The Bass Grade 3 book focuses on the key techniques you’ll need to master to pass your exam: including walking basslines, ways to improvise, minor and 7th arpeggios and other essential stylistic playing techniques.
What you’ll learn at Grade 3
- Soloing, improvising, walking basslines
- Major and Natural Minor scales. Major and Minor Pentatonic scales. Blues scales, Major and Minor arpeggios, Dominant 7th arpeggios
- Playback and performance skills
Bass Grade 3 features
- 6 new arrangements of iconic rock, pop, and contemporary music tracks from classic and contemporary artists & 6 Rockschool Originals
- The most diverse selection of contemporary music ever seen in a syllabus making the Grades accessible to everyone without precluding any musical tastes
- Fact Files: band and artist background information with recommended listening
- Walkthroughs: in-depth guidance on every track
- Downloadable audio: easily access audio content online
- All the essential music theory and technique you need to pass your exams
Songlist
- The Beach Boys?- Sloop John B
- Pharrell Williams?- Happy
- Maroon 5?- Moves Like Jagger
- Dire Straits?- Money For Nothing
- James Brown?- Sex Machine
- The Clash?- London Calling
- 6 Rockschool Originals
