The Pattern System for the Bass Player – Sharpen Your Musical Mind through Fretboard Proficiency, Improvisation and Mental Practice

This is an epic journey and a revolutionary concept teaching fretboard proficiency, combined with improvisation and mental practice. It’s a workbook! Have a pencil and your bass ready. 330 pages densely packed with information, beautiful diagrams, and mind-bending exercises Improvised Explorations and Scalar Drills to open up your music and technique 111 Videos streaming online Engaging “Test Your Understanding” Questions in each chapter Concise Practice Guides Additional resources on the web Have you ever dreamt of moving freely across the fretboard and playing confidently in every key, up and down the neck, through any chord progression, at the speed of the groove? And, have you sometimes felt intuitively that recurring patterns and shapes exist at the heart of music? And — that these shapes are reflected on the amazingly symmetrical bass fretboard? A kaleidoscope of beauty is about to reveal itself to you… This book and the accompanying 111 videos deliver on this in a well-thought-out system that covers the entire fretboard with great fingering. This program is rigorous, and it rewards you with reliable results. Anyone can do this — I have taught this system to casual players and highly experienced bassists alike — to rave reviews. If you are a student or an educator this program will help you shine in any musical style. If you are ready to turn dreams of fluent proficiency and authentic expression into reality, read this book. Recommended prerequisite: Music Theory for the Bass Player by Ariane Cap or general music theory knowledge, and basic playing technique The “Pattern System” will open doors you never knew existed.

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• comes with 111 videos! Recommended prerequisite: Music Theory for the Bass Player by Ariane Cap A workbook and a systematic method