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The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar Players
The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar Players
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Learn 'The Essential Technique Method':
Discover the secrets of developing a professional-standard bass guitar technique making it effortless to play the songs and bass lines you love.
- Do you wish you had proven method to create more speed and more accuracy on the bass guitar?
- Do you wish you could improve your bass guitar tone and gain the technique to play the songs that inspired you to pick up the bass in the first place?
- Do you want to learn how to avoid nasty injuries and get the best out of the instrument even if you're older and suffer with conditions such as Arteritis?
Written By British Bassist James Eager:
"...Not so long back I realised that I used one 'core method and approach' that covers 95% of how I pay my mortgage here in the UK as a working pro bassist.
...The Essential Technique Method (or E.T.M) is a tried and tested formula that distills the most important elements of bass guitar technique into one clear step-by-step methodology .
...The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar explains these concepts piece by piece, so students can gain the technique to play the bass lines they’ll see time and time again on gigs, jam sessions, worship teams and hit records.
...I've stripped out the fluff to give the most important information that will help you play faster, with more dexterity, more accurately and help you improve tone. What’s more, developing technique using ‘Essential Technique Method’ will naturally improve your timing as a byproduct"
From Beginner To Intermediate... And Well Beyond...
The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar Players starts rights at the very beginning (assuming nothing) and gives all of the information a beginner needs to start developing a rock solid technique.
For intermediate to advanced bassists this book is the perfect 'reference manual' to fix issues with your technique.
The Essential Guide To Technique For Bass Guitar Players: What You'll Learn -
The fundamental concepts behind building professional standard technique.
- An overview of how the hands work physically.
- The fundamentals of how using the plucking and fretting hands and the most important techniques to develop.
- How to to build to systematically build speed, accuracy and dexterity.
- The strategies, tactics and how to approach technique... so you so you figure out any technical issue and learn any other technique you wish.
- How to create effective warm ups and practice routines.
- Tips for the older bassist from a qualified medical professional: How to avoid injuries and how to get the most out of the bass when you have conditions such as arteritis
Here's what we'll cover:
- The 3 Elements Of A Good Technique
- Setting Your Bass Up For Success
- How The Hands Work
- Building Your Plucking Hand Technique
- Creating The Fretting Hand Technique
- Mastering Alternate Fingering
- Understanding Raking
- Developing Muting
- String Crossing
- Neck Navigation & Position Changing
- Creating Articulation
- String Jumping
- Hammer Ons, Pull Offs and Slides
- Creating An Effective Practice Routine
- Hand Strength & Controlling The Pinky
- Warming Up
- What if a bass line or song is fast?
- Arthritis, Injuries & Tips For The Older Bassist
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I always read a book from start, to finish. I get more out of it that way. After you do this, you can use it for reference. Ive been playing for 42 years, and i find that i need to read a book like rhis every few years, so i dont fall into to many bad habits. Thank you for the guide James! You rock brother!
Clear and simply written, simple to understand.
Clear and simply written, simple to understand.
The book is well written with loads of good material. Perfect for beginner bass players.
The book is well written with loads of good material. Perfect for beginner bass players.