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    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar
    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar
    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar
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    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar

    By Stuart Clayton

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    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar is the fourth book in the Bass Techniques series. This book features a series of advanced study pieces for bass guitarists. Over the course of the ten pieces in the book, every technique needed by the contemporary bass player is covered, from plectrum and fingerstyle techniques, to slapping and two handed tapping. There are also pieces that cover the use of natural and artificial harmonics, palm muting and the chordal fingerstyle technique. Each piece is accompanied by a set of detailed performance notes. All pieces in the book are supported by audio files which are free to download from the publisher's website.
    The book contains the following pieces:

    Fingerstyle Study No. 1
    Fingerstyle Study No. 2
    Chordal Fingerstyle Study
    Harmonics Study
    Plectrum Study No. 1
    Plectrum Study No. 2
    Slap Bass Study No. 1
    Slap Bass Study No. 2
    Two Handed Tapping Study
    Contemporary Techniques Study

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStuart Clayton
    Release dateAug 9, 2017
    ISBN9781912126187
    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar
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    Stuart Clayton

    Stuart Clayton has been a professional musician and writer for over ten years. He has worked as a staff writer for Bass Guitar Magazine since its first issue, written seven bass instruction books for Sanctuary Publishing, including 100 Tips For Bass Guitar You Should Have Been Told, Crash Course: Bass, Bass Xtreme, Basic Bass Workout and Giants Of Bass and toured the world with Carl Palmer. He now runs his own company, Bassline Publishing, which publishes transcription books for legendary bassists such as Mark King, Stuart Hamm, Bernard Edwards and John Entwistle, as well as an acclaimed range of tuition books such as Ultimate Slap Bass and Solo Arrangements for Electric Bass. He is also Head of Bass at the British Institute of Modern Music (Bristol) and is an artist endorsee for Zon basses and Aguilar amplification.

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    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar - Stuart Clayton

    Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar

    By Stuart Clayton

    Published by Bassline Publishing at Smashwords

    Copyright 2015 Stuart Clayton

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Fingerstyle Study No. 1

    Fingerstyle Study No. 2

    Chordal Fingerstyle Study

    Harmonics Study

    Plectrum Study No. 1

    Plectrum Study No. 2

    Slap Bass Study No. 1

    Slap Bass Study No. 2

    Two Handed Tapping Study

    Contemporary Techniques Study

    About the Author

    Introduction

    Welcome to Advanced Studies for Bass Guitar, the fourth book in the Bass Techniques Series. This book contains ten study pieces that will provide you with an opportunity to refine and build on the technical side of your playing. All of the techniques required by the contemporary electric bass player are covered here, from fingerstyle and plectrum playing, to slap bass and two handed tapping. There are also pieces that will allow you to focus on your chordal and harmonic playing.

    The pieces in this book are study pieces, or ‘études’, meaning that they have been written to allow you to focus specifically on either a technique, or a musical idea. As the title of the book suggests, these are challenging pieces, meaning that it’s important for you to have a solid grasp of the technique in question before working on them. Each one should be studied carefully, practiced slowly and perfected over time. Once you have mastered a piece, you will have attained a high level of skill with that particular technique.

    I wrote this book for a number of reasons, chief amongst these the fact that as a teacher I am often asked by my students to recommend study pieces that will help them focus on specific techniques. With that in mind, I realised that over my many years of playing the bass, I had accumulated a number of short pieces of my own that I use for keeping my ‘chops’ in shape. Some of these I had been keeping on the back burner with the idea that I might turn them into full-length songs at some point, but realising that one of my main musical strengths is as an educator rather than as a composer, I decided instead to treat them as study pieces. I also took the opportunity to use the writing of this book as a way to force myself to finish developing some ideas that I had been intermittently working on for several years! The result is this book: a collection of ten studies that will provide you with plenty of musical challenges as you work to improve your technical abilities.

    For each piece you will find a set of detailed performance notes. These will help you with difficult fingerings and provide advice when tackling some of the technical aspects of the study. If you require further help with any of the techniques themselves, the other books in the Bass Techniques series -

    Ultimate Slap Bass, Ultimate Tapping for Bass Guitar and Plectrum Technique for Bass Guitar are the perfect place to start. All three are also available as physical books and eBooks from Bassline Publishing. For each piece I have also included a recommended

    listening list which references compositions by well-known bass players that will serve as excellent additional study material. Listening to and analysing these great songs will reinforce your studies significantly. If you have the time and patience to transcribe and learn them as well, this will be of even greater benefit to you!

    Audio Files

    All of the study pieces in this book come with an accompanying audio file to listen to and where appropriate a full-band backing track. All of the required audio files can be downloaded FREE from the Bassline Publishing website. To find the audio, simply log in to your account and click on the Free Stuff! link on the main menu. You’ll find the audio files in a zip folder listed with the bonus content for this book. Right click and select ‘Save as’ to download.

    I’d like to thank a few people for their help and support during the writing of this book, first and foremost the superb musicians that played on the recordings: Dan Goldman (keys), Jamie Hunt and Stuart Ryan (guitars), James Hester (drums) and James Uings for his advice and assistance with mixing and mastering the

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