Step One: Teach Yourself Bass Guitar

by Hal Leonard Corp. (Created by)

Overview

(Music Sales America). Your all-in-one package for learning to play the bass guitar. The book gets you playing right away and allows you to practice along with accompanying audio tracks. The DVD features a demonstration with an expert, plus chapter menus and more. Authored for Zone 0.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780825629587
Publisher:	Music Sales America
Publication date:	03/01/2004
Series:	Step One Teach Yourself
Pages:	52
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Table of Contents

	Preface	4
	The Basics	5
	Holding the Bass	5
	Tuning	6
	Relative Tuning	6
	Tuning by Harmonics	6
	Tuning to a Guitar	7
	Tuning to a Piano or Other Keyboard Instrument	8
	Left- and Right-Hand Technique	8
	Left Hand	8
	Right Hand	9
	Reading Music and Tablature	9
	Standard Notation	10
	Tablature	11
	Rhythm	12
	The Root/Fifth Relationship	14
	Major Scales	14
	Roots and Fifths	15
	Naming Chords by Number	18
	Fills	20
	Walkups	20
	Chromatic Fills	21
	Country	21
	Soul	22
	Pop	22
	Rock Ballad	23
	Right- and Left-Hand Damping	24
	Chords	26
	Major and Minor Chords	26
	Sixth and Seventh Chords	27
	Pentatonic Scales	30
	Styles	34
	Country	34
	Blues	36
	Rock	38
	Rockabilly	44
	Funk	44
	Jazz	48