Serious Electric Bass (Contemporary Bass Series)

By Joel Di Bartolo

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576238830
• ISBN13: 9781576238837
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Serious Electric Bass

Good technique method for electric bass study. This is a book that will provide challenges for players on any level. It is written for the bass player who reads music or desires to learn as it is standard music notation and not tablature.

Professional

This entire book is very useful for a bass player of any skill level. There is in-depth detail on topics that improve your musicality and style.

Another powerful tool - truly for SERIOUS bass players.

This book is packed with endless info on the subject - scales and chords. By practicing the excercises in it, one can begin developing a good ear and understand why basslines of some songs are played the way they are.In fact, this book is teaching me that there are many contemporary songs that are done in modes of common scales. I didn't even know such a thing existed!Another thing is that you get a great appreciation for the neck and the note values along it by using this book in practice.You would have to be able to sight-read for this book though, since tab is not used.The first few sections - particularly the part on setting up and adjusting your bass - are invaluable, as they offer clear instructions that demystify the fear of 'DIY' on your bass.The only problem I had was that one of the pages (I think it was p.55) was double-printed, so the page before it was not there. Otherwise, this book is an important investment for players who want to understand the relationships between chords and to develop their ear.ML

The definitive book about scales and chords

I like this book very much. It filled all the gaps in my knowledge about scales and chords. Almost every existing scale in there. And not only the notes, also every chord you can play it with, several different fingerings, arpeggios, tetrachords, 2-oktave fingerings, and so on. It's a book you keep using for a long time.