This is a great book for beginners. If you are a newbie to the bass guitar, then this is a must-read for you. Bass Guitar For Dummies offers clear, step by step instructions for playing the bass guitar. With online video and audio instructions, this book will surely make your learning easier.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- The very basics of Bass Guitar
- Getting your hands in the shape to play
- Understanding major and minor structures
- Playing solos and fills
- Using the correct accompaniment for each genre
- Getting down with the rock styles
- Playing hardcore bass grooves
- Buying the right Bass Guitar
- Changing the strings of your Guitar
- Maintainance and light repair of your Guitar
Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies offers comprehensive lessons for every bass guitarist. Whether you play rock or classical, this bass guitar book provides all the basic things you need to master any genre.
It is designed to teach you every part of Bass Guitar. So regardless of your intended musical style, this book will help you to perfect your playing ability.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- Reviewing your practice fundamentals
- Playing scales and mode sequences
- Working with arpeggios
- Combining seventh chords
- Building the groove skeleton
- Accessing the groove apex
- Combining rhythm
- Working with the eighth-note and sixteen-note groove
If learning music theory seems overwhelming for you, then this bass guitar book is a great book to start. Starting with music’s basic building blocks, this book dives towards the deep of advanced music theory.
With this immediately applicable guide, you’ll become an all-around more creative musician.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- A basic overview of notes
- Understanding intervals
- Workingwith a major scale
- Understanding various triads
- Playing four-note chords
- Working with minor scales
- Understanding several modes
- Details of pentatonic
- Workingwith the blues
Bass Tab White Pages is a great collection of classic songs for a bass guitarist. This outstanding book provides note-for-note bass transcriptions with tab for more than 200 hundred classic songs. With this guide, you will learn how to play bass guitar for classic songs.
Some of the Featured Songs of This Book:
- Blue on black
- Carry on wayward son
- Cherry pie
- Come to my window
- Bulls on parade
- Couldn’t stand the weather
- Beast of burden
- The impression that I get
- Wonderwall
- Get Ready
- Hard to Handle
- Hey Joe
- Bad Medicine
- Detroit Rock City
- I Can See for Miles
- I Fought the Law
- Great Balls of Fire
- Brass in Pocket
- Riding with the King
If you want to play the classic blues songs like the great bluesman, then this is the right book you are looking for. With online audio included, this book uses classic blues songs and standards to teach you to develop your own solid blues bass lines. After completing this guide, you’ll become an expert on playing blues songs.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- Introduction to the blues scale
- Understanding the 12 bar blues form
- Playing the shuffle rhythm
- Working with slow blues
- Understanding stops, hits, and kicks
- Alternating forms
- Understanding the blues standard
Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass reveals the stories, songs, and history behind the instruments of Geddy Lee’s inimitable collection. This wonderful book tells you the authentic love of Geddy Lee towards the bass guitar.
If you are a fan of the Rush Band and have an immense curiosity about bass guitar, then you should read this book.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- A detailed history of the Bass Guitar
- Overview of over 250 classic basses from Geddy’s extensive collection
- Features of “Beauty Queens” – instruments which are never lifted from their cases
- Information about “Road Warriors”-well-worn, sweat-soakedbasses proudly showing their age
- Exclusive interview with other Rush Band members
Rock Bass Bible compiles 35 bass classics from the best bands of all time. It providesnote-for-note transactions with a tab for these songs.
With this valuable guide, you’ll be able to understand the bass arrangements behind the classic songs you have been all the time and play them yourself.
Some of the Featured Songs of This Book:
- Living After Midnight
- Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
- I Can See for Miles
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Barracuda
- Come Together
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Sweet Child O’ Mine
- Suffragette City
- I Want You to Want Me
- You Shook Me
- Walk of Life
- Smoke on the Water
Victor Wooten Bass Workshop is a great book from one of the greatest bassists of all time. In this book, Victor Wooten reveals his secrets of playing bass guitar professionally.
This book helps you to play the guitar from a professional perspective. With this book, you’ll be able to play music with your heart.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- Understanding the emotions and feelings of the music
- Knowledge of tone and harmonics
- Working with phrasing and space
- Increasing your listening skill
- Hand strengtheningtechniques
- Thumb techniques
- Understanding tapping, looping and soloing
If you are struggling to combine jazz guitar chords with walking basslines, then this is a must-read for you. In this book, you’ll get lessons that teach you how to play walking basslines on guitar and combine them with rock-solid rhythm guitar chords. By completing this book, you’ll become a master of jazz guitar chords.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- Essential chord voicings
- Basics of walking bass
- Understanding chords and harmonized basslines
- Working with syncopation and separation
- Imitating drums and the pick
- Working with jazz skips
- Adjusting thumb flicks
- Playing jazz blues
This is another great guide to learn walkingbasslines for jazz and blues. This is also comprehensive for beginners.Walking Bass for Jazz and Blues offers a hands-on, step by step tutorial that will teach you various arpeggios and concepts to harness your skill in bass guitar.
With this book, you will develop a full range of scales, arpeggios and soloing to create your own walking bass lines.
What You’ll Learn From This Book:
- Building basslines with arpeggios
- Basslines with chromatic and scale tones
- Understanding the blues and jazz blues chord progression
- Working with the major and minor chords
- Knowledge of inversion
- Understanding rhythmic variations
