Learn to Play 5-String Bass

Learn to Play 5-String Bass
Author: Mike Hiland
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2015-10-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610654854

The five-string bass is growing rapidly in popularity due to its expanded tonal range plus the added versatility and creativity it offers. Mike Hiland is an accomplished bassist and writer. Building on the player's knowledge of four-string bass, this easy-to-understand, nuts-and-bolts method in notation and tablature gives the player the tools to tackle the extra low end (low B string). It presents what the bass student both wants and needs to know including finger exercises, scales, arpeggios, slapping, and tricks to help you around the 5-string! A companion CD is included which demonstrates each of the scales and exercises at full tempo with a drum machine.

5-String Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners

5-String Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Author: LearnToPlayMusic.com
Publisher: LearnToPlayMusic.com
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9825321628

Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy 5 string bass guitar lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.*** "This book explores the potential that the added string gives you on a 5 string bass. It's also great for learning chord arpeggios and scales, which are essential for writing your own bass lines. This book is invaluable for anyone who has bought a 5 string bass. I love this book! This is my favorite bass book!" - Jim Patterson, Honolulu HI Progressive 5 String Bass contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great 5 string bass player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson 5 string bass tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the bass is required to teach yourself to learn to play bass from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play five string bass guitars • How to play bass notes, bass arpeggios, bass grooves and beginner bass scales used in 5 string bass music • All the fundamental techniques of 5 string bass playing • Bass theory for learning how to read bass music for beginners and how to read bass tabs for beginners • How to tune a bass • 5 string bass tips and bass tricks that every player should know when learning bass • Shortcuts for how to learn bass fast by getting the most from bass practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the bass today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy beginners bass lessons written by a professional bass teacher • Complete with photos and diagrams • Easy-to-read bass music for beginners and easy bass tabs for beginners with chords for accompaniment • Bass chord pattern diagrams for all important bass chord arpeggios • 68 bass exercises, bass scales and bass arpeggios Beginner bass lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the bass, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's 5 string bass guitar lessons for beginners are used by students and bass teachers worldwide to learn how to play bass. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted bass lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

5-String Bass

5-String Bass
Author: Sharon Ray
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739052754

How low can you go? The 5-string bass stretches the limits of normal bass playing to give you notes that are needed for many styles of contemporary music---including gospel, Latin, funk, metal, and pop. This book teaches you how to incorporate the 5th string into all these styles and more. You'll learn how the 5th string can open up new fingering possibilities and allow you to play a wider range of pitches economically---without moving your left hand up and down the neck. Opening your mind to these new possibilities is just a start; the bottom line of playing 5-string is playing notes you can really feel! All examples are notated in both standard music notation and TAB, and the online audio included with the book allows you to hear the examples and play along.

Steve Bailey -- Six String Bass

Steve Bailey -- Six String Bass
Author: Steve Bailey
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780769209647

Six String Bass is written to help you make the transition from either the four or five string bass to the six string. The book begins with an exploration of the low B and high C strings followed by scale studies, random note studies, technique, and chord voicings (triads, seventh chords and inversions).

Music Theory for the Bass Player

Music Theory for the Bass Player
Author: Ariane Cap
Publisher: CapCat Music Media
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2018-12-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0996727639

Music Theory for the Bass Player is a comprehensive and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate and all-around more creative musician. Included with this book are 89 videos that are incorporated in this ebook. This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready to fill out the engaging Test Your Understanding questions! Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? Perhaps all the books seem to be geared toward pianists or classical players? Do you know lots of songs, but don't know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody? If so, this is the book for you! • Starting with intervals as music's basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony. • Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples and exercises, more than 180 pages of vital information are peppered with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and compelling learning approaches. • Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing and chops. • You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music (reading music is of course a vital skill, yet, the author believes it should not be tackled at the same time as the study of music theory, as they are different skills with a different practicing requirement. Reading becomes much easier once theory is mastered and learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams and patterns as illustrations, music theory is very accessible, immediately usable and fun. This is the definitive resource for the enthusiastic bassist! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px} This book and the 89 free videos stand on their own and form a thorough source for studying music theory for the bass player. If you'd like to take it a step further, the author also offers a corresponding 20 week course; this online course works with the materials in this book and practices music theory application in grooves, fills and solos. Information is on the author's blog.

Learn to Burn: 5-String Bass Guitar

Learn to Burn: 5-String Bass Guitar
Author: Corey Dozier
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2014-01-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619114526

Are you unsure how to appropriately use that low B-string? This book and accompanying audio will show you how, and much more. The book starts you off with right-hand technique exercises to increase finger speed. Next, the material takes you through the scales and chords that comprise most western music, through the whole range of the bass. Before you know it, the bass will be lighting up with infinite possibilities. This freedom makes playing an extended range instrument so gratifying. The etudes section will get you thinking about idea development through an array of styles and time signatures, while simultaneously giving your chops a workout. You can use this book to help connect the ears, hands and mind. Be careful when taking this book to the woodshed because you might burn it down! Includes access to online audio.

Electric Bass

Electric Bass
Author: Joseph Alexander
Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781911267904

Electric Bass - Improve Your Groove is a complete course in rhythm and groove on bass.

Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners

Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners
Author: LearnToPlayMusic.com
Publisher: LearnToPlayMusic.com
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9825320044

Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy bass lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free bass videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.*** "I love this book! It taught me everything I needed to know about playing bass." - Harry Smith, Watertown MA Progressive Beginner Bass contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great bass player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson bass tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses including electric bass and acoustic bass. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the bass guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play bass guitar from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play beginner bass notes and beginner bass scales used in popular bass lines and bass licks • All the fundamental techniques of bass playing including how to play bass with a pick or fingers and how to play using alternate picking, slides and hammer-ons • How to read bass music for beginners and how to read bass tab for beginners • Bass theory for reading key signatures, time signatures, intervals, sharps and flats, ties, rests, triplets and syncopation • How to tune bass • Bass tips and bass tricks that every player should know when learning bass guitar • Shortcuts for how to learn bass fast by getting the most from bass practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the bass today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy beginners bass guitar lessons written by a professional bass teacher • Full color photos and diagrams • Easy-to-read bass music for beginners, accompanying guitar chords and easy bass tabs for beginners • 61 bass exercises, bass riffs, bass arpeggios and popular easy bass songs for beginners in classic rock styles • Diagrams showing all notes on the bass guitar fretboard Beginner bass lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the bass guitar, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's bass lessons for beginners are used by students and bass teachers worldwide to learn how to play bass guitar. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted bass lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

Learn to Play Bluegrass Bass

Learn to Play Bluegrass Bass
Author: Earl Gately
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609741994

At last, here is a method book for the upright string bass or "dog house bass" as it is affectionately known in bluegrass circles. Although bluegrass bass has a style of its own, the knowledge gained through this method is applicable to virtually any musical genre. This book addresses the elements of tuning, hand positions, essential chord theory, slap bass technique, and playing in positions 1-10. A handy chart is provided for transposing chord progressions from one key to another. Written in standard notation only.

How to Play the Five-String Banjo

How to Play the Five-String Banjo
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-02
Genre: Banjo
ISBN: 9780825600241

This is the basic manual for banjo players at any level. Covers all the fundamentals of strumming, hammering-on, and pulling-off. Includes folk and traditional songs all with melody line, lyrics, and banjo accompaniment, and solos in standard notation and tablature.