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| BERKLEE PRACTICE METHOD: BASS
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 | Make your band better, or prepare yourself to join one!
Play along with a Berklee faculty band on the accompanying CD, then play with your own band! Written in standard notation and TAB. Includes audio CD. 176 pages.
 
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| DEVELOPING READING SKILLS FOR THE CONTEMPORARY BASS GUITARIST
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Designed to teach music reading to the bass guitarist who already knows his way around the instrument, Developing Reading Skills for the Contemporary Bass Guitarist, is a great tool for moving one’s playing to the next level of musicianship. Standard notation. 78 pages.
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| ENCYCLOPEDIA OF READING RHYTHMS
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5 Reviews
| A comprehensive guide to: notes, rests, counting, subdividing, time signatures, triplets, ties, dotted notes and rests, cut time, compound time, swing, shuffle, rhythm studies, counting systems, road maps, and more!
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| ESSENTIAL SIGHTREADING STUDIES FOR ELECTRIC BASS VOL. 1
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 | This is Vol. 1 of the series. Covers Eighth Note Grooves in 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, and Cut-time. Includes 84 exercises over 48 pages. Comes with audio CD. Written in standard notation only, no tab.
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| ESSENTIAL SIGHTREADING STUDIES FOR ELECTRIC BASS VOL. 2
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No reviews | This is Vol. 2 of the series. Covers Sixteenth Note Patterns in a Wide Variety of Styles. Includes 72 exercises over 48 pages. Comes with audio CD. Written in standard notation only, no tab.
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| ESSENTIAL SIGHTREADING STUDIES FOR ELECTRIC BASS VOL. 3
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No reviews | This is Vol. 3 of the series. Covers Triplet Feel, Mixed Meters, and Odd Time Signatures. Includes 76 exercises over 48 pages. Comes with audio CD. Written in standard notation only, no tab.
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| LATIN JAZZ DUETS FOR BASS
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No reviews | This book provides sight reading, complete songs, tumbaos, different styles of music like; sambas, chacha, bolero, mambo, son, latin jazz, etc. In summary a cocktail of latin jazz in the form of latin duets. Includes AUDIO CD. 61 pages. Written in Standard Notation and TAB.
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| LATIN JAZZ DUETS FOR BASS - EBOOK/PDF VERSION
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No reviews | This book provides sight reading, complete songs, tumbaos, different styles of music like; sambas, chacha, bolero, mambo, son, latin jazz, etc. In summary a cocktail of latin jazz in the form of latin duets. Includes AUDIO CD. 61 pages. Written in Standard Notation and TAB.
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| MODERN READING TEXT 4/4
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No reviews | This book has become a classic in all musicians' libraries for rhythmic analysis and study. Designed to teach syncopation within 4/4 time, the exercises also develop speed and accuracy in sight reading with uncommon rhythmic figures. A must for all musicians, especially percussionists interested in syncopation. 100 pages.
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| MUSIC READING FOR BASS
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| The Complete Guide
Takes apart music as if it were a language and lays out the basics by string, key, position and scale form. Standard notation and tab. 64 pages.
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| ODD TIME SIGHTREADING FOR BASS
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No reviews | As stated by Anthony Vitti on his newest title:
The concept for this book was very easy to come up with. The fact is that there just is not a lot of material out there for bass players to read in odd meters. A problem I think most players face, is the fact that you don't see certain meters very often. But, then you find yourself playing a show or recording a song and you are expected to be comfortable reading and playing in 7/8, 9/8, 5/4 or any number of odd meters. We spend most of our time playing in 4/4. Meters like 3/4, 6/8 & 12/8 are fairly common, but you still may not find yourself as comfortable feeling these times as you do 4/4.
The point of this book is to get you comfortable reading and feeling a variety of different time signatures. I have written the bass lines so that they are consistent, but have enough variation to keep you from memorizing lines. There are a variety of tempos and feels. You will see how I develop each line throughout an example. I will increase the rhythmic depth and many times, the technical difficulty in playing the line. If you read through these examples many times, I think you will start to feel a lot more comfortable about playing in odd meters. I am also providing drum grooves at two tempos that you can download. This way you will hear the feel I had in mind when writing the bass lines. 45 pages. Written in standard notation only (no TAB).
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| READING CONTEMPORARY ELECTRIC BASS
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3 Reviews
| This Berklee Workshop is a comprehensive collection of exercises and performance studies designed to expand your bass playing in a wide range of musical styles. The rhythms and bass lines presented are excellent for developing sight-reading skills and technical proficiency. Written in standard notation only (no TAB). 112 pages.
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| RITMOS - AMAZING SIGHT READING FOR THE LATIN BASS
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| The latest self written and published title by Gerardo Colon Ortiz, the purpose of 'Ritmos' is to expose the bassist to more complex, more syncopated rhythms and as a vital tool of new sight reading material. Styles included are: cha cha, son, salsa and others. Each song is presented in both standard notation and TAB. The included audio MP3 files feature the transcribed songs with the bass in one channel and the accompaniment in the other, allowing you to either listen to the recorded bass or remove it and play-along yourself. 75 pages.
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| RITMOS - AMAZING SIGHT READING FOR THE LATIN BASS - EBOOK/PDF VERSION
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No reviews | The latest self written and published title by Gerardo Colon Ortiz, the purpose of 'Ritmos' is to expose the bassist to more complex, more syncopated rhythms and as a vital tool of new sight reading material. Styles included are: cha cha, son, salsa and others. Each song is presented in both standard notation and TAB. The included audio CD features the transcribed songs with the bass in one channel and the accompaniment in the other, allowing you to either listen to the recorded bass or remove it and play-along yourself. 75 pages. The ebook includes both the book in Adobe pdf format and the audio tracks in MP3 format.
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| SIGHT READING FOR THE BASS
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10 Reviews
| This book is designed to develop sight reading skills in bass students. Each page presents either a new concept or reviews previously explored materials. The book starts at a beginning level and moves progressively to an advanced level. Teachers using this text may assign either entire or partial pages as homework depending on the students ability. Because sight reading is an acquired skill, it is strongly suggested that the teacher and student seek out other materials for sight reading to augment and reinforce the materials in this text. Written in standard notation only (no TAB).
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| SIGHT READING FUNK RHYTHMS FOR ELECTRIC BASS
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4 Reviews
| This material is really stuff that I had written over time for me to practice my sight reading. I was trying to write material that would present myself with all conceivable combinations of 16th note rhythms. The problem with just writing exercises is that you quickly memorize the rhythms. To avoid this, I wrote the examples in a song like form. By this I mean there are obvious verse and chorus like sections. Just the way real songs are. The other thing I did was to put in just enough variation that you cannot memorize any of the examples. You will be hard pressed to find four measures that are the same. The book is not just complicated for the sake of being hard. The basslines all make sense. They sound like difficult R&B or Fusion style basslines. Music is written in standard notation only - no tab.
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| SIGHT-READ ANY RHYTHM INSTANTLY
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No reviews | Learn how to sight-read any rhythm instantly! Wouldn't you like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds? If so, then this book is for you. Written in standard notation. 55 pages.
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| SIMPLIFIED SIGHT-READING FOR BASS
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| From the Fundamentals to the Entire Fingerboard.
Concentrates on rhythms and phrasings most commonly heard through decades of bass playing. Standard notation. 69 pages. Includes audio cd.
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| SINGLE STRING STUDIES FOR 5-STRING BASS GUITAR
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No reviews | The exercises presented here are the same that great teachers and world class music schools give to their advanced students. This is the first book to present them formally, and is a milestone of its kind. This book contains hard-core information and exercises that are plainly difficult; only dedicated musicians need apply. But if you are serious about your instrument, learning how to read on it, and learning where the notes are without looking at it, you've come to the right place. This book works in tandem with MIDI examples, which will greatly aid in the absorption of information and the building of skill. Exercises for each string are presented in all keys. The book culminates in a final section which integrates playing on all five strings. Spiral Bound.
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| SINGLE STRING STUDIES FOR 6-STRING BASS GUITAR
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No reviews | The exercises presented here are the same that great teachers and world class music schools give to their advanced students. This is the first book to present them formally, and is a milestone of its kind. This book contains hard-core information and exercises that are plainly difficult; only dedicated musicians need apply. But if you are serious about your instrument, learning how to read on it, and learning where the notes are without looking at it, you've come to the right place. This book works in tandem with MIDI examples, which will greatly aid in the absorption of information and the building of skill. Exercises for each string are presented in all keys. The book culminates in a final section which integrates playing on all five strings. Spiral Bound.
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| SINGLE STRING STUDIES FOR GUITAR VOLUME ONE: BASS CLEF
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No reviews | Single String Studies Volume One is an excellent learning tool for both the beginner who has no experience reading music on the bass guitar, and the advanced student looking to improve their ledger line reading and general knowledge of each string of the bass. Each exercise concentrates a students attention of one string at a time. This allows a familiarity to form between the written pitch and where it can be found on the bass along with improving one's 'feel' for jumping linearly across the fretboard.
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| SINGLE STRING STUDIES FOR GUITAR VOLUME TWO: BASS CLEF
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No reviews | Studies for the master or master-in-training are presented here. A continuation of the course presented in Single String Studies Volume One, this will lay the foundation for truly virtuosic technique and performance. The exercises presented here are the same that great teachers and world class music schools give to their advanced students. This is the first book to present them formally, and is a milestone of its kind. This book contains hard-core information and exercises that are plainly difficult; only dedicated musicians need apply. But if you are serious about your instrument, learning how to read on it, and learning where the notes are without looking at it, you've come to the right place. Exercises for each string are presented in all keys. The book culminates in a final section which integrates playing on all four strings. This book is a required text at New York Universities and Princeton University Music department.
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| THE BASS PLAYER'S BOOK VOL. 1
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 | This bass instruction book is intended to be used by either the electric bassist or the acoustic bassist. It is also intended to introduce bassists to music notation, music theory, the notes and positions of the bass; as well as song forms and chord progressions. The book begins with music theory as it applies to bass and bass clef reading. It then covers in depth many of the scale possibilities and chord possibilities to help bassists learn their finger boards inside out.
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| THE BERKLEE BASS DEPARTMENT READING BOOK
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| This is how this book evolved:
The teachers in the bass department at Berklee are so diverse stylistically, that I was able to compile a book of a great variety of styles, time signatures, key signatures and difficulties. The teachers’ names appear next to the examples. The name of the song is included if a bass line was written to a specific standard. The examples are loosely arranged from easiest to most difficult. Music is written in standard notation only - no tab.
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