Complete Book of Bass Essentials

Now a Book and DVD!
Bunny Brunel has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Al Dimeola, Al Jarreau, and many other jazz and fusion greats. Bunny has compiled over 250 pages of "nuts and bolts" basics needed to play contemporary bass. Applicable to either 4- or 5-string bass, this comprehensive text covers position playing, utilizing scales and modes, chords and harmony, creating bass lines, improvising, fingering, and much more! In notation only with fretboard diagrams

Video available for this study Table of Contents

Lesson #1
The Right- & Left-Hand Fingerings

Lesson #2
The Major Modes
The Ancient Greek Modes

Lesson #3
The C Major Positions

Lesson #4
The G and D Major Positions

Lesson #5
The Harmonic Minor Modes

Lesson #6
The C Harmonic Minor Positions

Lesson #7
The G and D Harmonic Minor Positions

Lesson #8
The Melodic Minor Modes

Lesson #9
The C Melodic Minor Positions

Lesson #10
The G and D Melodic Minor Positions

Lesson #11
The Additional Modes

Lesson #12
Reviewing the Modes

Lesson #13
The Pentatonic Scales

Lesson #14
Chords & Harmony

Lesson #15
Key Signatures

Lesson #16
Matching the Chords with the Modes

Lesson #17
A Few Tips

Lesson #18
Creating Bass Lines

Lesson #19
Improvisation