Bass Player S Guide To Sight Reading

Bass Player's Guide to Sight-Reading is the answer to one of the most universal hurdles faced by bassists today: becoming an expert at reading music notation. The guide is truly comprehensive through your entire journey with reading: while page one's whole and half notes may seem elementary, the final page would challenge even the world's best sight-readers. The process covers all the bases of mastering the most essential pitches and rhythms, constructing an unshakeable foundation on which to build things like sixteenth-note syncopation, odd time signatures, and even feeling comfortable reading bass melodies in treble clef. Along with a complete video master-class that provides a deeper understanding of the book's content, we're including highly polished play-alongs that will allow you to put all of these concepts into action immediately. Open your world to new opportunities, new music, and new gigs as you finally become the reader you've always dreamed to be with Bass Player's Guide to Sight-Reading.

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Play at First Sight is a unique and comprehensive approach to help improve sight-reading skills. It will strengthen your ability to recognize rhythms quickly and perform them as confidently as possible. The more you practice the exercises and variation possibilities on each page, the more at ease you will become at sight-reading rhythms. The enclosed play-along CD incorporates a variety of musical styles and can be used with many of the exercises throughout the book. Play at First Sight will be an invaluable tool in helping you to become a better sight-reader!

Start Sight Reading Today! This book contains 80 exercises specifically designed to help bass players develop and practise their sight-reading skills. These exercises all contain authentic musical ideas that you would find in real bass lines. This book, the first in a series, is perfect for any bassist wanting to learn how to sight-read. There are extra exercises to help with the different keys, and practical advice given throughout the book. Bonus access to an mp3 download featuring 93 audio tracks. The areas that you will improve on throughout the book are: Sight-reading skills Reading rhythms Playing in different key signatures Using and understanding sharps, flats and accidentals Playing in different time signatures Recognising intervals and scale patterns Playing common bass patterns from Rock, Blues, Jazz, Pop, and Ska Learning to sight-read is essential if you want to work as a professional bassist, and along with understanding music theory, these two skills are the cornerstones to improving performance skills and widening your understanding of music. Get started with Sight Reading TODAY! Scroll up to order your copy and start sight-reading Other books by Greg Hagger: Warm Up Exercises For Bass Players

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.

(Musicians Institute Press). A comprehensive source for sight-reading fundamentals, including notes, rhythms, keys, positions, and scale forms. Also teaches reading from chord symbols, following charts, creating walking bass lines, slides, ghost notes, and other techniques.

Bass basics, major scales and modes, harmonic and melodic minor scales and modes, arpeggio patterns and symmetric scales (whole tone and diminished). Serious Electric Bass is a definitive, comprehensive, user-friendly guide for electric bassists of all levels.