Mel Bay Publications has released a new instructional bass guitar method at the 2008 Winter NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants). The book is entitled "Essential Music Theory For Electric Bass", and written by Robert Garner.
The book is currently available at a number of online retailers, including Sam Ash, Elderly Instruments, MusicBooksPlus, Amazon.com, BassBooks.com, and eJazzlines.com.
This bass guitar book is designed to help guide a beginning music theory dialogue between bass instructor and bass student in private bass guitar lessons. 6 areas of theory are covered: The major scale, the natural minor scale, intervals, triads, seventh chords and harmonized major and minor scales. Fingerings, intervallic structures and note names are also diagrammed in each chapter.
The book is recommended for use in the course of study with a professional bass instructor, though many players find the book to be useful in self-study. A good bass teacher will help explain and demonstrate theory concepts in a live setting and also shed additional light in terms of alternate fingerings, ear training and gaining full technical mastery of theory concepts across the entire fingerboard.
The book was first published independently in 1996 by Robert Garner, and has been previously mentioned in Bass Player, Bass Frontiers, and Bassics bass magazines. Garner has taught over 1,000 bass students, and created the book to use as a guide to basic music theory concepts, both in theory and technical application on the four-string electric bass.
More information:
http://www.melbay.com/product.asp?productid=20304
The book is currently available at a number of online retailers, including Sam Ash, Elderly Instruments, MusicBooksPlus, Amazon.com, BassBooks.com, and eJazzlines.com.
This bass guitar book is designed to help guide a beginning music theory dialogue between bass instructor and bass student in private bass guitar lessons. 6 areas of theory are covered: The major scale, the natural minor scale, intervals, triads, seventh chords and harmonized major and minor scales. Fingerings, intervallic structures and note names are also diagrammed in each chapter.
The book is recommended for use in the course of study with a professional bass instructor, though many players find the book to be useful in self-study. A good bass teacher will help explain and demonstrate theory concepts in a live setting and also shed additional light in terms of alternate fingerings, ear training and gaining full technical mastery of theory concepts across the entire fingerboard.
The book was first published independently in 1996 by Robert Garner, and has been previously mentioned in Bass Player, Bass Frontiers, and Bassics bass magazines. Garner has taught over 1,000 bass students, and created the book to use as a guide to basic music theory concepts, both in theory and technical application on the four-string electric bass.
More information:
http://www.melbay.com/product.asp?productid=20304
