Youll learn core foundations will help you better understand the bass, while creating a diverse skill set to enhance your playing. Also covered are topics such as improvisation soloing and practicing. The bass drum pedal beater should rebound off of the bass drum head like a bouncing ball. Includes a study of latin grooves, reggae, ska and advanced funk bass lines. The other difference with a bass is how its played. Free downloads of the cds that accompany books that have an audio component. The creative jazzfusion composer and performer has won 14 grammy awards. These 5 beginner bass grooves lessons are and excerpt from andy irvines 30 beginner bass grooves you must know where he explores some of his most versatile bass licks and techniques to build up your playing prowess. Donald duck dunn played on the sound track for this. The latin bass book download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
Properly adjusting the angle of the bass drum pedal beater is important to playing comfortably. Ultimate slap bass is one of the most popular books ever written on the slap bass technique. The bridge is the assembly that anchors the strings to the body. Alfred musicafrocuban bass grooves free sheet music download pdf. Written in the language of the working jazz musician, this book is easy to read and.
Each note position corresponds to a specific drum set element. In order to read online or download afro cuban grooves for bass and drums ebooks in pdf, epub, tuebl and mobi format, you need to create a free account. By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the clave and the comping patterns called tumbaos which are played over the clave, this book will help every bass player learn these fundamental latin rhythms. More than 470 free transcriptions for bass and other instruments on basslessons. Free sheet music piano latin by the most likes by the most well noted by the most commented by new releases by the most downloaded by the most listened by the most listened human original instrumentation first by works titles by composers by oldest additions with video first level. Bass guitar chord chart for beginners bass books and music major and minor bass guitar scales bass books and music how to play bass guitar 5 beginner books to learn bass. Over 250 pages of exact transcriptions of every note oscar plays on the 3 accompanying cds.
Endorsed by down beat magazine, latin beat magazine, benny rietveld, etc. It also features former excel guitarist adam siegel, exsuicidal tendencies bassist robert trujillo now in metallica, and exjanes addiction drummer stephen perkins. We cannot guarantee that afro cuban grooves for bass and drums book is in the library, but if you are still not sure with the service, you can choose free trial service. In this book, the second in the series of three, more complex techniques are covered. Music theory bass method mayo 10 abril 15 marzo 37 febrero enero 23 2017 80 diciembre 11 noviembre 7 octubre 4. By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the clave and the comping patterns called tumbaos that are played over the clave, this book will help every keyboard player learn these fundamental latin rhythms.
If your a looking to play more latin bass, looking to work on interesting rhythmic patterns, looking for awesome backing tracks, or like me and just looking to study more bass, this book is a must. Learn how to play mustknow bass guitar grooves inspired by the genres greats. The bass players job is usually to hold down the bottom end and provide a groove. The real latin piano authored by kiki sanchez teaches how to play the most important latin rhythms on the piano such as. Each loop has an mp3 demo to hear how the pattern sounds with a good instrument. Pdf berklee practice method bass celso say academia. Improve your groove is johnny coxs bass book, featuring over 140 bass grooves in many styles. Material is presented in standard music notation and tab. The latin bass book is the finest work, in a practical approach, yet written. A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. The new real book, egalement en trois volumes, publie chez sher music, et est plus lisible. Infectious grooves is a funk metal band led by suicidal tendencies frontman mike muir. The book starts with using the left hand slapping technique and moves on to cover double popping.
Pdf afro cuban bass grooves download ebook for free. Thankfully it hasnt been watered down and filled with tabs. Click download or read online button to get latin bass bass book pdf free download book now. Salsa, cumbia, gaujira, timba, cumbia, bolero and other styles. In general, angling the beater around the 2 oclock position is a good place to start. Pickups are also mounted to the body and work like little microphones that pick up the sound from the strings. Included are bass tumbaos for each of the piano tumbaos aka, montunos in beyond salsa piano, vol. This method features 50 funk grooves for all bass players willing to have fun while practicing their instrument for hours. Nov 25, 2016 the baiao pronounced byon, is another prolific latin style from brazil. Entertainment view pdf the pocket guide to fishing knots. This is the foundation of slap bass and the motion you will use the most. From the funkiest bass grooves to the most lyrical bass solos, from the 50s up until 2020.
Blues, jazz, funk and rock digital downloadable music ebooks. Here are bass lines for 11 songs with a range of artists. It is a collection of tumbaos grooves that you can assimilate without sitting through recordings where the tumbaos are sometimes obscured by the other instruments. Mar 11, 2012 reading from the latin bass book by oscar stagnaro. The baiao uses a repetitive rhythmic figure consisting of a dotted 8th note to a 16th similar to that in the samba. We offer digital downloadable music instruction e books for piano, keyboards, organ, saxophone, flute, brass, guitar, violin, recorder and others. As the world gets closer together, having a working knowledge of latin bass playing will increasingly be a prerequisite for any professional, improving bassist. It is in th e p re tty slo w te m p o ra n g e b u t ca n so m e tim e s h a ve.
Dias slapping funky grooves slapping technique slapping means hitting the string with your right thumb. This book will help any musician unlock the secrets of the afrocuban rhythmic feel. Also included are excerpts of musical scores showing how each instrument fits into each variation of salsa, an historical synopsis, numerous photos of salsa artists and an extensive discography of afrocaribbean. A book about styles that covers all of the important grooves that have influenced contemporary popular music, from the roots of soul, rock and latin music all the way to hiphop. The strings are thicker and give you a lower sound than a guitar. This book is designed to help you learn to play this passionate and beautiful music. Salsa grooves for bass ebookpdf ortiz, gerardo colon. There are good annotations about taking basslines and changing their annotated rhythms into something totally different. The idea is to get you familiarized with the style, clave 23, 32 and progress to the next level with more complex rhythms. Here are some tips to aid you in mastering these bass blues licks. This work examines this complexity through my research as a musician in this. Dedicate at least 3060 minutes each day to playing the bass. Heres part 3 of an easy latin groove in a contemporary groove style. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or fake it.
Gleaned from years of teaching, performance, and listening experience bass players at all levels will benefit from studying the numerous exercises, grooves, and musical examples offered in this book. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Bass and drums form the nucleus of any rhythm section. Designed to guide the student into highlevel bass playing, this book makes advanced concepts like rhythm changes, tritone substitution, odd time signatures and chord playing easy to understand. First, you need to develop coordination to accurately strike the string. Part of the joy of this book is just to engulf yourself in the sound and rhythmic feel of stagnaros bass lines on the cds.
Daily grooves for bass is jampacked with a different groove for every day of the year. The players on the recordings are all wellversed in these styles and i especially like the feature that allows you to create your own playalong versions from the. It is designed to help all levels of bassists improve their time, control, groove, pulse, vocabulary, theory, sightreading and inner clock. As im sure you have heard before, practice makes perfect. The book is only about afrocuban styles, not brazilian ones. We combine two previous grooves into one to creat an interesting layerd accompaniment with bass inner layer. This page features over 180 free bass transcriptions in standard notation. Bass grooves build your bass vocabulary in a variety of styles with this comprehensive collection. Click download or read online button to get the latin bass book book now. The grooves are written in a simple way at the beginning and then progressing rhythmically to intermediate level. Beyond salsa bass is the companion series to beyond salsa piano, launched in 2009 and now spanning 11 volumes. Here is a pdf of the transcription with guitar tab. Download the real latin book c instruments by pdf video. Most people start with an about page that introduces them to potential site visitors.
In order to do that your thumb should be parallel to the strings and you. Most genres have a book that is the book, and believe me, this is the latin bass book. Snare drum tom i tom 2 tom 3 tom 4 bass drum cymbals closed hihat in drum sheet music cymbals and hihat are represented by a xshaped note. The baiao provides more rhythmical space because the dotted 8th followed by a16th note only falls on beats 1 and 3 this creates a more syncopated feel and.
By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the clave and the comping patterns called tumbaos which are played over the clave, this book will help every bass player learn these fundamental latin. The bass drum is played with the bass drum pedal by the right foot. Latin bass bass book pdf free download download ebook. Funkifying the clave afro cuban grooves for bass and drums. The real latin piano digital sheet music downloads. Its only in the mp3 demo to show where the bar stops are. All of the other parts of the bass are mounted on these three sections. Parts of the bass a bass is made up of three main sections. It combines hardhitting rhythmic grooves, coupled with complex jazz harmonies and spanish influences to create a genre that is unique, exciting and innovative. The latin bass book kindle edition by sher, chuck, oscar. Alfred musicafrocuban bass grooves free sheet music. In addition the book explains clearly how to perform latin piano grooves on clave 23 and 32 as well as showing the traditional salsa arranging structure and how to perform piano montunos using american jazz. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Teach yourself how to play the bass guitar overnight.
This is a practical, comprehensive approach to learning afrocuban, brazilian and south american styles of bass playing, featuring 3 cds of berklee professor oscar stagnaro playing with three different worldclass rhythm sections. By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the clave and the comping patterns called tumbaos which are played over the clave, every bass player can learn these fundamental latin rhythms. There is a lot of anticipation in the bass, playing the new root before the rest of the band on beat 4. A bass guitar is like a guitar, but with only the lowest four strings. Its different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation in most themes. The later real world examples have been played on bass guitar, too many notes for double bass or eub, but you can always strip it down to the rhythmically more important notes. The communication between the bass player and drummer has got to be tight in order for the groove to be established. As a busy rhythm section clinician, i am thrilled to use and demonstrate this muchneeded and complete text. If youre looking for bass tabs, then click here these free bass transcriptions are provided for educational use only click on the transcription title to view and download the pdf. There is also a three minute playalong track for each of the 100 grooves minus the guitar part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of playalong tracks. The only comprehensive book ever published on how to play bass in authentic afrocuban, brazilian, caribbean and various south american styles. Salsa grooves is a book of bass lines with basic latin salsa grooves. The tracks below were created by various artists to show what you can do with.
Ultimate slap bass intermediate level bass techniques pdf book 2. To make the approach of these 50 funk grooves easier, a preliminary chapter is entirely dedicated to the playing techniques plucking of course, but also slap, palm mute, ghost notes, shakes, double stops, pulloffs, hammerons, slides. This book contains the main afro latin styles of bass playing as well as sections on latin jazz bass. This 94page bass method holds 260 original grooves and is accompanied by a download of more than audio tracks. We provide free sheet music download files and sheet music pdf files to the public without restrictions and you can listen to full free sheet music download playback of any track. Afrocuban keyboard grooves by jorge moreno and manny. Rock, funk, jazz, blues and latin feels on bass are all intimately addressed with over 140. Premium drum book pdf 10 drum solo performance pieces grade. String muting exercises string raking xercises string muting josquin des pres u.
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