854 BASSBASS GUITARGUITAR INCLUDES ELECTRIC BASS METHODS PLAY BASS TAB TODAY! – INCLUDES HAL LEONARD TAB LEVEL 1 ELECTRIC by Chris Kringel A series of technique book/audio packages created for the BASS METHOD Teach yourself to play the easy purposeful building and development of your chops. Each BOOK 1 way! This method gets begin- volume is written by an expert in that particular tech- by Dan Dean ners playing the bass at their nique. And with the inclusion of audio, the added dimen- Exposes players to rock, own pace through easy-to- sion of hearing exactly how to play particular grooves and blues, country, fusion and understand instruction and a techniques makes this truly like a private lesson. The jazz. Standard notation and play-along CD. added use of photos makes the lessons complete! tablature are used. Book 1 ______00842020 Book/CD Pack.......................$9.95 INCLUDES thoroughly and gradually BASS TAB explains proper beginning electric bass technique using PLAY BASS TODAY! FITNESS – outstanding photos and illustrations. Covers first to fifth BEGINNER’S PACK NEW AN EXERCISING position. Also available with a play-along CD. Level 1 Book/CD Pack packaged with the correlating DVD. HANDBOOK ______00695067 Book.....................................$5.95 ______00699552 ...........................................$19.95 by Josquin des Pres ______00695068 Book/CD Pack ......................$9.95 The purpose of this book is to PLAY INCLUDES provide the aspiring bass play- BOOK 2 INCLUDES TAB BASS TODAY! – TAB er with a wide variety of finger Provides more LEVEL 2 exercises for developing the dynamic concepts including a techniques necessary to suc- A COMPLETE GUIDE TO step-by-step explanation of ceed in today’s music scene. It can also play an important THE BASICS today’s pop and slap techniques. role in a bass player’s daily practicing program. The 200 The CD contains the finest in With its handy “teacher on CD” exercises are designed to help increase your speed, background accompaniment to and 99 demo tracks, this improve your dexterity, develop accuracy and promote written standard notation and book/CD pack is the ultimate finger independence. Recommended by world-acclaimed tablature arrangements. self-teaching method! Picking bass players, music schools and music magazines, this is up where Level 1 leaves off, it the ultimate bass handbook. ______00695069 Book.....................................$5.95 covers: more songs, riffs and scales; chords and arpeggios; ______00660177 Book Only.............................$8.95 ______00695070 Book/CD Pack ......................$9.95 playing tips and techniques; all musical styles; and standard notation and tab. BASS FOR INCLUDES INCLUDES ______00842036 Book/CD Pack.......................$9.95 TAB BOOK 3 TAB BEGINNERS Includes more INCLUDES The Complete advanced technique and theo- PLAY BASS TODAY! TAB Guide ry, and introduces players to by Glenn Letsch GUITAR SONGBOOK outboard effects for electric This book/CD pack by profes- This companion bass. Also includes a dynamic sional bassist Glenn Letsch songbook to the Play Bass section on how to approach provides the basic tools for Today! method books features reading studio-type arrange- solid, fundamental electric 10 great bass songs: Brick ments. More great recorded bass playing. It covers topics House (Commodores) • I Saw songs reinforce a simplified that all players need to know, such as: proper left- and Her Standing There (The approach to fingerboard harmony. right-hand technique; reading standard notation and Beatles) • I Shot the Sheriff ______00695071 Book.....................................$5.95 tablature; music theory and application; bass isometrics; (Bob Marley/Eric Clapton) • My Girl (The Temptations) ______00695072 Book/CD Pack ....................$10.95 scales; ear training; and more! The book also answers • Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley and His Comets) • frequently asked questions, and provides a special sec- INCLUDES Stand by Me (Ben E. King) • Tennessee Waltz (Patti COMPOSITE tion of practice routines for the beginning bassist. The TAB Page) • Walk Don’t Run (The Ventures) • Wild Thing Special bound edition containing Books 1, 2, & CD includes 99 demo tracks. (The Troggs) • Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton). 3. Book/CD pack includes three CDs. ______00695099 Book/CD Pack.....................$19.95 ______00695073 Book...................................$14.95 Includes tab. The CD includes full band demonstration tracks so you can hear how each song should sound and ______00695074 Book/CD Pack ....................$24.95 BASS INCLUDES then play along when you’re ready. TAB IMPROVISATION THE STUDIO BASSIST ______00842037 Book/CD Pack.....................$12.95 THE COMPLETE GUIDE BOOK 1 PLAY INCLUDES TO SOLOING by Dan Dean TODAY! PLUS – TAB by Ed Friedland Continues and develops the This book/CD pack is designed principles taught in the Hal LEVEL 1 A 6x9 book/CD pack that to help players master the art of Leonard Electric Bass Meth- improvisation. The CD includes od Books 1, 2 and 3. Features includes Level 1 instruction and the five correlating songs. over 50 tracks for demonstra- chord chart reading, trans- tion and play-along. The book position and ear training. works with electric or acoustic bass and covers: modes, har- monic minor, melodic minor, blues, pentatonics, dimin- ______00703380...............................................$7.95 ished, whole tone, Lydian b7, Mixolydian b13, and other ______00698997 Book/CD Pack.....................$14.95 important scales; phrasing, chord scale concepts, melodic development, guide tones, and resolutions; plus how to use your ear, practice tunes, and much more! ______00695164 Book/CD Pack ....................$17.95 855 FASTTRACK MUSIC INSTRUCTION ® FAST TRACK BASS BOOKS CD Included FastTrack is (you guessed it!) a quick way for beginners to learn to play an instrument. Skeptical of method books? (Yeah, we think they’re kind of boring, too.) That’s why we’ve made FastTrack different from the rest: user-friendly, with GUITAR INCLUDES INCLUDES plenty of cool songs, and a lot more fun! FASTTRACK BASS 1 TAB FASTTRACK BASS 2 TAB by Blake Neely & Jeff Schroedl by Blake Neely & Jeff Schroedl GUITAR Everything you need to know about playing the bass, Includes 96 songs and examples; rock, blues, R&B, funk These books teach you what you need to including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and and other styles; riffs, slap & pop; fifth position, scales scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method and keys; and more! Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples. ______00697294 Book/CD Pack.......................$9.95 know to get playing right away, but also ______00697284 Book/CD Pack 9" x 12".........$7.95 ______00695395 Book/CD Pack 5-1/2" x 5"....$7.95 FASTTRACK BASS 2 INCLUDES ______00695596 Spanish Edition.....................$7.95 TAB the fun stuff you want to know. Plus, the SONGBOOK 1 8 songs, including: Back in the U.S.S.R. • Born to Be INCLUDES FASTTRACK BASS 1 TAB Wild • I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man • Imagine • last section of all the FastTrack method SONGBOOK 1 Layla • Maggie May • No Particular Place to Go • Takin’ 8 songs, including: Brown Eyed Girl • Great Balls of Fire • Care of Business. I Want to Hold Your Hand • Oh, Pretty Woman • Wild Thing ______00697298 Book/CD Pack.....................$12.95 books for different instuments is the same • Wonderful Tonight • You Really Got Me • Your Song. ______00697289 Book/CD Pack 9" x 12".......$12.95 INCLUDES FASTTRACK BASS 2 TAB ______00695400 Book/CD Pack 5-1/2" x 5"....$9.95 SONGBOOK 2 so that players can form a band and jam A supplement to the FastTrack instruction book, this INCLUDES FASTTRACK BASS 1 TAB great songbook/CD pack features 8 great songs in rock together! How cool is that?! SONGBOOK 2 score format: All Day and All of the Night • Best of My The second songbook/CD packs for Level 1 are now Love • Day Tripper • Hey Joe • I Shot the Sheriff • Miss available! These excellent supplements to the instruction You • Smoke on the Water • Surfin’ U.S.A. Perfect for books includes 8 favorite songs: Evil Ways • Gimme playing with a band, or solo with the CD. Some Lovin’ • Gloria • Have I Told You Lately • ______00695369 Book/CD Pack.....................$12.95 Jailhouse Rock • Time Is on My Side • Twist and Shout • Walk Don’t Run. Perfect for playing with a band, or solo with the CD. ______00695368 Book/CD Pack.....................$12.95 For a complete FastTrack series listing, see pages 740-741. 856 BASS GUITAR GLENN RON CARTER – EXPANDING LETSCH’S BUILDING WALKING BASS MASTER CLASS JAZZ BASS LINES BASSLINES by Glenn Letsch Ron Carter is a living legend, by Ed Friedland Take a private lesson with five having been an integral part of A follow-up to Building of the greatest bass players in the Miles Davis group and Walking Bass Lines, this book the world: Larry Graham, V.S.O.P. In this book/CD pack- approaches more advanced Rocco Prestia, Ben Wolfe, age, Ron shows the student how walking concepts, including Mike Chapman, and Jaco to create more creative bass model mapping, the two-feel, Pastorius. The CD includes lines in a step-by-step process several “must know changes,” over 70 tracks for demonstration and play-along. that will yield creative results in a very short time. The exer- and other important jazz bass lessons. CD includes a jazz ______00695098 Book/CD Pack ....................$19.95 cises in the book (blues in major and minor keys, 3/4 trio for practicing standard tunes. blues), as well as three of Ron’s compositions, are per- ______00695026 Book/CD Pack ....................$19.95 INCLUDES formed by an all-star rhythm section of Ron on bass, BLUES TAB BASS Mulgrew Miller on piano, Ofer Ganor on guitar, and Lewis FINGERBOARD Nash on drums. Ron’s part can be isolated on each track, THE COMPLETE METHOD HARMONY so you can listen to him play the exercises, play along with by Jon Liebman FOR BASS him, and then turn his track off and create your own bass A LINEAR APPROACH FOR The best single source for lines with the guitar, piano, and drums.