The Latin Bass Book

This is a practical, comprehensive approach to learning Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and South American styles of bass playing, featuring 3 CDs of Berklee professor Oscar Stagnaro playing with three different world-class rhythm sections. The book consists mostly of transcriptions of every note Oscar plays on the accompanying CDs. Some amazing music, and logically progressing from simple to complex examples of each style.
Customer Review: What does one say?
This is a MASSIVE book (262 pages!) of latin bass in all it's various styles. We are not talking simple repetive patterns here either, we are talking from moderate to complex lines with excellent notation and a top notch CD set behind it. If you want to learn Latin Bass, you can start here, and stop here, as you won't find more and better probably anywhere else. Although it is not a Real Book, You can think of that kind of setup and variety.
Customer Review: Good intro to latin bass playing
This book is well thought, thorough and enjoyable. Comes with 3 CDs that stand alone on their own, if you don't mind having bass on one side and the rest of the band on the other. This arrangement allows you to pan the track and play along with the band, or focus on the bass line only. I googled some of the guys who play with Oscar in these CDs and they are first rate musicians with impressive resumes (try Rebeca Mauleón). It comes with no tab, but the first bass lines are simple enough so it wouldn't be a bad place to start reading, and once you understand the beats and where the bassline falls, you should be in a good position to read almost anything! The book takes you to a series of concepts that become more complex from track to track in a well thought way, so you build on your understanding of the subject. Probably the hardest part is to keep yourself from dancing while you play along to the CDs! A good purchase.

Here is a brief guide to using beginner electric guitar tabs to help you learn and accomplish your electric guitar playing goals.

If you are new to learning guitar, Using guitar tabs is an incredibly easy way to get started. But you may not know how to read them and how to go about using them to learn the songs you want to. Guitar tabs is a system that has been made exclusively for guitarists and other stringed instruments. It differs from reading music as it does not tell you how long to play each note, but it is just effective to help you learn where the notes are on the guitar and where to put your fingers (which really is what playing the guitar is all about!)

when reading beginner electric guitar tabs you will see six lines spread across the page, these represent the strings on the guitar, on the lines you will see numbers, these are the fret numbers of where you will be placing your fingers. you will read them from left to right as if reading a page in a book. A good tip is to actually listen to the song you are learning and follow along with the tab to see how long each note is to be played.

Many guitar players use guitar tabs as a way to start them off. I know i did, and learning them will save you many hours of confusion and Will help you progress quickly and have a lot of fun in the process.

Looking for tips and inspiration on how to become a proficient and talented guitarist? Check out simple guitar tabs to help you take your playing to the next level.

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