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Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, Dec 14, 2010 - Music - 240 pages
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 guitar
  • From classic blues bass rhythms to funk, rock, and reggae bass patterns, players of all styles benefit from the exercises and chords presented
  • Shows you proper hand and body posture and fingering and hand positions
  • Each lesson concludes with a music piece for you to try
  • The audio CD includes practice pieces that accompany the exercises and drills presented in each section
  • Helps you build your strength, endurance, and dexterity when playing bass

Whether 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!

CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.

 

  

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Contents

Introduction
1
Reviewing Practice Fundamentals
7
Warming Up Your Right and Left Hands
17
Scales Modes and Chords
31
Playing Mode Sequences
49
Working with Arpeggios
71
Using Triad Accompaniment in a Song
83
Combining Seventh Chords
85
Setting Up with the Groove Tail
121
Combining Rhythms
131
Turning Exercises into Music
143
Working the SixteenthNote Groove
155
Trippin on Triplets
165
Ten Essential Elements of a Great Practice Session
173
How to Use the CD
183
Extended Range Basses and Practice Goals
191

Building the Groove Skeleton
101
Accessing the Groove Apex
113

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2010)

Patrick Pfeiffer has recorded with George Clinton, Phoebe Snow, Jimmy Norman (Coasters), Paul Griffin (Steely Dan), Bernard Purdie (Steely Dan), Carlos Alomar (David Bowie), and Mike Kissel's KMA All-Stars, to name a few.

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