30 Day Bass Workout

This enjoyable and challenging exercise routine will prepare you for the rigors of contemporary bass playing and sharpen your technique. The strategy focuses on warm-ups and stretching, exercises for strength, agility and stamina, and specific techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs. Jam-packed with tried-and-true "bassrobic" exercises, this book will build your technique, no matter what style of music you play. Don't let another day go by without making this a perfect new addition to your bass library.

This enjoyable and challenging exercise routine will prepare you for the rigors of contemporary bass playing and sharpen your technique. The strategy focuses on warm-ups and stretching, exercises for strength, agility and stamina, and specific techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs. Jam-packed with tried-and-true "bassrobic" exercises from the National Guitar Workshop curriculum, this book will build your technique, no matter what style of music you play. Don't let another day go by without making this a perfect new addition to your bass library.

David Overthrow provides instruction on warm-ups, exercises, and technical tips for students learning how to play the bass guitar.

Packed with two complete 30-day exercise routines, this collection of warm-ups, sticking exercises, polyrhythms and other skill-builders increases coordination, stamina, finesse and sense of time without the tedium of doing the same old routine every day.

(Guitar School). The purpose of this book is to provide the aspiring bass player with a wide variety of finger exercises for developing the techniques necessary to succeed in today's music scene. It can also play an important role in a bass player's daily practicing program. The 200 exercises are designed to help increase your speed, improve your dexterity, develop accuracy and promote finger independence. Recommended by world-acclaimed bass players, music schools and music magazines, this is the ultimate bass handbook. The added use of photos makes the lessons complete!

Finally, all the essential musicianship training today's bass player needs is now included under one cover. This easy-to-use, step-by-step method combines music theory, ear training, sight-reading and fretboard knowledge to prepare musicians to play bass in any musical style. Beginning with a review of the fretboard and reading standard music notation in the bass clef, lessons progress in a logical order through scales, intervals, chords, and progressions including tritone substitutions, secondary chords and modulations. Includes 40 worksheets and ear-training quizzes along with a correlating CD. Musicianship for the Contemporary Bassist is the ultimate, must-own resource for the advancing bassist.

(Guitar Educational). Steve Vai reveals his path to virtuoso enlightenment with two challenging guitar workouts, which include scale and chord exercises, ear training, sight-reading, music theory and much more. These comprehensive workouts are reprinted by permission from Guitar World magazine.

Become a diverse and in-demand bass player by learning bass lines in a wide variety of styles from blues and reggae to funk and heavy metal, analysis of the styles and recordings of pioneering players, fun techniques such as fingerstyle funk, slap & pop, and two-handed tapping, how to really lock in" with the drummer, and much more!"