Bass for Beginners: Major & Minor Scales + Exercises

Name: Bass for Beginners: Major & Minor Scales + Exercises
Brand: Troy Nelson Music
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Beginner Bass Guitar Scale Book

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Major and minor scales for bass presented in an easy-to-follow format

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What skills are taught?

This how-to bass book is divided into 16 practice sessions, each featuring an important major or minor scale pattern. From Michael Mueller, author of the hit book How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days, this title is packed full of important bass scales, exercises & bass lines. To help you learn these crucial patterns, each session of this beginner bass guitar book puts a scale through five exercises and then applies it to a real-world bass line in either a rock, pop, or reggae style, among others.

What are the sections in this book?

Open-Position Patterns
Movable Patterns
Real-World Bass Lines
Scale Theory
Includes multiple keys!

Additional exercises in this beginner bass guitar lesson book include:
Chromatic
Arpeggios
Real-World Bass Lines

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Meet Author Michael Mueller

Over the past 20 years, Michael Mueller has authored over 20 instructional guitar books, with over 400,000 units sold. Titles include the #1 New Releases How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days, How to Play Ukulele in 14 Days, as well as Christmas songbooks for ukulele and bass guitar. In addition, Michael has written the Hal Leonard Rock Guitar Method, Acoustic Guitar Tab Method, and Scale-Chord Relationships.

He has also edited countless others, including the top-selling Guitar Aerobics (Troy Nelson) and Ukulele Aerobics (Chad Johnson) titles. Additionally, he has served as the Editor at top guitar magazines Guitar One and Guitar Edge, and he’s contributed to Guitar World, Jazz Times, and Sirius XM, among others.