Slappin’: A Complete Study of Slap Technique for Bass Book/CD/DVD Set
Product Number: 96534SET
Format: Book+CD+DVD
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Gleaned from years of teaching, performance, and listening experience -bass players at all levels will benefit from studying the numerous exercises, grooves, and musical examples offered in this book. Whether you are into funk, R&B, fusion, jazz, rock, punk, reggae, alternative music, or any other style; the slap technique will find a niche in your bass playing vocabulary. Chapter headings include: Technique, Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs, Ghost Notes, Left Hand Slap, Open Strings, Double Slap, Double Stops, Double Pops, Other Licks and Tricks, and Advanced Grooves & Solos Using All Techniques. The author strongly advises the student to play each lesson slowly until the exercise or principle being illustrated is thoroughly mastered. Written in notation and tablature. Now includes DVD!
Groove Book: A Study in Musical Styles for BassProduct Number: 96868
Format: Book
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
A good bass player should be able to comfortably play in almost any style of music in almost any given situation. The goal of this book is to reveal the vast world of different musical styles that may be encountered during the lifetime of a bass player. Each chapter begins with a small history of the musical style. Knowing how each of these styles is related can improve playing by was of borrowing grooves and ideas from one to the other. The groove book is designed not only to teach you how to play these different styles, but also how to enjoy playing them. Written in standard notation only.
Bass Chord Picture BookProduct Number: 99920
Format: Book + DVD
Author: William Bay
DVD Performace: Marc D. Ensign
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
A user-friendly photo chord guide showing basic chord tones for major, minor, dominant 7th, sus 7, minor 7, major 7, diminished, augmented, sixth, minor 6th, 7#5 and 7b5 chords. The arpeggios for each of the above chord forms are pictured on the fretboard and given in notation and diagram form in all twelve keys!
