Complete Electric Bass
Fender Bass Guitar – An Important Legacy
The first mass designed electric bass guitar was in the 1950′s by the popular name of Fender Quickly after its release, the Fender Bass Guitar found a place with some of the most popular musicians of the day like William ‘Monk’ Montgomery, Lionel Hampton and Roy Johnson, who had unique musical visions and talented players in their bands, taking the Fender electric bass and making it a respectable, important instrument in the musical landscape. Within a short time of the Precision Bass being released by Fender, another electric bass guitar was introduced by Gibson. This new bass guitar appeared like more of a violin than the Fender bass. With the insertion of these two electric bass guitars, the music enterprise was permanently changed; electricity was now established into the world of music.
Fender bass guitars have altered very little since their inception, despite a few aesthetic changes over the years. A lot of this is attributed to the staying appeal of Leo Fender’s original bass guitar, which met all of the sound requirements of the bands at the time and continue to; while Fender’s few attempts to deviate from the original design met with failure, people are clamoring to get the kinds of guitars popularized in the fifties and sixties.
While the enormous conflict about which makes a better bass guitar, you can now find bass guitars in many shapes and materials. This choice is exclusively up to the view of the musician playing the bass. Ebony and alder are exotic woods, but alternative materials along with graphite are quickly becoming the more popular materials to employ for bass bodies. Like shoes, you will want to try a few basses out to see which sound and tone you want. You might also decide if you need frets on your neck. Frequently the neck is composed of wood and will produce a different sound when the strings vibrate on it as opposed to frets.
Whether you prefer wood, graphite, frets, or no frets, bass guitar playing and bass line creation is a fun and crucial element in music that completes the full sound.
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Complete Electric Bass Method: Beginning Electric Bass $6.60 Perfect for beginning bassist or players who want to enhance their knowledge. Starting with a review of reading music, this book explains the basics of music theory as it relates to being a great bass player with an easy, step-by-step approach. Before you know it, you’ll be using major scales, triads and 7th chords to create cool-sounding bass lines for the most important chord progressions all ba… |
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Intermediate Electric Bass (The Complete Electric Bass Method) Book & CD $12.12 This book is great for electric bassists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. Beginning with a brief review of reading standard music notation and TAB, this book takes you further into using scales to build bass lines, techniques such as slap & pop, string muting, and walking bass lines. You’ll be introduced to ideas such as modes, tetrachords, passing tones and varying… |
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Mel Bay Complete Electric Bass Method (Book, CD, and DVD) $12.67 While still available in two separate volumes (93234 and 93235) Roger Filiberto’s widely-used beginning bass method is now available in one comprehensive book! Includes handy arpeggio charts featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and dominant seventh chords, plus their upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained widespread acceptance as the foundatio… |
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Complete Electric Bass Method: Beginning Blues Bass (DVD) $10.71 ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################… |
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You Can Play Electric Bass: A Complete Course for Beginners $16.35 YOU CAN PLAY ELECTRIC BASS – DVD Movie… |
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John Pattitucci: Complete Electric Bass, Vol. 1 and 2 $23.63 Both the “Electric Bass” and “Electric Bass 2″ videos in DVD format. “Electric Bass” is a complete guide to grooving with a drummer in 15 styles including: funk, samba, reggae, jazz, shuffle, baiao, Latin, and rock. John provides examples in each style an… |
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Complete Electric Bass Method: Beginning Electric Bass $12.53 Perfect for the bassist who has started studying and is ready to learn more. Basics of music theory, major scales, triads and 7th chords and more are covered. Learn to create cool-sounding bass lines for the most important chord progressions…. |
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Bass Method: For the Beginning Electric Bassist $10.92 This method is designed for anyone just learning to play electric bass…. |
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