One Revolutionary Book
Turns A Bass Player Into A Dynamic Musician
 

 
 
You're a bass player - but you're more than just a bass player, you're a musician... thinking and speaking the language of music that you then apply to the bass, thus becoming a student of the bass.

The Bass EncycloMedia
Is based on the premise that music is a language

If you knew the music alphabet of 12 Sounds and 21 Symbols (letters and tones) on your bass, you could spell any chord, scale, or arpeggio, and then combine them (grammar) to play any song in any style.

So, where does music begin? Like most languages, with an alphabet. Now, you've known the English alphabet (26 letters) most of your life, but, do you know all the words in the dictionary? We know the answer to that question. However, do you know every letter in the dictionary? Yes! So the question becomes, if you know every letter in the dictionary, why don't you know every word? The answer, because you don't know how to spell them.

On your first day of school they didn't give you a book of Shakespeare and a dictionary and say "Go home you're finished." You understand that's absurd.
However, that's what you're trying to do with the bass.

You say, I want to play this song. Then you open a song book, see the first chord, find it in your chord dictionary, try to finger it and then move on to the next chord. You will never learn bass that way.

Remember the first grade? You memorized a list of vocabulary words that you could spell. This enabled you to read a story that contained those words. Then you learned a new list of words, read a new story, a new list, a new story,
and so on. Until finally, years later, you could read that book of Shakespeare.

That's how you must understand the language of music.
As chords, scales and arpeggios that you can spell
Which become your vocabulary!

 

Read what the DEAN OF THE THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC U.S.C. said! "I spent time with the Bass EncycloMedia and am very impressed! As a professional bass player for over 30 years, I didn't think I had much to learn from the Bass EncycloMedia. Boy, was I wrong! This book is filled with practical and highly musical techniques and information that will benefit bass players who have passed beyond the "beginner" stage. The book is written the way most bass players think.....visually instead of in notation. This is a great addition to the library of bass players of any style and any ability level." Dr. Robert A. Cutietta Dean - The Thornton School of Music University of Southern California

Pythagoras told us that if we take a string length and divide the string in half the frequency is doubled and the octave is created. So from the nut to the bridge is one string length and the 12th fret divides the string in half. Now you have 12 frets, one for each of the 12 pitches (letters and tones).

While it's true there are 12 pitches in music (7 natural and 5 chromatic) there are only 7 letters in the music alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and these 7 letters can be placed horizontally on every string.

Most bassists start with a vertical view of the fretboard. However, by not seeing the letters and tones horizontally, they miss the concept of chord shapes which are vertical groupings of the horizontal letters and tones.

Trying to remember thousands of chord block diagrams (vertical groupings) by memorizing finger patterns will never work.

You learn and remember chords, scales and arpeggios
By spelling them!
 

Going a step further, the letters of the C Major scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B can be thought of as tones (the numbers of the scale). So instead of "Do-Re-Mi", which in the key of C major is C, D, E, we can give those letters tone numbers: 1, 2, 3. Now you can spell in tones as well as in letters.

This is very important because now we have two ways to think about the bass, as letters and those letters as tones, in any given key. Okay, we understand that music is a language expressed as an alphabet of letters and tones.

This is a key point for Turning A bass Player Into A Dynamic Musician!

Now, getting back to my first analogy, I said that if you knew all the letters of the alphabet it would be possible to spell all the words in the dictionary. So now I'll assume that you know the musical alphabet of 7 letters on the bass fretboard.

Do you know the song Happy Birthday? Yes? Okay, can you play it? No, why? Because you don't know how to spell it. That's the concept.

The Bass EncycloMedia teaches you how to see the bass in a very simple way - letters and tones on the fretboard, which will enable you to play what you can spell.

Now, what do you know how to spell? How big is your vocabulary? No matter what song you want to play, if you have the vocabulary you'll be able to play that song.

However, you must have an order, a system, a method to get through the complex vocabulary of the bass. The Bass EncycloMedia introduces this vocabulary in the proper sequence.

As you can see in the above diagram, the Bass EncycloMedia doesn't use "notes" (staff notation) to represent music, or tab (tablature) to show its application on the bass. Instead, fretboard diagrams and an alpha-numeric (letters and tones) system of spelling is used to develop a vocabulary which will make it possible for you to read and perform any song in any style.

As a general statement, the Bass EncycloMedia presents its material in four parts: chord - scale - arpeggio - song. In traditional music theory, an "in order scale" alphabet is first presented, and then from the letters and tones of that scale - chords and arpeggios are spelled (constructed). However, I've chosen to introduce chords first because we tend to hear the harmony (chords) of a song first - and then play an "out of order scale" melody - that fits the chords.

In the Bass EncycloMedia you discover five moveable (barre) chord forms. These five moveable forms are created by vertically grouping the letters and tones of a chord in one position. However, there are thousands of chord voicings (fragments) on the bass, and these should also be explored.

In addition, seven forms of vertically grouped scales and arpeggios are presented, and once again there are thousands of fragmented possibilities.

You also discover many innovative ways to see your bass such as "fretboard angles". Below you see some of the octave patterns. The Bass EncycloMedia shows you the angles for every interval!
 

There are forty-two songs included in the Bass EncycloMedia, and every song has been analyzed to show each chord's corresponding tonal center scale and mode, providing you with many opportunities to apply the chords, scales and arpeggios that you have learned. Also, numerous substitution ideas are presented, which suggest many variations.

The most complete reference of bass Guitar knowledge Available...

Containing all the chords, scales and arpeggios
Necessary to perform any song in any style.

Well Over 300 Pages of bass Guitar Power!

The Fast Table is a table of contents and an index combined. It's the fastest and easiest way to locate any chord, scale or arpeggio, by simply scrolling across the columns and moving down the rows.

The Bass EncycloMedia thoroughly explains how chords, scales and arpeggios combine with one another, enabling you to play something uniquely different the second time through a song.

It teaches you how to see the bass in a very simple way, letters and tones on the fretboard.

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