Bass Guitar

Bunny Brunel has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Al Dimeola, Al Jarreau, and many other jazz and fusion greats. Bunny has compiled over 250 pages of "nuts and bolts" basics needed to play contemporary bass. Applicable to either 4- or 5-string bass, this comprehensive text covers position playing, utilizing scales and modes, chords and harmony, creating bass lines, improvising, fingering, and much more! In notation only with fretboard diagrams.

While still available in two separate volumes (93234 and 93235) Roger Filiberto's widely-used beginning bass method is now available in one comprehensive book! Includes handy arpeggio charts featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and dominant seventh chords, plus their upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained widespread acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study! Includes a CD and DVD.

Funk music is challenging with regard to technique and note selection This text covers these important areas, in addition to sections on articulation, fingerstyle funk, slap style funk, listings of important scales and modes, playing with a drummer, moving between chords, plus a special section on soloing and variations on bass lines. This method allows you to capture the essence of funk music. In notation and tablature. CD included in stereo play-along format.

This comprehensive method includes every conceivable aspect of jazz bass performance. It begins with the teaching of the basics using illustrations of hand positions, basic theory, the first position, how to read music, fingering, accelerated fingerboard studies, a fingerboard note location chart to the 12th fret, four-string studies, rhythm studies, syncopated rhythms and dotted notes. The book then introduces the second through seventeenth position, scale and arpeggio studies, accelerated fingerings using two-octave scales and various arpeggios, chord applications, rhythm patterns, extension fingerings, and harmonic minor and harmonized major scales using diatonic 7th chords. Part IV consists of theory for the bassists, chord construction, relating chord symbols and numbers, and the harmonized major, natural, harmonic, and ascending (jazz) melodic minor scales. Diagrams of 26 chords with the transposition charts using "G" and "C" fingerings are included. Each progression covers many playing styles encountered by the modern bassist, including: walking, 2-beat, syncopated rhythms(funk), Latin, bebop changes, pop-rock, blues, traditional blues, deadened-string technique, funk playing plus full chord progressions within tunes. Chords are suggested for the very diverse bass lines, syncopated patterns, scales and arpeggios. Written in standard notation with chord diagrams.

A collection of hip musical compositions by award-winning bassist Tyrone Brown. Compositions for Bass offers 10 pieces in various grooves including Swing, Latin and odd meters. The companion CD has Mr. Brown performing each piece - eight on acoustic bass and two on acoustic bass guitar. The pieces are also playable on electric bass guitar. Some tunes are suitable for solos or duets. The solo from each piece is also transcribed. In standard notation and tablature.

Tejano, Tex-Mex, or conjunto...it goes by many names, but Texas-born Spanish music is one of the fastest growing music styles in the country. Joe Torres' family has played this music for three generations and now he teaches you to play the bajo sexto, the bass guitar-like rhythmic conerstone of the Tex-Mex music. Guitarists looking for the "bajo sound" can use this DVD too! (35-minutes) In SPANISH and ENGLISH.

This book/CD set teaches the basics of country bass playing in a fun, “quick access” format, In a minimum amount of time, you will learn the bass part to 22 popular traditional songs including train songs (“New River Train”), gospel standards (“Amazing Grace”), Waltzes (“Knoxville Girl”), bluegrass songs (“Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down”), country blues (“Corrine, Corrina”) and more. All bass parts are written in both tablature and standard notation exactly as played on the companion CD. Extra lyrics are provided for singers.

This stereo CD enables you to “sit in” with a country band that includes a singer, rhythm guitar and bass. To facilitate learning, each of the 22 songs is performed at two tempos: moderate and “slowpoke.” The stereo format allows you to hear the bass guitar clearly isolated on the right speaker.

An excellent and thorough bass method designed to provide a musical foundation and expertise technique and theory in the jazz and rock idioms, ear training, transposition, modulation, syncopation, duets, progressions, substitutions, and much more are covered in this extensive volume. Notation only.

Featured here are a total of 94 traditional rhythms (and variations) of Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and Latin America, scored for drumset, electric bass and bongos, 68 of which are recorded on the companion CD. Also featured are the author’s comments on the cultural significance of the rhythms. Photos and illustrations of ethnic percussion instruments appear throughout the book. Information of great value for not only bongo and drumset players, but bass players as well.

A concise, easy-to-understand bass method in notation and tablature. This text will acquaint the bass player with basic chord progressions, chord notes, walking bass patterns, and a contemporary solo in the keys of C, G, F, B, B-flat, D, D minor, A, E-flat, A minor, G minor, E, E minor, A-flat, and C minor. Also included is a handy reference section on bass chords, including major, minor, diminished, augmented and many other chords in all keys.

This book is a must for the beginning bass player. It not only provides hints on choosing the right instrument, but prepares you for practical exercises and different playing techniques. It also features many examples for practice. The examples are transcribed in standard notation, on tab and on the accompanying CD to which you can either listen or play along to. This book features all the basic techniques of rock, soul, funk, blues and reggae, including: walking bass, double stops and slap/pop.

A premium-quality electric bass tablature book. Each page contains joint staves--the top for writing music in notation; the bottom for writing music in tablature. Blank chord grids are at the bottom of each page. Features tear-out sheets. 8.75 x 11.75.

The most widely-used introductory bass method available! Both Volumes I and II present a standard notation approach to reading solo and arpeggio studies for four string bass. Included in Volume I are the rudiments of playing, plus handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and seventh chords, plus upper harmonic extensions. Volume II continues with studies, scales, walking bass patterns, and more. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study world-wide.

The most widely-used introductory bass method available! Both Volumes I and II present a standard notation approach to reading solo and arpeggio studies for four string bass. Included in Volume I are the rudiments of playing, plus handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and seventh chords, plus upper harmonic extensions. Includes DVD (68 min. duration).

The most widely-used introductory bass method available! Both Volumes I and II present a standard notation approach to reading solo and arpeggio studies for four string bass. Included in Volume I are the rudiments of playing, plus handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and seventh chords, plus upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study world-wide. The companion CD for both volumes 1 and 2 is included.

The most widely used beginning bass method available! Presents note reading, solo playing, and chord arpeggio studies. Applicable to any style of music, this style has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study. The CD contains both Volumes I and II.

The most widely-used introductory bass method available! Both Volumes I and II present a standard notation approach to reading solo and arpeggio studies for four string bass. Included in Volume I are the rudiments of playing, plus handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and seventh chords, plus upper harmonic extensions. Volume II continues with studies, scales, walking bass patterns, and more. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study world-wide. The companion CD for both volumes 1 and 2 is included.

The most widely used beginning bass method available! Presents note reading, solo playing, and chord arpeggio studies. Included are handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, seventh chords, and even upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study.

The most widely-used introductory bass method available! Both Volumes I and II present a standard notation approach to reading solo and arpeggio studies for four string bass. Included in Volume I are the rudiments of playing, plus handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and seventh chords, plus upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study world-wide. The companion CD for both volumes 1 and 2 is included. French edition.

Handy, pocket-sized instructional book which contains a wealth of information on chords, songs, and playing techniques. Each book is a tremendous value for the price and can be kept as a daily practice guide and study reference manual for each instrument.