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Get ready to master the bass guitar faster than you can say “amplifier.”  A staple of almost every genre of music out there, the bass guitar is a fundamental (and fun!) instrument that can now be easily learned by musicians of any experience level with Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies. Complete with a bonus downloadable content, this book gives bassists a variety of tips and drills to help you strike a chord with any performance (even if it’s only for an audience of one). This book is an easy how-to that every bass player can appreciate. Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies: Features a wide variety of 300+ exercises and technique-building practice opportunities tailored to bass guitar Offers exercises and chords for a variety of genres including funk, rock, blues, and reggae bass patterns Shows you proper hand and body posture as well as fingering and hand positions Concludes each lesson with a music piece for you to try Comes with an audio CD that includes practice pieces to accompany the exercises and drills presented in each section Helps you build your strength, endurance, and dexterity when playing bass Whether you're a beginner bass player or you're looking to give John Paul Jones a run for his money, Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies is the book for you! Pick up your copy today. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies (9780470647226). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

Table of Contents:
Foreword xi Introduction 1 Part 1: Preparing to Practice 5 Chapter 1: Reviewing Practice Fundamentals 7 Chapter 2: Warming Up Your Right and Left Hands 15 Part 2: Scales (Modes) and Chords 29 Chapter 3: Playing Scales (Modes) 31 Chapter 4: Playing Mode Sequences 47 Chapter 5: Working with Arpeggios 69 Chapter 6: Combining Seventh Chords 83 Part 3: Rhythm and the Groove 97 Chapter 7: Building the Groove Skeleton 99 Chapter 8: Accessing the Groove Apex 111 Chapter 9: Setting Up with the Groove Tail 119 Chapter 10: Combining Rhythms 129 Part 4: Turning Exercises into Music 139 Chapter 11: Feeling the Eighth-Note Groove 141 Chapter 12: Working the Sixteenth-Note Groove 151 Chapter 13: Trippin’ on Triplets 161 Part 5: The Part of Tens 167 Chapter 14: Ten Essential Elements of a Great Practice Session 169 Chapter 15: Ten Famous Tunes That Incorporate the Exercises in This Book 173 Part 6: Appendixes 177 Appendix A: How to Use the Website 179 Appendix B: Extended Range Basses and Practice Goals 187

About the Author :
Patrick Pfeiffer is a professional bassist, composer, and music educator. His former students include Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Adam Clayton (U2) and Alec John Such (Bon Jovi). He is also author of Bass Guitar For Dummies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781119700111
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: For Dummies
  • Height: 274 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 386 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1119700116
  • Publisher Date: 09 Apr 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 216 mm

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