This enjoyable and challenging exercise routine will prepare you for the rigors of contemporary bass playing and sharpen your technique. The strategy focuses on warm-ups and stretching, exercises for strength, agility and stamina, and specific techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs. Jam-packed with tried-and-true "bassrobic" exercises, this book will build your technique, no matter what style of music you play. Don't let another day go by without making this a perfect new addition to your bass library.

(Bass Builders). Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with audio by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more -- all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using "Bass Aerobics" will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying audio contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along.

Packed with two complete 30-day exercise routines, this collection of warm-ups, sticking exercises, polyrhythms and other skill-builders increases coordination, stamina, finesse and sense of time without the tedium of doing the same old routine every day.

(Guitar Educational). Steve Vai reveals his path to virtuoso enlightenment with two challenging guitar workouts, which include scale and chord exercises, ear training, sight-reading, music theory and much more. These comprehensive workouts are reprinted by permission from Guitar World magazine.

(Guitar School). The purpose of this book is to provide the aspiring bass player with a wide variety of finger exercises for developing the techniques necessary to succeed in today's music scene. It can also play an important role in a bass player's daily practicing program. The 200 exercises are designed to help increase your speed, improve your dexterity, develop accuracy and promote finger independence. Recommended by world-acclaimed bass players, music schools and music magazines, this is the ultimate bass handbook. The added use of photos makes the lessons complete!

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.

Bass Player's Guide to Looping: A Comprehensive Method to Pedal Looping on Bass [OVER 2.5 HOURS OF VIDEO INCLUDED]Bass Player's Guide to Looping is the definitive method to mastering the art of live-looping with the electric bass. Join world-renowned bassist Janek Gwizdala as he reveals every single detail of his signal chain--including illustrated pedal settings, tips on effects and gear, and proper looping techniques--giving you an endless array of tools to practice, compose, and perform live as a true artist. Whether you've used a loop pedal for years or just purchased your first one, Bass Player's Guide to Looping will help you to become the best looping bassist you can be.With purchase of this book, you also gain access to over 2.5 hours of video instruction. These videos include in-depth explanations and performances of every concept in the book, bonus footage of techniques used in solo bass performance, and live footage of looping with both a drummer in a duo setting as well as with a live band.

Let's face it---we all practice in front of the TV sometimes, so why not make the best of it? The Couch Potato Guitar Workout is a fun, straightforward, no-frills approach to building guitar technique while watching your favorite TV show or just vegging out on the couch. It's perfect for guitarists of all levels and styles looking to develop speed, strength, and accuracy. Learn the proper posture for sitting on a couch while playing guitar, how to practice without driving your couchmate crazy, basic finger mechanics, and even ways to work your flexors and extensors. With tons of exercises and licks to develop your technique in astonishing ways, The Couch Potato Guitar Workout is your ticket to advancing as a guitarist---all while sitting on your couch!

Finally, all the essential musicianship training today's bass player needs is now included under one cover. This easy-to-use, step-by-step method combines music theory, ear training, sight-reading and fretboard knowledge to prepare musicians to play bass in any musical style. Beginning with a review of the fretboard and reading standard music notation in the bass clef, lessons progress in a logical order through scales, intervals, chords, and progressions including tritone substitutions, secondary chords and modulations. Includes 40 worksheets and ear-training quizzes along with a correlating CD. Musicianship for the Contemporary Bassist is the ultimate, must-own resource for the advancing bassist.

Become a diverse and in-demand bass player by learning bass lines in a wide variety of styles from blues and reggae to funk and heavy metal, analysis of the styles and recordings of pioneering players, fun techniques such as fingerstyle funk, slap & pop, and two-handed tapping, how to really lock in" with the drummer, and much more!"