Basic Bass Clef

Designed for use by students who need additional reinforcement in reading music in the bass clef. Basic Bass Clef is useful for vocalists and instrumentalists who are beginning piano study and have some knowledge of treble clef and rhythmic notation. Each lesson contains a combination of written and playing exercises.

This book gives you all the basic principles underlying solid walking bass lines. Comprehensive, easy to understand, with page after page of great transcriptions of the author's walking lines on the accompanying CD. The CD of NY professional jazz players can also be used as a swinging play-along CD. Endorsed by Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Haslip, John Goldsby, etc.

PIANO MUSIC FOR LEFT HAND ONLY? "What's this? I have two hands, and I prefer to use my right hand if only one is allowed" "That's you and all of the other pianists in the world then. But you know what they say 'do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing'. With a little practice you will soon grow to like them equally." "So will my left hand enjoy this book?" "Well that depends on many things, but I hope so!" WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT Most students learning to play the piano struggle more with reading the bass clef notes than they do reading the right hand, treble clef notes. There could be many reasons for this, but one cause is almost certain to be the fact that most piano music is more complex for the right hand than it is for the left. As a result, the right hand is getting far more practice than the left. Well, here is the solution or, at least, a help. A book full of tunes which are in bass clef only. The left hand now has some great tunes, ones which match the quality and interest that, usually, only the right hand gets. The problem of weak bass clef, left hand note reading is one which can effect students who have been learning for several years. So this book offers tunes which are suitable not only for beginners but also for more advanced students. Don't let your left hand languish, under used and bored. Keep this book in your music case and get it out regularly in order to keep your bass clef demons well tamed!

The exercises in Sight Reading Mastery are limitless and continually challenge, develop and improve your sight reading skills - however far you advance.

Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.

One of the world's most popular patterns books, many jazz greats have fond memories of practicing from this great resource! It features an exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels. Comments and suggestions are included by the author---a legendary composer, arranger, conductor, and instrumentalist. This is a very popular book because it helps spell out some of the basic building blocks of the jazz language. It is regarded by many jazz teachers as one of the essential texts for their students.

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Bass Method is the newest addition to the family, and features clear, well-paced instruction covering popular styles like rock, blues, country, and jazz. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Bass Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning bass students. Book 1 covers all the necessities including how to hold your bass, tuning your bass, right- and left-hand technique, the basics of reading music, notes on all four strings, scales, licks, songs, how to read TAB, and playing slides and accents. This package also includes video and audio to make learning even easier.

(Bass Method). This songbook correlates with Book 3 of the Hal Leonard Bass Method, giving beginning students great pop & rock songs to play while they are still learning! Includes 20 favorites: ABC * Another One Bites the Dust * Badge * Brick House * Cheap Sunglasses * Come Together * Higher Ground * Into the Great Wide Open * Iron Man * The Joker * Radar Love * Sweet Emotion * Under Pressure * more. The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with sixteenth-note rhythms and ending with slap and pop technique.