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Easy Bass |
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Breezy Bass Blues
Easy blues
exercise but still the real thing. |
Downtown 251
Carrying on from the
beginners Breezy Bass Blues then the more advanced, Freight Trains a
Comin', we now move onto the more advanced still, Downtown 251 Look
for the similarities. What key is it in? What scales are you playing
in & around? |
Classical Bass
It may
surprise you to know that bass technique is exactly the same as
classical guitar technique. See why with this piece.
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Mr1
So make sure you do!
Miss the 1 that is. Solid bass part with guitar part to come soon.
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Freight Trains Nearing
Home
Bass blues old style |
Oxy Moron
Create your own part to
this little ditty. Do well & have your name put up as co composer. |
More soon |
More soon |
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Bass Study |
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Bass Scales
Major
Bass Scales
Minor
Pictographic Recognition!
Practice from the tonic you know whilst reading the music to get
better at music reading. Simples! |
Bass 3 & 4 Tone Reversing Arpeggios Major & Minor
in A
Brain drain but worth the effort to learn. Try to get to the stage where
you are watching your fingers move up & down & wondering who is playing.
Puts brain into fingers. |
Bass Notation Positioning
It is so important to
understand this. Easily laid out for you to grasp fast.
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Scalic
Invention
Bass
scales with a twist |
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Cheeky
Fun finger
exercise in a funky tune. |
Bass
Arpeggio Scales
I
know I know, scales, yuk! but this is what the bass plays & it is
what music is made of. Get your finger positions sorted out & suss
the murky depths of the fretboard forest. Hear your scales in your mind
before you play then hear a riff & play straight back. Go to it! |
Digits 'L Pop
A real right hand
hospital exercise if you can get up to the silly tempos of 150BPM + |
Bass Modes
Well, if you have looked
at the bass scales then the next logical step is o get your head
around the modes. This is the dark side.
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Bass Parts |
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The Flow
Bass & guitar duet with a
feel good factor. |
Naughty Cat
My cat by bass & guitar.
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Sing It Back to the Birds
Write some lyrics to this &
make it into more than just a good ditty, like a song for instance. |
Parisienne Walkways
The Bass part on its own.
Print off & play to the full score in Band Pieces. |
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Big Foot. (Bass & Drums)
Bassists! Listen to the
full score then print & practice this piece, open the guitar
score below & play to it to get the original bass & guitar duet feel
while you play. |
Traffic Jam
A wonderful racket
from an original idea by one of my students. Sounds like traffic &
its a good jam. Clues in the name. Add a horn section to this piece
for mayhem traffic horns & solid solos. |
Through Thick & Thin
(Bass & TAB)
Bassists! Listen to the
full score above, then print & practice this piece, open the guitar
score below & play to it to get the original bass & guitar duet feel
while you play.
N.B. Push the tempo
slider all the way to the right for correct tempo. |
Bottle Neck Blues
A simple
accompaniment to the Bottle Neck Blues Guitar line below. Written in
triplets to see how the 1&& 2&& 3&& 4&& count really moves within
the piece. Check out the full score to hear how it all fits
together. Read this like columns between the parts to see how the
timing between bass, drums & guitar works. |
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Big Foot. (Full Score)
Based on the Weird
Guy Theme. A little jazz funk piece that will help you keep your
cool while all around are funking around with the rhythm. |
That
dancing weird guy Becks add bass line ting.
Just a
beautifully crafted bass line that is that rare breed of
hook line as well. Easy & fun to play with the drum pattern
backbeat. Enjoy! |
Through Thick & Thin
(Full Score)
Mr Stoney's excellent
composition.
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Bottle Neck Blues (Full
Score)
No tab here.
Just a score to see how it all goes together
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Advanced Bass & Bass
Solos |
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If
Only This Bass Could Talk
12 bar chorded bass jazz
blues with a 251 turn around. Written by the great Stanley Clark from
the album of the same name.
Grade 8 playing standard.
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Out of My Depth
A bass harmonics
piece that has some interesting modulation |
The Swinging Old Monk
A
naughty old monk skipping down to his still in the middle of the
night as told by the bass. |
Essentials
From Mr
Kings album of the same name. Classical guitar technique meets bass |
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Margery's Door
This is a spooky piece
of Jazz, meets the nursery, meets my pet axe?
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Seven Grey Cup5
Severe bass
dissonance as an experiment & as an outlet for some tension. Well Goth. |
Three's A Crowd Honey
A 3/4 riff that seems to
rock in a very jazzy sort of way. This is a complete piece but it is not
for the faint hearted. Grade 7 or 8 players only need apply I think. |
Ad Infinitum
A circling modulation
with a great riffy rhythm that requires right hand muting in the
staccato to be contrasted with long crochets. Great fun to play with
b4bass drummer 8's or 16's if you have the fingers. |
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Walk Right Up
In the style of
Chameleon but with some hard to get to chords thrown in. Play it as
you like, this is a chart not a score. |
Flippy
This web site accepts no
liability for any mental or physical damage caused by trying to play
this piece. You have been warned!
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Lightening the Load
Happy 22nd anniversary
Diane. I love you very much. |
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