Josquin des Pres 70s Funk & Disco Bass PDF. The low, throbbing beat of great bassists like James Jamerson, Anthony Jackson, Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson and Verdine White drove the world to the dance floor during the disco era. In this new Bass Builders book, renown bassist Josquin des Pres provides 101 authentic funk and disco bass patterns to help players practice getting their groove. Includes standard notation and tab, and a CD with 99 full-demo tracks. Bass Builders is a series of technique book/audio packages created for the purposeful building and development of your chops. Each...

Ed Friedland Bass Method Complete Edition PDF. This Bass Method is designed for anyone just learning to play bass. It is based on years of teaching bass students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best bass teaching ideas from around the world. This complete edition contains books 1, 2, and 3 bound together in one easy-to-use volume. You start with notes. And even when TAB appears far into the book, it is not necessary as you can still play in notes. You get to play “tunes” early one, even if they are very simple. Thus,...

Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik PDF. Bass Recorded Versions. All 17 songs from their smash hit album. Authentic bass guitar transcriptions with notes and tablature for every song from Red Hot Chili Peppers’ classic album. The album covers a surprising variety of styles, from bass-heavy funk (Funky Monks) to sweet melody (Under The Bridge), from hip-hop (Give It Away) to metal (Blood Sugar Sex Magic), with every known emotion represented! If you are a big Chili Pepper fan and play the bass guitar, then this book is essential! Blood, Sugar, Sex Magik, is one of the...

Josquin Des Pres Muted Grooves For Bass PDF. Develop the string muting, string raking, and right-hand techniques used by the greatest legends of bass with this comprehensive exercise book. It includes over 100 practical exercises with audio accompaniments for each. You can easily add a useful and creative technique to your playing. Muted notes (sound) great and really make your licks stand out in funkiness. The many pages or pre exercises are a little boring and repetitive but you can always intermittently skip to the groove section and learn the easiest ones to keep the course interesting. The exercises...

James Jamerson Standing in the Shadows of Motown PDF. Bassist James Jamerson was the embodiment of the Motown spirit and groove – the invisible entity whose playing inspired thousands and made it impossible for anyone to sit still while listening to a Motown record. 49 note-for-note transcribed musical scores, two hours of recorded all-star performances. This folio also features a 2-CD set that includes performances of Jamerson’s bass lines by such noted bassists as Geddy Lee of Rush, Will Lee, John Patitucci, John Entwistle of the Who, Francis Rocco Prestia of Tower of Power, and Jack Bruce, just to...

Stephan Richter Progressive Heavy Metal Bass Guitar Licks Volume 1 PDF. From easy to advanced level. Features over 130 ‘Classic’ Heavy Metal Bass Licks played in the styles of the world’s best Heavy Metal Bass Players. Includes slap and two handed tapping licks. You do not need to be able to read music to use this book. Many of the licks are from well known solos or adaptations of these solos. It is important that after a while you begin to play these licks with some variations of your own. Combine the study of these licks with constant playing...

The Beatles Complete Scores PDF. A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever – The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation and tablature. Also includes a full discography. If you want to learn how to play guitar, here is a way to learn from the best! Same with bass…. and even piano (though anything other than “Let It Be” will be challenging for a newcomer to the instrument). If your band wants...

A Rhythmic Vocabulary PDF: A Musician’s Guide to Understanding and Improvising With Rhythm. This book is a road map to rhythm for any musician. It’s for guitar players intrigued by the rhythms of world music. It’s for keyboard players who’ve studied scales and chords and now want to study rhythm in a systematic way. It’s for drummers, bass players, and sax players who want to groove and solo with a deeper understanding of rhythmic structure. Whatever your instrument, if you want to play funkier and don’t mind using your head to do it, this book is for you. This...

Gary Willis Ultimate Ear Training for Guitar and Bass PDF. Gary Willis is well known within the bass community as one of its shining lights. He is a fierily original soloist and has a virtuosic technique that allows him to lay down some of the funkiest 16th note grooves out there. He is also an original thinker too – just about anything he has to say on the topic of the bass guitar is worth listening to. The book starts off simply with major scale intervals and labels. It progresses to the minor scale and the intervals within the...

Gary Kelly Contemporary Rock Styles For The Bass PDF. The Collective Contemporary Styles Series. This book and CD combination are about the styles and grooves that make up the full array of today’s rock scene. If you want to be a well-rounded, well-trained musician, this has all the material you need to know! You will also get insight into the constant cross-fertilization of sub-styles that make rock a rich and exciting musical genre. The book breaks down rock into fifteen of the most important sub-styles. For each sub-style, you get a comprehensive lesson centering on a fully notated “chart”...