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MASTER BASS GUITAR

MASTER THE FRETBOARD

BUILD SPEED N CHOPS

LEARN TO PRACTICE FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS

ALL EXAMPLES WRITTEN IN BOTH TAB AND STANDARD MUSICAL NOTATION

THE HUGE 168 PAGE BOOK ON CD

PDF VERSION OF MY MASTER BASS BOOK ON CD 

START LEARNING RIGHT AWAY FOR LESS

WRITTEN BY A REAL LIFE WORKING MUSCIAN/ TEACHER

WITH A MUSIC DEGREE AND OVER 20 YEARS TEACHING/GIGGING EXPERIENCE

Learn The Must Know Information To Take Your Playing To The Next Level

AUTHOR HOLDS ALL COPYRIGHTS TO THIS WORK

BOOK FOR SALE AND DISTRUBUTIUON BY AUTHOR ONLY

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WANT TO MASTER THE FRETBOARD

The Must Know Information is Right Here.

Master the Order of Notes And Effortlessly Find Any Note On The Fretboard 

Master Major and Minor Scales in all 12 Keys

Master Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales In All 12 Keys

Master Vital Fretboard Patterns and Shapes

Find I-IV-V/(Root/Fifth)/(Root/Octave) Patterns At Will

I've See Many Books/DvDs Claiming Fretboard Mastery in as Little As One Week

Many Claim You'll Have the Fretboard Down in as Little as 1 Hour

This is simply Not True, Don't Buy Into This False Sense of Reality

Mastering The Fretboard Takes Some Work

It Dosen't Have to Be Hard or Painful and Finding Your Way Around Can Be Easier Than You May Think

It will just take Longer Than 1 week and certainly longer than 1 Hour

The First Step in Fretboard Mastery is simply Finding Your Way Around

This Takes Knowing a Few Basic Things and A Good Mental Game Plan for Retaining The Information

What You Really Need to Know is Your Order of Notes

Followed Up By Understanding a Few Basic Patterns and Shapes

Once You Get a Feel For How Your Guitar is Laid Out

Finding Any Note or Pattern At Will Becomes a Breeze 

You Will Deepen Theses Connections For The Rest of Your Life

Meaning Fretboard Masterty is in it's self a Life Long Study

I Will Give You The Vital First Steps on Your Way to Fretboard Mastery

WANT TO BUILD A STRONG ACCURATE RIGHT HAND

Master Basic Picking Skills That Make Fast Lines or Riffs A Breeze

Master Essential Finger Picking Skills For Finger Style Playing

It Just Takes Knowing a Few Basic Things And Exactly How To Go About Practicing Them

WANT TO MASTER BLAZING FAST LEFT HAND RUNS

Build Finger Independence

Build Speed/Accuracy and Stamina

Master Vital Patterns and Shapes 

Master Hammer-on/Pull-off /Shifts and Sliding Techniques

WHY IS CORRECT PRACTICE SUCH A SECERT

It Isn’t any longer as I show You Exactly “What To Practice”

And More Importantly, “How To Practice” for Maximum Results

Increase Productivity Many Times Over as You Master Essential Practice Skills

Mastering a Instrument Really Takes Two Things:

What and How

What to Practice

How to Practice

If you Really Want To See Serious Improvement

If You Feel Your Going Nowhere

If Your Forever Stuck In A Rut

Blame Your Practice Skills

Learn What Real Practice Is

Learn To Get More Out of 15 mins of Practice Than You Currently Are Getting Out of 1 Hour

Do You Know What Real Practice Is

If Not How Can You Be Sure Your Getting Anything At All From Your Efforts

The Number 1 Reason Would Be Players Never Get Where They're Going

Is They Simply Do Not Know How To Practice

In a Mannor That Gaurtanees Postive Results

Stop Wasting Vauable Time and Learn To Really Practice

Your Musical Dreams Will Thank You For It  

This Book is Designed to not Simply Teach You How to Play

But More Importantly How to Think and Use the Information for Yourself

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CONTENTS

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Basic Technique

Right Hand Studies

Visualization and You

Diatonic Bass Scales

Diatonic Scales in all 12 Keys

Pentatonic Scale Studies

Legato Studies: Hammers/Pulls/Slides

Finger Permutations

Single String Scales

Making Music: 12 Bar Blues

Making Music: Bass Lines/Licks/Riffs

Making Music: Progressions N Creating Bass Lines

Making Music: More Bass Lines/Licks/Riffs

Music Theory: Basic Major Scale Construction

Music Theory: Scale Alteration and Perspectives

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Building Basic Technique:

If we want to learn to play, we must first start with a solid foundation.

The Beginner will learn basic Finger Independence, while the more experienced player will learn to take there Technique to a higher level.

Learn What to Practice and Most Importantly "How to Practice" to Get The Results You Want.

Master Essential Practice Skills:

If You want to Improve You Must Practice.

If you Don’t Know How To Practice, How Can You Improve?

It’s Been My Experience That Most Players Biggest Flaw Is There Practice Skills.

They Really Don’t Know How To Practice In A Manor That achieves Maximum Results In The Shortest Time Possible.

Stop Wasting Valuable Practice Time and Learn To Practice Correctly.

Right Hand Studies:

Master Essential Alternate Picking and String Crossing Skills

Master Alternative Economy or Mini-Sweep Picking Skills

Master Finger Style Independence and Alternating Skills

Master Finger Style Sweeping Skills

Learn About Incorporating The Thumb in a Classical Guitar Manor for Arpeggio Based Accompaniment Patterns. 

Build Speed/Accuracy/Stamina with the Pick or Fingers

Visualization and You:

Learn The Secret Practice Weapon

If You Really Want to Master the Instrument In The Quickest Way Possible This Is a Must Have Skill.

It Really Isn’t So Much a Secret, As Something Seldom If Ever Discussed Outside of a Conservatory or Serious Music Program.

Remember the Greatest Weapon We Have Is Our Mind.

It Only Makes Sense That If We Want To Learn In The Quickest Most Efficient Way Possible, We Must Learn To Use Our Mind To Our Fullest Potential When Practicing.

Diatonic Bass Scales:

Master the Essential Diatonic Major And Minor Scale Patterns.

Increase Fretboard Know How by Mastering a Small Sequences

Learn to Build Longer Runs By Combining Small Scales Sequences

Further Refine Our Basic Technique Through Scale Sequences and Patterns

Learn How To Actually Practice Theses Patterns for Maximum Results

Diatonic Scales in All 12 Keys:

Learn to Master the Major and Minor Scale Patterns In All 12 Keys

Exercises for Mastering the Art of Shifting the Patterns

The Beauty Here Is: We Don’t Really Learn Anything New, We Just Learn How to Re-use What We Already Know.

Pentatonic Scale Studies:

A Key Scale In Rock/Blues Country Music.

Learn The Pentatonic Major And Minor Scales in all 12 Keys

Learn What Parallel and Relative Scales Are

Exercises for Pentatonic Mastery

Legato Studies: 

Build Fret Hand Speed/Stamina/Accuracy

Exercises and Workout for Building Serious Hammer-on and Pull-Off Chops

Learn Valuable Shifting and Sliding Skills for the Frethand

Finger Permutations:

Build Increased Finger Independence/Speed and Accuracy through Permutation Exercises.

Learn to Create a Never Ending Series of Variations to Challenge New Technical Demands. 

Single String Scales:

Learn one of the Most Overlooked Concepts for Bass or Guitar.

This is a Must for Effortlessly Moving Across The Neck and Understanding Intervals.

Learn to Visually See as Well as Hear Intervals with Basic Ear Training Exercises

Making Music-12 Bar Blues and Lines/Licks/Riffs:

Learn to Put Your New Found Skills To Work In The Real Musical World

Learn Basic Musical Form and Concepts for Building Your Own Bass Lines

Exercises and Examples Teach Us Root Patterns and Rhythmical Variation.

Learn to Play and Easily Find Root/Fifth/Octave Lines

Learn Chromatic and Diatonic Approach Notes

Learn Some Common Bass Lines/Licks and Riffs

Making Music-Chord Progressions and Bass Lines:

Put Our Skills to The Test Playing Over a Common Set of Chord Progressions

This is Where We Get to Put All Our Previous Learn Knowledge to the Ultimate Test.

Exercises and Workouts for Creating Real Life Bass Lines

Master Essential Practice Skills to Easily Find Common Root/Fifth/Octave Patterns

Practice Incorporating Diatonic and Chromatic Approach Notes Into Our Lines 

In Short: Really Get To Know The Fretboard

Making Music-More Lines Licks and Riffs:

A Collection of Bass Lines/Licks and Riffs to add to our Musical Arsenal.

Designed as a set of Real Life Musical Ideas and Concepts

Further Refine Our Understanding of the Fretboard

Walk Away with a Collection of Great Lines and Licks to add to Our Playing

Further Refine Our Chops with Real Musical Examples

Music Theory-Basic Major Scale Construction:

Learn 3 Basic Rules For Building Major Scales

Learn Where Key Signatures Come From

A Very Easy to Understand Lesson in Basic Music Theory

 Music Theory-Scale Alteration and Perspective Chart:

Learn to Build New Scales, such as Harmonic Minor by Simple Scale Alteration

By Altering a Note or Two From What We Know we Can Easily Master Other Scales.

Complete With an Easy to Understand Chart and a Discussion on How to View Relative Scales and Modes

There’s Tons of Information in this Book,

Limited only by what Your Willing to Do With It.

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HIGHLIGHTS INCULDE:

Pg3 Chapter: Introduction to Basic Technique

Pg4 Practice Philosophy

Pg5 Practice Rules for Maximum Results

Pg6 Alternate Picking

Pg7 Open Single String Alternate Picking Exercise

Pg8 The Metronome and Basic Counting

Pg11 Alternate Picking String Crossing Exercises

Pg13 Alternate Picking String Skipping Exercises

Pg14 Fret Hand Finger Independence Exercises

Pg17 Synchronization for Both Hands

Pg18 Two Finger Group Fret Hand Exercises

Pg18 Practice Rules for Maximum Results

Pg20 Two Finger Group String Crossing Exercises

Pg23 More Two Finger Group Variations

Pg24 Introduction to Shifting Positions Exercises

Pg25 Chapter: Right Hand Studies

Pg26 Alternate Picking Odd vs. Even Amount of Notes

Pg26 Alternate Picking Inside vs. Outside Picking

Pg27 Inside and Outside Alternate Picking Exercises

Pg30 Economy Picking or Mini-Sweep Picking Exercises

Pg33 Finger Style Alternating Exercises

Pg34 Finger Style Synchronization Exercises

Pg35 Finger Style Alternating Exercises Odd Amount of Notes

Pg36 Taking It to Left Field

Pg37 Finger Style Sweeping Exercises

Pg40 Finger Style Sweeping and Synchronization Exercises

Pg41 Finger Style Classical Guitar Like Study

Pg43 Chapter: Visualization The Secret Practice Weapon

Pg44 Using The Mind To Achieve Maximum Results

Pg48 Our Neurological System and Practice

Pg50 Chapter: Bass Scales

Pg50 C Major / A Minor Scale and Theory

Pg51 The 7 Scale Patterns of C Major and Relative Modes

Pg54 Diatonic Scale Exercises

Pg55 Building Speed with Small Scale Sequence Exercises

Pg59 Long Scale Sequence Exercises

Pg62 More Sequences and Variations

Pg63 Rhythmical Variation and Displacement Exercises

Pg66 Playing Diatonic Scales In All 12 Keys

Pg69 Locating Notes on the Fretboard Made Easy

Pg71 Exercises for Playing in all 12 Keys

Pg76 Chapter: Pentatonic Scale Study

Pg76 How to Build The Pentatonic Scale

Pg79 A Pentatonic Minor Home Pattern

Pg79 Practice Methods

Pg80 Mastering The Pentatonic Through String Sets

Pg81 Pentatonic Scale Sequences

Pg82 The 5 Patterns of A Pentatonic Minor

Pg83 How to Reuse The Patterns Across The Neck

Pg85 Practice Methods for Maximum Efficiency

Pg85 Examples and Exercises for Mastering The Patterns

Pg89 Pentatonic Major Scale

Pg90 How To Build The Pentatonic Major Scale

Pg91 The 5 Patterns of Pentatonic Major and Perspectives

Pg92 Parallel Scales Major/Minor

Pg95 Chapter: Legato Studies

Pg95 Hammer-ons and Pull-Offs

Pg96 Stamina Vs. Strength

Pg97 Basic Legato Exercises

Pg98 Combination Hammer/Pull Exercises

Pg100 Trills (The Ultimate Stamina and Speed Builder)

Pg100 How to Practice For Maximum Results

Pg102 The 12 Min Trill Study for Blazing Left Hand

Pg103 Warm up and Specialization

Pg105 Variations to Maximize Your Legato Chops

Pg106 In Depth Look at Speed/Accuracy/Stamina/How to Practice

Pg110 Chapter: Shifting and Sliding

Pg110 Shifting and Sliding Exercises

Pg116 Chapter: Finger Permutations

Pg116 Finger Permutations for Increased Fret Hand Independence

Pg117 Exercises and Examples of How to Practice

Pg119 Chapter: Single String Scales

Pg122 Single String Scale and Interval Exercises

Pg123 Basic Ear Training

Pg124 Chapter: Making Music

Pg124 The 12 Bar Blues Progression

Pg126 The 12 Bar Blues in A Bass Line Creation

Pg127 Finding the I-IV-V Chords and Roots

Pg130 Basic 12 Bar Blues Rhythmical Variation

Pg131 Finding Roots/5ths/Octaves

Pg132 Root/5^th/Octaves Licks n Exercises

Pg133 Chapter: Lines/Licks/Riffs

Pg133 Basic Walking Bass Line

Pg134 I-IV-V Progressions and Variations

Pg136 Chromatic Approaches ½ Step Exercises

Pg137 The 12 Bar Blues with ½ Step Approach Exercises

Pg138 Chapter: Chord Progressions

Pg 138 Practice Rules for Root/5^th/Octaves/and ½ Step Approaches

Pg139 Common Rock/Blues Chord Progressions to Practice

Pg140 Progression Lines/Licks/Ideas/Exercises

Pg146 Chapter: More Lines/Licks/Riffs

Pg146 Lines/Licks/Riffs To Master Fretboard N Build Chops

Pg154 Chapter: Basic Major Scale Construction

Pg155 The 3 Rules for Building Major Scales

Pg 158 Where # and b come from (Key Signs)

Pg165 Chapter: Scale Alteration and Perspectives

Pg166 Simple note Alteration Chart

Pg167 Perspectives for Scale Alteration and Modes

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Author Holds All Copyrights to This Work

Book For Sale and Distribution by Author Only

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Author is a Working Musician/Teacher with a B.S. in Music and Over 20 Plus Years of Teaching/Gigging Experience.

His Goal is to Provide You With Real Life Musical Information Essential to Succeeding at You Instrument.

If You Take Your Time and Work Through The Information You Will See Improvement, Not Only in Your Ability to Play, But Most Important, Your Ability to Think For Yourself.