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Chapters, or Days: 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
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12 13 14
15 16 17
18 19 20
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24 25 26
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Appendix
~ Fingering Techniques
~ Addendum
~ Afterthoughts
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Forms II~~Bass
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~~~~~~ Bass Staves and Tab for Five Strings
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Please read
below (and especially the Review at the end of this page) at least
once before
moving on to the Introductory Pages, above.
Why don't you start
reading the manual. See how you like it.
The first three or
four 'Days' or lessons are basically introductory.
You might already
know most of the information. But read it
anyway to see how
you fit with the style of presentation of the
information. If you
feel comfortable and think you can benefit,
when you get 'Day
5' please send payment of forty dollars.
A common thing that
happens is that a person will have a
question and then
they read a few more pages and see that
the question they
had is answered a few pages further on
in the manual. I'm
mentioning this by way of explaining that
the manual is quite
thorough and explanatory about the
musical ideas it presents.
Below are descriptions
of the Rock Bass instruction manual
for beginners who
want to learn how to play
the bass guitar.
The manual has a lot
of important material for experienced
players, too. I HIGHLY
recommend staying in sequence
because every chapter/day depends
to some degree on the
information
in the chapter/day before it.
Experienced players:
if you learn some important facts or
ideas which have enhanced
your abilities or knowledge
then look at it as
money well spent in lieu of paying for
some lesson(s).
Note: this manual
or instruction book is organized by 'Days',
with each of the
lessons or chapters being one
day's learning
in the four weeks.
If a lesson a day is too much of a blistering
pace try one
or two a week.
A manual - learn
to play
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Rock Bass ~~~~~ ~~~
~~~ Beginner
to Pro in Four Weeks ~~~
~~~ ~~~ No
Reading Music ~~~ ~~~
Send $40.00 to:
Russell Kolish
608 Charlemagne Blvd.
Naples, FL 34112
Please make check or money
order out to
the author, Russell Kolish,
NOT to Rock Bass.
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Content
Description
"Rock Bass,
Beginner to Pro in Four Weeks, No Reading Music" is at least a
one hundred and twenty
five page booklet (maybe 140 pages depending on how it
prints out with your
browser and printer) that is EXTREMELY user-friendly. It
will take a person
who knows
nothing about the bass, nothing about music and
nothing about any
musical instrument
and in four weeks teach him or her how
to play the Bass with
the level of skill necessary to play in a Rock band or
along
with recorded music.
It will also fill out the knowledge base of intermediate
players.
.
. . friendly . . . extensive . . . quantitative knowledge equivalent
of a ten to twelve
booklet series of
instruction manuals each priced at twelve to twenty dollars .
. .
thus making the cost
of the "Rock Bass" manual $$$
less than one fifth $$$
of the price
you would pay for a series which
gave you the same amount of
instruction.
What you need to know
is delivered in a well sequenced, extremely user friendly
presentation.
Keywords
structured yet loose
and engaging, fundamentals, techniques, acoustic-physical
phenomena, friendly,
communicates sincerity and human connection,
don't have
to actually memorize
anything, tips, many definitions, highlights the importance
of creativity and
self-expression, unassuming, unpretentious, user-friendly.
Table
of Contents
Instead of a short
sample which would tell you little, I'll tell you what the book
covers: equipment,
specific advice for learning the material, the fret board,
intervals or half-steps
and whole-steps and 'numbers' or 'Positions', pentatonic
scales, chord basics
and connecting notes, chromatic scales, syncopation,
inversions, positional
fingering, more on chords, chord groups, fingering
techniques, modes,
auditioning, Mental Positioning Exercise, Re-labeling Chords
Exercise, chord substitutions,
advanced striking techniques, chords and
arpeggiation, patterned
string striking, assignments for plucking fingers, double
stops, a note about
phrasing and soloing and finally, a simple way to learn how
to write and read
bass music.
As a beginner, you
won't understand most of the above terms, but within four
weeks (or your own
chosen time frame) not only will you completely understand
them and be able to
play well,
you'll
be excited and happy that you got
this
manual!
The style is informal
and explanatory, making it easy to understand and progress
through. Instruction
is communicated in a structured yet loose and engaging style.
Lots of tips. Memorization
not required. Neither is reading music. The importance
of creativity and
self expression is emphasized. Unassuming. Unpretentious.
Review
~ By Josh Garrin ~
Excellent and Outrageous
East Coast Guitar Player, Bass Player and Teacher
Needless to say, seventeen
years of instructing guitar and bass to beginner,
intermediate and advanced
levels of playing ability has exposed me to a wide
variety of instructional
media. This experience has also provided me with a
considerable amount
of frustration in my attempt to convey the meaning of
the material in these
books and manuals to the novice. I had yet to discover
instructional media
of any kind that welcomed you - the layman, the novice,
the uninitiated -
to the sometimes convoluted and enigmatic world of one's
own theoretical approach
to and creation of music.
Much to my satisfaction,
this sense of frustration dissipated rather quickly in
my review of "Rock
Bass ~ Beginner to Pro in Four Weeks" by Russell
Kolish.
The author takes both
the instructor and the student on a structured and
strategized, yet loose
and engaging lesson plan spanning approximately one
intense month of musical
self-discovery. From technical fundamentals
(equipment,
amplifiers, speakers) to physical
technique (striking the strings,
positional
fingering) to the acoustic-physical
phenomena (harmonics, frequency,
overtones), the quality
and method of communication exhibited in this manual
can best be described
in one word - friendly. The author communicates to the
audience in such a
way that one immediately senses an element of sincerity
and human connection
that the majority of manuals so greatly lack. There is
a "next-door-neighbor"
aura and language being spoken that always enhances
the experience of
the body of knowledge being presented. There is an emphasis
on the importance
of creativity and interpretation and, most importantly, the
material is presented
in such a way that the student will never feel rushed
(note the several
occasions in which the author says "spend a lot of time in
this section").
Where many manuals strictly enforce the idea of memorization,
the author is never
reluctant to state, "You don't have to actually memorize
any of this. With
time, it'll all become second nature." This showcases a very
important and underestimated
facet of the learning curve - the concept of
learning simply through
the repetition of doing (immersion).
From chordal/harmonic
theory to diatonic/pentatonic/modal scale forms to an
addendum ripe with
advanced technique and tips on phrasing (as well as a
glossary complete
with descriptions of fingering techniques), the author makes
a good case that although a beginner will
not understand concepts and
techniques such
as these to start with, in four
weeks not only will he/she be able
to understand
them, he or she will also be
able to play well. After examining
the well structured
and engaging presentation, I
concur.
Keywords such as "LISTEN"
and "FEELING" and "OPTION" and "THINK"
are implemented and
displayed in boldface type to highlight the importance of
creativity and self-expression
throughout the playing experience. There is a
"freethinking"
element present here that is virtually non-existent in most other
educational media;
information is presented via a person-centered approach
that requires the
student to make decisions - choices based upon a personal
interpretation of
the information presented. The author is very quick to identify
that once absorbed,
these theoretical "rules" are made to be broken by the
creative mind and
spirit of the individual. Indeed, this is the essence of the art.
"Rock Bass
~ Beginner to Pro in Four Weeks" is the layman's guide to fulfilling
one's desire to learn
music in an unassuming, unpretentious and user-friendly
manner. In a virtual
ocean of dry, unpalatable instructional media, there is much
to be said for the
author's humane approach to delivering the musical message
and helping the novice
musician to establish the launching pad for their art.
Short
Biography
The author played
Bass in New York Rock bands and worked pickup gigs when
the opportunity presented
itself. He became tired of the music scene and left,
with the exception
of occasional song writing utilizing the classical guitar. But
I
digress. So, the author
knows a girl who had been given a bass guitar for her
birthday and had no
idea what to do with it. He took this as an opportunity to
help out and wrote
up some basic instructions for her. When the short booklet
became longer and
longer, he realized that it could be useful to many other
people, too, because
it
addresses the UNIQUE PROBLEM
of
being an absolute beginner and not knowing where to
turn
to learn because
everything he/she reads is beyond
her
or him.
In addition to his
music interests the author earned Bachelor's degrees in Engineering
Science and Computer
Science but working in these fields was boring, boring.
Now he's becoming
more involved in music again.
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Contact: Russell
Kolish
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