CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

"Bass for Beginners - The "Get Started Now" Book " Essential skills for "gettin' it done" on the electric bass. Pick-style, finger-style, and slap style. Basic rhythm, basic patterns, basic classic lines, basic "blues" form and application, basic technique, makin' good fundamental bass sounds... basics, basics, basics!

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AUTHORS NOTES:

The Basses Loaded book for beginners. Historically, beginner books are BORING. The challenge was to come up a book that satisfied the educational requirements WHILE making the process of learning the electric bass FUN. I proud to say I achieved that goal!

SAMPLE LOOP: Slap N' Pop

"Basic Rhythms, Scales, & Arpeggios & Application Concepts"

10 essential improvisational patterns applied in the style of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, James Jamerson (Motown), No Doubt, Bob Marley, Black Sabbath, Cream, Miles Davis, The Clash, Nirvana, Santana, and many more! Five "LINE APPROACHES" for building, and improvising better bass lines. The Verse/Chorus Song Form, Tips, & MUCH MORE!

CD included!!

AUTHORS NOTES:

This book lays the groundwork from which whole Basses Loaded series is based. This book provides the essential tools of creating great bass lines--composed or improvised. We begin by learning the language of rhythm, and show how rhythm has been used one bass instruments (from tuba, to string bass, to electric bass). Then we cover the essential melodic tools--scales and arpeggios. We'll cover the ten essential patterns (some scales/some arpeggios) that are the key creating lines, and show how these patterns have been put to use from No Doubt Lastly, we'll introduce the 5 LINE APPROACHES for moving from chord to chord... how "the theory" is put to practical use.

SAMPLE LOOP: Marley Mon

Major & Natural Minor music theory and application, Straight 8th, Basic Shuffle, & Baion Rhythms; Major & Minor Pentatonic Scales; Major and Minor Improvisational Patterns, Extended Pentatonic Scales (runs and licks), Essential Rock Slur Techniques, Classic Rock Ostinato Patterns. Playing styles of Paul McCartney (The Beatles), Jack Bruce (Cream), Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), John Entwhistle (The Who), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), and many others. Chicago Blues and Latin rhythmic influences. Five "LINE APPROACHES" for building, and improvising better ROCK bass lines…. and MUCH MORE!

CD included!!

AUTHORS NOTES:

"Part history lesson, part improvisational workshop." Quarter, 8th, & 16th rhythmic combinations. How to play the lines, how to improvise the lines, how to make your bass GROWL!

SAMPLE LOOP: The GEEZ

"BLUES BASS: IN ALL STYLES" Styles include: Chicago & Texas styles, Swing, Jazz, & Jump Blues styles, R&B Blues Styles. Dominant 7th music theory and application, Essential Blues Scales, Arpeggios, and Tone Sets. The use of Blue Notes, and Chromaticism. Four "Shuffle" styles: 1) Chicago-style; 2) Texas-style; 3) "Flat-Tire"; 4) Jazz/Swing Shuffle. Blues bass chording & double stops. Blues Slur Techniques: bends, hammer/pulls, slides, etc. Five "LINE APPROACHES" for building, and improvising better BLUES bass lines. Playing styles of Willie Dixon, Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, "Duck" Dunn, Tommy Shannon, Johnny B. Gayden, Roscoe Beck, Jerry Jemmott, and MANY MORE.

CD included!!

AUTHORS NOTES:

The BLUES is the single most important area of music study a bass player can work on to improve their abilities in improvisation. We'll cover many different kinds of blues... Chicago "Double Shuffle," "Flat Tire" shuffle, "Jazz-Blues" styles, use of chording, blue notes... blah, blah, blah.... lots of stuff, trust me:-))

SAMPLE LOOP: JERRY JEMMOTT STYLE

"GROOVE WORKSHOP 1: R&B & Motown Styles" 16th Note Rhythmic Variations (and feels); Basic Pick-style, Finger-style, and (an introduction to) Slap-style applied to R&B styles. Essential R&B and Funk Ostinato Patterns; Essential Chord-to-Chord Patterns. Common Scales, Arpeggios, and Tone Sets. Five "LINE APPROACHES" for building, and improvising better R&B, Funk, and Motown bass lines. Playing styles of James Jamerson, Rocco Prestia, Tommy Cogbill, "Duck" Dunn, Bernard Odum, David Hood, Bob Babbitt George Porter Jr., Carol Kaye, Jerry Jemmott, Bootsy Collins, and MANY MORE.

CD included!!

AUTHORS NOTES:

Of all the cool things in this book, the coolest lessons were the ones on ghosting (which are are to find in method books). Don't get me wrong, there no one cooler than Chuck Rainey, Jerry Jemmott... okay James Jamerson's cooler. My point is, there are tons of R&B greatness is this volume.

SAMPLE LOOP: James Brown