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Music Theory
for the Bass Player Book

A Comprehensive Guide to Playing with more Confidence and Freedom

by Ariane Cap

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Music Theory can be your key to playing with more Confidence and Freedom

👉 Music Theory for the Bass Player is a foundational and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate, and all-around more creative musician.

📺 This book comes with 89 online streaming videos.

✏️ This is a workbook, so have your bass and a pen ready!

✅ Do you long to create your own bass lines and feel stuck creating great ones? 
✅ Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task?
✅ Have you noticed that many of the books out there seem to be geared toward pianists, advanced Jazz players, or classical musicians?
✅ Do you know lots of songs, but don’t know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody?

👉 If so, this is the book for you!

Here’s why:
🎯 Starting with intervals as music’s basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony.
🎯 Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples, and exercises, more than 180 pages of vital information are peppered with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and compelling learning approaches.
🎯 Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing, and chops.
🎯 You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music which becomes easier once theory is mastered.*

👉 Learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams is very accessible and immediately usable.

*Note: You do not need to be able to read score or TAB to follow along this book. Learning to read – while a vitally important skill – is a different skill than music theory. Once the theory is understood, learning to read becomes much easier. Please read this blog post for more information.

Note: Buy this book new rather than used:

  • it is a workbook – there are spaces provided for you to write answers. These exercises are great to help your understanding. I suggest you do them!
  • Look for the red 89 Videos flag on the cover to make sure you get the information on the videos.

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Where to get the book

FORMATS

Print Book

You can order the printed version of the book at these Amazon stores:

The print version of the book Music Theory for the Bass Player is also available at http://www.indiebound.org, at Barnes and Noble and other major outlets.

Stores we love who are carrying our book:

Book sighting at a store in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia

Spiral Binding

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Spiral binding allows the book to conveniently lie flat on a music stand. 

US buyers can get it on Amazon;

International buyers, please  check out our store.

 

TIP: to avoid the higher price tag of spiral bound books or if you already bought the perfect bound version: I recommend you go to a print shop (FEDEX, Office Max, UPS) and ask for the spine to be cut off and coil binding put in. They often do this while you wait.  

 

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eBook – order the ebook version on iTunesGoogle Play Scribd or Kobo

NOTE: this book is not available as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. Counterfeit versions sometimes circulate which are of low quality (scanned hard copies) and not approved by the author. If you come across such a book please send us the link where you bought it.

 

FURTHER RESOURCES

For your practice room wall

⚫️ The most important fundamentals you learned from the book at a single glance so you keep the basics top of mind

⚫️ Tutorial videos on how to use it for short daily drills

⚫️ Staring at the Wall has never been so productive

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Go far beyond the book:
our 20 Unit course

⚫️ In order to internalize theory you must practice it step by step, in various contexts, complete with technique exercises (we call them finger kung fus).

⚫️ In this 20-unit course you put the theory building blocks from the book into action and you get theory not just under your fingers, but into your musical mind.

⚫️ Ari and Wolf's flagship course goes through the book and far beyond it with groove creation, improvisations, notefinders, fills drills, styles labs, and much more.

⚫️ Twice a year we offer a unique and very popular version of this course, which helps you achieve your goals with personal success coaches, assignments, meetings and more. We call it The Theory Cohort!
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