At your disposal here are the lessons of the Multimedia Electric Bass Course where, through powerful PDF (downloadable and usable on your computer or tablet, but also perfectly printable) with hypertexts, images, videos and audio files, you can learn the fundamental basics of music and electric bass.
Finally a method that, without taking anything for granted, starts from the basics to arrive in a complete and gradual way to the highest technical and expressive goals.
Start studying right away, the spaceship of the electric bass that will guide you in the universe of music is just waiting for you to leave!
Lesson 1, which could be titled “I introduce you to the electric bass”, is an exceptional multimedia book of more than 260 pages that gives useful advice, explains and describes the specific role and function of the electric bass, the instrument and the parts that make up the main types of electric basses and amplifiers, the instrumentation to buy to start studying, the history of electric bass, the first notions on the nature of sound, pickups, equalization and effects.
It is the first practical lesson of the course: you will learn how to assume the right posture, you will develop the ear with ear training exercises to tune the instrument, you will learn to tune and change the strings on the electric bass.
In the second appointment with the history of the electric bass, you will discover who invented the solid body electric bass, Leo Fender’s first steps in the world of electronics and guitar making, the genesis of the solid body electric guitar.
In this third lesson of the course we learn, through examples and exercises, to set the right hand in the best way. We will also analyze the pizzicato techniques in the main electric bass players.
Do you want to know everything about harmonic sounds in the electric bass? The second chapter of this lesson is dedicated to the timbre and the theoretical-practical understanding of the phenomenon of partial harmonics. We will learn the mathematical logic underlying the harmonics, the position of the nodes, which are the best nodes, the intervals that characterize them and the relationship with the musical scale, how and why different sounds are obtained, etc.
The fascinating story of the electric bass continues, this time the focus is on the genesis of the Fender Telecaster, to all intents and purposes the mother of the electric bass.
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At the end of this lesson you will know everything about the tuning of the instrument, a passage of fundamental importance. To intone the strings we will use the ears using the harmonics or the notes on the 5th fret. We will also learn how to use the tuner by analyzing all its many types.
Then the adventure of music reading will begin, just illiteracy! You will know the figures of value and you will study the first exercises, directly on the instrument, of rhythmic reading.
You will find the first fundamental rudiments of music theory explained and applied on the electric bass: the octave interval, the chromatic and diatonic scale, the tone and the semitone, the homophonic notes, the sharp and the flat, how to find the notes on the electric bass. In the text there are numerous exercises that will allow you to test your new skills.
At last in the history of the electric bass the Fender Precision Bass (1951/1954) finally makes its appearance, the progenitor of all electric basses. The revered instrument conceived by Leo Fender will be compared with the Telecaster to have a clear vision of the similarities and differences and to fully understand the historical significance of this lutheristic innovation.