Created to assist bassists in learning to play the most commonly used scales. Gain instant access to 120 scale patterns through easy-reference fretboard diagrams. Also features a useful section on scale theory. 8 pp.
49-695695
$2.95
CHORD BASSICS
by Jonas Hellborg
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A complete chord dictionary for bass. 76 pp.
01-160138
$5.95
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J.S. BACH FOR ELECTRIC BASS - THREE DUETS AND FIVE SOLO PIECES ARRANGED FOR BASS GUITAR
by Bob Gallway
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An innovative collection of J.S. Bach pieces arranged for electric bass, complete with historical analysis, instruction and playing suggestions. "Two-Part Invention #4 in D Minor," "Two-Part Invention #1 in C Major," "Sinfonia from Partita 2 in C Major for Solo Harpsichord," and five more. Note/tab. 40 pp.
49-695643
$7.95
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ROCK BAND BASS PLAY-ALONG, VOL. 21
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ON SALE!! SAVE $6.45!! Book/CD pack. Learn your favorite songs quickly and easily! Follow the tab, listen to the CD, then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and is enhanced for Mac and PC computers so you can adjust the tempo without changing pitch! Melody and lyrics included. Eight songs: "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," "Black Hole Sun," "Creep," "Dani California," "In Bloom," "Learn to Fly," "Say It Ain't So," and "When You Were Young." Note/tab. 64 pp.
49-700705
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$8.50
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BIG BAND PLAY-ALONG, VOL. 1: SWING FAVORITES - BASS
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ON SALE!! SAVE $6.45!! Book/CD pack. 10 big band charts that let you play along with your favorite swing tunes! Includes: "April In Paris," "In The Mood," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Stompin' At the Savoy," "Tangerine," five more. For bass: notated bass lines with chord symbols in a nice jazz font. CD features a professionally recorded band with piano, bass, drums, guitar, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax and trombone. Each book in this series includes the same tunes in the same keys. Intermediate. Notation only. 23 pp.
49-711319
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$8.50
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101 LICKS & EXERCISES FOR E LECTRIC BASS
by Dan Gutt
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Designed to improve reading skills and present phrases appropriate to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, Reggae, disco, and new wave. Includes arpegiated and 3-note chord exercises and slapping/popping studies! Reissue. Beginning/intermediate. Note/tab, 40 pp.
02-93991
$9.95
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CHRISTMAS SONGS FOR BASS
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24 holiday melodies arranged for four-string electric bass: "Carol of the Bells," "Deck the Hall," "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Jingle Bells," "Joy to the World," "O Christmas Tree," "O Holy Night," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," more. Note/tab. 44 pp.
49-700182
$9.95
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CHRISTMAS CLASSICS FOR BASS
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20 holiday melodies arranged for four-string electric bass: "Blue Christmas," "Frosty the Snow Man," "A Holly Jolly Christmas," "A Marshmallow World," "My Favorite Things," "Silver Bells," "Suzy Snowflake," more. Note/tab. 56 pp.
49-700183
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THE BEST OF BASS JAM TRAX - BLUES, R&B AND ROCK
by Ralph Agresta
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Book with CD. 12 extended jams. 31 pp.
01-945307
$12.95
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FUNK BASS PLAY-ALONG, VOL. 5
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Book/CD pack. Learn your favorite songs quickly and easily! Follow the tab, listen to the CD, then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and is enhanced for Mac and PC computers so you can adjust the tempo without changing pitch! Melody and lyrics are included in case you want to sing along. Eight songs: "Brick House," "Cissy Strut," "Get Off," "Get Up (I Feel Like Being) a Sex Machine," "Higher Ground," "Le Freak," "Pick up the Pieces" and "Super Freak." Note/tab. 63 pp.
49-699680
$12.95
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COUNTRY BASS PLAY-ALONG, VOL. 11
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Book/CD pack. Learn your favorite songs quickly and easily! Follow the tab, listen to the CD, then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and is enhanced for Mac and PC computers so you can adjust the tempo without changing pitch! Melody and lyrics included. Eight songs: "Achy Breaky Heart (Don't Tell My Heart)," "All My Ex's Live in Texas," "Boot Scootin' Boogie," "Chattahoochee," "Guitars, Cadillacs," "I like It, I Love It," "Should've Been a Cowboy" and "T-R-O-U-B-L-E." Note/tab. 62 pp.
49-699818
$12.95
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BASS ARPEGGIOS
by Massimo Palermo
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Learn bass fingerboard secrets with this quick and useful guide through the fundamental triad and seventh chord arpeggios. Learn to recognize these essential items and easily find them over the whole neck. Each chord begins with a brief introductory chart analyzing the arpeggios rising from chords and relevant inversions. The development in one and two octaves follows, considering the different positions and fingerings starting from the 3rd, the 4th, and the 5th strings. Note/tab. A table summarizes the scales to be used with each type of chord. For 4-string and 5-string bass. Beginning/intermediate. 70 pp.
02-20882
$14.95
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BASS PLAYER'S GUIDE TO JAMMING
by Carl Yaffey
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Book/CD set. Joining a jam session can be intimidating. Presents everything an upright or electric bass player needs to know to participate. Describes how jam sessions work, jam session etiquette, the typical chords and keys for jamming and typical bluegrass rhythm. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm. The play-along CD includes 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel and once in stereo. Beginning/intermediate. 27 pp.
02-21289BCD
$14.95
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DICTIONARY OF BASS GROOVES - A COLLECTI0N OF GROOVES AND STYLES FOR BASS GUITAR
by Sean Malone
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This cool, comprehensive guide provides a short history and essential bass lines for 34 different musical styles, including all varieties of pop and rock, R&B, jazz, Afro-Cuban, country, blues, funk, and more. The CD includes 34 demo tracks. Note/tab., 75 pp.
49-695266
$14.95
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EASY POP BASS LINES
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Book/CD pack. Play hits from The Beatles, Nirvana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Garth Brooks, Eric Clapton and more with this supplement to Book 1 of the Hal Leonard Bass Method! Songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple one and two string bass lines and ending with songs that cover all four strings. 20 favorites: "All the Small Things," "Come as You Are," "Crossfire," "Friends in Low Places," "Lady Madonna," "My Girl," "Smoke on the Water," "Surfin' U.S.A." "Takin' Care of Business," "Walk of Life," "Wild Thing," more. Notation only. 59 pp.
49-695809
$14.95
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BASS LICKS
by Ed Friedland
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Book/CD pack. This supplement to any bass method will help you learn over 200 great bass licks, lines and grooves in many rhythmic styles. Illustrates how simple melodic patterns can become the springboard for group improvisation or the foundation of a song. Covers: box shapes, major licks, chromatic licks, dominant licks, minor licks, and open licks. Each lick is played on the CD with five rhythmic variations. Note/tab. 48 pp.
49-696035
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101 ESSENTIAL LATIN BASS PATTERNS
by Larry McCabe
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Book/CD pack. The ability to "play Latin" is mandatory for any serious bassist, but there are scores of regional Latin styles, dances, and song forms. This book attempts to impart the skill of hearing, feeling, and playing Latin bass lines and rhythms. Most of the patterns use only the fundamental notes (1 and 5, or 1, 3, 5) of the chord. Includes patterns in 4/4, cut time, 3/4 & 6/8 time. Precise timing, and taste in application, are the keys to performing Latin rhythms. For acoustic or electric bass. The split channel CD includes all 101 patterns. Text in English and Spanish. Comb-bound. Note/tab. 33 pp.
709-4
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JIMI HENDRIX SMASH HITS BASS PLAY-ALONG, VOL. 10
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Book/CD pack. Learn your favorite songs quickly and easily! Follow the tab, listen to the CD, then play along with the separate backing tracks. The CD is playable on any CD player and is enhanced for Mac and PC computers so you can adjust the tempo without changing pitch! Melody and lyrics included. 12 songs: "All Along the Watchtower," "Can You See Me?" "Crosstown Traffic," "Fire," "Foxey Lady," "Hey Joe," "Manic Depression," "Purple Haze," "Red House," more. Note/tab. 95 pp.
49-699815
$16.95
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DAILY GROOVES FOR BASS
taught by Patrick Pfeiffer
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Book/CD set. Jam-packed with a different groove for every day of the year - funky, hip & inspiring. Like bass grooves in actual playing situations, these are limited to one or two measures and then repeat. Note/tab, with TAB files available on the included CD, which also contains all of the grooves in MP3 format. Intermediate/advanced. 68 pp.
12-214
$17.95
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THE BASSIST'S GUIDE TO CREATIVITY - EXPAND YOUR GROOVE POTENTIAL
by Chris Kringel
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Book/CD pack. Explore the creative process through your bass guitar! You'll learn to cultivate the artist within you by opening your mind, identifying your strengths and weaknesses, and examining the many mental and physical aspects of being a bassist. In addition, you'll find plenty of fun and challenging music examples, plus an audio CD with over 80 tracks. For all bass players - electric, acoustic or upright. Note/tab. 70 pp.
49-695921
$17.99
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PENTATONIC SCALES FOR ELECTRIC BASS
by Max Palermo
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Pentatonic scales are widely used in all styles of music. This book focuses on the most often used scales, including ethnic and exotic: major, minor, dominant, Chinese, Indian, Scriabin, Greek Arkaik, hibrid, pigmy, kumoi Egyptian, more. For each scale you're given a brief summary of its structure and construction, the main chords over which the scale works well, and a list of scales with the same sound charcteristics. Development over one and two octaves follows, with fingerings and tab for 4- and 5-string basses. Note/tab. 77 pp.
49-101222
$19.95
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FUNK BASS BIBLE
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32 funk classics transcribed note-for-note for bass, including: "Brick House," "Car Wash," "Fire," "Higher Ground," "Le Freak," "Love Rollercoaster," "Pick up the Pieces," "Super Freak," more. Note/tab. 262 pp.
49-690744
$19.95
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ROCK BAND
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Note-for-note bass transcriptions for 25 songs from the hot video game: "Are You Gonna Be My Girl," "Black Hole Sun," "Dani California," "Detroit Rock City," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Mississippi Queen," "Paranoid," "Should I Stay or Should I Go," "Suffragette City," "Wanted Dead or Alive," "Welcome Home," "Won't Get Fooled Again," more. Note/tab. 184 pp.
49-690946
$22.95
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50 TUNES FOR BASS, VOL. 1: TRADITIONAL, OLD TIME, BLUEGRASS & CELTIC SOLOS
by Mark Geslison
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Book/3-CD set. Parts range from beginner to advanced - arranged in "basic," "active" and "solo" levels. Basic, a standard accompaniment mode, is the simplest level of bass playing. Active bass is a mixture of basic accompaniment and "walking" which is common in jazz music. Solo bass--which involves fast, syncopated melodic phrases--is the most complex. Standard bass clef notation and 4-line bass tab. One book in a 5-book series that contain the same 50 tunes for ensembles & individuals, arranged for different instruments. Beginning/intermediate. 173 pp.
02-99940BCD
$29.95
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THE REAL BOOK VOLUME 1 - BASS CLEF EDITION
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The first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced! You won't even notice the difference, the covers and typeface look the same and the song list is nearly identical. Includes 400 songs: "All Blues," "Autumn Leaves," "Black Orpheus," "Bluesette," "Body and Soul," "Bright Size Life," "Epistrophy," "Four on Six," "Giant Steps," "How High the Moon," "I'll Remember April," "Lullaby of Birdland," "Misty," "My Funny Valentine," "Take Five," "There Is No Greater Love," hundreds more! Melody and chords. Comb-bound. 462 pp.
49-240226
$29.95
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THE REAL BOOK VOLUME II - SECOND EDITION FOR BASS CLEF INSTRUMENTS
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The first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced. The covers look the same, the engravings look the same, the songlist is nearly identical, and the price remains fair! 400 songs, including: "Air Mail Special," "Birdland," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Caravan," "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)," "Georgia On My Mind," "Just the Way You Are," "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," "The Nearness of You," "Now's the Time," "Old Devil Moon," "Phase Dance," "Stardust," "Tangerine," "Tenor Madness," "Whisper Not," "Yardbird Suite," more. For all bass clef instruments. Melody and chords. Comb-bound. 438 pp.
49-240229
$29.95
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