(Bass Builders). Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with audio by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more -- all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using "Bass Aerobics" will bene...

(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones and techniques of the world's greatest jazz fusion bassist, Jaco Pastorius. This comprehensive book/audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Pastoruis' gear, techniques, styles, songs, riffs and more. Each book comes with a unique code that will give you access to audio files of all the music in the book online. This pack looks at 15 of Jaco's most influential songs including: Birdland * The Chicken * Donna Lee * Portrait of T...

(Bass Instruction). Bass Chops covers a cross section of musical genres with a unique step-by-step approach for strengthening your overall facility on the instrument. The lessons in this book include standard notation, tab, fingerings, and video demonstrations, and are presented in theme-and-variation format a highly effective approach to learning bass that has become very popular with students. Each lesson allows you to move at your own pace, beginning with a simple groove and gradually b...

(Bass Method). The critically acclaimed Hal Leonard Electric Bass Method Second Edition in a handy composite edition! Contains all three levels of books with demonstration and play-along audio tracks.

Music Theory for the Bass Player is a comprehensive and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate and all-around more creative musician.Included with this book are 89 videos that are incorporated in this ebook.This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready to fill out the engaging Test Your Understanding questions!Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task? ...

FRETBOARD MEMORIZATION MADE EASYDo you get lost on the guitar neck? Not knowing the notes on the fretboard is a common problem that slows down and confuses the learning process. It’s very difficult to find your way around if you can’t read the map! Fortunately, developing a working knowledge of the fretboard is among the simplest and most beneficial things a guitar player can do to streamline and accelerate their learning.Learn Your Fretboard

Teach how to play piano for kids with our easy piano lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free piano videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and piano animation for easy music learning.***"I have used this book over and over with my piano students. A simple and easy method to a beginner for learning notes and rhythms." ...

(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of the original guitar god, Eric Clapton. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Slowhand's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, riffs, and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know about Clapton's legendary guitar playing, from the '60s blues-rock period to his solo career to Unplugged and beyond. Each book also includes audio samples of all the music in the boo...

To hear some sample Bass lines from this book, please click on the link in the look inside (just after the Contents)15 Original Walking Bass Guitar lines in tablature and notation for the intermediate to advanced bassist.176 bars of music over 15 Bass lines (average Bass line length 11.7 bars)Audio demonstrations and backing tracks for each Bass line at slow (70bpm), medium (135bpm) and fast (200bpm) speeds with video demonstrations for medium speed (Downloa...

Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.

Piano Chord BookThe Piano Chord Book gives you an overview of the 312 most used essential piano chords in fullcolour illustrated diagrams including suggested fingerings. All chords are shown in root or narrow position to keep things as simple as possible. All chords can be played with one hand.We cover all following chord types: Major, Minor, Augmented, Diminished, Sus2 and Sus4, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Thirteenth and some special chords. Al...

Even at the beginning of the new millennium, the words twentieth-century music often inspire apprehension in audiences. While composers like Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Stravinsky have become concert-hall favourites, others such as Schoenberg, Boulez and Takemitsu are too often regarded as strange and unapproachable. Discover Classical Music of the 20th Century is a comprehensive and easily digestible guide, leading us through the diverse, innovative and controversial musical history of thi...