Product Description: This method book explains how percussive slap bass works with the drums, and how playing percussively will make you "lock" tighter with the drummer. Included are sections on building a percussive groove, pop control, moving patterns, individual string control, slap without pops, slapping with tensions, double pops, slapping with dyads, triplets, Flamenco thumb technique, odd meters, applied grooves, and a special section for a rhythm section workout...read more

Product Description: Featured here are classic R&B/Soul bass grooves from the 1940's -1970's; Rhythm and Blues bass lines mixing Motown, Memphis (soul/gospel) and New Orleans (funk) feels. 30 examples written in standard bass clef notation and TAB and all are contained on the companion CD with a full rhythm section...read more

Product Description: Covered here are many slap bass techniques including octaves, hammer-ons, pull-offs, flamenco thumb technique, double hammer-ons, tenths, etc. while also applying these to many grooves; 78 examples written in bass clef and tablature with companion audio CD...read more

Product Description: Here is something for every blues bassist, studying blues patterns and chord progressions. Examples focus on basic patterns, chord progressions, and playing with a band. Covered here are Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, swing, gospel, zydeco, Texas, and other different styles of blues bass playing...read more

Product Description: This 5 1/2" by 8" QWIKGUIDE shows bassists how to play along with popular jazz chord progressions. The examples demonstrate how to use triads, arpeggios, scales, and passing tones in swing, be-bop, bossa nova, and ballad styles. The sample bass lines are all written in tablature for the 4-string bass, making it easy to learn fingerings and positions...read more

Product Description: There is no doubt that rock music's biggest influence is the blues. Most of rock music's most famous chord progressions are almost identical to famous blues progressions. The bass and drum parts may be a bit different in rock, but the progressions are almost identical...read more

Product Description: Warm-up exercises are some of the most important things a bassist can learn. This 5 1/2 x 8 QWIKGUIDE(TM) book/CD set focuses on warming up the left and right hands. The goal of these warm-ups is to provide sufficient preparation before a performance to avoid strain or other injury...read more

Product Description: In two-hand tapping on electric bass, your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues, alternative, jazz, funk, and even classical...read more

Product Description: Here is something for everyone, introducing students to many different styles of bass playing: rock n roll, blues, swing, funk, reggae, classical, alternative, country, be-bop, ska, bossa nova, heavy metal, gospel, two-hand tapping, etc...read more

Provides instructions for bass guitar on playing a variety of rock songs.

Product Description: Focuses on the two most popular topics in the bass world today: slap bass and multiple-stringed basses. Covers a wide variety of slap techniques including triple pops, double pops, and individual string control. Also focuses on the music theory behind slap bass such as intervals, chords, scales, and their application...read more

Product Description: Fretless bass is a unique instrument. The approach to playing fretless bass is much more like playing upright bass than to fretted bass. This book will cover many of the important techniques required to become a good fretless bassist...read more

Product Description: This book was created for the bassist who has mastered the basics of slap bass and wants to expand his or her skills. Many of this book's examples were written to fine tune individual string control -- the ability to thumb or pop on any string at any time...read more

Product Description: This method book explains how percussive slap bass works with the drums, and how playing percussively will make you "lock" tighter with the drummer. Included are sections on building a percussive groove, pop control, moving patterns, individual string control, slap without pops, slapping with tensions, double pops, slapping with dyads, triplets, Flamenco thumb technique, odd meters, applied grooves, and a special section for a rhythm section workout...read more