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...

Lionel Duperron Drum Fill System download. Unlock your natural ability to play creative drum fills. Playing creative drum fills is a great way to express yourself as a drummer. In this training pack, Lionel shares his proven three step approach for unlocking your natural ability to play creative fills – in any musical style. Includes: Lionel’s 10 ways to personalize any drum fill; How to match beats and fills in any musical style. Detailed advice for setting up shots, building solos, improving independence, incorporating hand-to-feet combinations, playing powerful song-enders, and more. 23 Play-alongs with the drum tracks removed, so...

Robert Renman’s Blues Booster. Blues Booster is very likely the ticket to your own personal musical renaissance. It’s chock-full of creative, harmonic and technical epiphanies that you’ll be able to put to work immediately without having to struggle through tedious theory or boring exercises. In fact, spend just fifteen minutes with any lesson within the course and you’ll have something fresh and interesting to play that very night at the jam or with your buds. Robert has organized Blues Booster into two sections. In the first section, Robert guides you through 15 Key Concepts and Techniques, which will majorly...

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...

Francis Rocco Prestia Fingerstyle Funk download. At last, bass players around the world are allowed a rare, in-depth look into the style and technique of one of the most influential electric bassists of our time. In a logical step-by-step approach, Tower of Power bassist Francis Rocco Prestia clearly explains his percussive “ghosting & muting” techniques and demonstrates the importance of a “balanced” bass line. Twelve Tower of Power tunes are used to illustrate his approach to funk & half-time shuffles, straight-8th, 16th-note and 12/8 funk, ballads and more.Each example is presented in it’s fundamental form, then he elaborates one...

Jason Bittner What Drives the Beat DVD download. An in-depth look into the awe-inspiring drumming of a modern drum hero, What Drives The Beat shows just why Jason Bittner is one of the most popular drummers on the planet! The new, three-hour DVD is the two-time Grammy nominee and multiple readers poll winner s first full-length solo video project and features a wealth of performance and instructional content aimed at aspiring young metal players but applicable to many styles, ages and ability levels. One of the highlights of the DVD is Jason s presentation of his Double-Bass Crash Course....

Dave Rubin – Power Trio Blues Guitar PDF. This book/CD pack details how to play electric guitar in a trio with bass and drums. Boogie, shuffle and slow blues rhythms, licks, double stops, chords and bass patterns are presented for full and exciting blues. A CD with the music examples performed by a smokin’ power trio is included for play-along instruction and jamming. The music styles of Chicago and Texas bluesmen are presented along with rare photos of these musicians with their favourite axes. This new edition features even more blues styles – funk, soul and jazz – all...

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...

Tom Kolb Amazing Phrasing PDF. This book/CD pack explores all the main components necessary for crafting well-balanced rhythmic and melodic phrases. It also explains how these phrases are put together to form cohesive solos. Many styles are covered rock, blues, jazz, fusion, country, Latin, funk and more and all of the concepts are backed up with musical examples. The 50 ideas are divided into five main sections: The Basics covers fundamental but all too often forgotten techniques, such as slurs and vibrato, that can breathe new life into your phrases; Melodic Concepts explores various aspects of melodic phrasing, such...

Bob Mintzer -4 Jazz & Funk Etudes for Bb Instruments PDF. 14 Jazz And Funk Etudes, written for B flat instruments by jazz musician Bob Mintzer, includes practice and performance materials in various styles used in jazz and funk jazz performance. Practice aids and theoretical explanations are given with each etude, and a CD recording of combo accompaniment for practice sessions is included. The accompanying CD helps – you can (try) to play along with Bob Mintzer. Or you can load a track into Audacity and slow it down and then play along. Contents: Start With The Blues A...