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...

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...

Edward Ayola Winning Rhythms PDF. Winning Rhythms perfects rhythmic skills for all students, all instruments. Use it in your class. Use it in private lessons. You can even use Winning Rhythms without an instrument, clapping the rhythms. Later, add the bow or fingers. As your students become more rhythmically confident, they can play the rhythm patterns with scales. In no time at all, while their rhythm improves, they’ll learn scales and fingering techniques too! It starts very simple and is very accessible for early rhythm learning, but also advances to more complex rhythms fairly quickly to challenge even older...

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...

Leo Traversa Fusion: A Study In Contemporary Music For The Bass PDF. The genre Fusion, as the name implies, is a blend of many styles and influences. This book and CD utilize four tunes as a basis to show how this fusion-blending process occurs and expose you to major trends that exist. The CD contains a performance demo and then a version without the bass for you to play-along. In this book, the subject of contemporary fusion is covered progressively. Simply read the first chart and listen to it. Then read and listen to the last 2 and you...

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...

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,...

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...

Jon Liebman Bass Aerobics PDF. Bass Builders. Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with online audio access by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying online audio contains...

Bass Play-Along: Volume 9 Blues PDF. The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the bass should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs...