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Sight Reading Mastery for Bass Guitar: Learn to read music the right way. (Learn how to play bass) Kindle Edition

by Joseph Alexander (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Most Comprehensive Guide to Reading Music on the Bass Guitar

104 pages of limitless sight reading exercises

Efficient, detailed lessons on how to read music the right way

Extensive rhythm reading section

Over 2 hours of audio to download for free

In a modern world where we have instant access to guitar tablature, YouTube videos, slowdown software, lesson apps and midi, what is the value in learning to fluently read music on bass guitar?

Sight reading music is an essential part of being able to communicate with other musicians in their own language. Professional musicians communicate with written music, and because very few other instruments use tablature, musicians simply learn to read music as a natural part of learning to play.

If you want to have a better chance of working professionally as a guitarist you must learn to sight read on your instrument.

There are three essential elements to being able to sight read on the bass guitar:

Pitch Recognition

Instant Location of Notes on your Instrument

Rhythm Recognition

Sight Reading Mastery for Bass Guitar contains extensive chapters and exercises that help you achieve mastery of each of these essential elements in a fun, challenging way.

Every important major and minor key is covered, as are all the rhythms that you will come across in most normal playing situations.

The exercises in Sight Reading Mastery are limitless and continually challenge, develop and improve your sight reading skills - however far you advance.

The problem with many other sight reading texts is that the student quickly memorises the study pieces that are included, however, Sight Reading Mastery for Bass Guitar cleverly avoids this problem.

The melodic exercises gradually increase in complexity as you progress through the page and are designed to be almost impossible to memorise. This leaves the student with an inexhaustible resource for life.

There are dedicated chapters on how to practice, and scale theory. There are many diagrams detailing the best way to find and play written pitches on your guitar and of course an in depth study of how to recognise pitches and rhythms on the written stave.

All in all, Sight Reading Mastery for Bass Guitar is the most comprehensive study guide available to help you fluently read music.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KD3WN4K
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ www.fundamental-changes.com (May 15, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 15, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 13713 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 212

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Joseph Alexander has been a guitarist and expert music tutor for over 20 years. His tuition books are published in four languages and have sold over 1,000,000 copies to widespread critical acclaim.

Currently Joseph is co-writing groundbreaking music methods with Martin Taylor, John Patitucci, Jens Larsen, Levi Clay, Ulf Wakenius, Mark Lettieri Les Wise and many more...

He is a publisher of over 200 music books and his label, Fundamental Changes is currently accepting manuscripts from a new talented generation of musicians and offers 3x the standard royalty rates to educators.

www.fundamental-changes.com for over 350 free HD video lessons or to get signed as an author.

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Christopher Dee
5.0 out of 5 stars A pedagogue, not a theoretician
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015
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You can tell this is the work of a really experienced, compassionate teacher who has taught musicians at all levels of experience. The book consists of around 30% instruction and 70% exercises, organized by key signature. I really like these two sentences, though the idea is certainly not new: "For now, don't use a metronome. Even if it takes you 10 minutes to do just one or two lines then this is success." That's a very positive, encouraging way of phrasing an idea which is vital for any beginner: practice playing correctly, don't practice making mistakes. There are also audio files to download, which is nice if you want to "check your work" as you learn to sight-read at faster and faster tempi. Highly recommended.
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N. Bajza
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well laid out
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021
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The intro makes a lot of sense and is encouraging. No wasted words or ideas, very succinct and will be a great path for me to follow on my journey to unlocking my Fender Precision and Fender Jazz bass guitars.
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jp
4.0 out of 5 stars Good info, clearly written
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2015
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Bought this to use as a base course for students. Good info, clearly written. My only reservation was the exclusion of the examples in the Kindle version. I eventually found them at the author's site, and printed them from a pdf. These need to be included. Therefore, in accordance with the author's own advice in the book, it makes more sense to buy the hard copy, or be prepared to print all the exercises, as he (rightly and helpfully suggests) to turn the exercises upside down for gettng more bang for the buck. Other than that, good stuff here.
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JSound
5.0 out of 5 stars The Title Tells It All
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019
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This book is direct, easy to understand, and contains excellent practice exercises. I have to say that I already had a good understanding of music theory though only a basic understanding of reading sheet music. My goal is to improve my sight reading, this book has been perfect for what I need.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy the Book learn to Read!
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018
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This book will put you to work- it's worth the effort. Get the book not the digital. The exercises do not work digitally. I am glad I bought the book!
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Garret C. Graves
3.0 out of 5 stars Meh
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2019
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Examples in every key, mostly random lines that aren’t melodic per se, but get you reading, and that’s the point. Takes the unfortunate (I call it LAZY) approach with 5 and 6 string bassists- you will find nothing below E, so you don’t get to practice reading there at all. This is really a short coming these days- I cherish the books that I do have that include lines for a B string, because it is relevant to bass players today. He gives the typical line in his book (I paraphrase) that it’s okay, just read what’s there if you are on a 5 or 6 string bass- that misses the point- it would be easy for the author to have at least an extended range chapter, with several pages that hit the B string too, so we can practice reading there, right?
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Cristian Recabarren Madrid
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book to learn sight reading
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017
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Excellent book to learn sight reading, good exercises to quickly develop your skills as reader, giving a good understanding of the instrument. Totally recomendable purchase.
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John L
5.0 out of 5 stars Reading Music
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2015
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As a beginning bass player, I've tried many books on reading notation. This is one of the best. Keeps my interest and most importantly I'm actually learning.
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Reviewed in Canada on June 3, 2019
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Mr. John
5.0 out of 5 stars I works, effort is not included. Customer must supply.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2017
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Got this book in order to sight read bass music and after a couple of weeks I can read the scale of c fluently and am making progress on others. However, it does take effort. It is not a quick fix but if you follow the instructions, you will build up the skills. You need to find some examples of sheet music also to practice with separately to this book as it says.
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Ricardo
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Brazil on July 2, 2016
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Great book to improve the read music skills with a good price, good content, tips and audio examples! I have anothers books from the autor and I very recommended!
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Steve Kennedy
5.0 out of 5 stars All you need
Reviewed in Germany on March 12, 2016
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Very good ebook for learning to sight read the bass clef. 20 minutes a day and you see some solid results within a week.
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Andrew Geraghty
4.0 out of 5 stars As Described
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2018
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My son is great at tab. He likes this book, its helping him to read music.
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