Beginning Bass for Adults
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Bass
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Bass Guitar - Beginner
SKU: AP.40272
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Bass. Composed by David Overthrow. Bass Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. For Adults. Book and CD. 96 pages. Alfred Music #00-40272. Published by Alfred Music (AP.40272).ISBN 9780739093078. UPC: 038081448985. English.
This fun and friendly step-by-step introduction to bass is written with the adult learner in mind. It is both a great self-teaching book and a great method for use with an instructor. Beginning Bass for Adults covers how to play scales, bass lines, and songs with easy-to-read examples in standard music notation and TAB. Blues, rock, reggae, and funk styles are covered, plus exciting techniques like slap & pop. In addition, detailed photographs and diagrams help simplify the learning process. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book is included.
Song List (127)
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- About the Author
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- Introduction
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- How To Use This Book
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- Chapter One
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- Buying Your Bass
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- Amplifiers
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- Parts of the Bass
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- Holding the Bass
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- The Left Hand
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- The Right Hand
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- Tuning Your Bass
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- CHAPTER TWO
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- Reading Music---Pitch
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- Reading Music---Time
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- CHAPTER THREE
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- Lesson 1: The Open Strings
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- Lesson 2: Notes on the 1st String
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- Dotted Half Note Time
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- Triple Treat
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- Mixing Matters
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- Lesson 3: Notes on the 2nd String
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- Notes on the 1st and 2nd String
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- Lesson 4: Notes on the 3rd String
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- Notes on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Strings
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- Three-String Reggae
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- Lesson 5: Notes on the 4th String
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- Notes on All Four Strings
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- All Four One
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- High C
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- Lesson 6: The Major Scale
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- The Tie
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- Terrific Ties
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- Towering Ties
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- The Repeat Sign
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- 8 Bars in C
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- Tune for Twelve
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- Eighth Notes
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- Eight To The Bar
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- The Eighth Rest
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- Rasta Riff
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- Chapter Four
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- Accidentals
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- Key Signatures---The Key of G Major
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- 3 Chords in G
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- The Key of D Major
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- Rock 'n' Roll Bass Line in D
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- Rockin' with Eighths in G
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- The Key of F Major
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- Halves & Eighths in F
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- Dotted Quarter Note
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- Review of G and F Major
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- Boogie in G
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- Major Dots in F
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- Cut Time
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- Country Kid
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- Samba in D
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- CHAPTER FIVE
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- Sixteenth Notes
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- Rockin' the House in C
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- Ballad in G
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- Funky G
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- Octaves
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- Octa Funk
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- Dotted Eighth Note
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- Dotted Eighth Note 8-Bar Blues in C
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- The Eighth-Note Triplet
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- Eighth-Note Triplet Blues
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- CHAPTER SIX
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- Bass Tablature
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- Intervals of the Major Scale
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- Major Chords
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- Major Chords in G
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- Minor Chords
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- Major and Minor Chord Tune
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- Augmented and Diminished Chords
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- Chords of the Major Scale
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- I-IV-V Chord Progression
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- I-IV-V Reggae
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- I-vi-IV-V Chord Progression
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- I-vi-IV-V Bass Lines
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- I-vi-IV-V in A
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- I-vi-IV-V Eighth-Note Boogie
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- CHAPTER SEVEN
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- Introducing the Blues
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- The Blues Quick Four
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- Blues Turnarounds
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- Major Pentatonic Scale
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- Rockabilly Blues
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- 8th-Note Rockabilly
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- Dominant 7th Chords
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- Dominant 7th Rockabilly Groove
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- 8ths Are Dominant
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- Swing Eighth Notes
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- Swingin' with 8ths
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- Bluesy 8th Swing
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- Slow Blues
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- Take It Slow
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- 16-Bar Blues
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- 16-Bar Blues in G
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- Blues Scale
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- Blues Scale Riff Tune
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- CHAPTER EIGHT
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- Minor 7th Chord
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- Reggae in A Minor
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- The Dorian Mode
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- Dorian Dance
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- A Dorian Rock Riff
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- The Mixolydian Mode
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- Mixolydian Riffs
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- D Mixolydian Riff
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- More Mixo
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- Blues with Mixo
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- CHAPTER NINE
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- Funk
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- Syncopation
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- Funk in E
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- Funk for Two
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- Muted Notes
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- Muted Note Funk
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- Muted but Heard
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- Introduction to Slap & Pop
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- The Slap
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- Slap Bass Lines
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- The Pop
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- Slap & Pop Bass Lines
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- Slap & Pop with 10ths
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- Bass Fingerboard Chart