Paul McCartney: Bass Master
Paul McCartney: Bass Master

Author: Tony Bacon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1476853428

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Paul McCartney is one of the best pop bass players in the world, and this book presents a musical analysis of his consistently inventive and influential bass playing during his tenure in the Beatles. This indispensable guide offers full transcriptions (including tablature and chord names) of nine of McCartney's most revered bass parts: “Dear Prudence ” “Drive My Car ” “In My Life ” “Lovely Rita ” and more. Each track is analyzed and explained in detail to show today's bassists how much they can still learn from McCartney's remarkable skill and imagination.

The Beatles - Complete Scores
The Beatles - Complete Scores

Author: The Beatles

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1993-06-01

Total Pages: 1159

ISBN-13: 1495027031

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(Transcribed Score). A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding edition features full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation and tablature. Also includes a full discography. Songs include: All You Need Is Love * And I Love Her * Baby You're a Rich Man * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Drive My Car * Eleanor Rigby * From Me to You * Glass Onion * A Hard Day's Night * Help! * Hey Jude * I Saw Her Standing There * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Michelle * Penny Lane * She Loves You * Twist and Shout * Yesterday * and many more! A must-own for any serious Beatles fan or collector!

Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice
Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice

Author: Phillip McIntyre

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3030791009

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This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician. It frames its examination of McCartney’s work through the lens of the systems model of creativity developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and combines this with the research work of Pierre Bourdieu. This systems approach is built around the basic structures of idiosyncratic agents, like McCartney himself, and the choices he has made as a creative individual. It also locates his work within social fields and cultural domains, all crucial aspects of the creative system that McCartney continues to be immersed in. Using this tripartite system, the book includes analysis of McCartney’s creative collaborations with musicians, producers, artists and filmmakers and provides a critical analysis of the Romantic myth which forms a central tenet of popular music. This engaging work will have interdisciplinary appeal to students and scholars of the psychology of creativity, popular music, sociology and cultural studies.

The Bastard Instrument
The Bastard Instrument

Author: Brian F. Wright

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2024-07-16

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0472221701

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The Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric bass and the musicians who played it, from the instrument’s invention through its widespread acceptance at the end of the 1960s. Although their contributions have often gone unsung, electric bassists helped shape the sound of a wide range of genres, including jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, country, soul, funk, and more. Their innovations are preserved in performances from artists as diverse as Lionel Hampton, Liberace, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, the Supremes, the Beatles, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Jefferson Airplane, and Sly and the Family Stone, all of whom are discussed in this volume. At long last, The Bastard Instrument gives these early electric bassists credit for the significance of their accomplishments and demonstrates how they fundamentally altered the trajectory of popular music.

The Bass Book
The Bass Book

Author: Tony Bacon

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780879309244

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The first full-color, comprehensive history, tracing the entire development of one of the 20th century's most important musical instruments. Based on firsthand interviews with primary inventors and makers of past and present bass guitars, this new book examines the birth of the instrument, its popularization during the 1960s and 1970s, and modern variations of the instrument.

The Bass Book
The Bass Book

Author: Tony Bacon

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780879303686

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A complete illustrated history of bass guitars.

Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition
Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition

Author: Kenneth Womack

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1501387081

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In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career. In this revised edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's timeless story.

Jeff Berlin Bass Mastery
Jeff Berlin Bass Mastery

Author: Jeff Berlin

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578820040

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This book was written with one purpose in mind: to improve your bass playing skill in 24 clear lessons. Each of the exercises featured in (title is based on solid music theory concepts and structured academic approaches. The book contains etudes grounded in common (and not so common) chord tonalities written in melodic form. They are all geared to teach when to play the right notes at the right time. Each lesson builds on the previous one to introduce increasingly more sophisticated concepts and techniques. This approach enables the bass student to polish his/her reading skills and technique simultaneously. A focus on reading requires players to find more accurate left-hand positions and fingerings to play the notes as they are written. Reading brings together mind, body, and instrument, thus resulting in better playing. By studying this book, the bass student will find that better technique will be coupled with greater expressiveness. We all seek the ability to play with freedom and artistry. The better you can play, the better you will express the art that is within you.

TIME Paul McCartney
TIME Paul McCartney

Author: James Kaplan

Publisher: Time

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781618930248

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Profiles the legendary songwriter and performer in words and pictures.