Mel Bay 50 Two-Hand Tapping Workouts for Electric Bass - Softcover

Chris Matheos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786658819 ISBN 13: 9780786658817

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2002

Synopsis

In two-hand tapping on electric bass, your right and left hands both play notes. This is a fairly new concept on bass. New techniques and ideas are being created regularly. Tapping is being applied to all sorts of musical styles including blues, alternative, jazz, funk, and even classical. This book presents 50 brief exercises to practice the tapping technique, with each example demonstrated on the accompanying CD. Try applying the techniques in this book to your favorite styles of music.

About this title

About the Author

Bassist, author, and instructor Chris Matheos is a native of Rochester, New York. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He published many instructional bass books with Mel Bay Publications. He has toured with national acts in about every style of music. He also performs and composes his own music and tours as a bass clinician. He endorses Washburn fretted basses, Keith Roscoe fretless basses, Conklin electric upright basses, Washburn accoustic/electric basses, David Eden amps, David Eden strings and Pigtronix pedals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786658819
• ISBN 13: 9780786658817
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 56