An innovative collection of J.S. Bach pieces arranged for electric bass, complete with historical analysis, instruction and playing suggestions. Includes: Two-Part Invention #4 in D Minor • Two-Part Invention #1 in C Major • Sinfonia from Partita 2 in C Major for Solo Harpsichord • and five more selections.
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Ready to take your playing to the next level? Renowned bassist Gary Willis presents valuable how-to insight that bassists of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying 64 audio tracks provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: techniques, improvising and soloing, equipment, practicing, ear training, performance, theory, and much more. The audio tracks are accessed online for download or streaming and feature PLAYBACK+ tools for looping, tempo adjustment, and more.
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Explore new sounds on the bass that you may never have considered! Learning to play chords will enhance your ability to hear chord progressions and qualities, improve your composition and arranging skills, and strengthen your soloing chops and overall musicianship. Covers: double stops, major & minor triads, diminished and augmented triads, seventh chords, chordal song arrangements, different styles, a chord glossary and more. The accompanying audio features 76 demo tracks of all the exercises in the book.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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This Berklee Workshop is for bassists beyond beginning methods who now seek comprehensive knowledge of all basic and extended chords. Features exercises for developing technique and melodic sense in and out of the upper register, to help bassists play faster, higher and more melodically in styles from country to rock and rhythm to lead.
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This easy to follow method features superb demonstration photographs and concentrates on two skills you really need: dexterity and musicianship. Chapters include: the instrument and its equipment • fingering major scales • accidentals • minor scales • diminished scales.
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Learn to use the entire fretboard with the Bass Scale Finder. This book contains over 1,300 scale diagrams for the most important 17 scale types, including major and minor scales, pentatonics, the seven major modes, diminished, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and more, in all 12 keys. Basic scale theory is also presented to help you apply these colorful sounds in your own music. A perfect supplement to any bass method.
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Mastering the bass neck has always been a challenge, even for very experienced players. The diagrams in Bass Fretboard Atlas will help you quickly memorize scales and arpeggios that may have previously seemed impossible to grasp. You'll be able to easily see and understand how scale and arpeggio shapes are laid out and how they connect and overlap across the neck. The material in this collection is presented in all 12 keys, using complete 17-fret neck diagrams with color-coded displays of the most common fingerings.
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This songbook correlates with Book 3 of the Hal Leonard Bass Method, giving beginning students great pop & rock songs to play while they are still learning! Includes 20 favorites: ABC • Another One Bites the Dust • Badge • Brick House • Cheap Sunglasses • Come Together • Higher Ground • Into the Great Wide Open • Iron Man • The Joker • Radar Love • Sweet Emotion • Under Pressure • more. The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with sixteenth-note rhythms and ending with slap and pop technique.
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The best single source for learning to play the blues for bass with online audio tracks for practicing! Styles covered include: Delta blues, Texas blues, New Orleans blues, West Coast blues, Chicago blues, boogie woogie blues, jazz blues, and more. Also covers 12-bar blues, 8-bar blues, 24-bar blues, minor blues, tags & turnarounds, 12/8 feel, swing, shuffle, jazz, pop, slow blues, funk blues and R&B. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This songbook correlates with Book 2 of the Hal Leonard Bass Method, giving beginning students great pop & rock songs to play while they are still learning! Includes 20 favorites: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown • Crazy Train • I Heard It Through the Grapevine • Jamming • Jet Airliner • Message in a Bottle • My Generation • No Excuses • Paranoid • Pride and Joy • Ramblin' Man • Summer of '69 • and more. The accompanying audio features every song recorded by a full band, so you can hear how each song sounds and then play along when you're ready.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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This book/audio pack helps bass players expand their reading skills. Beneficial for beginners through advanced players, this pack covers rhythms, notes, intervals, accidentals, and key signatures, as well as common bass patterns in blues, R&B, funk, rock, and more. The accompanying online audio includes 97 demo tracks!
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Teach yourself to play the easy way! This method gets beginners playing the bass at their own pace through easy-to-understand instruction and access to great online audio featuring instruction and 99 demo tracks complete with background accompaniments. You'll learn songs, riffs and scales; all musical styles; playing tips and techniques; how to read standard notation and tablature; and much more. Perfect for all ages!
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This book/audio pack features over 50 examples covering walking bass, the two feel, 3/4 time, Latin, and ballads. It covers soloing, performance protocol, and includes seven complete tunes. Demo tracks are accessed online via download or streaming and include playback options to make learning easier than ever.
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An ideal supplement to any bass method, this book with online audio uses 18 actual songs in various styles to teach key elements of the electric fretless bass, such as intonation; harmonics; keys, scales and intervals; and more. You'll learn to play in the style of Jaco Pastorius, Flea, Jack Bruce, Will Lee, Sting, Gary Willis, Tony Franklin, Jeff Ament and many others via 18 great songs: Bad Love • Continuum • Even Flow • Hocus Pocus • I Could Die for You • Jelly Roll • King of Pain • Kiss of Life • Lady in Red • Tears in Heaven • Very Early • What I Am • White Room • and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book and features 92 full-band tracks for demo & play-along.
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Expand your bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Rock volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos, and more to reinforce your learning experience plus online performance demos of all the examples in the book!
This volume covers a huge variety of rock bass styles, techniques, and concepts including: first position notes; basic fingerstyle; basic slapping; fingerstyle rakes; drop D tuning; memorizing the fretboard; arpeggios; harmonics; Paul McCartney style; John Entwistle style; Geddy Lee style; Billy Sheehan style; Flea style; gallop rhythm; tapping; techno bass; walking; where to pluck; and much more!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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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. Pictures explain how to hold the bass, proper hand and finger positioning, playing notes and basslines by listening and accompanying the CD, and more.
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Build your bass vocabulary in a variety of styles with this comprehensive collection! Styles covered include blues, jazz, rock, funk, R&B, country, Latin, hip-hop, gospel and more. The online audio files include all 150 grooves for demonstration and play-along. The audio is accessed with the unique code printed in each book and features the PLAYBACK+ audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Endorsed by Stuart Hamm, Brian Bromberg, Alexis Sklarevski, Rocco Prestia and others!
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Learn the tricks and techniques of playing rockabilly bass from one of the world's foremost masters, Johnny Hatton. In this book, along with video lessons online, he will teach you: the snap • the slap • the hand positions • straight eighths • the double slap • the swing slap • the triple slap • slap patterns • mambo • alternate slap techniques • two-beat swing slap. Plus, you'll learn about jazz notation, scales and music theory.
Online video is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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STUFF!... A new instructional book/audio series featuring tips from renowned instructors.
Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book/audio pack for bassists. Provides valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments and equipment (including electronics), grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care & maintenance, and more. Covers rock, jazz, blues, R&B and funk through demos of authentic grooves. The accompanying recordings include many of the examples in the book performed both in solo bass format and in a full-band setting so you can hear how important concepts fit in with other instruments and ensembles.
Topics include: arpeggios, chucking, fretless bass, ghost notes, isometrics, raking, slapping & popping, walking bass lines, zydeco bass and more!
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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With the third book, progressing students will learn more great songs, riffs and examples; sixteenth notes; playing off chord symbols; slap and pop techniques; hammer ons and pull offs; playing different styles and grooves; and more. This edition features full-band tracks for demonstration or playalong. The audio is accessed online and features PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Grammy nominee and fretless bass pioneer Bunny Brunel teams up with bestselling author and session bass player Josquin des Prés to offer the first book/online audio tutorial dedicated solely to the development of skills on the fretless bass. Covers: fingering and intonation exercises; vibrato, slides, double stops, sliding harmonics and other techniques; pop, funk, Latin and fusion styles; and much more – including two complete solos! The book features standard notation and tab. Includes 71 helpful demonstration tracks.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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This book/audio pack in the Legendary Licks series features note-for-note bass transcriptions and detailed performance notes for 18 metal masterpieces from Metallica. Bassists will learn dozens of classic licks, riffs, fills and solos from songs such as: Battery • Damage, Inc. • Fade to Black • For Whom the Bell Tolls • One • Sad but True • Seek & Destroy • Welcome Home (Sanitarium) • and more. The audio, accessed online, includes recorded demonstrations, plus the ability to slow down the tricky passages. The book also features gear setups, photos and an historical retrospective of the band.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Everything you need to know about starting to play bass! Working with Louis Satterfield, Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire has laid out a systematic method to learning the basics of music theory and how it relates to the bass. By the end of the book, you'll not only understand and read music but also gain the independence needed to move around your instrument with ease.
Audio demos are accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This excellent book in our Bass Builders series features 101 authentic hip-hop bass lines spanning 25 years of urban music and covering East Coast, West Coast and Down South styles. Includes 98 full-demo tracks – performed by acclaimed bassist and author Josquin des Prés – and the book includes standard notation and tab.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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From James Jamerson and Bootsy Collins to John Entwistle and Flea, this book examines the genesis of bass guitar. It includes bass line transcriptions in notes & tab, lessons on how to play them, bios, equipment listings, photos, historical facts and more! The accompanying audio contains full-band demos of every bass line in the book. Songs include: Aeroplane • All My Loving • All Right Now • For Once in My Life • Free Ride • I'll Take You There • Love Shack • Money • Mustang Sally • Respect • Soul Man • Sweet Emotion • What's Going On • Won't Get Fooled Again • and more!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Have you struggled through tedious lessons and boring instruction books in your desire to learn to play the bass guitar? If you wish there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you in your bass playing quest, then this is it: All About Bass is for you. Whether it's learning to read music, playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing your favorite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn interesting tid-bits on bass makes & models, care and maintenance, other fretted instruments, and other fun stuff about the bass. This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes:
• An introduction to bass
• Step-by-step music reading instruction
• How to play by ear and improvise
• Background on various styles of music, including dozens of favorite songs
• Performing tips
• Online audio tracks for over 90 tracks for demo and play-along.
You get five full songs (All I Wanna Do • Cissy Strut • I Want You Back • Message in a Bottle • Sweet Emotion) and excerpts from over 40 popular songs, including: All Shook Up • Another One Bites the Dust • Born Under a Bad Sign • Brick House • Come Together • Get up (I Feel like Being) A Sex Machine • The Girl from Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) • I Got You (I Feel Good) • In the Midnight Hour • Paperback Writer • Pride and Joy • You Can't Hurry Love • and many more. The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Play your favorite hits from The Beatles, Nirvana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Garth Brooks, Eric Clapton and more with this songbook that correlates with Book 1 of the Hal Leonard Bass Method! The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple one- and two-string bass lines and ending with songs that contain many notes, including all four strings. Gives beginning bass students great pop & rock songs to play while they are still learning! Includes 20 favorites: All the Small Things • Come as You Are • Crossfire • Friends in Low Places • Great Balls of Fire • Imagine • Lady Madonna • My Girl • Peggy Sue • Smoke on the Water • Surfin' U.S.A. • Takin' Care of Business • Walk of Life • Wild Thing • Wonderful Tonight • and more!
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Always wanted to play bass? Then get on the FastTrack and make it happen now! FastTrack method books give you a fast way to learn how to play that new instrument (or the one that's been sitting in the closet for a few years). Skeptical because other method books haven't worked for you? That's exactly why we wrote these! They're designed for the player who wants to learn on their own terms with the help of some user-friendly instruction, professional audio and video examples, and cool music to play along the way. Don't worry: we're not going to just show you a few tricks to play one or two songs. You're going to get everything you need to start playing (this is a Hal Leonard book, after all!) but then in a couple of weeks you'll become the player you've always wanted to be, ready to move into the songbooks filled with songs by the Beatles, Clapton, Hendrix, and more. And just in case that's not enough to convince you, the last section of all FastTrack Starter Packs (Guitar, Bass, Keyboard and Drums) include the same songs so that you and your buddies can form a band and jam together. So, yes, it IS time to reignite those rock star dreams!
Includes notes and tab.
The audio and video are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This colorful poster is a convenient and informative resource quickly showing many bass scales and exercises.
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This book, designed from MI core curriculum programs, is a comprehensive source for playing bass in a variety of musical styles. Explains: hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, muting, vibrato, slap bass grooves, essential bass lines and basic theory; and more. Includes 365 music examples, exercises, picking suggestions, and sample songs. In standard notation and tab.
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