Picture Yourself Playing Bass by Mike Chiavaro

By Mike Chiavaro

Photo your self taking part in Bass is a full-color, step-by-step advisor to studying bass guitar for rookies and intermediate gamers. This specific book/DVD package deal walks readers via all the very important academic and musical options via easy-to-follow fingering charts, illustrations, images, musical notation, and targeted tutorial chapters. every little thing is roofed, from suggestions and recommendation for getting your bass and correct bass care and upkeep, to fingering thoughts, analyzing sheet track, and complex sound results ideas. The significant other DVD offers a reside guide from the writer to augment recommendations and strategies - it really is like having a digital inner most lesson with no need to go away the home!

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40 Reading Music Chapter 3 Key Signatures A key signature is always placed right after the clef, and tells you the key of the music you’re reading. The key signature will display the sharps or flats in the music in a particular order. Sharp order would be Fs, Cs, Gs, D s, As, Es, and Bs, and flats would be given in the order B b, E b, A b, D b, G b, C b, and F b. 8 Order of sharps When you see that a sharp or a flat is written in a specific space or line in a key signature, it means that every note that is played in that line or space will be sharp or flat.

Play the open string, followed by the first four frets on that string. Remember to assign a finger to each fret and to keep your fingers down. Once you get up to the fourth fret on the G string, play the whole exercise backwards. Start on the fourth fret of the G string and go all the way down to the open E string. 14 Getting Started: What You Need to Start Playing the Electric Bass Chapter 1 Your First Bass Line Y our first bass line is going to be a classic one. It’s the theme song to Peter Gunn, which was a television show that aired from 1958–1961.

Reading music will allow us to communicate in a much clearer and more detailed way. Let’s get started; it’s much easier than you think. Finishing Up with Note Names A t this point you should have a grasp of the names of the notes on the first four frets of each string. In order to read music, you’re going to have to learn the rest of the notes on the bass. Let’s start there. 1). Don’t feel overwhelmed. You’ll notice that once you start memorizing the notes, you’ll learn little tricks and patterns to help you along the way.

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