Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass
Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass

Author: Janek Gwizdala

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-12-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781791326531

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Jazz Vocabulary for Electric Bass: ii-V-I is the first definitive book of its kind: explaining, exploring, and creating jazz harmony and improvisation from the perspective of a world-renowned bassist. The book begins at the heart of basic vocabulary in the jazz idiom, building a concrete foundation of confidence in "making the changes," before guiding through every step of the process to more fresh and complex interpretations of the altered scale, unexpected tonal centers, and innovative chord structure. This book will strengthen your technique, refine and train your ear, and make informed and creative jazz vocabulary attainable in your playing. Get better at jazz-for real this time.

Making Music Your Business
Making Music Your Business

Author: David Ellefson

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 087930460X

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Provides an inside guide to the music business, including management, record labels, music publishing, promotion, touring, endorsement, and negotiating deals

Serious Electric Bass
Serious Electric Bass

Author: Joel Di Bartolo

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1997-02-13

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781457460968

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Bass basics, major scales and modes, harmonic and melodic minor scales and modes, arpeggio patterns and symmetric scales (whole tone and diminished). Serious Electric Bass is a definitive, comprehensive, user-friendly guide for electric bassists of all levels.

Building Bass Lines
Building Bass Lines

Author: Chuck Archard

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 1998-07

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780882849218

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This book teaches everything you need to know to create great bass lines. An easy-to-use, step-by-step approach to basic theory is given as a foundation, and then the essential styles-and many styles within each style-are explored from the bass point of view. Learn how the bass fits into the group, the important bass techniques for each style and even what tempos to expect. Bass players, arrangers and composers alike will love the hundreds of tips and sample bass lines. A CD demonstrating all the examples and for playing along is available.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2

Author: John Shepherd

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-05-08

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 1847144721

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.

The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass
The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass

Author: Per Elias Drabløs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1317018370

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The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new electric bass instrument. From the mid-1960s and throughout the 1970s, a melismatic and inconsistent approach towards the bass role ensued, which contributed to a major change in how the electric bass was used in performance and perceived in the sonic landscape of mainstream popular music. Investigating the performance practice of the new, melodic role of the electric bass as it appeared (and disappeared) in the 1960s and 1970s, the book turns to the number one songs of the American Billboard Hot 100 charts between 1951 and 1982 as a prime source. Through interviews with players from this era, numerous transcriptions - elaborations of twenty bass related features - are presented. These are juxtaposed with a critical study of four key players, who provide the case-studies for examining the performance practice of the melodic electric bass. This highly original book will be of interest not only to bass players, but also to popular musicologists looking for a way to instigate methodological and theoretical discussions on how to develop popular music analysis.