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Whether you've never held a bass before or you're looking to improve your skills, this resource is a complete guide to playing bass guitar. Pfeiffer provides fresh, updated practice lessons, teaching techniques, and access to online sample tracks to hone your skills.
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A guide to playing bass guitar that includes exercises to help beginning musicians learn how to master scales, chords, and arpeggios, what the basic finger and hand positions are, and how to refine tempo, time signature, phrasing, and dynamics. Includes a CD with tracks to accompany the exercises.
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"Since the mid-1950s, Rickenbacker basses have been establishing the musical bottom for rock, jazz, and funk. Rickenbacker's iconic 4001 bass is just one of nearly 40 distinct models produced in the last six decades. Players and collectors have longed for a reference to sort out the different models, features, finishes, and details. The Rickenbacker Electric Bass: 50 Years as Rock's Bottom provides hundreds of color photos and descriptions, along...
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Course Technology
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A full-color, step by step guide to learning bass guitar for beginners and intermediate players. This book/DVD package walks readers through all of the important educational and musical techniques through fingering charts, illustrations, photos, musical notation, and detailed instructional chapters. Everything is covered from tips and advice for purchasing your bass and proper bass care and maintenance, to fingering techniques, reading sheet music,...
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MJS Music & Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Presented in a simple root to octave format, starting with basic scales such as major, minor, pentatonic, and blues. Next learn the patterns spanning all musical styles and cultures with exotic scales like the Balinese, Hirojoshi and Kumoi.
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Fifth Avenue Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Mel Reeves shows you step-by-step how to play bass guitar in any style from rock to jazz, from blues to country. He covers: tuning, right hand techniques, how to play any tune knowing 12 notes, major and minor arpeggios, scales, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, rhythm patterns, and the most common chord sequences.
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Roadrock Music Interantional, Ltd
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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A complete bass guitar course for absolute beginners with Phil Williams. From novice level through to intermediate level, this course requires no prior knowledge at all. It truly is for someone starting from scratch. Each of the carefully designed chapters introduce commonly used scales and techniques gradually and strategically, along with some practical theory, nothing too demanding. Making music has never been so easy.
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Harper Design
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"From Rush frontman Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage electric bass guitars, dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, comes the definitive volume on the subject. Geddy's love of the bass has been nurtured over a lifetime spent in the limelight as one of the world's premier rock bassists. For the past seven years, he's dedicated himself to studying the history of the instrument that's been so essential to his career, collecting hundreds of basses...
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Backbeat Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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An expanded edition of this book, which provides history of the bass guitar, information about its structure, construction and maintenance, and technique. With a foreword by John Paul Jones, recommended listening, books and video, and index. Many black & white and color photos.