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POWER TOOLS FOR FOUR-STRING BASS Book/CD Set

Volume 1 by Fred Cockfield

Category: Bass Guitar and Bajo Sexto - Audio Products: Self-Instruction

Level: Beginning-Intermediate

This book is designed to give bass players an understanding of the bass fingerboard. Knowledge of the fingerboard is essential for the creation of melodic bass lines. Bass players must understand their instruments and be able to perform on then to the utmost of their abilities. To do this, they need the same tools that make any musician a powerful performer. The first set of tools consists of scales and arpeggios, which are the basic units from which all melodies and chord progressions are derived. This book will teach you, with a minimum of pain and lost sleep, how to play these patterns over the entire range of this beautiful instrument. Written in notation and tablature (TAB). Every exercise appears on the accompanying CD.

Contents:

• How To Use This Book
• Establishing A Practice Schedule
• Notation Legend
• Note Location Guides
• Warm-Up Exercises
• What Are Scales?
• The G Major Scale
• The A Major Scale
• Major Scale Melodic Exercises
• Extended Major Scale Studies
• What Are Intervals?
• Intervales Of The Major Scale
• Minor, Diminished & Augmented Intervals
• What Are Arpeggios?
• Arpeggios Of The G Major Scale
• Arpeggios Of The A Major Scale
• How To Build Chords & Arpeggios
• What Are Major Pentatonic Scales?
• The G Major Pentatonic Scale
• The A Major Pentatonic Scale
• Major Pentatonic Melodic Exercises
• What Are Relative Minor Scales?
• The E Minor Scale
• The F# Minor Scale
• Minor Scale Melodic Exercises
• Extended Minor Scale Studies
• What Are Minor Pentatonic Scales?
• The E Minor Pentatonic Scale
• The F# Minor Pentatonic Scale
• Minor Pentatonic Melodic Exercises
• Summary
• Blank Fingerboard Grids

Here's the real beauty of this book:

• Scales are movable - Learn Scales & Arpeggios for A, and they become B 2 frets higher, C 3 frets higher, D 5 frets higher, etc.
• Written so that even beginners can follow, intermediate and even pro bassists can glean insight from this instructional set
• Although the target audience is Beginner-Intermediate bassists, this is one of finest books available for 6-String Guitarists desiring to learn the Bass as a 2nd Instrument.

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