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”...

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...

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...

Paul Fox Heavy Metal PDF. Tab Licks. A fun and easy way to play heavy metal bass licks. Over 100 essential licks/riffs in the styles of your favorite bassists. Playing suggestions, a brief history and recommended listening list for each style. Bass tablature and standard music notation. Scales and exercises. This book is written so that the beginning bassist can start playing immediately and with each lick learn important techniques that lead to the next level. All the music has been written in both standard music notation and tablature so whether you read music or not, you’ll be able...

Stephan Richter Progressive Jazz Bass PDF. For Beginner to Advanced Students – Introduces the beginner to the fundamentals of Jazz Bass. Covers scales, arpeggios, rhythm, walking bass lines and music theory as it applies to the bass, along with many lines and grooves played over a variety of progressions in all keys. This is a well organized book on playing the base. The basic premise of the book is that while a piano or guitar player will play all tones of a chord simultaneously, the base player play them one at a time like an arpeggio. The book then...

Marcus Miller Legend Player PDF. Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a bass guitarist. Throughout his career, Miller worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a successful solo career. Miller is classically trained as a clarinetist and also plays keyboards, saxophone and guitar. There are 15 transcriptions of songs Marcus Miller, published in Japan. Songs include: Rio Funk Could It Be You Hideaway Straight To The Heart Run For Cover Shake Dance Maputo Benny Crossfire Panther Steveland Rampage The Sun...

Bass Player Presents Slap Masters PDF. Supplement to the magazine Bass Player, dedicated slap bass. Master classes give 20 eminent bassists, including Marcus Miller, Flea, Les Claypool, Robert Trujillo, Larry Graham, Victor Wooten and others. Edition will be interesting to both novices and gurus slap. Contents: Larry Graham – Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station Alphonso Johnson – Weather Report, Jeffrey Osborne, Sergio Mendes Abraham Laboriel – Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson Andrew Gouche – Chaka Khan, Andrae Crouch, L.A. Mass Choir Chuck Rainey – Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan Doug Wimbish – Sugar Hill Gang, Living...

Bass Play-Along Volume 18 Blues Rock 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 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, and also enhanced so PC & Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Whether you are new to...

David Overthrow Beginning Electric Bass PDF. Perfect for beginning bassist or players who want to enhance their knowledge. Starting with a review of reading music, this book explains the basics of music theory as it relates to being a great bass player with an easy, step-by-step approach. Before you know it, you’ll be using major scales, triads and 7th chords to create cool-sounding bass lines for the most important chord progressions all bassists need to know. Learn to lock in with a drummer and the basics of blues and funk styles. Students, teachers and self-taught players alike will enjoy...