Learn to play bass guitar quickly and easily with this guide and bonus interactive CD!The bass guitar is utilized in almost every single genre of music-rock, classical, jazz, metal, funk, and country just to name a few. Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies provides bassists an opportunity to dabble with all these styles and more. Regardless of your intended musical style, this hands-on guide provides the tips and drills designed to help perfect your playing ability.Features a wide variety of over 300 exercises and technique-building practice opportunities tailored to bass guitarFrom classic blues bass rhythms to funk, rock, and reggae bass patterns, players of all styles benefit from the exercises and chords presentedShows you proper hand and body posture and fingering and hand positionsEach lesson concludes with a music piece for you to tryThe audio CD includes practice pieces that accompany the exercises and drills presented in each sectionHelps you build your strength, endurance, and dexterity when playing bassWhether you're a beginner bass player or you're looking to stretch your playing skills, Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies is the book for you!
Author(s): Patrick Pfeiffer
Series: For Dummies
Edition: 1
Publisher: For Dummies
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 220
Tags: Искусство и искусствоведение;Музыкальное искусство;Инструментальное искусство;Струнные инструменты;Гитара;Бас-гитара;
Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies®......Page 3
About the Author......Page 5
Author’s Acknowledgments......Page 7
Contents at a Glance......Page 9
Table of Contents......Page 11
Foreword......Page 17
About This Book......Page 19
Foolish Assumptions......Page 20
How This Book Is Organized......Page 21
Where to Go from Here......Page 22
Part I: Preparing to Practice......Page 23
How to Approach Practicing Your Bass......Page 25
Getting into Position......Page 26
Tackling Notation......Page 27
Stretching without the Instrument......Page 35
Crossing the Strings with the Right Hand......Page 38
Exercising One String at a Time......Page 40
Keeping the Left Hand Stationary......Page 42
Shifting the Left Hand......Page 46
Part II: Scales (Modes) and Chords......Page 49
Playing the Primary Modes......Page 51
Playing the Secondary Modes......Page 60
Making Music......Page 65
Lining Up Major and Minor Sequences in 12 Keys......Page 67
Playing Sequences in Triplet Rhythm......Page 78
String Crossings with Interval Exercises......Page 85
Rockin’ Out......Page 88
Triads: Outlining the Harmony......Page 89
Getting Down with Chord Inversions......Page 93
Shifting with Two-Octave Arpeggios......Page 97
Using Triad Accompaniment in a Song......Page 101
Structuring Seventh Chords......Page 103
Combining Seventh Chords and Modes......Page 109
Using Seventh Chords in a Song......Page 115
Part III: Rhythm and the Groove......Page 117
Playing with Eighth Notes......Page 119
Zipping with Sixteenth Notes......Page 124
Shuffling with Triplets......Page 127
Isolating the Sixteenth Notes......Page 131
Isolating Triplets......Page 135
Preparing a Groove with an Eighth-Note Feel......Page 139
Approaching a Groove with a Sixteenth-Note Feel......Page 143
Setting Up a Groove with a Triplet Feel......Page 146
Mixing Triplets with Eighth and Sixteenth Notes......Page 149
Mastering the Master-Maker Etudes......Page 156
Part IV: Turning Exercises into Music......Page 161
Harnessing Country Grooves......Page 163
Caught between a Rock and a Hard Bass......Page 166
Embracing Worldly Styles......Page 168
Getting into a Funk......Page 173
Be on Your Mettle with Metal… and Prog Rock......Page 178
Shuffling the Eighth Notes......Page 183
Swinging the Funk and Making It Swunk......Page 185
Part V: The Part of Tens......Page 189
Arpeggiating Seventh Chords......Page 191
Grooving in a Genre/Style......Page 192
Reading Bass Grooves......Page 193
Weaving through Scales and Chords — Jaco Pastorius......Page 195
Nailing the Groove Skeleton — Anthony Jackson......Page 196
Mastering the Swunk — Francis “Rocco” Prestia......Page 197
Part VI: Appendixes......Page 199
Relating the Text to the CD......Page 201
Tracks on the CD......Page 202
Troubleshooting......Page 208
Appendix B: Extended Range Basses and Practice Goals......Page 209
