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