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)
- About the Author
- Introduction
- How To Use This Book
- Chapter One
- Buying Your Bass
- Amplifiers
- Parts of the Bass
- Holding the Bass
- The Left Hand
- The Right Hand
- Tuning Your Bass
- CHAPTER TWO
- Reading Music---Pitch
- Reading Music---Time
- CHAPTER THREE
- Lesson 1: The Open Strings
- Lesson 2: Notes on the 1st String
- Dotted Half Note Time
- Triple Treat
- Mixing Matters
- Lesson 3: Notes on the 2nd String
- Notes on the 1st and 2nd String
- Lesson 4: Notes on the 3rd String
- Notes on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Strings
- Three-String Reggae
- Lesson 5: Notes on the 4th String
- Notes on All Four Strings
- All Four One
- High C
- Lesson 6: The Major Scale
- The Tie
- Terrific Ties
- Towering Ties
- The Repeat Sign
- 8 Bars in C
- Tune for Twelve
- Eighth Notes
- Eight To The Bar
- The Eighth Rest
- Rasta Riff
- Chapter Four
- Accidentals
- Key Signatures---The Key of G Major
- 3 Chords in G
- The Key of D Major
- Rock 'n' Roll Bass Line in D
- Rockin' with Eighths in G
- The Key of F Major
- Halves & Eighths in F
- Dotted Quarter Note
- Review of G and F Major
- Boogie in G
- Major Dots in F
- Cut Time
- Country Kid
- Samba in D
- CHAPTER FIVE
- Sixteenth Notes
- Rockin' the House in C
- Ballad in G
- Funky G
- Octaves
- Octa Funk
- Dotted Eighth Note
- Dotted Eighth Note 8-Bar Blues in C
- The Eighth-Note Triplet
- Eighth-Note Triplet Blues
- CHAPTER SIX
- Bass Tablature
- Intervals of the Major Scale
- Major Chords
- Major Chords in G
- Minor Chords
- Major and Minor Chord Tune
- Augmented and Diminished Chords
- Chords of the Major Scale
- I-IV-V Chord Progression
- I-IV-V Reggae
- I-vi-IV-V Chord Progression
- I-vi-IV-V Bass Lines
- I-vi-IV-V in A
- I-vi-IV-V Eighth-Note Boogie
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- Introducing the Blues
- The Blues Quick Four
- Blues Turnarounds
- Major Pentatonic Scale
- Rockabilly Blues
- 8th-Note Rockabilly
- Dominant 7th Chords
- Dominant 7th Rockabilly Groove
- 8ths Are Dominant
- Swing Eighth Notes
- Swingin' with 8ths
- Bluesy 8th Swing
- Slow Blues
- Take It Slow
- 16-Bar Blues
- 16-Bar Blues in G
- Blues Scale
- Blues Scale Riff Tune
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- Minor 7th Chord
- Reggae in A Minor
- The Dorian Mode
- Dorian Dance
- A Dorian Rock Riff
- The Mixolydian Mode
- Mixolydian Riffs
- D Mixolydian Riff
- More Mixo
- Blues with Mixo
- CHAPTER NINE
- Funk
- Syncopation
- Funk in E
- Funk for Two
- Muted Notes
- Muted Note Funk
- Muted but Heard
- Introduction to Slap & Pop
- The Slap
- Slap Bass Lines
- The Pop
- Slap & Pop Bass Lines
- Slap & Pop with 10ths
- Bass Fingerboard Chart