Essential For Every Bass Player
Learn all the essential chords and arpeggios to play on the bass that all bass players should know. Starting with the most basic major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords and arpeggios (triads) then moving onto the more advanced seventh arpeggios that add lots of flavour to your playing. Each set of chords and arpeggios comes with practice exercises and inspiring musical pieces to help you understand how to approach arranging music with them. This is the ultimate reference and practice book.
Put together by musician Karl Golden, who has been playing professionally for over 10 years and is now a big influencer in the YouTuber guitar community, with well over 50 million views on his content.
Over 50 Moveable Shapes To Any Key For Chords & Arpeggios
- Major Chords & Arpeggios
- Minor Chords & Arpeggios
- Diminished Chords & Arpeggios
- Augmented Chords & Arpeggios
- Sus Two Chords & Arpeggios
- Sus Four Chords & Arpeggios
- Major Seventh Chords & Arpeggios
- Minor Seventh Chords & Arpeggios
- Dominant Seventh Chords & Arpeggios
- Half-Diminished Seventh Chords & Arpeggios
- Fully -Diminished Chords & Arpeggios
45 Exercises 45 exercises to help you practice the chords and arpeggios in the book as well as musical examples of how to incorporate them into your playing. Audio files can be downloaded from the webiste for these (links in book).
How To Write Chord Progressions Section on how to write your own chord progressions for your own songs.
Book Updates I have taken on board all of the feedback and updated this book with the following:
- No longer any practice diary or blank tablature at the back of the book. You can still download these for free on my website as PDF files to print off to aid with your practice.
- HD video of all exercises so you can see visually how I play them.
- Added basic theory chapters about chords/arpeggios and how they are created with the harmonised major scale to the 13th degree.
- How to read chord symbols.
- Scale recommendations to practice over the different chord types in this book.
- More in depth look at songwriting with the roman numeral system.
