Bass Guitar

Bass Guitar Handbooks

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Each volume covers all the material required for 3 bass guitar examination grades and includes useful advice & tips about preparing for the examination.

Whether or not you intend to take the bass guitar examination the Handbooks will help you develop your bass guitar playing, increase your knowledge of specialist bass guitar techniques and provide a sound theoretical basis to enable you to achieve your full potential as a bassist.

'Produced to a very high standard. The pace and content are expertly designed. The material is remarkably well presented. It should be an enjoyable journey.' (Bassist Magazine)

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Improvising Bass Guitar

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'Improvising Bass Guitar is a very useful tool for all players regardless of playing ability and experience. The CDs are full backing tracks without any bass so you can play along and work on new ideas as much as you like in your own time. The instruction books give clear guides as to how to achieve the best results and how to understand the way that written music works. They also feature the use of the Guitarograph, a visual aid that incorporates tablature, traditional notation and fingerboard diagrams at the same time, a system that's unique to the Registry of Guitar Tutors.

It is available in three volumes, Early Stages, Intermediate Level and Advanced Level. Early Stages lives up to its promise in that it provides the beginner with enough information to allow him/her to develop bass line creation skills using simple harmonic structures in avariety of learning methods which The Registry of Guitar Tutors describe as Guitarographs using tablature, notation and fret diagrams.' (Musician)

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Bass Patterns CDs

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Simply the most unique and practical way of learning to play bass guitar. Study the most popular bass patterns of all time in a wide range of styles inc: rock, blues, r'n'b, soul, dance, country, rock'n'roll. All patterns are performed at slow practice speed and full performance tempos.

Backing tracks are provided at both tempos to enable practice in a range of keys. Each CD is accompanied by a booklet which shows the patterns in both tablature and traditional notation. Vol.1 goes from beginner level, whilst Vol 3 takes in some really advanced bass licks and riffs.

Note: These are not books, they are CDs with free booklets.

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