[PDF] The Fender Bass Handbook eBook

Author : Paul Balmer
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780760338629

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Here’s the first hands-on how-to manual devoted to the legendary Fender electric bass guitar. This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of selecting and buying basses; maintenance and repairs such as tuning, setting intonation, fret repairs, bridge and nut adjustments, and electrics troubleshooting; spur-of-the-moment stageside fixes; and some basic "performance" enhancements like adding "hot rod" aftermarket pickups, and more.

Author : J. W. Black
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780634026409

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(Book). When Leo Fender added a bass to his growing family of instruments 50 years ago, he created a new world for musicians and revolutionized an industry in the process. Using hundreds of photographs, this exciting release chronicles the evolution of that instrument from 1951 to 2001, providing background, history and highly researched facts vital to understanding everything about this remarkable member of the Fender family. A must for all music fans!

Author : Adrian Ashton
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879308728

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This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better, more creative, and more varied bass lines. Divided into two sections - Playing Your Bass and Knowing Your Bass - it covers everything from tuning, reading music, scales and chords, and advanced techniques to tips on buying and upgrading a budget bass and troubleshooting. Along with a list of suggested listening and reference guide, this book provides an unrivalled digest of bass information that might otherwise take an entire career to amass. It begins with a 'Basics' section that assumes nothing about your ability. 'Scales and Chords' shows you how to add other notes to your bass lines and includes exercises to extend musical knowledge and train your ear. It develops your understanding of the links between chords and scales, helping you to play from a chord chart or to improvise when required. Most of the ideas and techniques can be achieved without reading music at all, although the information is there for those who can. The 'Reading music' section develops an intuitive approach using pattern recognition rather than the usual mechanical (counting) method, and introduces a skill that may eventually become important to your professional career. Advanced techniques includes harmonics and fretless bass.

Author : Klaus Blasquiz
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780793507573

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(Book). The Fender Bass, created 40 years ago by the inventive genius of Leo Fender, still remains today as the definitive electric bass. Before Fender, there was simply no electric bass at all! Leo's design was so revolutionary that it rapidly became a 'classic, ' an essential element which was responsible for defining the image of modern music. Every new bass is inspired (more or less) from his basic design. The Fender Bass tells the detailed story of the electric bass through the different models and their improvements, from their origins to the present form. Includes hundreds of black & white and color photos of the basses and their most famous players.

Author : Tony Bacon
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879309244

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The first full-color, comprehensive history, tracing the entire development of one of the 20th century's most important musical instruments. Based on firsthand interviews with primary inventors and makers of past and present bass guitars, this new book examines the birth of the instrument, its popularization during the 1960s and 1970s, and modern variations of the instrument.

Author : Paul Balmer
Publisher : Haynes Manuals
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Bass guitar
ISBN : 9781844258178

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by Paul Balmer This manual covers the Fender Bass guitars in detail, explaining how to maintain them, set them up to get the best sound, and repair them when things go wrong or damage occurs. Leo Fender s design concept based on his own Telecaster guitar was the first large-scale production bass guitar and changed the sound of popular music forever. Superbly illustrated and designed, this manual includes case studies of key models everything from the Bass VI to a Fretless Jaco Pastorious Jazz model.

Author : Tony Bacon
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476850976

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(Book). The Bass Book offers a complete illustrated history of bass guitars from Fender's first in the 1950s through the models of the next 40 years that formed the foundation for modern music. The bass guitar is undoubtedly one of the most significant instruments of this century, yet this book is the first to study its history. Features original interviews with bass makers past and present, dozens of unusual, specially commissioned color photos, and a reference section that provides a wealth of information on every major manufacturer.

Author : Jim Roberts
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879306304

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Introduced in 1951, the Fender Precision Bass completely transformed the sound of popular music by the early ’60s. This is the first book to show you how and why. This richly illustrated history reveals the true colors of the Fender electric bass - as a powerful agent of change in popular music and popular culture. It tells the story of technological and artistic evolution, of basses and players--and of their profound influence on the world around them. Celebrating the instrument’s 50th anniversary, this book salutes the revolutionary impact of the bass in the hands of James Jamerson, Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, Carol Kaye, John Entwistle, Jaco Pastorius, Sting, and other bass visionaries and virtuosos past and present.

Author : Chuck Sher
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457101386

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The only comprehensive book ever published on how to play bass in authentic Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and various South American styles. Over 250 pages of exact transcriptions of every note Oscar plays on the 3 accompanying CDs. Endorsed by Down Beat magazine, Latin Beat magazine, Benny Rietveld, etc.

Author : Adrian Ashton
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476853010

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(Book). This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better, more creative, and more varied bass lines. Divided into two sections Playing Your Bass and Knowing Your Bass it covers everything from tuning, reading music, scales and chords, and advanced techniques to tips on buying and upgrading a budget bass and troubleshooting. Along with a list of suggested listening and a reference guide, this book provides an unrivaled digest of bass information that might otherwise take an entire career to amass.