Bass Guitar

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, ranchera, vals y balada en una forma lenta y fácil de seguir. 60 minutos.

The perfect introductory course for electric bass playing! Covers all the fingerboard notes, left and right-hand exercises, and more. You'll quickly learn th rhythms of cumbia, ranchera, waltz, and ballad in a slow, easy to follow pace. In Spanish.

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, podrás desarrollar un mejor conociminto. 60 minutos.

This follow-up courses teaches chord progressions, exercises, and more. You'll learn how to play more advanced rhythms of cumbia, ranchera, waltz, ballad, mambo, merengue, and chacha. In Spanish.

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, podrás desarrollar un mejor conociminto. 60 minutos.

This follow-up courses teaches chord progressions, exercises, and more. You'll learn how to play more advanced rhythms of cumbia, ranchera, waltz, ballad, mambo, merengue, and chacha. In Spanish.

Contains jazz solos written for ten of the most common jazz standard progressions. The author suggests using these solos as a springboard for improvisation.

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 these include slides, intonation development, and sustain. The 100 examples are written in bass clef and TAB (to suggest positions). All examples included on companion CD.

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 on the companion CD with a full rhythm section. The examples will vary from basic to very complex.

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 accompanying CD. This book is written in bass clef and TAB. Many of the examples contain two different TAB fingering options. This book is perfect for most any beginning student.

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.

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 fingers as starting points on the beginning note of each phrase. These 120 riffs are year’s worth of enjoyment and study. Anytime you need a new idea remember this handy dandy book.

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 any time. Individual string control is one of the most common weaknesses with slap bass students. Some of this book's examples are common fingerstyle workouts that are arranged for slapping. Developing the ability to slap finger style bass lines gives the bassist an amazing skill. This book covers some very advanced slap techniques, including triple pops and the flamenco thumb technique. Written in tablature only for the four-string bass.
Also available in Japanese from ATN, Inc.

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, alternative, jazz, funk, and even classical. This book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique, with each example demonstrated on the accompanying CD. Try applying the techniques in this book to your favorite styles of music.

Deseas aprender a tocar el bajo sexto? Bueno... ya no busques mas! Con este metodo tan facil de seguir, aprenderas todo lo esencial para que empieces a tocar este instrumento tan popular...al estilo norteno! Empezando con un resumen rapido de lo basico, aprenderas todo lo relacionado con los acordes del bajo sexto y como funcionan, incluyendo como construir las progresiones esenciales que se utilizan en la musica nortena. A traves de claras fotografias y diagramas, facilmente aprenderas la posicion correcta de los dedos para tocar 1ra, 2da, 3ra, los circulos y preparaciones. Tambien aprenderas acordes mayores, menores y dominantes en todos los tonos, para que puedas construir una base solida con tu instrumento. Asi que, toma tu instrumento... y ponte a tocar ya!

You can play the bajo sexto now! Would you like to learn to play the bajo sexto? Good... don't look any further. Following, this easy method, you will learn all the essential elements to begin playing this popular instrument in the norteño style. Beginning with a quick summary of the basics, you will learn everything related to bajo sexto chords and how they function, including how to construct essential progressions used in the norteño style. By means of clear photographs and diagrams, you will easily learn the correct finger positions for playing tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords, progressions, and voice leading. You will also learn major, minor and dominant seventh chords in all keys, building a solid foundation for your instrument.

This DVD course is designed for people who want to play bass in a small group or ensemble and presents all the most common musical forms. You will learn bass techniques for rock, country, pop, and other popular music styles. No music-reading ability is required. After mastering this method, you will be ready to start playing with other musicians regardless of what type of music you choose. Free instructional booklet included at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.

Learn melodies and practice soloing on fourteen of the most popular old time and fiddle tunes. Play along with a great string band rhythm section: guitar, mandolin, and string bass. The compact disc has all of the tunes at slow and regular speeds with melodies, and allows you to hear just rhythm, just lead, or both. Great for cello, string bass, bass guitar, or any bass clef instrument. We'll jam all night long!

En este método, el estudiante aprenderá las escalas más populares por medio de tablatura y empleará dichas escalas para ejecutar los adornos más populares. Además, aprenderá arpegios, los cuales podrán ser usados en combinación con las escalas para crear adornos más interesantes.

Using tablature, this method focuses on the most popular scales, arpeggios and licks and shows how to “inject” them into your playing style. The novice as well as the more experienced player will find this one of a kind item an invaluable tool! Includes CD that demonstrates the book content.

Aprende cómo tocar uno de los estilos musicales que rápidamente está creciendo en el país, conocido como música "Norteña" o "Tejana". Cubre todas las técnicas básicas incluyendo afinamiento apropiado, posición de las manos, y cómo conectar acordes con sus respectivos bajos. Usted tocará los ritmos más populares como son ranchera, vals y bolero.

Learn to play one of the fastest growing musical styles in the country, known as Tejano or Norteno music. Covers all the basics including proper tuning, hand positioning, and how to easily connect chords with the bass line. You'll play distinctive Latin rhythms such as ranchera, vals, and bolero. Spanish.

Este innovativo video cubre escalas y ritmos más avanzados de ranchera, vals, bolero, cumbia, rock, flamenco, y mucho más. Con este completo curso aprenderá también técnicas y habilidades que le permitirán desarrollar su propio estilo. ¡Verdaderamente un video único en su clase!

This innovative video covers more advanced scales and rhythms of ranchera, vals, bolero, cumbia, rock, flamenco, and more. With this jam-packed course, you'll even learn skills and techniques that will allow you to develop your own individual style. A truly one-of-a-kind video! Spanish

The idea here is to help coordinate the pickers so you all have solos to play and they can be played in the same key. What a concept - a "Band in the Book". Within these pages you will find solos for the entire band: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass. The mandolin and fiddle share the same tunings so their solos are just written once for both. If you are just starting out and you are having difficulty-finding solos for your level - look no more. These solos are written for the beginner level student assuming you can already play a few simple solos or lead breaks. This series will help you to learn solos on multiple instruments, help organize ensemble play, help develop a steady sense of timing and give you hours of enjoyment as well.

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The English bassist Paul Westwood is one of the most in demand bass players of our time. His Bass Bible is the ultimate method book for every bass player. It contains a fascinating journey through the world of techniques, styles, grooves, and their evolution, using more than 1000 musical examples in all! This book is designed like a dictionary of musical phrases, which can be opened at the point that interests you. Learning a whole series of musical phrases, riffs, rhythms and patterns provides the basic language for performing within a group. Each section of the book captures the essence of a particular style, providing a springboard from which to start improvising. In notation and tablature for 4-string bass.