Picture Yourself Playing Bass Guitar - Step By Step Instruction Book And DVD Course - 169 pages
There's no question that the bass guitar is a vital part of every band. The bass player works along with the drummer to keep the beat of the song going along as it should. The bass player also fills up the melodic space between what a guitar player and keyboard player are playing, what the singer is singing, and what the drummer is playing.
Perhaps you're an accomplished six-string guitar player, who might be interested in learning to play the bass guitar as well. After all, the four lowest strings on the guitar correspond in name an pitch to the four strings of the bass guitar. So you would already be well on your way to knowing a lot about bass guitar. Most if not all of the music theory you know as a guitar player will apply to playing the bass as well.
This book and DVD course give you everything you need to get started playing bass guitar.
To give you an idea of what this book and DVD course is like, here is a list of some of the main topics of bass guitar instruction that are covered.
- Advice and tips on buying your first bass guitar and bass amplifier.
- How to get started, including things like tuning the bass guitar, and doing a proper warm up before beginning to play.
- How to learn to play special bass techniques like slap bass, popping, hammering, and tapping.
- How to read sheet music for bass guitar.
- Introduction to scales, including the blues scale, and modes.
- Learning about intervals: what they are, how to learn to train your ear to recognize intervals.
- All about the Circle Of Fifths: what it is, how to use it, and how you can be a better bass player by using it.
- Chords and doubles stops. The definition of chords and double stops, how to play then, when to use them with bass guitar.
- This book is loaded with a lot of close up color photos.
- The appendix contains a list of great bass players. You can use this list for inspiration. You can listen to the music of these great bass players, watch what they do and learn how to be a better player from them.
- The back of the book also has a glossary of bass guitar related terms - many of the glossary items include color photos to make the explanation clearer.
How to use the DVD that comes with this course. The author has specific suggestions for how to use the DVD along with the text of this book. He recommends using the book first, getting all the specific instruction it has to offer. Then use the DVD to make sure you are performing the techniques correctly.
If a picture is worth a thousand words then watching the DVD will be priceless as it demonstrates all the bass guitar techniques of the book in a visual sense. As you work with and study the DVD lessons, it's almost as if you have a bass guitar teacher in the room with you to guide you as you learn.
With this course you get practical, real world advice and teaching on getting started learning to play the bass guitar.
