Learn to play bass guitar quickly and easily with this guide and bonus interactive CD! The bass guitar is utilized in almost every single genre of music-rock, classical, jazz, metal, funk, and country just to name a few. Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies provides bassists an opportunity to dabble with all these styles and more. Regardless of your intended musical style, this hands-on guide provides the tips and drills designed to help perfect your playing ability.
- Features a wide variety of over 300 exercises and technique-building practice opportunities tailored to bass guitar
- From classic blues bass rhythms to funk, rock, and reggae bass patterns, players of all styles benefit from the exercises and chords presented
- Shows you proper hand and body posture and fingering and hand positions
- Each lesson concludes with a music piece for you to try
- The audio CD includes practice pieces that accompany the exercises and drills presented in each section
- Helps you build your strength, endurance, and dexterity when playing bass
From the Back Cover
The fun and easy way to tune up your technique and improve your playing The bass guitar is used in almost every single genre of music — from rock to classical, jazz to funk. Regardless of your intended musical style, this hands-on guide provides the tips and drills designed to help perfect your playing ability. Whether you're a beginner player or looking to stretch your playing skills, this is the book for you!
Audio CD Includes
Over 90 musical tracks of many of the book's exercises for you to listen and play along
- Know your scales — play scales straight up and down and combine them with chord arpeggios and even with grooves
- The right rhythm for the right style — accumulate a good basic repertoire of genre-specific grooves so that you sound like an expert
- Hear how it's done — listen to tracks of the author playing many of the exercises
- Develop muscle memory — play arpeggios, rhythms, grooves, and melodies, and establish the wherewithal to apply them to different styles
- Real-life applications — see how the exercises are applied in real and famous songs
- Tips for correct hand and body posture
- Instruction on fingering options and hand positions
- Exercises for tempo, time signature, phrasing, and dynamics
- Hints for developing a complete practice session
- Ways the exercises can be applied to great music
- Methods for getting comfortable with scales
- Workouts for stronger playing
- Master scales, chords, and arpeggios through 300 bass guitar exercises
- Grasp finger and hand position
- Refine tempo, time signature, phrasing, and dynamics
Audio CD Includes
Over 90 musical tracks of many of the book's exercises for you to listen and play along
About the Author
Patrick Pfeiffer has recorded with George Clinton, Phoebe Snow, Jimmy Norman (Coasters), Paul Griffin (Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie (Steely Dan), Carlos Alomar (David Bowie), and Mike Kissel's KMA All-Stars, to name a few.
