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Table of Contents:

• The blues scale
• The 12-bar blues
• Quick change
• The shuffle feel
• Turnarounds
• Intros
• Endings
• The "bump" : the root shuffle
• Swing blues
• The box shape
• Two-beat feel
• Pivot note
• Boogie woogie
• The rhumba
• Minor blues form
• Minor blues bass lines
• Funky blues bass lines
• Blues-rock bass lines
• 12/8 slow blues : the quick four
• 12/8 slow blues : the 12 bar form

• "Stormy Monday" changes
• Dead notes
• Guitar arrangement for bass
• Slides
• Hammer-ons
• Pull-offs
• Grace notes
• The mixolydian mode
• Groove tip : accent beats 2 and 4
• Palm muting
• vibrato
• Passing tones
• The major pentatonic scale
• The minor pentatonic scale
• The composite blues scale
• String bending
• Practicing
• Rhytmic motifs
• Melodic motifs
• Slap bass : slap and pop technique
• slap bass : 12-bar grooves
• 8-bar blues
• Fingerstyle technique == Trading fours
• Jazz-blues bass lines
• Fills : the walk-up
• Fills : the walk-down
• Other fills
• Soloing over the I chord
• Soloing over the IV and V chords
• Articulation
• Groove boxes
• Octave displacement
• Metronome tricks for improvin' your groovin'
• Triad arpeggios
• Seventh-chord arpeggios
• Chord theory : triads
• Chord theory : seventh chords
• Everyone needs to get on the same page
• Watch for cues
• Chart-reading essentials
• Understanding chord symbols
• Sitting in the pocket
• You won't get far alone
• Playing with the kick drum
• Keeping it interesting
• Moveable utility patterns
• One-chord shuffle blues
• One-chord boogies
• One-chord slow blues
• Charlie Parker Blues Changes : "Bird blues"
• Texas blues
• Chicago blues
• New Orleans blues
• Jump blues
• Blues riff rock
• Ensemble hits
• Playing in a trio
• Variety is the spice of blues
• Pluck-hand dynamics
• Equipment primer
• Bass line strategies for the I chord
• Bass line strategies for the IV chord
• Bass line strategies for the V chord
• Adding the 6th
• Adding the 9th
• Variations on the 12-bar form
• Variations on the turnaround
• Double stops
• Listen to the soloist
• Thinking ahead
• That pesky 3rd
• Transcribe
• Willie Dixon style
• Donald "Duck" Dunn Style
• Tommy Shannon style
• Jack Bruce style
• Roscoe Beck style
• Jerry Jemmott style
• Johnny B. Gayden style.

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Author/Creator:

Johnson, Chad , author

Contributors:

Kringel, Chris , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Staff notation.
Tablature notation.

Main Work:

100 blues lessons [by Johnson, C.]

Related Series:

Bass lesson goldmine

Subjects:

Bass guitar — Instruction and study

Bass guitar — Studies and exercises (Blues)

Bass guitar — Methods (Blues) — Self-instruction

Blues (Music) — Instruction and study

Bass guitar

Blues (Music)

Genres:

Methods (Music)

Blues (Music)

Studies (Music)

Self-instruction

Studies and exercises — Blues

Methods (Music) — Blues

Performance Medium:

1 performer: bass guitar
1 performer: plucked string instrument

General Notes:

Audio can be accessed by going to the Hal Leonard website and using the code given on title page.
"Featuring detailed instruction, playing examples, tips, and more on a huge variety of blues bass topics"--cover.

Physical Description:

1 score (203 pages) ; 30 cm.

Call Numbers:

MT599.B4 J63 2015

ISBNs:

1480397466
9781480397460

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 888680023539
Publisher Number, Hal Leonard: HL00131002

OCLC Numbers:

903634573