Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies E-Book

Patrick Pfeiffer

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 160

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Beschreibung

Learn to play bass guitar quickly and easily with this guide andbonus interactive CD! The bass guitar is utilized in almost every single genre ofmusic-rock, classical, jazz, metal, funk, and country just to namea few. Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies provides bassistsan opportunity to dabble with all these styles and more. Regardlessof your intended musical style, this hands-on guide provides thetips and drills designed to help perfect your playing ability. * Features a wide variety of over 300 exercises andtechnique-building practice opportunities tailored to bassguitar * From classic blues bass rhythms to funk, rock, and reggae basspatterns, players of all styles benefit from the exercises andchords presented * Shows you proper hand and body posture and fingering and handpositions * Each lesson concludes with a music piece for you to try * The audio CD includes practice pieces that accompany theexercises and drills presented in each section * Helps you build your strength, endurance, and dexterity whenplaying bass Whether you're a beginner bass player or you're looking tostretch your playing skills, Bass Guitar Exercises ForDummies is the book for you! CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not includedas part of the e-book file, but are available for download afterpurchase.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You’re Not to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Preparing to Practice

Part II: Scales (Modes) and Chords

Part III: Rhythm and the Groove

Part IV: Turning Exercises into Music

Part V: The Part of Tens

Part VI: Appendixes

The CD

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Preparing to Practice

Chapter 1: Reviewing Practice Fundamentals

How to Approach Practicing Your Bass

Dividing your practice time

The importance of noodling

Making a fool of yourself

Exercises for a lifetime

Getting into Position

Your posture

Positioning your hands

Tackling Notation

Note names on the neck

Traditional music notation and tablature

Using the grid

Breaking down rhythmic notation

Chord notation

Chapter 2: Warming Up Your Right and Left Hands

Stretching without the Instrument

Getting a feel for each finger

Stretching your hands

Getting blood into your fingertips

Stretching your shoulders and your back

Crossing the Strings with the Right Hand

Alternating up and raking down

Referencing each string

Exercising One String at a Time

Striking the staccato way

Accenting any note

Using dynamics

Keeping the Left Hand Stationary

Left-hand permutations

Walking spider

Getting a buzz

Cutting down on excess finger movement

Shifting the Left Hand

Shifting with any finger

Cutting down on string noise

Part II: Scales (Modes) and Chords

Chapter 3: Playing Scales (Modes)

Playing the Primary Modes

Major scale — Ionian

Minor scale — Dorian

Dominant scale — Mixolydian

Half-diminished scale — Locrian

Playing the Secondary Modes

Phrygian — The exotic minor scale

Aeolian — The natural minor scale

Lydian — Major scale with a twang

Making Music

Chapter 4: Playing Mode Sequences

Lining Up Major and Minor Sequences in 12 Keys

Getting into the majors

Practicing minor sequences

Playing Sequences in Triplet Rhythm

Major scale sequence — triplets and seconds

Major scale sequence — triplets and thirds

Major scale sequence — triplets and fifths

Minor scale sequence — triplets and seconds

Minor scale sequence — triplets and thirds

Minor scale sequence — triplets and fifths

String Crossings with Interval Exercises

Major scale sequence — referencing the root

Minor scale sequence — referencing the root

Dominant scale sequence — referencing the root

Rockin’ Out

Chapter 5: Working with Arpeggios

Triads: Outlining the Harmony

Major arpeggios

Minor arpeggios

Diminished arpeggios

Getting Down with Chord Inversions

Major chord inversions

Minor chord inversions

Shifting with Two-Octave Arpeggios

Two-octave major arpeggios

Two-octave minor arpeggios

Using Triad Accompaniment in a Song

Chapter 6: Combining Seventh Chords

Structuring Seventh Chords

Major seventh arpeggios

Minor seventh arpeggios

Dominant seventh arpeggios

Half-diminished arpeggios

Combining Seventh Chords and Modes

Major seventh tonality

Major seventh groove, chord, and mode

Minor seventh tonality

Minor seventh groove, chord, and mode

Dominant seventh tonality

Dominant seventh groove, chord, and mode

Half-diminished tonality

Half-diminished groove, chord, and mode

Using Seventh Chords in a Song

Part III: Rhythm and the Groove

Chapter 7: Building the Groove Skeleton

Playing with Eighth Notes

Dotted quarter followed by an eighth

Quarter notes

Eighth notes

Rockin’ out with a song

Zipping with Sixteenth Notes

Dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth

Sixteenth notes

Getting all funked up

Shuffling with Triplets

First and third notes in a triplet

First and second notes in a triplet

Trials, tribulations, and triplets

Chapter 8: Accessing the Groove Apex

Isolating the Sixteenth Notes

Sixteenth-note groove apexes in beat two

Sixteenth-note groove apexes in beat three

Sixteenth-note groove apexes in beat four

The rise and fall of the apex empire

Isolating Triplets

Triplet groove apexes in beat two

Triplet groove apexes in beat three

Triplet groove apexes in beat four

Having triplets

Chapter 9: Setting Up with the Groove Tail

Preparing a Groove with an Eighth-Note Feel

Two-note setup

Three-note setup

Four-note setup

Anticipatory setup

Tailing a song with an eighth-note feel

Approaching a Groove with a Sixteenth-Note Feel

Two-note setup

Three-note setup

Four-note setup

Anticipatory setup

Song with funky tailing sixteenth-note feel

Setting Up a Groove with a Triplet Feel

Two-note setup

Three-note setup

Anticipatory setup

Happy tails for a song in a triplet feel

Chapter 10: Combining Rhythms

Mixing Triplets with Eighth and Sixteenth Notes

Scales in sixteenth notes and triplets

Arpeggios in sixteenth notes and triplets

Arpeggios and scales using sixteenth notes and triplets with a sixteenth-note groove

Arpeggios and scales using sixteenth notes and triplets with a triplet groove

Song using triplets and eighths, with bass playing the melody

Mastering the Master-Maker Etudes

Diatonic chord movement using eighth notes and triplets

Diatonic chord movement using sixteenth notes and triplets

The ultimate exercise

Song with a rhythmically complex groove

Part IV: Turning Exercises into Music

Chapter 11: Feeling the Eighth-Note Groove

Harnessing Country Grooves

Traditional country bass

Contemporary country bass

Caught between a Rock and a Hard Bass

Pop goes the bass player

Rockin’ and rollin’

Embracing Worldly Styles

Ramping up reggae

Looping Latin

The whirled beat of world beat

Chapter 12: Working the Sixteenth-Note Groove

Getting into a Funk

Traditional funk bass

Funk-a-di-gunk

Funkifizing R & B/soul

Be on Your Mettle with Metal . . . and Prog Rock

Steeling yourself for metal

Progressing to prog rock

Chapter 13: Trippin’ on Triplets

Shuffling the Eighth Notes

Shifting into shuffle mode

The slinking shuffle

Swinging the Funk and Making It Swunk

It don’t mean a funk if it ain’t got that swunk

Hipping and hopping

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 14: Ten Essential Elements of a Great Practice Session

Inverting Triad Arpeggios

Arpeggiating Seventh Chords

Playing Scale Sequences with Grooves

Moving the Modes

Doing Right-Hand Exercises

Doing Left-Hand Exercises

Practicing Master-Maker Etudes

Grooving in a Genre/Style

Freebassing

Reading Bass Grooves

Chapter 15: Ten Famous Tunes That Incorporate the Exercises in This Book

Weaving through Scales and Chords — Jaco Pastorius

Perfecting the Groove Tail — Pino Palladino

Inverting Triad Arpeggios — Cliff Burton

Swinging the Triplets — Berry Oakley

Hitting the Groove Apex — David Hood

Arpeggiating the Triad — Paul McCartney

Nailing the Groove Skeleton — Anthony Jackson

Using the Seventh-Chord Arpeggio — George Porter, Jr.

Running the Mode — Bernard Edwards

Mastering the Swunk — Francis “Rocco” Prestia

Part VI: Appendixes

Appendix A: How to Use the CD

Stereo separation

Appendix B: Extended Range Basses and Practice Goals

Cheat Sheet

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Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies®

by Patrick Pfeiffer

Bass Guitar Exercises For Dummies®

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