Meet your new bass: Bass and the bassist -- Shopping -- Getting acquainted with your new friend -- Facing the music: Reading the directions -- Fascinating rhythm -- Getting to your roots -- Great leap forward: Major scale -- Chords and Arpeggios -- Other chords you'll need to know -- Using what we've learned so far -- Movin' and groovin': Home sweet home: Concept of keys -- Minor madness -- Wandering from home: Chord progressions -- Further from home: More chord progressions -- Going modal with scales -- Progressive jamming -- Moving on up: Spicing up your playing -- Further on up the neck -- Riffs to clip and save -- Going solo at the improv -- Playing for life: Slap, crackle, pop: Some more fun techniques -- Loud stuff: Rock'n'Roll -- Blues -- Not-so-loud stuff -- All that jazz and some extra spice -- We are the world -- Taking care of your best friend -- Afterword -- Appendixes: Guide to "The complete idiot's guide to playing bass guitar CD" -- Glossary -- Warm-ups and other exercises -- For further study -- Index.
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