Full Description
Get ready to master the bass guitar faster than you can say "amplifier."
A staple of almost every genre of music out there, the bass guitar is a fundamental (and fun!) instrument that can now be easily learned by musicians of any experience level with Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies. Complete with a bonus downloadable content, this book gives bassists a variety of tips and drills to help you strike a chord with any performance (even if it's only for an audience of one).
This book is an easy how-to that every bass player can appreciate. Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies:
Features a wide variety of 300+ exercises and technique-building practice opportunities tailored to bass guitar
Offers exercises and chords for a variety of genres including funk, rock, blues, and reggae bass patterns
Shows you proper hand and body posture as well as fingering and hand positions
Concludes each lesson with a music piece for you to try
Comes with an audio CD that includes practice pieces to accompany the exercises and drills presented in each section
Helps you build your strength, endurance, and dexterity when playing bass
Whether you're a beginner bass player or you're looking to give John Paul Jones a run for his money, Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies is the book for you! Pick up your copy today.
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies (9780470647226). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!
Contents
Foreword xi
Introduction 1
Part 1: Preparing to Practice 5
Chapter 1: Reviewing Practice Fundamentals 7
Chapter 2: Warming Up Your Right and Left Hands 15
Part 2: Scales (Modes) and Chords 29
Chapter 3: Playing Scales (Modes) 31
Chapter 4: Playing Mode Sequences 47
Chapter 5: Working with Arpeggios 69
Chapter 6: Combining Seventh Chords 83
Part 3: Rhythm and the Groove 97
Chapter 7: Building the Groove Skeleton 99
Chapter 8: Accessing the Groove Apex 111
Chapter 9: Setting Up with the Groove Tail 119
Chapter 10: Combining Rhythms 129
Part 4: Turning Exercises into Music 139
Chapter 11: Feeling the Eighth-Note Groove 141
Chapter 12: Working the Sixteenth-Note Groove 151
Chapter 13: Trippin' on Triplets 161
Part 5: The Part of Tens 167
Chapter 14: Ten Essential Elements of a Great Practice Session 169
Chapter 15: Ten Famous Tunes That Incorporate the Exercises in This Book 173
Part 6: Appendixes 177
Appendix A: How to Use the Website 179
Appendix B: Extended Range Basses and Practice Goals 187
