Bass Guitar Tutor Books, Technique & Exam Material

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Learning to play bass guitar is now easier than ever before!
Each book in this fantastic series contains practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance.

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The best-selling Absolute Beginners series continues with a host of techniques and styles for the Bass Guitar, complete with demonstration CD. The complete picture guide to learning and mastering the Bass Guitar, with practical advice and tips covering everything you need to become a better bassist.
Learn more grooves, from indie and rock to funk and beyond. Discover the secrets of slides, syncopation and thumb-slapping. The tutorial is complete with a CD packed with demonstrations and backing tracks all recorded with professional musicians to give you the very best accompaniment for your practice sessions.

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The English bassist Paul Westwood is one of the most in demand bass players of our time. His Bass Bible is the ultimate method book for every bass player. It contains a fascinating journey through the world of techniques, styles, grooves, and their evolution, using more than 1000 musical examples in all! This book is designed like a dictionary of musical phrases, which can be opened at the point that interests you. Learning a whole series of musical phrases, riffs, rhythms and patterns provides the basic language for performing within a group. Each section of the book captures the essence of a particular style, providing a springboard from which to start improvising. In notation and tablature for 4-string bass.
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Legendary Bassist Billy Sheehan reveals the secrets and techniques that have made him one of the most respected players of all time. This bass master will add new dimensions to your playing, developing your style and skills.
This Book and DVD feature advanced techniques such as Tapping, Neck bends and Pitch harmonics as well as a look at Sheehan's influences, his home system and the licks and warm-up exercises he uses. A comprehensive method that combines the text book with a multi-functional DVD.

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This series of tutor books features step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams, ideal for the complete beginner. Quickly master basic playing techniques and learn to play great songs with the accompanying CD, featuring music from Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Jimi Hendrix and many more.

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A series of instruction books with CD for guitar, bass, keyboard and drums. They're easy to use with step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams, so the complete beginner can quickly master basic playing techniques, and learn to play great songs. What's more, Fast Track is different from any other instruction book. Each tutor has an accompanying songbook with CD featuring music from famous artists... The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In fact, Fast Track has everything for the complete beginner who wants to play like a top professional.

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Learn to use the entire fretboard with Bass Scale Finder. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most important scale types. Basic scale theory is also presented to help you apply these colorful sounds in your own music.

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Learn to play arpeggios on the bass with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. The 'Bass Arpeggio Finder' contains over 1300 arpeggio shapes, covering 28 different qualities for each key, with each quality presented in four different shapes. Full Size edition: 9" x 12".

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The complete guide to learning rock bass! This book/CD pack uses actual songs selected from a myriad of rock genres to help in teaching the key elements of rock bass. Players will learn to play in the style of Sting, Les Claypool, John Entwistle, Paul McCartney, Flea, and many others.
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A big box of essential items to help you start learning the bass guitar. In this great pack you get:
Absolute Beginners Bass Guitar (Book & CD)
Absolute Beginners Bass Guitar DVD
Beginning Bass Scales (Book)
Woodstock Manuscript Book
Guitar Strap 10ft Guitar Lead
1mm Nylon Pick

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This book is great for electric bassists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. It takes you further into using scales to build bass lines, techniques such as slap and pop and string muting, and creating walking bass lines. It also explores ideas such as modes, tetrachords, pasing tones and varying rhythmic activity. A superb book which keeps things fun and interesting, but doesn't sacrifice any important details. An absolute must for any serious Bass player.

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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
More...

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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
More...

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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
More...

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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you enjoy.
The specially written tunes develop the key skills, styles and techniques you need so you can play the hits of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Rockschool packs include full notation and TAB plus backing tracks on a CD featuring top musicians. Students are encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes - so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach!
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Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you love the most.
This companion guide contains examples of the exercises you will encounter in a Rockschool exam, covering all levels from grade 1 to 8.

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This is the first of a series of books from Dino Monoxelos. He developed this book after years of teaching the importance of learning arpeggios and scales in all twelve keys to his students. This of course is only one facet of being a great bass player but, knowing your scales and arpeggios is one of the keys to developing new and creative bass lines. Whether you are a student of jazz, or a full on heavy metal monster, this book will help you to learn some of the arpeggios and scales that are important elements in writing great bass lines and great bass solos. This book will take you through, step by step, how to learn, and then practice your major scales and arpeggios in one octave, two octaves and how to connect them up and down your fingerboard.
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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, R&B, 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 All Techniques. The author strongly advises the student to play each lesson slowly until the exercise or principle being illustrated is thoroughly mastered. Written in notation and tablature. Now includes DVD!
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The Total Jazz Bassist is a complete jazz method, giving equal treatment to both electric and double bass. Covering styles like bebop, Latin, funk and fusion, this book provides examples and lessons that will help you become a well-rounded bassist.
The Total Jazz Bassist also covers theory, technique, tunes, solos, jazz styles, and includes great advice for practicing and doing business. You'll learn to develop walking bass lines, how to solo, bass lines and solo patterns for blues changes and major and minor "two-five-one" progressions, dominant 7th chord scales, approaches for playing "Rhythm Changes," and much, much more! This is the one place to get everything you need to make you not only a great jazz bassist but an asset to any band. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.