Hal Leonard

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Stuff! Good Bass Players Should Know from Hal Leonard takes your playing from ordinary to extraordinary. This all-encompassing book-and-CD pack for bassists provides valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments, and equipment (including electronics), grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care and maintenance, and more. Demos of authentic grooves include rock, jazz, blues, R&B, and funk. The accompanying CD includes many of the examples in the book performed both in solo bass format and in a full-band setting so you can hear how important concepts fit in with other instruments and ensembles.
Hal Leonard Stuff! Good Bass Players Should Know - An A-Z Guide To Getting Better (Book/CD)

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Topics include:
  • Arpeggios
  • Chucking
  • Fretless bass
  • Ghost notes
  • Isometrics
  • Raking
  • Slapping and popping
  • Walking bass lines
  • Zydeco bass and more
  • Author: Glenn Letsch
  • Softcover book with CD (tablature)
  • 9" W x 12" L
  • 128 pages