Product Description

Comb-bound fundamental Latin Bass Patterns book and CD by Larry McCabe

Temporary fads come and go, but Latin music styles are a permanent fixture on the contemporary music scene.

Encompassing a wide range of regional styles from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and often permeated with African or Spanish influences, Latin music has woven itself into all popular styles including rock, country, jazz, blues, and variety-band music.

Because Latin bass patterns are an important part of most popular musical styles, they are mandatory in the repertoire of all bass guitar players. This book contains 101 fundamental Latin-style bass patterns presented in a quick-access format.

The Latin bass patterns taught here are primarily played on the fundamental tones of the chord, which makes them technically accessible to the ambitious beginner. Early-intermediate players will also enjoy the wealth of simple but valuable ideas found here. The patterns can be played on both the electric and acoustic bass guitar.

Each pattern is written in tablature and standard notation, and recorded note-for-note at a moderate speed on the companion audio CD.

In addition to the generous number of one- and two-measure patterns in various time signatures, supplemental materials cover these additional topics: How to play variations, Intervals on the bass fingerboard, How to create variations for chord progressions, Chord progressions for practice.

This unique book is essential to any bass player learning the fundamentals. Prospective buyers are encouraged to use the Search Inside Book feature to examine the contents and music pages prior to purchase.

All this for a low price that is less than the cost of a single private music lesson.

Contents

• How to Use This Book
• How to Develop Variations
• Patterns in 4/4 Time
• Patterns in Cut Time
• Patterns in 3/4 Time
• Patterns in 6/8 Time
• Basic Intervals on the Bass Fingerboard (diagram)
• How to Create Variations for Chord Progressions
• Chord Progressions for Practice

Prerequisite Ability

• No prior experience needed except the ability to read either bass guitar tablature or basic bass guitar music notation.

User Profiles

• Ambitious beginner bass guitar player.
• Reference and idea book for early intermediate bass player.
• Hobbyist bass players.
• Excellent reference book of useful bass guitar patterns for any person wanting to learn to play bass guitar
• Bass guitar teachers

Goals and Purposes of This Book

• Learn a variety of fundamental straight-time bass patterns that are applicable to thousands of songs in many styles.
• Excellent for facilitating development of solid timing on the bass guitar.
• Very helpful in helping bass students learn to play with a clean touch.
• Opportunity to practice fundamental bass patterns along with Latin drum beats.
• Valuable supplementary information and diagrams are helpful to all emerging bass players, and would help bass guitar teachers develop useful, creative projects for bass students.

About the Author

Larry McCabe’s credentials include an education degree from the University of Arizona, more than thirty years of music teaching experience, over eighty published music books, columns for Living Blues Magazine and Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, and authorship of the Roy Clark Fiddle Magic Method and the Roy Clark Bluegrass Banjo Bible.

He plays electric and acoustic blues guitar, clawhammer and three-finger banjo, fiddle, and other string instruments. During his career, he has taught blues guitar lessons, banjo lessons, fiddle lessons, song writing, music theory, music history, and other subjects.

Larry has played in numerous bands including blues, classic country, rockabilly, traditional Irish, and Cajun, and he served on the prestigious W.C. Handy Blues Awards nominating committee for many years.

With his wife, Becky, Larry is the owner and publisher of the popular roots music instruction book company Red Dog Music Books.

In the 1990s, he taught History of Jazz Music and History of Popular Music in America courses to adult education students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. As an amateur WWII historian, Larry collected and edited 160 interviews for his book Pearl Harbor and the American Spirit (2004).