Bass Logic: A Comprehensive Method for Learning Bass - Softcover

Bill Edwards; Steve Hudson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962477036 ISBN 13: 9780962477034

Publisher: Edwards Music Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

Are you ready for a practical, hands-on approach to mastering the bass guitar? Bass Logic provides the essential, logical framework for any bassist, regardless of experience or preferred style. This book employs a unique menu of options system designed to help you function confidently with any type of music on any bass.
Most bass instruction is linear and forces you to slog through material you don't need. Bass Logic features a unique non-linear presentation, allowing you to study areas of interest as you like, making your learning immediately applicable.
From mastering bass scales and bass chords to understanding the entire bass fretboard, this system ensures you build practical skills right away. Stop getting bogged down in theory that doesn't apply to the groove. Whether you play four-, five-, or six-string bass, Bass Logic is your blueprint for complete bass theory and musical freedom.
Bass Logic is a practical, hands-on approach to the bass. It employs a unique menu of options system so that students at different levels can learn to function with any style of music on any bass. The unique non-linear presentation allows each student to study different areas of interest as they like.

🌟 Practical Bass Instruction: A hands-on, proven approach to mastering the bass fretboard, scales, and chords, designed for immediate application in any musical style.

🌟 Flexible Learning System: Utilizes a unique menu of options and non-linear presentation, allowing bass players to immediately focus on areas of interest for rapid skill development.

🌟 Master Bass Theory: Understand the underlying logic of bass scales and bass chords, eliminating guesswork and speeding up your ability to learn new songs and create bass lines.

🌟 Universal Application: The methods work seamlessly on four, five, and six-string bass guitars, ensuring you can function with any instrument and in any band setting.

🌟 Stop Rote Memorization: Replace tedious, linear bass instruction with a logical, pattern-based system that builds lasting proficiency and makes bass playing intuitive.

About this title

About the Author

Author Bill Edwards started learning music on the piano at a young age in the traditional manner, playing classical music and reading standard notation. He became interested in popular music and the guitar in high school but those educational experiences centered around learning rock and roll songs by ear from records, and figuring leads and rhythms out by trial and error. In college, working part time as a music teacher, these dissimilar educational approaches finally came together when a guitar student asked him to show them how he was able to figure things out just by listening to it. The result was a discovery that became the cornerstone of Fretboard Logic, which is that while it has gone unrecognized and unexplained for centuries, the guitar's tuning system produces a separate and unique area of study and puts the instrument into a class by itself. The author took advantage of ongoing advances in personal computer technology and developed his own books and videos which offer innovations in several areas. Bill Edwards still plays guitar and piano every day and is always developing new projects in the fields of music, invention and education.

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From Preface: This book is a collaborative effort between a bass player and a guitarist. Because we come from those fairly divergent points of view, we hope to offer insights to the amateur, intermediate, and professional bassist that would have been impossible otherwise. Historically, the role of the bassist has been one of background and support, whereas a guitarist tends to be more out front. The materials and methods presented here have been developed with the specific intent to allow each bassist to decide for him or herself whether to be more a part of the background or the foreground.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwards Music Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962477036
• ISBN 13: 9780962477034
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• Number of pages: 98