For Beginner to Advanced
Designed to provide you with all the necessary techniques to enable you to play slap bass from beginners standard up to a professional level. Introduces slapping and popping techniques as well as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, ghost notes and cross hammers. Also includes a thorough study of all the important rhythms and syncopations used in slap playing. The final section consists of advanced grooves, licks and patterns incorporating all the techniques and rhythms used in the book.
For Beginning Rock Bass Players
Introduces more than 90 of the most commonly used Rock riffs, grooves runs, scales, turnarounds and progressions. Includes 12 Bar Blues, off beat rhythms, hammer-ons, Blues Rock progressions, double stops, slapping and tapping. Both standard music notation and tablature are used to show the positions of the notes on the fretboard. All techniques and theory are introduced gradually in a very easy and clear manner.
For Beginner to Advanced
Contains a wide variety of licks in various Rock styles. The licks are introduced in a progressive manner, making the book suitable for both beginners and more advanced bass players. An excellent companion volume to Progressive Rock Bass, giving the student many extra licks, riffs, fills and solos dealing with all the important bass techniques and progressions. This book is also useful for the player who is looking for new bass lines and ideas to add to their playing.
For Beginning Blues Bass Players
This book covers all the important aspects of Blues bass playing, dealing with the most common Blues progressions, turnarounds, scales, riffs and techniques. Includes walking bass lines, Jazz Blues, Reggae Blues, Rock Blues, Latin Blues, Funk Blues, Harmonics and Slap Technique. You do not need to read music to use this book, as all examples are presented in both standard music notation and tablature.
For Beginner to Advanced
Incorporating all the necessary techniques used by the world’s best players to play tap bass. Includes the hammer attack, cross hammer, harmonics, two handed tapping and classical studies. Contains over 80 grooves licks and patterns. Due to the speed, phrasing and range of tapping bass licks, they are often hard to read from written music. For this reason it is essential to have the accompanying recording that contains all the examples in the book.
For Beginning Jazz Guitarists
A lesson by lesson introduction to the most commonly used moveable chord shapes and progressions used by Jazz guitarists. Includes Jazz Blues progressions, turnarounds, chord construction and scale tone chords.
A great introduction to the world of Blues Guitar. Covers all the essentials of rhythm and lead playing used in Blues and R&B along with turnarounds, intros and endings, and gaining control of 12 and 8 bar Blues forms. Also demonstrates use of the Blues scale, major and minor pentatonic scales and 7th arpeggios in a logical system for playing over the entire fretboard. Contains all the classic Blues sounds such as note bending, slides, and vibrato demonstrated in over 100 licks and solos in a variety of Blues styles.
For Beginner to Advanced
A great introduction to the world of Funk, R&B, Soul and Gospel keyboard playing. The emphasis is on making music immediately. The exercises sound great as well as teaching the necessary information. Covers the basics of creating good keyboard parts by concentrating on rhythm, along with other essential elements such as inventing riffs, two handed accompaniment styles and solo playing.
For Beginner to Advanced
An informative, easy to follow introduction to the world of Blues Harmonica. Introduces cross harp playing immediately and covers essential techniques such as note bending, vibrato, slides, train rhythms, call and response and improvisation. Also demonstrates third position playing and explains music theory as it applies to the harmonica.