The New Method For Electric Bass Book 2 Advanced Concepts And Skills

The New Method for Electric Bass is designed like a textbook with topics that are easy to follow, gradually increasing in difficulty, and that present the self-taught student with a step-by step approach to a more complete understanding. This book covers advanced concepts, providing the bassist with useful tools to improve playing technique and enhance musical knowledge. All the exercises are written in standard notation and tablature and include full fingering and technical tips for practicing. Topics include: advanced techniques, modes of the major scale, ninth chords, chord inversions, melodic minor modes, harmonic minor modes, and harmonic analysis.

The New Method for Electric Bass, Book 1 opens the door to the world of the electric bass by providing a full, step-by-step guide for all aspiring students. Topics are presented and expanded gradually, allowing the student to gain a complete and progressively more sophisticated level of understanding. Explanations are kept clear and concise to emphasize the practical aspects so as to offer as many hints as possible to facilitate understanding. Plus, all the exercises are written in standard notation and tablature and are provided with fingerings and technical tips for practicing. Not only great for students of the bass, the method is also an excellent refresher for amateur bassists and will even be useful to professionals wanting to expand their learning.

Scales are one of the foundations of good playing and Essential Scales for Electric Bass is a quick and simple guide for music students of all levels, specifically tackling this important topic. It is designed to help the bass player acquaint himself with using the scales as tools to expand his musical dimension. The book will help any bassist compose riffs and bass lines, enriching the sounds with new and diverse nuances to achieve personal objectives.

Take your bottom all the way to the top. Apply the tools and techniques of the world's greatest players towards creating your own spectacular bass lines. Starts with a review of the basics then dives into building bass lines using scales, modes and chord progressions, concluding with advanced concepts like rhythm changes, tritone substitutions, and improvisation techniques. 96 pages each.

Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass is a quick reference guide aimed at music students of all levels, tackling the scales commonly used in improvising and bass line construction. This book further develops topics dealt with in the preceding Essential Scales for Electric Bass, concentrating on new and advanced scales that will provide the bassist with a wider variety of sounds and colors to add more personality to his playing. Each scale in the book is preceded by an introductory chart summarizing the theory and practical application. The development in all the keys follows in standard notation and tablature, together with fingering for 4- and 5-string basses. Topics include: melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished, whole-tone, and blues scales.

The conclusion to this power-packed electric bass method begins with a brief review of important concepts from the intermediate book. Designed to guide the student into high-level bass playing, this book makes advanced concepts like Rhythm Changes, tritone substitution, odd time signatures and chord playing easy to understand. Includes a study of Latin grooves, reggae, ska and advanced funk bass lines. Also covered are topics such as improvisation (soloing) and practicing. The perfect launching pad into a lifetime of great bass playing.

Take your bottom all the way to the top. Apply the tools and techniques of the world's greatest players towards creating your own spectacular bass lines. Starts with a review of the basics then dives into building bass lines using scales, modes and chord progressions, concluding with advanced concepts like rhythm changes, tritone substitutions, and improvisation techniques. 96 pages each.

(Bass Method). The Hal Leonard Bass Method is designed for anyone just learning to play electric bass. It is based on years of teaching bass students of all ages and it also reflects some of the best bass teaching ideas from around the world. Book 2 teaches the box shape, moveable boxes, notes in fifth position, major and minor scales, the classic blues line, the shuffle rhythm, tablature, and more! This e-book also includes 51 full-band tracks for demonstration or play along.