Best of Marcus Miller PDF. Bass Recorded Versions – 23 transcriptions from Grammy-winning bassist and session player extraordinare Marcus Miller. This title gives you exactly what you expect – good transcriptions of the most popular Marcus Miller tunes. Great book – worth getting if you plan to work on your Slap Bass Chops. This book has highlighted some of the funky, funky lines of the greatest bass player on the planet. The book showcases a great cross section of his career, notably his work with Miles and Sanborn and moves through all of his solo recordings. In short a...

Marc Ensign – Slappin’ A Complete Study of Slap Technique for Bass. Gleaned from years of teaching, performance, and listening experience -bass players at all levels will benefit from studying the numerous exercises, grooves, and musical examples offered in this book. Whether you are into funk, RB, fusion, jazz, rock, punk, reggae, alternative music, or any other style; the slap technique will find a niche in your bass playing vocabulary. Chapter headings include: Technique, Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs, Ghost Notes, Left Hand Slap, Open Strings, Double Slap, Double Stops, Double Pops, Other Licks and Tricks, and Advanced Grooves Solos Using...

This book presents 1001 drumset beats played in a variety of musical styles, past and present. It’s ideal for beginners seeking a well-organized, easy-to-follow encyclopedia of drum grooves, as well as consummate professionals who want to bring their knowledge of various drum styles to new heights. Author Steve Mansfield presents: rock and funk grooves, blues and jazz grooves, ethnic grooves, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean grooves, and much more. For those who are beginning set players, this book is invaluable. Every page includes rhythm patterns that vary only slightly from one line to another. Thus, the pace is slow enough to...

A Guide to the Techniques and Philosophies of Funk Bass. The Funk Bass Method is your complete guide to learning funk bass. It uses real funk songs to teach you the basics of grooving and soloing funk bass in the style of Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Rocco Prestia, and many others. This book includes such lessons as: Slap and Pop Technique; Fingerstyle; Slides, Vibrato, Trills, Shakes, and Bends; Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs; Grooving in The Pocket; Melodic Soloing; Advanced Techniques; Equipment And Sound; Standard Notation And Tablature. This is an EXCELLENT book to begin playing Funk on a bass...

You have a chance to play (sing) 26 favorites of 1998 – 1999 years. There are songs by Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and many more. From beginner to advanced. Songs include: All My Life – K-Ci &JoJo Angel – Sarah McLachlan Angel of Mine – Monica The Boy is Mine – Brandy & Monica Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauryn Hill The First Night – Monica From This Moment On – Shania Twain A Little More Time on You – N’ Sync Heartbreak Hotel – Whitney Houston I Don’t Want to Wait...

Learn the coolest, funkiest and most dynamic of Bass guitar techniques with this fantastic book of funk studies. Slap It! is one of the most successful slap and pop methods, and, since its release, has become a must-have for electric bass players wanting to learn more about playing and sight-reading slap bass lines. Tony Oppenheim’s fabulous collection of funk studies is comprehensive with a massive 151 exercises to learn, hone and master this wrist wrangling and finger popping technique, all in standard notation and Bass tablature. A CD is included which contains examples of the most important studies. This...

New York City bassist and teacher Patrick Pfeiffer has created a regimen that will teach the developing bassist how to become truly great, through practice, discipline, and perseverance. But who said it has to be boring? Daily Grooves for Bass is jam-packed with a different groove for every day of the year and these funky, hip, and inspiring exercises will get newcomers reading and playing grooves worthy of any bassist’s repertoire. Bassists can forget the chore of trudging through a typical exercise book, as grooves are limited to one or two measures and then repeat, just like bass grooves...

There are a lot of books on the market offering “licks” in the Funk/Fusion style but this book goes a lot further. The 16 challenging compositions by renowned Australian guitarist Peter O’Mara cover a variety of tempo and grooves and are presented using a real rhythm section: Patrick Scales, Christian Lettner and Peter O’Mara (Klaus Doldinger’s “Passport”) to achieve a maximum of authenticity. Rhythm-guitar riffs are integrated into the overall groove and there is plenty of room for improvisation as well. The audio “play-a-long” tracks are presented in an order of increasing complexity. CD #1 contains complete recordings of...

This “private lesson” with instructor Tom Kolb is an easy-to-use guide to the most essential chords, rhythms and strumming patterns for a huge variety of musical styles: rock, blues, jazz, country, folk, RandB, funk, soul, Latin jazz, fusion, ska, reggae and gospel! Each musical example in the book is demonstrated on the accompanying CD, backed by a full rhythm section. It is useful for the beginner and intermediate guitar player, as it lays out smart chord progressions and includes 100 well-recorded tracks covering most styles in American popular music, from folk rock to heavy rock, from country to new...

The Accelerate Your Guitar Playing DVD will help take your playing to the next level. Professor Tomo Fujita shares his proven method for improving the essential skills required to play with other musicians and to freely express yourself on the guitar. Over 20,000 of these videos have been sold in Japan alone. This video offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include: scale and picking exercises, interval and ear training, rhythm studies and stylistic grooves (blues, swing, jazz, R&B, funk). Tom Fujita’s proven Guitar method is a proven express method to...