Artist Ahead Four Strings Vol. 2 - Tom Bornemann

Four Strings - Vol. 2: The electric bass school with online support (including audio download)

The tried and tested bestseller in the field of bass textbooks! Tom Bornemann's electric bass school offers perfect learning on three levels:

1. The book
2. The playalongs, audio examples & exercises
3. The homepage

This ensures that you can always contact the author during and after the book is being written. New topics and songs are made available on www.four-strings.de. After the technical and rhythmic basics of bass playing were taught in the first volume, this second volume focuses on the parts of harmony that are essential for bass players.

Download material & audio CD

All playalongs, audio examples and exercises are available for download as audio and mp3 files at www.artist-ahead-download.de. An audio CD with all the titles for this book is available at www.artist-ahead.de.

contents (main chapter)

• Intro
• Basic concepts 1
• Basic concepts 2
• The standard “D2” fingering for major scales
• The scale degrees
• Basic concepts 3
• Triads (chords)
• The dominant seventh chord
• A new rhythmic subdivision pattern: the triplet
• The Blues
• The shuffle or swing groove
• Rock 'n' Roll
• The minor scales
• The 60s: Beat
• The pentatonic scale
• The 70s: Rock music
• Outro
• Track list (playalongs, audio examples & exercises)