Bass Grooves

Bass Grooves
Author: Ed Friedland
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2004-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781617745096

(Book). This invaluable guide and accompanying CD give bass players both the musical background and training needed to get on with their grooving. With lessons guided by a metronome and presented in various musical styles and rhythmic applications, bassists increase their ability to internalize rhythm. The book also breaks down classic styles and grooves from rock, blues, R&B, jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and other traditions. Each example includes a notated version of the drum part and details how to program it into a drum machine.

Funk Bass

Funk Bass
Author: Chris Kringel
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780634067105

(Bass Method). The Hal Leonard Funk Bass Method is your complete guide to learning funk bass. It uses real funk songs to teach you the basics of grooving and soloing funk bass in the style of Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Rocco Prestia, and many others. Songs include: Brick House * Can't Stop * Fire * Higher Ground * I'll Take You There * Let's Groove * Pick up the Pieces * Stay * Sumthin', Sumthin' * What Is Hip * and more.

Creative Bass Technique Exercises

Creative Bass Technique Exercises
Author: Dan Hawkins
Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781789330564

Discover fully-formed musical grooves, riffs and licks you can incorporate into your playing right now - each one carefully crafted to develop dexterity, timing and feel.

RnB, Soul & Motown Style Basslines

RnB, Soul & Motown Style Basslines
Author: Dan Hawkins
Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2021-08-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781789332438

RnB, Soul & Motown Style Basslines is your complete guide to mastering the essential skills of Soul bass guitar.

The New Sound of Funk Bass

The New Sound of Funk Bass
Author: Josquin des Pres
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2010-12-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 161065174X

Providing over 90 bass lines played over 45 fully produced tracks reminiscent of old school funk combined with new groove R&B, the New Sound of Funk Bass is a must-have for any bassist's repertoire. Each example is followed by a play-along version without the bass. These tracks will not only help you learn and perform the dozens of recorded and transcribed bass line, but will also serve as a springboard to help you create your own original bass grooves.

Complete Funk Bass

Complete Funk Bass
Author: Mike Hiland
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2011-01-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610654935

Funk music is challenging with regard to technique and note selection This text covers these important areas, in addition to sections on articulation, fingerstyle funk, slap style funk, listings of important scales and modes, playing with a drummer, moving between chords, plus a special section on soloing and variations on bass lines. This method allows you to capture the essence of funk music. In notation and tablature. CD included in stereo play-along format.

Reggae Grooves for Electric Bass

Reggae Grooves for Electric Bass
Author: Chris Matheos
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619115255

This book provides guidance for the bassist as well as the percussionist and rhythm guitarist on creating individual reggae grooves. The numerous challenging 2 and 4-measure rhythm patterns make a great rhythm reading workout, and the advice the author provides on equipment selection and rhythmic styles will be appreciated by the whole band. The audio recording available online features a full rhythm section both with and without the bass part, so you can jam as part of the group. Written in both standard notation and tablature

The Total Jazz Bassist

The Total Jazz Bassist
Author: David Overthrow
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739043110

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.