Bass Aerobics
Bass Aerobics

Author: Jon Liebman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1480351822

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(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.

Guitar Aerobics
Guitar Aerobics

Author: Troy Nelson

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781423414353

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(Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.

Bass Fitness - An Exercising Handbook
Bass Fitness - An Exercising Handbook

Author: Josquin des Pres

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1991-05-01

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1476857245

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(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!

Bass Hanon
Bass Hanon

Author: Scott Barnard

Publisher: Hal Leonard

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1480358622

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(Bass Instruction). If you want to work on your bass guitar chops, this is the book for you! These 75 exercises will help you build your endurance and flexibility, challenging you in fun, interesting and methodical ways. Topics include: left-hand finger patterns; pull-offs and hammer-ons; string crossing; harmonic technique; arpeggios; scales; blues sequences; chords on the bass; articulations; rhythms; harmonics; and more.

Bass Chops
Bass Chops

Author: Jon Liebman

Publisher: Hal Leonard

Published: 2019-09-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1540071723

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(Bass Instruction). Bass Chops covers a cross section of musical genres with a unique step-by-step approach for strengthening your overall facility on the instrument. The lessons in this book include standard notation, tab, fingerings, and video demonstrations, and are presented in theme-and-variation format a highly effective approach to learning bass that has become very popular with students. Each lesson allows you to move at your own pace, beginning with a simple groove and gradually becoming moe intricate and complex as the lesson progresses. Styles include blues, jazz, rock, fusion, R&B, and slapping. The price of the book includes nearly two hours of video demonstrations of every example in the book, performed by the author himself! Access the videos online, for download or streaming, using the unique code provided.

Piano Aerobics
Piano Aerobics

Author: Wayne Hawkins

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 149503142X

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(Keyboard Instruction). Written by Kansas City's first-call keyboardist Wayne Hawkins, Piano Aerobics is a multi-style, 40-week workout program for building real-world technique. Often when students decide to play in contemporary styles, they lack the chops for the job. The exercises in Piano Aerobics will introduce students to styles such as jazz, salsa, swing, rock, blues, new age, gospel, stride and bossa nova, and help them play with more musical flair. Concepts covered include: keeping time; hand independence; articulations; building a better touch; strengthening weak fingers; accompanying; using the thumb; ear training; and more. The accessible online audio features professional musicians performing accompaniment tracks in each style.

Ukulele Aerobics
Ukulele Aerobics

Author: Chad Johnson

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1480370355

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(Ukulele). A 40-week, one-lick-per-day workout program for developing, improving, and maintaining ukulele technique. This title provides practice material for every day of the week and includes audio tracks of all the workouts in the book. Follow this program and you'll see increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy, heightened coordination and more in your playing. Musical styles include pop, rock, folk, old-time, blues, jazz, reggae and more! Techniques covered include: strumming, fingerstyle, legato and staccato, hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides, bening, damping, vibrato, tremolo and more.

Fretboard Freedom
Fretboard Freedom

Author: Troy Nelson

Publisher: Hal Leonard

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 148034866X

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(Guitar Educational). This revolutionary approach to chord-tone soloing features a 52-week, one-lick-per-day method for visualizing and navigating the neck of the guitar. Rock, metal, blues, jazz, country, R&B and funk are covered. Topics include: all 12 major, minor and dominant key centers; 12 popular chord progressions; half-diminished and diminished scales; harmonic minor and whole-tone scales; and much more. The accompanying audio tracks feature demonstrations of all 365 licks! Written by Troy Nelson, author of the #1 bestseller Guitar Aerobics and former editor-in-chief of Guitar One .

Funk Bass
Funk Bass

Author: Jon Liebman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1992-12-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1476824967

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(Bass Instruction). Critically acclaimed as the best single source for the techniques used to play funk and slap-style bass! Includes a foreword by John Patitucci and is endorsed by Rich Appleman of the Berklee College of Music, Will Lee, Mark Egan, Stuart Hamm and many others. Features several photos and a special section on equipment and effects. A book for everyone -- from beginners to advanced players! Includes a 58-minute audio accompaniment.

Play Like Jaco Pastorius
Play Like Jaco Pastorius

Author: Jon Liebman

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 149507191X

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(Play Like). Study the trademark songs, licks, tones and techniques of the world's greatest jazz fusion bassist, Jaco Pastorius. This comprehensive book/audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Pastoruis' gear, techniques, styles, songs, riffs and more. Each book comes with a unique code that will give you access to audio files of all the music in the book online. This pack looks at 15 of Jaco's most influential songs including: Birdland * The Chicken * Donna Lee * Portrait of Tracy * Teen Town * and more. Includes foreword by Robert Trujillo.