Hal Leonard

Author: Sean Malone
Format: Softcover with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Bass Guitar TAB

The complete guide to learning rock bass! This book with online audio uses actual songs selected from a myriad of rock genres to help in teaching the key elements of rock bass. Players will learn to play in the style of Sting, Les Claypool, John Entwistle, Paul McCartney, Flea, and many others. Lessons include: fingerstyle; slap and pop technique; slides, vibrato, trills, shakes and bends; hammer-ons and pull-offs; harmonics; tapping; standard notation and tablature; and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Song List:

• Addicted To That Rush
• Another One Bites The Dust
• Beast Of Burden
• Come As You Are
• Come Together
• Eight Days A Week
• Hey Joe
• Higher Ground
• I Can See For Miles
• I Want You To Want Me
• Jerry Was A Race Car Driver
• Message In A Bottle
• (Bang Your Head) Metal Health
• Money
• Paranoid
• Roxanne
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Sultans Of Swing
• Under Pressure