Solo Bass

Description

This book is a collection of solo pieces for the electric bass, including original compositions, technique-focused studies, and arrangements of popular classical pieces. Taking the approaches and techniques made popular by bassists such as Victor Wooten, Stuart Hamm, Billy Sheehan and Michael Manring, these pieces will provide you with many years’ worth of study material and inspiration.

Detailed performance notes are included for each piece, as well in-depth tutorials for many of the required techniques. Also included is an exhaustively researched history of the solo bass genre and of the use of looping devices. The audio files for this book can be downloaded free of charge from the Free Stuff page.

Please Note: This book contains pieces that can also be found in Beginner Studies for Bass Guitar, Intermediate Studies for Bass Guitar, Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar and Ultimate Tapping for Bass Guitar.

The book contains the following songs:

• Chordal Fingerstyle Study #1
• Chordal Fingerstyle Study #2
• Chordal Fingerstyle Study #3
• Harmonics Study #1
• Harmonics Study #2
• Solo Slap Bass Study
• Solo Plectrum Study
• Two-Handed Tapping Study #1
• Two-Handed Tapping Study #2

• Two-Handed Tapping Study #3
• Two-Handed Tapping Study #4
• Looping Study
• Contemporary Techniques Study
• Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
• Golliwogg’s Cakewalk
• Für Elise
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Laura