Covering all the material required for the advanced examination grades in the bass guitar, this handbook includes useful advice and tips about preparing for the examination.

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Bass Guitar will show you exactly how to master the fundamentals of bass and develop your own playing style. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: detailed advice on everything you need to learn to play bass, from choosing the right equipment to playing and improvising on your own; the low-down on scales, chords, arpeggios, and more; clear explanations that will have you reading tablature and music notation in no time; tips on getting the most out of your practice sessions." - back cover.

Ideal for total beginner to improver level bass students, this book is the first in an acclaimed series by the Registry of Guitar Tutors.This book covers all the material needed for the Registry of Guitar Tutors bass guitar examinations from Preliminary Grade up to Grade 2, enabling you to gain an internationally recognized qualification.Whether or not you intend to take the bass guitar examinations this handbook will help you develop your bass guitar playing in a comprehensive way, and will provide a sound theoretical basis to enable you to achieve your full potential as a bassist.Produced to a very high standard. The pace and content are expertly designed. The material is remarkably well presented. It should be an enjoyable journey.(Bassist Magazine).Learn More About RGT.

To sight read means to be able to play music as the writer/composer intended, without having to hear the music played first. The ability to read music is an essential part of playing any musical instrument and gives you access to a whole world of music. This book covers six of the most used keys and the first eight frets of the fingerboard. The pieces in this book follow a route from the New York suburbs to Carnegie Hall. This book can be used as a learning method for individual study. However, if you have a teacher to help you along the way than youll find that the book has enhanced benefits: Below each line of music a chord sequence is given. If youre learning electric guitar, ask your teacher to play these chords whilst you play the Guitar 1 melody this will help you keep in time and bring the music alive. If youre learning classical guitar, then you can play each piece as a duet with your teacher. You should play Guitar 1 (always printed on the left-hand page) whilst your guitar teacher plays the music marked Guitar 2 (always printed on the facing right hand page). Please note that whilst both the chords and Guitar 1. And Guitar 1 and Guitar 2, are designed to harmonise together, the chords and Guitar 2 are not intended to be played together.

Ideal for improvers and early stage players. This book is part of an acclaimed series by the Registry of Guitar Tutors. This book covers all the material needed for the Registry of Guitar Tutors Grade Two electric guitar examination, enabling you to gain an internationally recognized qualification. The material covered includes: 5 different types of fretted scales; open position and half-barre chords; exercises to use the chords with chord charts and use the scales for lead playing; full details of spoken tests on the anatomy of the guitar and musical knowledge; examples of aural assessments to develop your ear for music. Whether or not you are interested in taking an RGT exam, studying this course will help you achieve your full potential as a guitarist by developing all aspects of your guitar playing, increasing your knowledge of specialist electric guitar techniques and improving your understanding of the music theory that relates to electric guitar playing.

Roy Vogt's Teach Me Bass Guitar is the most comprehensive, effective, and entertaining program of self-paced, pay-once, play-forever bass guitar lessons ever created. In Book 1, Roy takes students step-by-step from their first introduction to the instrument, through comfortably playing 12-step patterns by ear.

Covers all the material needed for the RGT Grade Seven electric guitar examination, enabling you to gain an internationally recognised qualification. The book should help you to develop all aspects of guitar playing, increase your knowledge of specialist electric guitar techniques, understand the music theory that relates to electric guitar playing and achieve your full potential as a guitarist.

Covers all the material needed for the RGT Grade Six electric guitar examination, enabling you to gain an internationally recognised qualification. The book should help you to develop all aspects of guitar playing, increase your knowledge of specialist electric guitar techniques, understand the music theory that relates to electric guitar playing and achieve your full potential as a guitarist.

(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.

Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass is a quick reference guide aimed at music students of all levels, tackling the scales commonly used in improvising and bass line construction. This book further develops topics dealt with in the preceding Essential Scales for Electric Bass, concentrating on new and advanced scales that will provide the bassist with a wider variety of sounds and colors to add more personality to his playing. Each scale in the book is preceded by an introductory chart summarizing the theory and practical application. The development in all the keys follows in standard notation and tablature, together with fingering for 4- and 5-string basses. Topics include: melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished, whole-tone, and blues scales.