing with a flatpick, as well as a repertoire source for the plectrum-style guitarist. the studies are designed to build reading ability and clarity of sound in a variety of styles, as well as agility in cross-picking and the playing of rapid linear passages. Includes over 100 original and jazz etudes, fiddle tunes, and a great number of classical guitar pieces transcribed for plectrum guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature.




Creative Bass Technique Exercises


Book Description

Discover fully-formed musical grooves, riffs and licks you can incorporate into your playing right now - each one carefully crafted to develop dexterity, timing and feel.