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50 TWO-HAND TAPPING WORKOUTS FOR ELECTRIC BASS
50 TWO-HAND TAPPING WORKOUTS FOR ELECTRIC BASS
This 5 1/2" by 8" QWIKGUIDE book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique, with each example demonstrated on the accompanying CD. In two-hand tapping on electric bass, your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues, alternative, jazz, funk, and even classical. This book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique, with each example demonstrated on the accompanying CD. Try applying the techniques in this book to your favorite styles of music. Written in standard notation and TAB. Includes audio CD. 56 pages.
Product Code: MB034
Format: Book & CD Package
Artist/Author: Chris Matheos
Publisher/Distributor: Mel Bay Publications
US$9.99

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This 5 1/2" by 8" QWIKGUIDE book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique, with each example demonstrated on the accompanying CD. In two-hand tapping on electric bass, your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues, alternative, jazz, funk, and even classical. This book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique, with each example demonstrated on the accompanying CD. Try applying the techniques in this book to your favorite styles of music. Written in standard notation and TAB. Includes audio CD. 56 pages.

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The DVD covers an incredibly wide array of styles and techniques. You'll get into left-hand stretching exercises, major and minor arpeggios, playing chords, slapping & popping, funk, hammer-on slaps, triplets, right-hand "flamenco" strums, two-handed polyphonic tapping, contrapuntal playing, percussive tapping, playing a melody with the right hand while the left hand plays a bass pattern, classical techniques and styles, and Bach's "Prelude in C." Run time: 54 mins. Our Price: US$24.95

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TAP BASS VOL. 1: CHORD TAPPING - DVD
Tapping Chords Vol.1, by Robert Allen Lemas, starts off by teaching how to tap the most commonly used chords in Jazz and Pop music. Once you have the basics down you will start to learn how to apply these chords to common progressions thus giving you the tools you'll need to tap your way through songs. Areas of study include 7th chords, II-V-I progressions, major/minor progressions and Latin Styles. 47 minutes. Our Price: US$10.95

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BUILDING WALKING BASS LINES
While most people think of walking as an approach to jazz playing, it can be incorporated into rock, blues, r&b, gospel and many other musical styles. It's all about the movement baby. Standard notation. 64 pages. Includes audio cd. Our Price: US$19.99

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BASS IMPROVISATION
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A guide to improvisation over jazz tunes. Advanced players only as it focuses on advanced techniques. Standard notation. 52 pages. Includes Audio CD.		 Our Price: US$17.95

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RON CARTER - BUILDING JAZZ BASS LINES

Ron Carter illustrates step by step the basic concepts of creating bass lines. Standard notation. 48 pages. Includes audio CD.		 Our Price: US$19.95

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SIGHT READING FOR THE BASS
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). 95 pages. Our Price: US$19.95

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BASS BIBLE
The English bassist Paul Westwood is one of the most in demand bass players of our time. His Bass Bible is the ultimate method book for every bass player. It contains a fascinating journey through the world of techniques, styles, grooves, and their evolution, using more than 1000 musical examples in all! This book is designed like a dictionary of musical phrases, which can be opened at the point that interests you. Learning a whole series of musical phrases, riffs, rhythms and patterns provides the basic language for performing within a group. Each section of the book captures the essence of a particular style, providing a springboard from which to start improvising. In notation and TAB for 4-string bass. Includes 2 audio CDs. 288 pages. Our Price: US$39.95

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