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🎸 330 pages densely packed with information, beautiful diagrams, and mind-bending exercises
🎸 Improvised Explorations and Scalar Drills to open up your music and technique
🎸 111 Videos streaming online
🎸 Includes a monthly live online Q and A with the authors
🎸 Engaging “Test Your Understanding” Questions in each chapter
🎸 Concise Practice Guides
🎸 Additional resources on the web
🎸 A sidekick named Skippy – a metronome with a bit of an attitude and a lot of wisdom! He has good tips!
✅ Have you ever dreamt of moving freely across the fretboard and playing confidently in every key, up and down the neck, through any chord progression, at the speed of the groove?
✅ And, have you sometimes felt intuitively that recurring patterns and shapes exist at the heart of music?
✅ And — that these shapes are reflected on the amazingly symmetrical bass fretboard?
A kaleidoscope of beauty is about to reveal itself to you
In a program about comprehensive fretboard proficiency, you likely (and rightfully!) expect to learn:
This book and the accompanying 111 videos deliver on this in a well-thought-out system that covers the entire fretboard with great fingering.
You will:
🎯 Use improvisation exercises to make the shapes yours.
🎯 Do mind-bending drills that train you in the patterns of the fretboard and those of music at a depth you never thought possible.
🎯 Dive deeply into the wondrous world of “shapes within shapes”.
🎯 Follow precise instructions on how to practice, represent and manifest music’s patterns in your mind.
This program is rigorous, and it rewards you with reliable results.
Anyone can do this — I have taught this system to casual players and highly experienced bassists alike — to rave reviews.
If you are a student or an educator this program will help you shine in any musical style.
If you are ready to turn dreams of fluent proficiency and authentic expression into reality, read this book.
NOTE: The Pattern System is not for beginners.
It requires foundational knowledge of key signatures, scales, chords, diatonics, the cycle of fifths.
Music Theory for the Bass Player by Ariane Cap was written to prepare the student for the Pattern System.
Also required is basic bass playing ability (technique).
Ariane’s The Pattern System for the Bass Player is a landmark book! It presents a wealth of musical information with a thoughtful, systematic approach, designed to guide any student through the process of learning to create music with the bass. It is comprehensive and well organized, using a holistic learning paradigm aimed at developing the full constellation of skills involved in music making. I not only very highly recommend it, I’ll be using it myself!
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The print version of the book The Pattern System for the Bass Player is also available at http://www.indiebound.org, at Barnes and Noble and other major outlets.
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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.
NOTE: Counterfeit versions of this book 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.
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