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bass guitar

1544 Artist Instruction


1526 At a Glance Series
1551 Bass Artist Folios
1541 Bass Lessons Goldmine
1524 Bass Methods/Instruction
1549 Bass Music Collections
1553 Bass Play-Along
1552 Big Band Play-Along
1541 Chords, Scales, Theory & Technique
1527 FastTrack Music Instruction
1543 Five-String Bass Instruction
1543 Fretless Bass
1524 Hal Leonard Bass Method
1547 Instructional DVDs
1543 Upright Bass
1552 Worship Band Play-Along

2015
HAL LEONARD BASS METHOD
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HAL LEONARD 

HAL LEONARD
ELECTRIC
BASS METHOD –
COMPLETE
EDITION
Contains Books 1, 2, and

BASS METHOD
3 Bound Together in One
Easy-to-Use Volume
by Ed Friedland
The Hal Leonard Bass
Method is designed for anyone just learning to play
electric bass. It is based on years of teaching bass
SECOND EDITION
by Ed Friedland
students of all ages and it also reflects some of the
best bass teaching ideas from around the world. This
special spiral bound edition contains Books 1, 2, & 3
of the Second Edition Hal Leonard Bass Method.
The Hal Leonard Bass Method is designed for anyone ______ 00695073 Book�������������������������������$14.95
just learning to play electric bass. It is based on years ______ 00695074  Book/CD Pack�����������������$22.99
of teaching bass students of all ages, and it also reflects
some of the best bass teaching ideas from around the HAL LEONARD 
world! BASS METHOD DVD
by Ed Friedland
This second edition features all new engravings and
excellent new audio tracks. The books have been This great new DVD will help anyone learn to play
updated to meet the needs of today’s bass students by bass. It starts at the beginning and takes players all the
BOOK 1 way through playing real songs. A perfect supplement
renowned bassist and author Ed Friedland.
Book 1 teaches: tuning; playing position;  to Book 1.
musical symbols; notes within the first five frets; ______ 00695849 DVD��������������������������������$19.95
common bass lines, patterns and rhythms; rhythms
through eighth notes; playing tips and techniques; BASS 
more than 100 great songs, riffs, and examples; FOR
and more! The CD includes 44 full-band tracks for KIDS
demonstration or play-along. A Beginner’s
______ 00695067 Book Only��������������������������$5.99 Guide with Step-by-Step
______ 00695068 Book/CD Pack��������������������$9.99 Instruction for Bass Guitar
BOOK 2 by Chad Johnson
Book 2 continues where 1 left off Bass for Kids is a fun, easy
and teaches: the box shape, moveable boxes, notes course that teaches children
in fifth position, major and minor scales, the classic to play bass guitar faster
blues line, the shuffle rhythm, tablature, and more! than ever before. Popular songs such as “Crazy
______ 00695069 Book Only��������������������������$5.99 Train,” “Every Breath You Take,” “A Hard Day’s
______ 00695070 Book/CD Pack��������������������$9.99 Night” and “Wild Thing” keep kids motivated, and
the clean, simple page layouts ensure their attention
Ed Friedland is a contributing editor and monthly BOOK 3  remains focused on one concept at a time. The
columnist for Bass Player magazine. He has taught at With the third book, progressing method can be used in combination with a bass
Berklee College of Music, Boston College, and Arizona students will learn more great songs, riffs and teacher or parent, even if they’ve never had any
State University, and is a frequent guest clinician examples; sixteenth notes; playing off chord symbols; musical training themselves. Lesson topics include
around the country. He has written several best- slap and pop techniques; hammer ons and pull offs; selecting a bass, holding the bass, hand position,
selling titles for the Hal Leonard Bass Builders series, playing different styles and grooves; and more. reading music notation and counting, and more.
as well as creating the new Slap Bass DVD. Equally ______ 00695071 Book Only��������������������������$5.99 ______ 00696449  Book/CD Pack�����������������$12.99
adept on electric and upright bass, Ed has performed ______ 00695072 Book/CD Pack��������������������$9.95
with some of the top names in jazz, blues, and R&B,
as well as playing studio dates, theatre, and show-biz HAL LEONARD 
gigs. His performance credits include: Larry Coryell, BASS METHOD
Michal Urbaniak, Robben Ford, Wycliffe Gordon, BEGINNER’S 
Stacey Kent, Teirney Sutton, Ann Hampton Calloway, PACK
Bud Shank, Paul Horn, Johnny Adams, Robert Junior The Beginning Bassist
Lockwood, Linda Hopkins, Martha & The Vandellas, Savings Pack!
BASS GUITAR

the Drifters, the Patters, the Marvellettes, Steve Allen, featuring Ed Friedland
the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Company
This money-saving pack
of Boston, Little Shop of Horrors, Mamma Mia, 42nd
includes the Hal Leonard
Street, and others!
Bass Method Book 1 with CD
(HL#00695068), plus the corresponding instructional
DVD (HL#00695849) as presented by Ed Friedland. A
$30 value for only $24.95!
______ 00695893  Book/CD/DVD Pack��������$24.99
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MUSIC  HAL LEONARD BASS STYLISTIC INSTRUCTION
THEORY FOR GUITAR MANUSCRIPT BLUES 
BASSISTS PAPER BASS
Everything You Ever Features 64 pages of bass A Guide to the 
Wanted to Know But manuscript paper with Essential Styles
Were Afraid to Ask both standard notation and and Techniques
by Sean Malone tablature staves, plus a bass
by Ed Friedland
Bass players of all levels will notation legend and a music
notation guide. Pages fit The Hal Leonard Blues Bass
find a wealth of practical Method is your complete
music knowledge in this perfectly in 3-ring binders!
______ 00210116  �����������������������������������������$3.50 guide to learning blues bass.
special book and CD package. Acclaimed bassist and This book and CD package
music theory professor Sean Malone will take you on uses classic blues songs and standards to teach
a journey through the fascinating realm of the written
SUPPLEMENTARY SONGBOOKS you how to lay down your own solid blues bass
language of music, using easy-to-understand terms and lines. Learn to play by studying the songs of famous
concepts, music examples, diagrams, and much more. These great songbooks correlate with Books 1-3 of
the Hal Leonard Bass Method, giving students great bluesmen such as B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan
The accompanying audio CD provides 96 tracks of (Tommy Lee Shannon), Muddy Waters, Freddie King,
examples, demonstrations, and play-alongs. songs to play while they’re still learning! The CD packs
include great accompaniment and demo tracks. Albert King, The Allman Brothers, Otis Rush, T-Bone
______ 00695756  Book/CD Pack�����������������$17.95 Walker, Louis Jordan, and many more. Learn actual
EASY POP  riffs from blues classics including: Born Under a Bad
BASS ARPEGGIO Sign • Hideaway • Hoochie Coochie Man • Killing
FINDER BASS LINES
Floor • Pride and Joy • Sweet Home Chicago • The
Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 20 great songs that Thrill Is Gone • and more.
1,300 Bass Arpeggios students in Book 1 can ______ 00695870  Book/CD Pack�����������������$14.95
by Chad Johnson master. Includes: All
Learn to play arpeggios Shook Up • Come as You COUNTRY
Are • Crossfire • Eight Days
on the bass with this
a Week • Great Balls of Fire
BASS
comprehensive yet easy-to- A Guide to the 
use book, a supplement to • Lay Down Sally • Surfin’
U.S.A. • Wild Thing • more. Essential Styles
the Hal Leonard Bass Method and Techniques
or any other bass method. The Bass Arpeggio Finder by Glenn Letsch
______ 00695810 Book ���������������������������������$5.95
contains more than 1,300 arpeggio shapes, covering The Hal Leonard Country
______ 00695809 Book/CD Pack������������������$15.99
28 different qualities for each key, with each quality Bass Method is your
presented in four different shapes. Great for bassists
MORE EASY  complete guide to learning
looking to hone their skills! the styles and techniques of
______ 00695817  6” x 9” Edition������������������$5.95 POP BASS LINES
20 great songs for Level 2 country bass. This book and CD package uses actual
______ 00695816  9” x 12” Edition����������������$6.95 songs from classic to modern country to teach
students. Songs include:
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown • you how to groove like the great Nashville session
BASS SCALE FINDER bassists. The CD includes 41 full-band tracks for
Easy-to-Use Guide Crazy Train • I Heard It
Through the Grapevine • demonstration and play-along. 21 songs, including:
to Over 1300 Scales Act Naturally • Boot Scootin’ Boogie • Crazy • Honky
Jamming • Jet Airliner •
This book contains over 1,300 Tonk Man • Love You Out Loud • Luckenbach,
Message in a Bottle • My
scale diagrams for the most Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) • No One Else
Generation • No Excuses •
important 17 scale types.Basic on Earth • Ring of Fire • Southern Nights • Streets
Paranoid • Pride and Joy • Ramblin’ Man •  Summer
scale theory is also presented of Bakersfield • Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been
of ’69 • and more.
to help you apply these colorful Under? • and more.
______ 00695819 Book ���������������������������������$5.95
sounds in your own music. A ______ 00695928  Book/CD Pack�����������������$14.95
______ 00695818 Book/CD Pack������������������$14.95
perfect supplement to any bass
method.
EVEN MORE 
______ 00695781  6” x 9”������������������������������$6.99
______ 00695778  9” x 12”����������������������������$6.99 EASY POP
BASS LINES
BASS  20 great songs for Level 3
LICKS students. Songs include:
Over 200 Licks, Lines, and Another One Bites the Dust
Grooves in Many Rhythmic • Brick House • Cheap
Styles Sunglasses • Higher Ground
• Iron Man • The Joker •
by Ed Friedland
Sweet Emotion • and more.
This comprehensive supple-
BASS GUITAR

______ 00695821 Book ���������������������������������$5.95


ment to any bass method will ______ 00695820 Book/CD Pack������������������$14.95
help students learn over 200
great bass licks, lines and
grooves in many rhythmic styles. Bass Licks illustrates
how simple melodic patterns can become the spring-
board for group improvisation or the foundation of a
song. All examples are on the CD!
______ 00696035  Book/CD Pack�����������������$14.99
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FRETLESS  AT A GLANCE SERIES
BASS The At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist
by Chris Kringel with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features
This book/CD several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the hi-def DVD lessons feature on-screen music.
pack uses 18 songs to The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and popular song examples help
teach key elements of the to demonstrate the concepts in action.
electric fretless bass, such as
intonation; harmonics; keys, BASS FRETBOARD ROCK BASS
scales and intervals; and THEORY Rock Bass features these
more. You’ll learn to play Bass Fretboard Theory lessons: Essential Rock
in the style of Jaco Pastorius, Flea, Jack Bruce, Sting, features these lessons: Bass Scales & Shapes,
Gary Willis, and others. Songs: Bad Love • Continuum Bass Fretboard Layout, Essential Rock Bass
• Even Flow • Hocus Pocus • I Could Die for You • Bass Interval Workout, Techniques, Locking
Jelly Roll • King of Pain • Kiss of Life • Lady in Red Scale Construction, Scale in with the Kick Drum,
• Tears in Heaven • Very Early • What I Am • White Shapes and Groove Boxes Must-Know Bass Grooves.
Room • and more. for Bass. Songs include: Songs include: Badge •
______ 00695850  Book/CD Pack�����������������$19.95 Another One Bites the Come Together • Crazy
Dust • Barracuda • California Girls • Gimme Little Thing Called Love • Dream On • Free Ride •
FUNK  Some Lovin’ • I Heard It Through the Grapevine • I Love Rock & Roll • Love Rollercoaster • Maggie
BASS Lady Madonna • Money • Sweet Emotion • Under May • Paranoid • Sweet Child O’ Mine • What’s
by Chris Kringel Pressure • You Really Got Me • and many more! My Age Again • and many more!
Your complete guide to _____ 00696659  Book/DVD Pack������������� $9.99 _____ ____00696658  Book/DVD Pack���� $9.99
learning funk bass! It uses
real funk songs to teach BEGINNING BASS SCALES & MODES
you the basics of grooving Beginning Bass features FOR BASS
and soloing funk bass in the these lessons: First Scales & Modes for Bass
style of Flea, Victor Wooten, Bass Lesson, Music features these lessons:
Marcus Miller, Rocco Reading Basics for Bass Major and Minor
Prestia, and many others. Songs include: Brick House Guitar, Right-Hand Bass Scale Shapes for Bass,
• Can’t Stop • Fire • Higher Ground • I’ll Take You Technique, First Bass Pentatonic Scale Shapes
There • Let’s Groove • Pick up the Pieces • Stay • Groove. Songs include: for Bass, the Seven
Sumthin’, Sumthin’ • What Is Hip • and more. Brass in Pocket • Crazy Modes for Bass, and
______ 00695792  Book/CD Pack�����������������$17.95 Train • Dancing in the Mixolydian Bass Grooves.
Street • Eight Days a Week • I Fought the Law • Song examples include: Barracuda • California
R&B  Mr. Jones • Oye Como Va • Smooth • Thunderbird Girls • Carry on Wayward Son • Detroit Rock City
BASS • What’s Going On • You’ve Got Another Thing • Dream On • Lay Down Sally • Smoke on the
by Glenn Letsch Comin’ • and many more! Water • Sultans of Swing • What’s Going On • You
Learn the styles and _____ 00696648  Book/DVD Pack������������� $9.99 Give Love a Bad Name • and more.
techniques of rhythm and _____ ____00696651  Book/DVD Pack���� $9.99
blues bass. This book uses FUNK AND
actual songs to teach you R&B BASS
how to groove in the style Funk and R&B Bass
of James Jamerson, Bootsy features these lessons:
Collins, George Porter, Jr., The Soul Bass Style, Basic
Donald “Duck” Dunn, Bob Babbitt, and others. The 19 Slap & Pop Techniques,
songs include: Cool Jerk • For Once in My Life • Good Advanced Slap & Pop
Times • Knock on Wood • Mustang Sally • Respect • Techniques, The Rhythm
Soul Man • Stand by Me • What’s Going On • and more. Is King. Songs include:
______ 00695823  Book/CD Pack�����������������$16.99 Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
• Brick House • Higher Ground • I Just Want to
ROCK BASS Celebrate • Knock on Wood • Le Freak • Pick
by Sean Malone up the Pieces • Soul Man • We Are Family • You
The complete guide to Can’t Hurry Love • and many more!
learning rock bass! This _____ 00696660  Book/DVD Pack������������� $9.99
book/CD pack uses songs
from a myriad of rock genres
to help in teaching the key
elements of rock bass. Players
BASS GUITAR

will learn to play in the style


of Sting, Les Claypool, John
Entwistle, Paul McCartney, Flea, and many others. Songs
include: Another One Bites the Dust • Beast of Burden
• Come as You Are • Hey Joe • Money • Roxanne •
Smells like Teen Spirit • and more.
______ 00695801  Book/CD Pack�����������������$17.95
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FASTTRACK MUSIC INSTRUCTION
®
FASTTRACK BASS BOOKS

CD
Included
FastTrack is (you guessed it!) a
quick way for beginners to learn
to play an instrument. Skeptical of
method books? (Yeah, we think
they’re kind of boring, too.) That’s
FASTTRACK BASS 1 FASTTRACK BASS 2
why we’ve made FastTrack different by Blake Neely & Jeff Schroedl by Blake Neely & Jeff Schroedl
Everything you need to know about playing the bass, Includes 96 songs and examples; rock, blues, R&B,
from the rest: user-friendly, with including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and funk and other styles; riffs, slap & pop; fifth position,
plenty of cool songs, and a lot more scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. scales and keys; and more!
Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples. ______ 00697294  Book/CD Pack������������������ $9.95
fun! These books teach you not only ______ 00697284  Book/CD Pack
9” x 12”��������������������������� $7.99 FASTTRACK BASS 2 
what you need to know to get playing ______ 00695596  Spanish Edition���������������� $7.99 SONGBOOK 1
8 songs, including: Back in the U.S.S.R. • Born to Be
right away, but also the fun stuff you FASTTRACK BASS 1  Wild • I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man • Imagine •
SONGBOOK 1 Layla • Maggie May • No Particular Place to Go •
want to know. Plus, the last section 8 songs, including: Brown Eyed Girl • Great Balls of Takin’ Care of Business.
Fire • I Want to Hold Your Hand • Oh, Pretty Woman ______ 00697298  Book/CD Pack���������������� $12.95
of all the FastTrack method books for • Wild Thing • Wonderful Tonight • You Really Got
Me • Your Song. FASTTRACK BASS 2 
different instuments is the same so ______ 00697289 Book/CD Pack SONGBOOK 2
9” x 12”������������������������� $12.95 A supplement to the FastTrack instruction book, this
that players can form a band and jam
great songbook/CD pack features 8 great songs in
together! How cool is that?! FASTTRACK BASS 1  rock score format: All Day and All of the Night • Best
SONGBOOK 2 of My Love • Day Tripper • Hey Joe • I Shot the Sheriff
The second songbook/CD packs for Level 1 are • Miss You • Smoke on the Water • Surfin’ U.S.A.
FASTTRACK  now available! These excellent supplements to the Perfect for playing with a band, or solo with the CD.
BASS METHOD instruction books includes 8 favorite songs: Evil Ways ______ 00695369  Book/CD Pack���������������� $12.95
• Gimme Some Lovin’ • Gloria • Have I Told You
STARTER 
Lately • Jailhouse Rock • Time Is on My Side • Twist NOW AVAILABLE:
PACK and Shout • Walk Don’t Run. Perfect for playing with
This pack provides FASTTRACK BASS DVD
a band, or solo with the CD. Please see the Hal Leonard DVD Catalog for a
both the original FastTrack ______ 00695368  Book/CD Pack���������������� $12.95
book/CD pack along with complete description.
an instructional DVD, ______ 00696058������������������������������������������ $7.99
FASTTRACK BASS 1
making learning to play ROCK SONGBOOK
bass easier and faster than
8 rock classics with great basslines that you can play
BASS GUITAR

ever before!
while working on FastTrack Method Book 1. Songs
______ 00696404  Book/CD/DVD Pack������$14.99
include: Are You Gonna Be My Girl • Clocks • Dani
California • Heaven • Home • 100 Years • 21 Guns
• Use Somebody.
______ 00696440  Book/CD Pack���������������� $12.99
For a complete
Fast Track series listing,
see page 1274.
BASS METHODS/INSTRUCTION
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BASS METHODS AND HAL LEONARD  NEW ABSOLUTE 


STYLISTIC INSTRUCTION BASS TAB BEGINNERS
HAL  METHOD –  BASS 
LEONARD BOOK 2 GUITAR –
BASS TAB METHOD This innovative method for OMNIBUS EDITION
electric bass guitar picks up The Complete Absolute
The First and Only
where Book One leaves off. Beginners Method – All in
Beginning
Learn notes up the fretboard One Book!
Bass Method of Its Kind!
with riffs like “Sunshine by Phil Mulford
by Eric W. Wills of Your Love” and “Sweet
This is the bass method Music Sales America
Emotion,” scales with songs by Ozzy Osbourne and Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell players
students and teachers have R.E.M., beginning slap technique with songs like
been waiting for. Learn everything they need to know from the very first
“Panic Station” and “Higher Ground,” and much time they pick up a bass. Step-by-step pictures take
everything there is to know about beginning bass more. The method’s unique, well-paced, and logical
guitar with riffs like “Day Tripper,” “Billie Jean,” and them from first-day exercises to playing along with
teaching sequence will get students playing more a backing track! One great book includes all this:
“With or Without You.” The method’s unique, well- easily than ever before, and music from popular
paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures
artists like the Beatles, Green Day, and the Red Hot instead of long explanations; Practical advice and tips
playing more easily than ever before, and music from Chili Peppers will keep them playing and having fun.
popular artists like the Beatles, Nirvana, and Stevie covering everything you need to know about setting
The accompanying audio features demos of all 69 riffs up, playing and maintenance; CD audio tracks to
Wonder will keep them playing and having fun. Book and songs in the book.
1 includes: parts of the bass, easy-to-follow tablature, show you how things should sound, plus full-length
______ 00124754  Book/Online Audio���������$12.99 accompaniment tracks to play along with! It’s simply
notes & riffs starting on the low E string, tempo & time
signatures, understanding notes and rests, proper everything you need!
ABSOLUTE  ______ 14037744  Book/2-CDs Pack������������$19.99
fingering and technique, slides and slurs, hammer- BEGINNERS –
ons and pull-offs, many music styles, nearly 100 riffs
and songs, audio CD with demos of every example,
BASS  AFRO-CUBAN
and more! GUITAR SLAP BASS
______ 00113068  Book/CD Pack�����������������$12.99 Music Sales America LINES
Learning to play bass guitar is by Oscar Stagnaro
HAL  now easier than ever before! Berklee Press
LEONARD Each book in this fantastic Afro-Cuban rhythms are hot!
BASS TAB METHOD series contains practical Now you will learn to play
advice and tips covering
SONGBOOK 1 slap bass in seven popular
everything you need to know about setting up, playing Afro-Cuban styles: Cha cha,
Here are 10 hit songs tabbed and maintenance. Pictures explain how to hold the
for beginning guitarists to son montuno, Afro-Cuban
bass, proper hand and finger positioning, playing 6/8, Latin jazz, and Latin jazz in seven. Whether you
play while they are working notes and basslines by listening and accompanying
through the Hal Leonard read tablature or traditional notation, you will quickly
the CD, and more. learn all these styles and develop your slap bass
Bass Tab Method, or any ______ 14000984  Book/CD Pack�����������������$12.95
other guitar method. The techniques to create style-appropriate articulations.
______ 14001026 Book/CD/DVD The included CD has percussion tracks, play-along
songs are all on facing pages for no page turns, Value Pack����������������������$24.99
and the CD features both examples of how the tracks and complete songs to help you improve your
______ 14000983  Book/DVD Pack��������������$17.95 groove to an Afro-Cuban rhythm. Grammy-winning
guitar should sound, and full-band backing tracks ______ 14000938 Book/CD Pack
so students can play the lead! The CD is playable on bassist Oscar Stagnaro is one of today’s top players
French Edition����������������$12.95 and a pioneer in bass education. He is an Associate
any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users ______ 14000939 Book/CD/DVD Value Pack
can adjust the tempo without changing the pitch! The professor at Berklee College of Music, where he
French Edition����������������$24.95 helped found the Latin bass studies department. 
songs include: Beverly Hills • Born Under a Bad Sign
• Brown Eyed Girl • Crazy Train • Hey Joe • I Won’t ______ 50449512  Book/CD Pack�����������������$19.99
Back Down • Smoke on the Water • Stir It Up • Use
Somebody • You Are the Sunshine of My Life.
______ 00120236  Book/CD Pack�����������������$12.99
BASS GUITAR
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ALL ABOUT  BASIC BASS BASS 
BASS WORKOUT FITNESS –
A Fun and Simple by Stuart Clayton AN EXERCISING
Guide to Playing Bass Music Sales America HANDBOOK
by Chad Johnson The bass is fundamental to by Josquin des Pres
Have you struggled through all forms of music, and being The purpose of this book is
tedious lessons and boring a versatile and accomplished to provide the aspiring bass
instruction books in your player has never been so player with a wide variety of
desire to learn to play the important. This pocket-sized finger exercises for develop-
bass guitar? If you wish guide provides you with ing the techniques necessary
there was a fun and engaging way to motivate you everything you need to develop a comprehensive to succeed in today’s music scene. It can also play an
in your bass playing quest, then this is it: All About knowledge of the bass and the music you play on it. important role in a bass player’s daily practicing pro-
Bass is for you. Whether it’s learning to read music, Starting with the basics of tuning up and finding your gram. The 200 exercises are designed to help increase
playing by ear, improvising, or all of the above, this way around the fretboard, the book then presents a your speed, improve your dexterity, develop accuracy
enjoyable guide will help you to finally start playing series of tutorials covering: all aspects of notation and and promote finger independence. Recommended
your favorite songs in many different styles. Plus, learn tablature • how to form an effective practice schedule by world-acclaimed bass players, music schools and
interesting tid-bits on bass makes & models, care and • the basics of major/minor diatonic harmony • left music magazines, this is the ultimate bass handbook.
maintenance, other fretted instruments, and other fun hand accuracy and exercises • phrasing techniques ______ 00660177�����������������������������������������$10.99
stuff about the bass. The CD includes over 90 tracks including slurs, trills, bending and vibrato • playing
for demo and play-along. Includes arrangements of fingerstyle, muting and the travelling thumb • slap BASS FOR 
over 40 popular songs, including: All Shook Up • bass (how it works and when to use it) • playing BEGINNERS
Another One Bites the Dust • Born Under a Bad Sign with a pick • how to arrange and transcribe • and The Complete
• Brick House • Come Together • Get Up (I Feel more. You will even find a section covering the bass Guide
like Being) A Sex Machine • The Girl from Ipanema itself, how to buy an instrument, and what to look for by Glenn Letsch
(Garota De Ipanema) • I Got You (I Feel Good) • In in your own price range. Soon you will find yourself
This book/CD pack by pro-
the Midnight Hour • Message in a Bottle • Paperback accomplished and confident in a large variety of
fessional bassist Glenn Letsch
Writer • Pride and Joy • Sweet Emotion • You Can’t musical situations. 4” x 5-3/4”
provides the basic tools for
Hurry Love • and many more. ______ 14003516  �����������������������������������������$7.95
solid, fundamental electric
______ 00695930  Book/CD Pack�����������������$19.95
bass playing. It covers topics
BASS 
that all players need to know, such as: proper left- and
ART  AEROBICS right-hand technique, reading standard notation and
OF SLAP by Jon Liebman tablature, music theory and application, bass isomet-
Centerstream Publications A 52-week, one- rics, scales, ear training, and more! The book also
The focus is on the concept of exercise-per-week answers frequently asked questions, and provides a
groove sculpting from modes, workout program for special section of practice routines for the beginning
and not on actual right and developing, improving, and bassist. The CD includes 99 demo tracks.
left hand techniques. The CD maintaining bass guitar ______ 00695099  Book/CD Pack�����������������$19.95
features recordings of all the technique. This book/CD will
examples, plus a split-channel benefit all levels of players, BASS FOR GUITARISTS
option to help players prac- from beginners to advanced, in all musical styles. The Ultimate Transition Book
tice. Includes 13 songs. The CD includes demos as well as play-along grooves. by David Bradley
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BASS FRETBOARD THE BASS  THE BASS
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BASS  BEGINNING  THE BEST OF
SLAPPIN’ BASS GUITAR BASS JAM
AND POPPIN’ by Peter Pickow TRAX – 
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THE  BUNNY  RON CARTER – 
BLUES BRUNEL’S BUILDING
BASS HANDBOOK XTREME! BASS JAZZ BASS LINES
by Mark Epstein Ideas & Exercises to Ron Carter is a living legend,
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lines, the author shows you how to apply them to “thinking” in new ways on the fretboard, and you’ll keys, 3/4 blues), as well as three of Ron’s compositions,
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THE COMPLETE DEXTERITY  DON’T FRET NOTE
ELECTRIC BASS EXERCISES MAP™ FOR BASS
PLAYER – BOOK 1 FOR THE by Nicholas Ravagni
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ESSENTIAL NEW EXTREME  FINGERBOARD 
BASS GUITAR METAL HARMONY
TECHNIQUES BASS FOR BASS
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BASS GUITAR

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FRETBOARD FUNK BASS  TONY GREY 
ROADMAPS – FILLS BASS
BASS  For Funk, R&B, ACADEMY
The Essential Soul & Hip-Hop Music Sales America
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BASS FUSION GROOVE 
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series feature for a This follow-up to Funk Bass Feel, and Rhythm
complete description. studies the techniques and by Oneida James
grooves of today’s top funk/ Private Lessons
fusion bass players. It includes Musicians Institute Press
sections on mastering the With this book and CD
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crossing, style elements, establishing a groove, building to groove like the masters.
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BASS – & BASS GROOVES 
2ND EDITION Know the Players, FOR
by Jon Liebman Play the Music ELECTRIC BASS
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This title has been critically Backbeat Books Private Lessons
acclaimed as the best single Details the history of funk, Musicians Institute
source for the techniques then teaches guitarists and Grooving – the marriage of
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style bass! This new second of the greats get their due, including James Brown, Sly mony – should be an integral
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by John Patitucci and is endorsed by Rich Appleman Peppers and others. The accompanying CD contains all grooves that will help develop any player’s skills. This
of the Berklee College of Music, Will Lee, Mark Egan, of the musical examples, and a funk glossary lays out the book provides essential patterns and bass lines for
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1536
bass methods/instruction
HIP-HOP  HOW TO  JERRY 
BASS PLAY BASS JEMMOTT
101 Grooves, Riffs, GUITAR – BLUES AND
Loops, and Beats by Arnie Berle RHYTHM & BLUES
by Josquin des Pres Music Sales America BASS TECHNIQUE
101 authentic hip-hop bass A method of bass instruction Jerry Jemmott wrote the
lines spanning 25 years of that develops logically from book on R&B bass, and here
music and covering all the the basics to technical and it is! This comprehensive
styles: East Coast, West Coast, musical standards that open presentation examines and
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of his music, this pack also includes a CD with new
HIP-HOP IMPROVE compositions that demonstrate the techniques that he
GROOVES YOUR used with legendary performers such as Aretha Frank-
FOR BASS GROOVE lin, King Curtis, B.B. King, and Freddie King for their
90 Full-Demo Tracks The Ultimate Guide classic material. Includes note-for-note transcriptions
by Max Palermo for Bass of the songs on the CD along with comprehensive per-
Centerstream Publications by Patrick Pfeiffer formance notes, plus photos and other memorabilia.
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From the irresistible party Join acclaimed bassist,
jams of South Bronx to the composer and teacher
JAZZ BASS
urban sounds of today, hip- Patrick Pfeiffer as he explores
hop has maintained close the anatomy of a bass groove by Ed Friedland
links with its roots. Many of its characteristic sounds from the inside out. You’ll learn to dissect each groove This book/CD pack
and beats come from funk, soul, and R&B origins. and discover what makes it so groovy – from its skeleton features over 50 examples
The electric bass plays a key role in creating the to its apex – while evolving your playing skills and covering walking bass, the
groovin’ that gives hip-hop a unique, attractive feel. musicality along the way. Plenty of exercises and tons of two feel, 3/4 time, Latin, and
This book/CD set contains 90 authentic hip-hop licks groove ideas will put you in the pocket in no time. The ballads. It covers soloing,
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Learn to play the bass in- Essential jump/swing and
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techniques needed to play all BASS
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Scales, Arpeggios & David Keif
learn rhythm, timing, basic bass lines and how to play Other Concepts and
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how to apply them in a song. Playing techniques such Advancing Bassist Musicians Institute
as slap, pop and using a pick are covered in depth. by Putter Smith This must-have manual
Walking bass lines, sixteenth notes, syncopated bass for all bassists teaches
Master Class
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for you to play along with. Play them in your home, you play electric, acoustic or upright bass, this book/ each style, there is a brief introduction, an example
car or load them onto your personal MP3 player. CD pack will take your playing to the next level and or two of the basic groove, and a play-along song on
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1537
bass methods/instruction
L’IL BRATS  A NEW TUNE  JACO 
BASS A DAY – BASS PASTORIUS
METHOD GUITAR, BOOK 1 BASS 
Designed for the by Steve Kershaw METHOD
Young Bass Guitar Player, Music Sales America Lessons, Tips, and
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by Brian Emmel the 1930s, the concise, Teaching Archives
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un-fun songs. The CD has 40 high-energy real rock books have the same logical, gentle pace and keen TODAY! –
band tracks: 20 songs with the bass part and 20 attention to detail, but with a host of innovations. LEVEL 1 
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& Glenn Worf to the bass. Via a series
An introduction to country of graduated exercises PLAY 
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try bass playing on stage and in the studio. The book teaches you how to slap the strings like Mark King! the Basics
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COMPLETE GUIDE presents valuable how-to SONGBOOK
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A comprehensive source for from. The text, photos, music, Today! method books features
sight-reading fundamentals, diagrams, and accompanying 10 great bass songs: Brick
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keys, positions, and scale of topics, including: techniques, improvising and soloing, Saw Her Standing There (The
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1538
bass methods/instruction
PLAY  PROGRESSIVE  R&B 
TODAY! PLUS – ROCK BASS BASS
LEVEL 1 A Guide to  MASTERS
A 6” x 9” book/ Developing The Way They Play
CD pack that includes Level Progressive Concepts by Ed Friedland
1 instruction and the five & Techniques Backbeat Books
correlating songs. by Christopher Maloney R&B Masters is a close
Musicians Institute Press examination of the
Creative, unconventional, legendary R&B bassists
complex, and experimental that shaped modern music.
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musicianship in the rock world, and now with this George Porter, James Jamerson, Jerry Jemmot, David
PLAYING exceptional book and CD pack, you can explore and Hood and many others through written examples and
THE BASS study many of the concepts and techniques behind play-along tracks. Learn their stories, their working
GUITAR – progressive rock bass playing. Learn the methods setup, and their unique approaches to the groove. The
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to the Electric Bass demonstration and play-along are included on the
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with Karl Kaminski by Ed Friedland
Cherry Lane Music PURRFECT 4-STRING The complete guide to
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of Earth, Wind and Fire has laid out a systematic Centerstream Publishing rock steady, roots reggae,
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how it relates to the bass. By the end of the book, how to sight read and to ac- hall, and more. The book in-
you’ll not only understand and read music but also quire a musical vocabulary. cludes performance tips and
gain the independence needed to move around your Includes progressive exer- lessons, authentic grooves and riddims, and more. The
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1539
bass methods/instruction
ROCK BASS  THE  6-STRING
LINES ROCK BASSICS
by Joe Santerre  HOUSE METHOD: by David Gross
Berklee Press LEARN BASS 2 The complete guide for
Learn the art of creating a The Method for a mastering the six-string
solid rock bass groove. This New Generation bass. This book/CD pack
book/CD pack contains a by John McCarthy covers scales, arpeggios,
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killer tracks on the accompanying CD in eight different starts with natural minor and major scales, single note exercises and theory concepts. The CD includes 99
rock styles. patterns and how they connect across the neck. Learn full-demo tracks.
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LEARN BASS 1 lines, intervals and drop D tuning are just a few by Joe Santerre
The Method for a of the things covered that will help you play song Berklee Press
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by John McCarthy songs, this program will get you to the next level! taught and lectured
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1540
bass methods/instruction
STANDING IN  STUFF!  ULTIMATE 
THE SHADOWS GOOD EAR TRAINING
OF MOTOWN – BASS PLAYERS FOR GUITAR
THE LIFE AND SHOULD KNOW AND BASS
MUSIC OF An A-Z Guide to by Gary Willis
LEGENDARY BASSIST Getting Better This complete method for
JAMES JAMERSON by Glenn Letsch the practicing musician cov-
by Allan Slutsky Take your playing from ers: intervals, rhythms and
He was the embodiment of ordinary to extraordinary in melodic shapes; inversions,
the Motown spirit and groove – the invisible entity this all-encompassing book/ scales, chords, extensions
whose bass playing inspired thousands of imitators CD package for bassists. You’ll receive valuable tips on and alterations; fretboard visualization, fingering dia-
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and musical brilliance are explored in-depth through Styles such as rock, jazz, blues, R&B, and funk
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two hours of recorded all-star performances by the grooves appropriate for each genre. The accompanying BASSIST’S
most famous bassists of all time, and more than fifty CD includes many of the examples in the book, TOOL KIT
rarely seen photographs. Features a 120-minute CD! performed both in solo bass format and in a full band The Art & Craft of
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GUITAR 12-BAR 
contributing editor and
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THE WORSHIP  NEW THE BASS DECK BASS FRETBOARD
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BASS GUITAR  CHORD STUDIES INTERGALACTIC BASS
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ULTIMATE BASS FRETLESS  OTEIL 
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RAY BROWN’S JAZZ BASS  JIMMY & PERCY HEATH 
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BLACK  GIANTS  LEARN TO 
SABBATH OF BASS PLAY BASS
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MOTOWN  JACO  THE BEST OF
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ROCK BASS ______ 00691173  Bass Recorded Versions��$24.99
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SONGS Legendary Licks – Bass���$19.95
Tab. Tone. Technique. BASS ARTIST FOLIOS ______ 02506961 Metallica –
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Each book contains notes and tablature. For
This series includes ______ 02507040 Metallica –
complete descriptions, please see the Personality
performance notes and Ride the Lightning�����������$17.95
section of this catalog. For more artist folios also
accurate tab for the greatest ______ 00690811 Best of Marcus Miller �����$24.99
see the Bass Play-Along feature.
songs of every genre. From ______ 00690798 Mudvayne – Lost and
the essential gear, recording ______ 14003584 Bassology of AC/DC ��������$29.95
Found�����������������������������$19.95
techniques and historical information, to the right- ______ 14037641 Play Bass with the Best
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and left-hand techniques and other playing tips of AC/DC Book/CD Pack��$24.99
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– it’s all here! Master 25 must-know bass classics, ______ 00690413 Aerosmith Bass
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including: Another One Bites the Dust • Blurred Lines Collection������������������������$17.95
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• The Boys Are Back in Town • Freewill • Hey Joe ______ 00691054 Avenged Sevenfold –
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Young Lust • and more. Victor Bailey��������������������$19.95
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THE  ______ 00128336 The Beatles – Abbey Road
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Every Bass Player! Fusion Bass Player ���������$19.99
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This songbook features a ______ 00843165 Jaco Pastorius
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variety of arrangements and Jazz Play-Along����������������$15.99
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transcriptions for 70 songs – ______ 00694882  Pearl Jam – Ten��������������$16.99
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ranging from exact note-for- ______ 00660172 Pink Floyd –
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note transcriptions and easy Dark Side of the Moon����$14.95
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bass melodies to solo bass arrangements and bass ______ 00660207  The Best of the Police������$14.95
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riffs. No matter what type of arrangement you prefer, ______ 02500025 Primus Anthology
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you’ll find many things to play in this collection! Songs Vol. 1/A-N�����������������������$19.95
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include: All My Loving • Blowin’ in the Wind • Bridge ______ 02500091 Primus Anthology
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over Troubled Water • Canon in D • Crazy • Dust Vol. 2/O-Z�����������������������$19.95
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in the Wind • Every Breath You Take • Hallelujah • ______ 00690065 Queen – The Bass Guitar
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Head like a Hole • Let’s Get It Started • Let’s Go Crazy Collection������������������������$19.99
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• Peter Gunn • The Pink Panther • Pride and Joy • ______ 02500771 Best of Rancid�����������������$17.95
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Slow Ride • Stand by Me • Sweet Child O’ Mine • ______ 00690248 Rage Against the
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for Bass ��������������������������$14.95
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______ 00690091 Red Hot Chili Peppers – WORSHIP BAND PLAY-ALONG
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______ 00690863 Red Hot Chili Peppers – the accompanying CD, which features both demo and play-along tracks for each song. Entire bands can use
Stadium Arcadium: the books to put together their own complete performances. Please see the Instrumental section of this catalog
Deluxe Edition Book/ for a complete list of available instrumentations.
2-CDs������������������������������$39.95
______ 00690256 Rolling Stones – Bass 1. HOLY IS  3. HOW GREAT 
Collection������������������������$16.95
THE LORD IS OUR GOD
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Best of�����������������������������$14.95 Volume 1 includes: Volume 3 includes: 
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NEW������������������������������$19.99 unto Your Name • God of Beautiful Savior (All My
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for Bass ��������������������������$19.95 • It Is You • Open the Eyes How Great Is Our God • Let
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TO WORSHIP 4. HE IS 
Come, Now Is the  EXALTED
Time to Worship • Volume 4 
Give Us Clean Hands • Hear includes: Beautiful
Our Praises • Here I Am to One • God of All • He Is
Worship • I Give You My Exalted • In Christ Alone
Heart • Let Everything That • Lord Most High • Lord,
Has Breath • You Alone • Reign in Me • We Want
You’re Worthy of My Praise. to See Jesus Lifted High •
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BIG-BAND PLAY-ALONG
Swinging favorites to play featuring a great accompaniment CD so you can play with a real big band.

1. SWING  3. DUKE  5. CHRISTMAS 


FAVORITES ELLINGTON FAVORITES
10 fantastic big band charts, This pack lets Baby, It’s Cold Outside
including: April in Paris • instrumentalists play along • The Christmas Song
I’ve Got You Under My Skin with a big band to 10 (Chestnuts Roasting on an
• In the Mood • It Don’t swinging classics, including: Open Fire) • Feliz Navidad •
Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got Caravan • Chelsea Bridge • I’ll Be Home for Christmas •
That Swing) • Route 66 • Cotton Tail • I’m Beginning Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let
Speak Low • Stompin’ at the to See the Light • I’m Just It Snow! • Little Saint Nick •
Savoy • Tangerine • This a Lucky So and So • In a My Favorite Things • Silver
Can’t Be Love • Until I Met You (Corner Pocket). Mellow Tone • In a Sentimental Mood • Mood Indigo Bells • This Christmas • White Christmas.
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2. POPULAR  6. LATIN
HITS 4. JAZZ  Accessible and
10 songs, including: Ain’t CLASSICS authentic big band
No Mountain High Enough 10 tracks: Bags’ Groove arrangements for 10 hot
• Copacabana (At the Copa) • Blue ’N Boogie • Blue Latin grooves, including:
• I Heard It Through the Train (Blue Trane) • Doxy Água De Beber (Water to
Grapevine • On Broadway • • Four • Moten Swing • Drink) • At the Mambo Inn
• Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me
BASS GUITAR

Street Life • and more. Oleo • Song for My Father


• Stolen Moments • Straight Much) • The Look of Love
No Chaser. • Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit
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(Corcovado) • Ran Kan Kan • St. Thomas.
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BASS PLAY-ALONG
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The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab,
listen to the CD or online audio to hear how the bass should sound, and then play along using the sep-
arate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or
to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer
users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!
1. ROCK 6. CLASSIC ROCK 10. JIMI HENDRIX
Another One Bites the Dust • Free Ride • Funk #49 • SMASH HITS
Badge • Brown Eyed Girl • Gimme Three Steps • Green- All Along the Watchtower •
Come Together • The Joker Eyed Lady • Radar Love • Can You See Me? • Crosstown
• Low Rider • Money • Werewolves of London • Traffic • Fire • Foxey Lady •
Sweet Emotion. White Room • Won’t Get Hey Joe • Manic Depression
Fooled Again. • Purple Haze • Red House
• Remember • Stone Free •
The Wind Cries Mary.

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2. R&B 7. HARD ROCK 11. COUNTRY


Get Ready • I Can’t Help Am I Evil? • Crazy Train • 8 Achy Breaky Heart (Don’t
Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Detroit Rock City • Iron Man Tell My Heart) • All My Ex’s
Bunch) • I Got You (I Feel • Living After Midnight • Live in Texas • Boot Scootin’
Good) • I Heard It Through Peace Sells • Rock You like Boogie • Chattahoochee •
the Grapevine • I Want You a Hurricane • The Trooper. Guitars, Cadillacs • I like It,
Back • In the Midnight Hour I Love It • Should’ve Been
• My Girl • You Can’t Hurry a Cowboy • T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
Love.

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3. POP/ROCK 8. PUNK ROCK 12. PUNK CLASSICS


Crazy Little Thing Called Brain Stew (The Godzilla Includes: California Sun
Love • Crocodile Rock • I Remix) • Buddy Holly • • God Save the Queen •
Wish • My Life • No Reply Dirty Little Secret • Fat Lip Holiday in Cambodia • In a
at All • Peg • Spirits in the • Flavor of the Weak • Gotta Free Land • Institutionalized
Material World • Suffragette Get Away • Lifestyles of the • London Calling • Orgasm
City. Rich and Famous • Man Addict • Search and Destroy.
Overboard.

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4. ’90s ROCK 9. BLUES 13. LENNON


All I Wanna Do • Fly Away All Your Love (I Miss Loving) & McCARTNEY
• Give It Away • Hard to • Born Under a Bad Sign • All My Loving • Back in
Handle • Jeremy • Know I’m Tore Down • I’m Your the U.S.S.R. • Day Tripper
Your Enemy • Spiderwebs • Hoochie Coochie Man • • Eight Days a Week • Get
You Oughta Know. Killing Floor • Pride and Joy Back • I Saw Her Standing
• Sweet Home Chicago • The There • Nowhere Man •
Thrill Is Gone. Paperback Writer.

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5. FUNK
Brick House • Cissy Strut •
Flashlight • Get Up (I Feel
BASS GUITAR

like Being) A Sex Machine •


Higher Ground • Le Freak •
Pick up the Pieces • Super
Freak.

______ 00699680  Book/CD Pack�����������������$12.95


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14. MODERN ROCK 19. STEELY DAN 24. WEEZER
Duality • to Stay • I Stand Deacon Blues • Do It Again Beverly Hills • Buddy Holly
Alone • Judith • Nice to • FM • Hey Nineteen • Josie • Dope Nose • Hash Pipe •
Know You • Nookie • One • Peg • Reeling in the Years My Name Is Jonas • Pork
Step Closer • Toxicity. • Rikki Don’t Lose That and Beans • Say It Ain’t So •
Number. Undone – The Sweater Song.

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15. MAINSTREAM 20. THE POLICE 25. NIRVANA


ROCK Can’t Stand Losing You • All Apologies • Come As You
Are You Gonna Be My Girl • De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Are • Dumb • Heart Shaped
Be Yourself • By the Way • • Every Breath You Take Box • In Bloom • Lithium •
Clocks • Heaven • I Did It • • Every Little Thing She Rape Me • Smells like Teen
It’s My Life • This Love. Does Is Magic • Roxanne • Spirit.
Spirits in the Material World
• Synchronicity II • Walking
on the Moon.

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16. ’80s METAL 21. ROCK BAND 26. BLACK SABBATH


Big City Nights • (Bang Your Are You Gonna Be My Girl Children of the Grave • Iron
Head) Metal Health • Rock • Black Hole Sun • Creep • Man • N.I.B. • Paranoid
Me • Rock of Ages • Shot in Dani California • In Bloom • Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
the Dark • Talk Dirty to Me • Learn to Fly • Say It Ain’t • Sweet Leaf • War Pigs
• We’re Not Gonna Take It • So • When You Were Young. (Interpolating Luke’s Wall).
Yankee Rose.

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17. POP METAL 22. ROCK BAND 27. KISS


Beautiful Girls • Breaking Ballroom Blitz • Detroit Cold Gin • Detroit Rock City
the Chains • Cult of Rock City • Don’t Fear the • Deuce • Firehouse • God
Personality • Get the Funk Reaper • Gimme Shelter • of Thunder • Love Gun •
Out • Heaven’s on Fire • Highway Star • Mississippi Rock and Roll All Nite •
Livin’ on a Prayer • No More Queen • Suffragette City • Shout It Out Loud.
Tears • Up All Night. Train Kept A-Rollin’.

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18. BLUES ROCK 23. PINK FLOYD – 28. THE WHO


Crossfire • Cross Road DARK SIDE OF Baba O’Riley • Bargain •
Blues (Crossroads) • The THE MOON Behind Blue Eyes • The
Lemon Song • Rock and Any Colour You Like • Brain Kids Are Alright • Long Live
Roll Hoochie Koo • Slow Damage • Breathe • Eclipse Rock • Pinball Wizard • The
Ride • Snortin’ Whiskey • Money • Time • Us and Seeker • Won’t Get Fooled
• Too Rolling Stoned • Them. Again.
Whipping Post.

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BASS GUITAR
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29. ERIC CLAPTON 34. EASY SONGS 40. AC/DC
After Midnight • Cocaine • All the Small Things • A Back in Black • Dirty Deeds
Forever Man • I Shot the Hard Day’s Night • Roxanne Done Dirt Cheap • For Those
Sheriff • I’m Tore Down • • Runnin’ with the Devil About to Rock (We Salute
Lay down Sally • Layla • • Smells like Teen Spirit You) • Girls Got Rhythm •
Wonderful Tonight. • Sunshine of Your Love Hells Bells • Highway to Hell
• Wild Thing • With or • T.N.T. • You Shook Me All
Without You. Night Long.

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30. EARLY 35. BOB MARLEY 41. U2


ROCK Could You Be Loved • Get Desire • I Still Haven’t
Blue Suede Shoes • Fun, Up Stand Up • Is This Love Found What I’m Looking
Fun, Fun • Jailhouse Rock • • Jamming • No Woman No For • Mysterious Ways •
Louie, Louie • No Particular Cry • Stir It Up • Three Little New Year’s Day • Pride (In
Place to Go • Oh, Pretty Birds • Waiting in Vain. the Name of Love) • Sunday
Woman • Rock Around Bloody Sunday • Where the
the Clock • Under the Streets Have No Name • With
Boardwalk. or Without You.

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32. DISCO 36. AEROSMITH 42. RED HOT


Boogie Oogie Oogie • Get Back in the Saddle • Draw CHILI PEPPERS
Down Tonight • Good Times the Line • Dream On • Last The Adventures of Rain
• I Will Survive • Love Child • Mama Kin • Same Dance Maggie • By the Way
Rollercoaster • Stayin’ Alive Old Song and Dance • Sweet • Californication • Can’t
• Super Freak • We Are Emotion • Walk This Way. Stop • Dani California • Scar
Family. Tissue • Suck My Kiss • Tell
Me Baby • Under the Bridge.

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31. THE 1970s 37. MODERN 43. 


All Right Now • Carry on WORSHIP PAUL
Wayward Son • Jessica Above All • Days of Elijah • McCARTNEY
• Smoke on the Water • Holy Is the Lord • I Give You Band on the Run • Hey
Smokin’ • Thirty Days in My Heart • In Christ Alone Bulldog • I Want You (She’s
the Hole • Walk on the Wild • Let Everything That Has So Heavy) • Live and Let
Side. Breath • Open the Eyes of My Die • Maybe I’m Amazed •
Heart • Worthy Is the Lamb. Penny Lane • Rain • Silly
Love Songs • With a Little
Help from My Friends.
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33. CHRISTMAS 38. AVENGED 44. 


HITS SEVENFOLD MEGADETH
Blue Christmas • The Afterlife • Almost Easy • Hangar 18 • Head Crusher •
Christmas Song (Chestnuts Bat Country • Beast and the Holy Wars...The Punishment
Roasting on an Open Fire) • Harlot • Nightmare • Scream Due • Peace Sells • Sweating
Do You Hear What I Hear • • Unholy Confessions. Bullets • Symphony of
Frosty the Snow Man • Here Destruction • Train of
Comes Santa Claus (Right Consequences • Trust.
Down Santa Claus Lane)
• Jingle-Bell Rock • Let It
Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! • Silver Bells. ______ 00702386  Book/CD Pack�����������������$16.99
BASS GUITAR

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45. SLIPKNOT ULTIMATE BASS PLAY-ALONG
Before I Forget • Duality • The Ultimate Play-Along series gives you everything you need to jam with your favorite songs. These books
The Heretic Anthem • Left contains authentic tab transcriptions, music notation, lyrics, and chords to classic songs. There are two
Behind • My Plague • Spit versions of each song on the included CDs: an instrumental sound-alike recording and an instrumental
It Out • Vermilion • Wait accompaniment track without bass so you can play along. When you use the CDs in your Mac or Win-
and Bleed. dows-based computer, the Tone ‘n’ Tempo Changer lets you easily loop sections for practice, slow down
tracks or speed them up without changing the pitch, change the key, and switch back and forth between
the full instrumental and play-along tracks.

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Alfred Publishing Co. Alfred Publishing Co.
46. BEST  Titles: All My Life • Learn Includes: Another Brick
BASS to Fly • Everlong • Monkey in the Wall (Part 2) •
LINES EVER Wrench • My Hero • Best of Comfortably Numb • The
Billie Jean • Hysteria • You • The Pretender • Walk. Fletcher Memorial Home •
Longview • Roundabout Have a Cigar • Money • See
• Sweet Child O’ Mine • Emily Play • Time • Wish
Taxman • Under Pressure You Were Here • Young Lust.
• YYZ.
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______ 00103359  Book/Online Audio���������$17.99 GREEN DAY RADIOHEAD


Alfred Publishing Co. 2+2=5 • Anyone Can Play
47. DREAM  Includes: American Idiot • Guitar • Creep • Just •
NEW Knives Out • Optimistic •
THEATER Basket Case • Boulevard
of Broken Dreams • Brain Paranoid Android • Weird
Breaking All Illusions •
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