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Summary: Bassline Basics for Guitar
Review: Playing basslines with a chord accompaniment is a mystery to many guitarists, but if you can master this form of playing your phone will never stop ringing. Although this style is mainly used in jazz, there is no reason why players of other styles shouldn't learn it as well, because you will have heard this style used in many genres of music. Players like Joe Pass, Martin Taylor, Tuck Andress, and numerous others have made careers out of this approach. If you are playing gigs the advantages are that you are your own complete backing band, so just get a vocalist or sax player and you are in business. Charles Chapman's book begins with some basic harmony so that you can understand what you are doing and why. This important introduction will give you the knowledge to create lines and patterns of your own with the tunes you are playing. You won't need a theory background here, but what you learn will help in other areas of your playing as well. In the next section you throw your pick away and begin a few little playing exercises in finger-style to give you a feel for this new-world of expression. The second half of the book gives some great examples of how to implement these ideas over some well used progressions like a blues, a Latin tune, some bebop, and standard jazz tunes. The "four to the bar" style made famous by Freddie Green (Count Basie Band) is also featured and Charles gives some great lessons here which emphasise the bassline in this style. The book finishes with a feature on chord melody style played over a bassline so you can play like Charlie Byrd, Chet Atkins, and lots of others. Learn this unique style and you will be able to play solo gigs without the vocalist or sax. The book comes with a CD (all examples are played) and the music is written in tab and real music notation. This title is an introduction to this style of playing only, but if you want to get into this style of playing deeper then you would have a great starting point on which to carry on further. I can really recommend this publication. It is easy to understand and would suit a person who has had some playing experience and wants to have a go at another really "fun" style. Happy practising,
Kevin Downing
Professional guitarist, teacher, and author.
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Rating:
Summary: Bassline Basics for Guitar
Review: Playing basslines with a chord accompaniment is a mystery to many guitarists, but if you can master this form of playing your phone will never stop ringing. Although this style is mainly used in jazz, there is no reason why players of other styles shouldn't learn it as well, because you will have heard this style used in many genres of music. Players like Joe Pass, Martin Taylor, Tuck Andress, and numerous others have made careers out of this approach. If you are playing gigs the advantages are that you are your own complete backing band, so just get a vocalist or sax player and you are in business. Charles Chapman's book begins with some basic harmony so that you can understand what you are doing and why. This important introduction will give you the knowledge to create lines and patterns of your own with the tunes you are playing. You won't need a theory background here, but what you learn will help in other areas of your playing as well. In the next section you throw your pick away and begin a few little playing exercises in finger-style to give you a feel for this new-world of expression. The second half of the book gives some great examples of how to implement these ideas over some well used progressions like a blues, a Latin tune, some bebop, and standard jazz tunes. The "four to the bar" style made famous by Freddie Green (Count Basie Band) is also featured and Charles gives some great lessons here which emphasise the bassline in this style. The book finishes with a feature on chord melody style played over a bassline so you can play like Charlie Byrd, Chet Atkins, and lots of others. Learn this unique style and you will be able to play solo gigs without the vocalist or sax. The book comes with a CD (all examples are played) and the music is written in tab and real music notation. This title is an introduction to this style of playing only, but if you want to get into this style of playing deeper then you would have a great starting point on which to carry on further. I can really recommend this publication. It is easy to understand and would suit a person who has had some playing experience and wants to have a go at another really "fun" style. Happy practising,
Kevin Downing
Professional guitarist, teacher, and author.
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