Paul Wolfe
Description
How To Play Bass Guitar in 50 Songs is a comprehensive learning method for bass guitar beginners split into 5 modules that encompasses key technique d
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evelopment from rhythmic awareness to plucking hand to fretting hand to fretboard mastery and incorporates the 10 most common and foundational devices used in bass lines. These foundational techniques and ideas are also taught with practical applications using “practice songs” that are based on the kind of real world chord progressions you’ll find when you start playing with other musicians.
Most importantly: in this Volume a process that you can use to create your own bass lines is introduced. I've only ever seen this process taught in two other bass resources (and one of those was a throwaway) - and there's a good chance you've got neither of those resoruces. I referenced them on Page 133 if you're interested.
Some of what you'll learn in Module 4 include: How to create your own bass lines using Deliberate Composition (Page 119). 8th Note Technique Development System - how to identify exactly where your technique is failing, and the kind of practice needed to fix it (Page 51). How to master the fretboard with musical exercises - Level 2 (Pages 40 and 103). How one composed bass line is the foundation of three seperate bass lines (Page 134). All 8th Note and Quarter Note Rhythms (Page 31) A Simple Way to Create Variation In Bass Lines - Connecting Device 1 (Page 17). Creating Your First Bass Line From Scratch Using Devices (Page 136). A Simple Way to Create Variation In Bass Lines - Connecting Device 2 (Page 35). Eleven More Practice Songs Based On Real World Chord Progressions. Device 3 Is My Least Favourite Device - But YOU May Like It - See Page 106. More Time And Groove Studies (Page 70 and Page 105). Using Real World Chord Progressions As Practice Environments (Page 12)
Point is...a good bass teacher will charge $75 and up for a 30 minute/45 minute lesson. So even if there were only the equivalent of 5 face to face lessons in this book (so equivalent to $375 in teacher's fees), you should be able to make a value judgement on this volume as it's less than half the price of a face to face lesson.
Additionally, there's an "online" version of the book with the majority of the musical examples filmed and presented at two tempo levels and with picture in picture editing so you get close ups of the fretting hands and plucking hands and don't need to get distracted by "pretend" bass faces. (Go onto most YouTube bass videos and you'll quickly see what a 'pretend' bass face is). That online version is free if you pruchased new at Amazon: just email/forward me a copy of your Amazon receipt as soon as per the instructions in the book and I'll add you as soon as I see the email and will let you know how to log on to this. Note: Marketplace orders and other 2nd hand book stores do not qualify for the bonus.
There are also over 200 MP3 practice tracks to download to help you with the different practice exercises in this volume. You'll find those on the individual lesson pages in the online version of this volume.
As far as I'm aware, this is the first song based method for bass guitar beginners that's been developed. If you want to continue the song based bass journey you started with Module 1, then get Module 4 now.
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Publisher
How To Play Bass Dot Com Ltd
Month-Year
Aug, 2024
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9781738427338
ISBN-10: 1738427331
Language
English
No. of Pages
157
Format
Paperback
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