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  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2020
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  • ISBN-10: 1119700116
  • ISBN-13: 9781119700111
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 208 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 274x216x15 mm, kaal: 386 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2020
  • Kirjastus: For Dummies
  • ISBN-10: 1119700116
  • ISBN-13: 9781119700111
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A guide to playing bass guitar that includes exercises to help beginning musicians learn how to master scales, chords, and arpeggios, what the basic finger and hand positions are, and how to refine tempo, time signature, phrasing, and dynamics.

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!

Foreword xi
Introduction 1(4)
About This Book
1(1)
Conventions Used in This Book
2(1)
What You're Not to Read
2(1)
Foolish Assumptions
2(1)
How This Book Is Organized
3(1)
Part 1 Preparing to Practice
3(1)
Part 2 Scales (Modes) and Chords
3(1)
Part 3 Rhythm and the Groove
3(1)
Part 4 Turning Exercises into Music
3(1)
Part 5 The Part of Tens
3(1)
Part 6 Appendixes
4(1)
The Website
4(1)
Icons Used in This Book
4(1)
Where to Go from Here
4(1)
PART 1 PREPARING TO PRACTICE
5(24)
Chapter 1 Reviewing Practice Fundamentals
7(8)
How to Approach Practicing Your Bass
7(2)
Dividing your practice time
7(1)
The importance of noodling
8(1)
Making a fool of yourself
8(1)
Exercises for a lifetime
8(1)
Getting into Position
9(1)
Your posture
9(1)
Positioning your hands
9(1)
Tackling Notation
9(6)
Note names on the neck
10(1)
Traditional music notation and tablature
11(1)
Using the grid
11(1)
Breaking down rhythmic notation
12(1)
Chord notation
13(2)
Chapter 2 Warming Up Your Right And Left Hands
15(14)
Stretching without the Instrument
15(3)
Getting a feel for each finger
16(1)
Stretching your hands
16(1)
Getting blood into your fingertips
16(1)
Stretching your shoulders and your back
17(1)
Crossing the Strings with the Right Hand
18(2)
Alternating up and raking down
18(1)
Referencing each string
19(1)
Exercising One String at a Time
20(2)
Striking the staccato way
20(1)
Accenting any note
20(1)
Using dynamics
21(1)
Keeping the Left Hand Stationary
22(4)
Left-hand permutations
22(2)
Walking spider
24(1)
Getting a buzz
25(1)
Cutting down on excess finger movement
26(1)
Shifting the Left Hand
26(3)
Shifting with any finger
27(1)
Cutting down on string noise
28(1)
PART 2 SCALES (MODES) AND CHORDS
29(68)
Chapter 3 Playing Scales (Modes)
31(16)
Playing the Primary Modes
31(9)
Major scale --- Ionian
32(2)
Minor scale --- Dorian
34(2)
Dominant scale --- Mixolydian
36(2)
Half-diminished scale --- Locrian
38(2)
Playing the Secondary Modes
40(5)
Phrygian --- The exotic minor scale
40(2)
Aeolian --- The natural minor scale
42(1)
Lydian --- Major scale with a twang
43(2)
Making Music
45(2)
Chapter 4 Playing Mode Sequences
47(22)
Lining Up Major and Minor Sequences in 12 Keys
47(11)
Getting into the majors
47(6)
Practicing minor sequences
53(5)
Playing Sequences in Triplet Rhythm
58(7)
Major scale sequence --- triplets and seconds
59(1)
Major scale sequence --- triplets and thirds
60(1)
Major scale sequence --- triplets and fifths
61(1)
Minor scale sequence --- triplets and seconds
62(1)
Minor scale sequence --- triplets and thirds
63(1)
Minor scale sequence --- triplets and fifths
64(1)
String Crossings with Interval Exercises
65(3)
Major scale sequence --- referencing the root
65(1)
Minor scale sequence --- referencing the root
66(1)
Dominant scale sequence --- referencing the root
67(1)
Rockin' Out
68(1)
Chapter 5 Working With Arpeggios
69(14)
Triads: Outlining the Harmony
69(4)
Major arpeggios
69(2)
Minor arpeggios
71(1)
Diminished arpeggios
72(1)
Getting Down with Chord Inversions
73(4)
Major chord inversions
73(3)
Minor chord inversions
76(1)
Shifting with Two-Octave Arpeggios
77(4)
Two-octave major arpeggios
78(1)
Two-octave minor arpeggios
79(2)
Using Triad Accompaniment in a Song
81(2)
Chapter 6 Combining Seventh Chords
83(14)
Structuring Seventh Chords
83(6)
Major seventh arpeggios
83(2)
Minor seventh arpeggios
85(1)
Dominant seventh arpeggios
86(1)
Half-diminished arpeggios
87(2)
Combining Seventh Chords and Modes
89(6)
Major seventh tonality
89(1)
Major seventh groove, chord, and mode
89(1)
Minor seventh tonality
90(1)
Minor seventh groove, chord, and mode
91(1)
Dominant seventh tonality
92(1)
Dominant seventh groove, chord, and mode
92(1)
Half-diminished tonality
93(1)
Half-diminished groove, chord, and mode
94(1)
Using Seventh Chords in a Song
95(2)
PART 3 RHYTHM AND THE GROOVE
97(42)
Chapter 7 Building The Groove Skeleton
99(12)
Playing with Eighth Notes
99(5)
Dotted quarter followed by an eighth
100(1)
Quarter notes
101(1)
Eighth notes
102(1)
Rockin' out with a song
103(1)
Zipping with Sixteenth Notes
104(3)
Dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth
104(1)
Sixteenth notes
105(1)
Getting all funked up
106(1)
Shuffling with Triplets
107(4)
First and third notes in a triplet
107(1)
First and second notes in a triplet
108(1)
Trials, tribulations, and triplets
109(2)
Chapter 8 Accessing The Groove Apex
111(8)
Isolating the Sixteenth Notes
111(4)
Sixteenth-note groove apexes in beat two
112(1)
Sixteenth-note groove apexes in beat three
113(1)
Sixteenth-note groove apexes in beat four
114(1)
The rise and fall of the apex empire
114(1)
Isolating Triplets
115(4)
Triplet groove apexes in beat two
116(1)
Triplet groove apexes in beat three
116(1)
Triplet groove apexes in beat four
117(1)
Having triplets
118(1)
Chapter 9 Setting Up With The Groove Tail
119(10)
Preparing a Groove with an Eighth-Note Feel
119(4)
Two-note setup
120(1)
Three-note setup
120(1)
Four-note setup
121(1)
Anticipatory setup
121(1)
Tailing a song with an eighth-note feel
122(1)
Approaching a Groove with a Sixteenth-Note Feel
123(2)
Two-note setup
123(1)
Three-note setup
123(1)
Four-note setup
124(1)
Anticipatory setup
124(1)
Song with funky tailing sixteenth-note feel
125(1)
Setting Up a Groove with a Triplet Feel
125(4)
Two-note setup
126(1)
Three-note setup
126(1)
Anticipatory setup
126(1)
Happy tails for a song in a triplet feel
127(2)
Chapter 10 Combining Rhythms
129(10)
Mixing Triplets with Eighth and Sixteenth Notes
129(6)
Scales in sixteenth notes and triplets
130(2)
Arpeggios in sixteenth notes and triplets
132(1)
Arpeggios and scales using sixteenth notes and triplets with a sixteenth-note groove
133(1)
Arpeggios and scales using sixteenth notes and triplets with a triplet groove
134(1)
Song using triplets and eighths, with bass playing the melody
135(1)
Mastering the Master-Maker Etudes
135(4)
Diatonic chord movement using eighth notes and triplets
136(1)
Diatonic chord movement using sixteenth notes and triplets
136(1)
The ultimate exercise
137(1)
Song with a rhythmically complex groove
138(1)
PART 4 TURNING EXERCISES INTO MUSIC
139(28)
Chapter 11 Feeling The Eighth-Note Groove
141(10)
Harnessing Country Grooves
141(3)
Traditional country bass
141(1)
Contemporary country bass
142(2)
Caught between a Rock and a Hard Bass
144(2)
Pop goes the bass player
144(1)
Rockin' and rollin'
145(1)
Embracing Worldly Styles
146(5)
Ramping up reggae
146(1)
Looping Latin
147(2)
The whirled beat of world beat
149(2)
Chapter 12 Working The Sixteenth-Note Groove
151(10)
Getting into a Funk
151(6)
Traditional funk bass
152(2)
Funk-a-di-gunk
154(1)
Funkifizing R & B/soul
155(2)
Be on Your Mettle with Metal ... and Prog Rock
157(4)
Steeling yourself for metal
157(2)
Progressing to prog rock
159(2)
Chapter 13 Trippin' On Triplets
161(6)
Shuffling the Eighth Notes
161(2)
Shifting into shuffle mode
161(1)
The slinking shuffle
162(1)
Swinging the Funk and Making It Swunk
163(4)
It don't mean a funk if it ain't got that swunk
163(2)
Hipping and hopping
165(2)
PART 5 THE PART OF TENS
167(10)
Chapter 14 Ten Essential Elements Of A Great Practice Session
169(4)
Inverting Triad Arpeggios
169(1)
Arpeggiating Seventh Chords
170(1)
Playing Scale Sequences with Grooves
170(1)
Moving the Modes
170(1)
Doing Right-Hand Exercises
170(1)
Doing Left-Hand Exercises
170(1)
Practicing Master-Maker Etudes
170(1)
Grooving in a Genre/Style
171(1)
Freebassing
171(1)
Reading Bass Grooves
171(2)
Chapter 15 Ten Famous Tunes That Incorporate The Exercises In This Book
173(4)
Weaving through Scales and Chords --- Jaco Pastorius
174(1)
Perfecting the Groove Tail --- Pino Palladino
174(1)
Inverting Triad Arpeggios --- Cliff Burton
174(1)
Swinging the Triplets --- Berry Oakley
174(1)
Hitting the Groove Apex --- David Hood
174(1)
Arpeggiating the Triad --- Paul McCartney
174(1)
Nailing the Groove Skeleton --- Anthony Jackson
175(1)
Using the Seventh-Chord Arpeggio --- George Porter, Jr.
175(1)
Running the Mode --- Bernard Edwards
175(1)
Mastering the Swunk --- Francis "Rocco" Prestia
175(2)
PART 6 APPENDIXES
177(2)
Appendix A How to Use the Website 179(8)
Relating the Text to the Website Files
179(1)
Stereo separation
179(1)
System Requirements
180(1)
Tracks on the Web page
180(6)
Troubleshooting
186(1)
Appendix B Extended Range Basses and Practice Goals 187
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.