Rock bass lesson book with 100 lessons
If you want to work specifically on rock bass guitar, Hal Leonard Europe 100 Rock Lessons gives you plenty of focused material. This bass lesson book contains 100 individual modules and covers a wide range of styles, techniques and musical concepts within rock. The examples are written in both standard notation and tablature, so you can use the system you read most easily or combine both.
The book covers topics including first position notes, basic fingerstyle, basic slapping, fingerstyle rakes, drop D tuning, arpeggios, harmonics, tapping, walking and gallop rhythm. Style-based subjects such as Paul McCartney style, John Entwistle style, Geddy Lee style, Billy Sheehan style and Flea style also make this a useful edition for bass players who want to broaden their rock vocabulary.
Practical format for lessons and self-study
Across 208 pages, you get not only instruction and playing examples, but also useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids and photos that clarify the material. That makes this bass method suitable for structured practice at home and for use in music lessons.
Hal Leonard Europe 100 Rock Lessons also includes 2 audio CDs with performance demos of every example in the book. This lets you hear exactly how the material is meant to sound and work more precisely on timing, articulation and style on bass guitar.
