Bass Player's Guide to Looping: A Comprehensive Method to Pedal Looping on Bass [OVER 2.5 HOURS OF VIDEO INCLUDED]Bass Player's Guide to Looping is the definitive method to mastering the art of live-looping with the electric bass. Join world-renowned bassist Janek Gwizdala as he reveals every single detail of his signal chain--including illustrated pedal settings, tips on effects and gear, and proper looping techniques--giving you an endless array of tools to practice, compose, and perform live as a true artist. Whether you've used a loop pedal for years or just purchased your first one, Bass Player's Guide to Looping will help you to become the best looping bassist you can be.With purchase of this book, you also gain access to over 2.5 hours of video instruction. These videos include in-depth explanations and performances of every concept in the book, bonus footage of techniques used in solo bass performance, and live footage of looping with both a drummer in a duo setting as well as with a live band.

This book teaches everything you need to know to create great bass lines. An easy-to-use, step-by-step approach to basic theory is given as a foundation, and then the essential styles-and many styles within each style-are explored from the bass point of view. Learn how the bass fits into the group, the important bass techniques for each style and even what tempos to expect. Bass players, arrangers and composers alike will love the hundreds of tips and sample bass lines. A CD demonstrating all the examples and for playing along is available.

This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate bass player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe the anatomy of a jam session, jam session etiquette and chords and keys for jamming. A play-along CD is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. the tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel and once in stereo. Joining a jam session can be intimidating. This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate upright or electric bass player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe how jam sessions work, and jam session etiquette. the book also describes the typical chords and keys for jamming and describes typical bluegrass rhythm. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm. A play-along CD is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. the tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel and once in stereo.

Learn to serve up funk-a-licious grooves and extract the vibrant percussive sounds hidden in the electric bass. Renowned expert, David Overthrow teaches everything you need to know to get started playing hot slap & pop bass lines. Following a clear and logical progression, each essential technique is covered individually, from hammer-ons and pull-offs to double pops and double stops. Your skills build gradually so learning is easy! Over 100 licks and grooves are provided, plus a special library of bass lines for additional fun. The recording demonstrates all the music featured in the book. A great book for any serious bass player, from beginner to advanced.

Learn To Play Walking Bass Lines With A Simple, Easy to Understand System - Perfect for Beginner To Intermediate Bassists The '3M System for Walking Bass' starts right at the beginning (assuming nothing), and teaches you the 3 core methods to master Walking Bass with ease, especially for bass guitar players. Create Bass lines that sound great in the 'real world' using Chromatics, Chord tones, Intervals & Scales. Construct your own walking bass using the formulas & templates that top professionals use every day Produce spontaneous, improvised sounding bass lines, using pre-planning techniques to create 'in the moment' Walking Bass Walking Bass does not have to be hard or impossible to learn, and often agreed that it's the most powerful method any Bass Guitar student can learn. Here's Why: [Harmony] Walking Bass improves every single genre of music you play. You'll know exactly exactly which notes will work, even over the most complicated chords. [Fingerboard Knowledge ] Walking Bass improves fingerboard knowledge. Have confidence to start exploring the whole of the neck. Stop getting stuck in one or two positions of the bass. [Rhythm] Walking Bass ensures you focus on creating and maintaining pulse so your rhythmic confidence develops in every musical situation. Here's what's inside the book: A step-by-step system which starts simple at day one and slowly builds, assuming nothing. Clear teaching that makes each element of the 3M System for Walking Bass 'easy to understand' giving you total clarity on how Chromatics, Chord Tones, Intervals, triads, arpeggios and Scales & Modes work to create walking bass lines. Formulas, Templates & 'Riff Packs' so you experience and learn countless examples of these concepts in action. 101 audio examples and backing tracks that are all performed using 100% real musicians and instruments (nothing computer generated!) so you can hear exactly what your aiming for. Standard notation, tab and fingerboard diagrams so all examples are clear and understandable. The Essential Guide To Walking Bass For Bass Guitar Players gives you detailed knowledge of how to create, play & improvise Walking Bass over the most important 'Jazz' and 'Blues' structures ...after all, Walking Bass is right at the heart of all of the great bass players from Ray Brown or Charles Mingus all the way through to Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller or Victor Wooten. About The Author James Eager has almost two decades of gig performances in the UK as a full time bass player. He has taught hundreds of students in person, and now thousands of students online through his membership site and books. He believes that learning Walking Bass should be a straightforward and obtainable technique for all students. Which led him to the development of 'The 3M System For Walking Bass' and he has been on a mission for the past 15 years to teach this incredible style of bass playing to his students. He has also authored, 'The Complete Guide to Music Theory for Bass Guitar Players' and 'The Essential Guide to Technique for Bass Guitar Players'.

(Book). This invaluable guide and accompanying CD give bass players both the musical background and training needed to get on with their grooving. With lessons guided by a metronome and presented in various musical styles and rhythmic applications, bassists increase their ability to internalize rhythm. The book also breaks down classic styles and grooves from rock, blues, R&B, jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and other traditions. Each example includes a notated version of the drum part and details how to program it into a drum machine.

Learn 'The Essential Technique Method': Discover the secrets of developing a professional-standard bass guitar technique making it effortless to play the songs and bass lines you love. Do you wish you had proven method to create more speed and more accuracy on the bass guitar? Do you wish you could improve your bass guitar tone and gain the technique to play the songs that inspired you to pick up the bass in the first place? Do you want to learn how to avoid nasty injuries and get the best out of the instrument even if you're older and suffer with conditions such as Arteritis? Written By British Bassist James Eager: "...Not so long back I realised that I used one 'core method and approach' that covers 95% of how I pay my mortgage here in the UK as a working pro bassist. ...The Essential Technique Method (or E.T.M) is a tried and tested formula that distills the most important elements of bass guitar technique into one clear step-by-step methodology . ...The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar explains these concepts piece by piece, so students can gain the technique to play the bass lines they'll see time and time again on gigs, jam sessions, worship teams and hit records. ...I've stripped out the fluff to give the most important information that will help you play faster, with more dexterity, more accurately and help you improve tone. What's more, developing technique using 'Essential Technique Method' will naturally improve your timing as a byproduct" From Beginner To Intermediate... And Well Beyond... The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar Players starts rights at the very beginning (assuming nothing) and gives all of the information a beginner needs to start developing a rock solid technique. For intermediate to advanced bassists this book is the perfect 'reference manual' to fix issues with your technique. The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar Players: What You'll Learn - The fundamental concepts behind building professional standard technique. An overview of how the hands work physically. The fundamentals of using the plucking and fretting hands and the most important techniques to develop. How to to build to systematically build speed, accuracy and dexterity. The strategies, tactics and how to approach technique... so you so you figure out any technical issue and learn any other technique you wish. How to create effective warm ups and practice routines. Tips for the older bassist from a qualified medical professional: How to get the most out of the bass & avoid injury. If you're serious about improving your bass guitar technique by getting focused step-by-step information, scroll back up to the top and and order your copy of The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar today!