Teach Yourself VISUALLYTM Bass Guitar
by Ryan C. Williams; Richard HammondFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2007-03-01
Publisher(s): Visual
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Summary
Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up a bass guitar and start plucking! With Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bass Guitar, you'll quickly progress from playing notes to experimenting with plucking and slap-and-pop techniques. You'll learn about tuning, fretboard fingerings, alternate fingerings, down picking, palm muting, and more. The bass usually sets the tempo, so you'll learn basic note values plus common popular rhythms from straight rock to syncopated reggae. Downloadable MP3 files on wiley.com complement the book and let you hear exactly how things are supposed to sound as you play. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Helpful tips provide additional guidance
Table of Contents
| An Introduction to Bass Guitar | |
| What the Bass Guitar Does | |
| Get Started | |
| Your Milestones | |
| Parts of Your Bass Guitar | |
| Parts of the Bass Guitar | |
| The Head | |
| The Body | |
| The Neck | |
| Fretted and Fretless Basses | |
| The Bridge | |
| Bass Guitar Strings | |
| Four Strings or More? | |
| Right-handed versus Left-handed Basses | |
| Passive and Active Pickups | |
| Control Your Bass Guitar | |
| Holding Your Bass Guitar | |
| The Guitar Strap | |
| Sitting or Standing? | |
| Your Fretting Hand | |
| Fingerstyle | |
| Playing with a Pick | |
| Using Your Thumb | |
| Tuning Your Bass Guitar | |
| Open-String Notes | |
| Relative Tuning | |
| Electronic Tuning | |
| Basic Fretboard Fingering | |
| Proper Finger Placement Shift Up | |
| Shift Down | |
| Shift Across Strings | |
| Stay Close to the Fingerboard | |
| Plucking and Picking | |
| Alternate Fingering | |
| Downpicking | |
| Alternate Picking | |
| Pluck with Your Thumb | |
| Mute Your Strings | |
| Play Your First Scales | |
| Basic Music Notation | |
| Notes on the Fretboard | |
| Basic Tablature | |
| The C Major Scale | |
| The G Major Scale | |
| The F Major Scale | |
| Playing with Chords | |
| What Makes a Chord? | |
| Major Chords and Scales | |
| Minor Scales and Chords | |
| Seventh Chords | |
| Arpeggios | |
| Common Chord Progressions | |
| Chord Symbols | |
| Charts | |
| I-IV-V Progressions | |
| I-VI-IV-V Progressions | |
| More Chord Progressions | |
| Cahpter 10 | |
| The Metronome | |
| Quarter Notes | |
| Eighth Notes | |
| Sixteenth Notes | |
| Apply Rhythms to Songs | |
| Walking Bass | |
| Blues Shuffle | |
| Rock | |
| R&B | |
| Reggae | |
| Country | |
| Slapping and Popping | |
| Slapping Technique | |
| Popping Technique | |
| Some Basic Slap Patterns | |
| Getting Your Tone | |
| How Should You Play? | |
| Playing in a Band | |
| Dialing It In on Active and Passive Bass Guitars | |
| Buying a Bass Guitar and Amplifier | |
| What to Look for in Your Bass Guitar | |
| What to Look for in Your Amplifier | |
| What Else You'll Need | |
| Effects | |
| Care for Your Gear | |
| Before You Play | |
| After You Play | |
| Change the Strings | |
| Intonation | |
| String Height | |
| Plug It In and Unplug It | |
| Some Last Words | |
| Where Do You Go from Here? | |
| Learn Songs by Ear | |
| Reading Music and Music Theory | |
| Appendix: Some Especially Noteworthy Bassists | |
| Index | |
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