Mel Bay Complete Electric Bass Method Book/CD/DVD Set

Have you ever wanted to learn to play the bass? Roger Filiberto's widely-used beginning bass method is now available in one comprehensive book. It includes handy arpeggio charts featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and dominant seventh chords, plus their upper harmonic extensions. Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained widespread acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study. Includes a CD and DVD.

Contents Include: The Rudiments Of Music

Study On Open Strings

Notes On The Fourth String, The Third String, The Second String, The First String

The “C” Note

A Study In Thirds

The Repeat Sign

Introducing The Sharps (#) And Flats (B)

The Key Of G

The Scale Of F Major

The Triplets-Boogie Patterns

Bass Parts

The Major Chord Arpeggios

An Orchestration Style

The Types Of Intervals

The Major Intervals

The Perfect Intervals

Interval Measurement

C To D7-To G7-C

16 Bar Walking Bass Pattern

Tonic-Dominant Idea

Major Chords

Minor Chords

Table of Scales

The Dominant Seventh Chord

8 Bar-3 Chord Cycle In C

8 Bar-3 Chord Cycle In Db

The Augmented Chord

Keep Moving No. 1 – Walking Pattern In C

Keep Moving No. 2 – Walking Pattern The Diminished Seventh Chord

V Position Study

Boogie Beat In C

3 Chord Blues Pattern In G

12 Bar Rhythm And Blues Study-In Key Of C Typical Bass Part

To The Following Chord Cycle In C Major

The C Major Scale In 2nd

Position And 7th Position Are Fingered Alike