NEWSLETTER: March, 2017
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THE LOWDOWN BassBooks.com's email newsletter for March, 2017. To sign up for this free email newsletter, click here. |
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NEW BOOK: BASS FRETBOARD WORKBOOK
Ever find yourself in uncharted territory moving along the neck of your bass? Here's a systematic solution to learning the fretboard. Take your playing to a new level and expand your musical comprehension, with no reading of music! |
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NEW BOOK: CHORD BASSICS
Slim enough to tuck in your case, this comprehensive guide shows big, readable fingering charts for virtually every chord you will ever need to produce. Including different inversions (E major 7 is shown in six separate forms), there are over 500 chords here. |
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NEW EBOOK: TIRAN PORTER, THE DOOBIE BROTHERS BASS TRANSCRIPTIONS
This collection provides accurately transcribed bass lines of The Doobie Brothers' classic hits, as played by bassist Tiran Porter. There are 10 songs taken from six albums. |
QUOTE - UNQUOTE "Now I was thinking that maybe I could even run a little tune through the chords that doesn't exist anywhere else. On "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," for example, you could easily have had root notes, whereas I was running an independent melody through it, and that became my thing." --Paul McCartney |
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ESSENTIAL SECRETS Performance coach/bassist David Motto offers free tips from his ebook, THE TEN-MINUTE BASS VIRTUOSO. |
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JAMES WHITON INTERVIEW
"I love being in trios. A trio really allows the bass a certain amount of freedom that disappears as you add players." |
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COVER BAND Here are titles making noise at BassBooks.com. Click on the covers or titles for complete details, sample pages, prices and ordering information.
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This month features the following additions to the Free Stuff section:
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ERIC BEAULÉ www.PlayBassLines.com |
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| Bass Transcription of Rockin' Down the Highway from The Doobie Brothes, as played by Tiran Porter. This transcription is compliments of Eric Beaulé, at www.PlayBassLines.com, author of several titles we carry. Here's a free preview of Eric's ebook Tiran Porter, The Doobie Brothers Bass Transcriptions. Rockin' Down the Highway is a Tom Johnston composition that appears on the group's 1972 album, "Toulouse Street." |
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| JAIME DAVID VAZQUEZ www.jaimedavidvazquez.com |
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| BASS TIPS: Chords and Arpeggios Jaime shows how the notes may be the same but the playing is not. |
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| MIKE OVERLY www.12tonemusic.com |
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| BASS LESSON: Bass Tone Rows In this video lesson, GRAMMY® nominated music educator Mike Overly, author of Bass Encyclomedia, presents 13 iconic bass riffs used in the songs of Eric Clapton, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, SRV, Elvis, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Albert King and others. |
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| JOHN FALSTROM www.EADG4.com |
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| EADG 4: Part 49 Memorizing an Order for the Circle of Fifths John Falstrom, author of EADG 4, offers a neat pattern for practicing scales (played musically!) following the Circle of Fifths. |
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