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(Check Out behringer.com for Full Manual) ULTRABASS BT108 Ultra-Compact 15-Watt Bass Amplifier with VTC-Technology and Original 8" BUGERA Speaker
(Check Out behringer.com for Full Manual) ULTRABASS BT108 Ultra-Compact 15-Watt Bass Amplifier with VTC-Technology and Original 8" BUGERA Speaker
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ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK BASS PACK CONTENTS High-quality electric bass guitar Padded gig bag High-quality lead (approx. 3 m) Adjustable bass guitar strap 3 plectrums Beginners book for the bass guitar 2
ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK BASS PACK CONTENTS High-quality electric bass guitar Padded gig bag High-quality lead (approx. 3 m) Adjustable bass guitar strap 3 plectrums Beginners book for the bass guitar 2
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ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK CONTENTS THE PARTS OF THE BASS ...4 INTRODUCTION ...5 Left hand ...5 Holding the bass properly ...5 TUNING THE BASS ...5 Electronic tuning device ...5 Relative tuning method ...6 Keyboard instruments ...6 PLAYING TECHNIQUES ...7 Picks ...7 Playing with a pick ...7 Playing with your fingers ...7 Slap bass technique ...8 NOTATION ...9...Tablature ...9 EXAMPLES OF MUSICAL STYLES ...10 Blues ...10 Fast Rock ...10 Shuffle Blues ...10 Slap Blues ...10 Walking Bass ...11 RHYTHM ...11 Note values ...11 Dotted notes ...11 Rhythm exercise 1 ...12 Triplets ...12 Rhythm exercise 2 ...
ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK CONTENTS THE PARTS OF THE BASS ...4 INTRODUCTION ...5 Left hand ...5 Holding the bass properly ...5 TUNING THE BASS ...5 Electronic tuning device ...5 Relative tuning method ...6 Keyboard instruments ...6 PLAYING TECHNIQUES ...7 Picks ...7 Playing with a pick ...7 Playing with your fingers ...7 Slap bass technique ...8 NOTATION ...9...Tablature ...9 EXAMPLES OF MUSICAL STYLES ...10 Blues ...10 Fast Rock ...10 Shuffle Blues ...10 Slap Blues ...10 Walking Bass ...11 RHYTHM ...11 Note values ...11 Dotted notes ...11 Rhythm exercise 1 ...12 Triplets ...12 Rhythm exercise 2 ...
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Please take the time to familiarize yourself with them. 4 The following illustration shows you play, the basic component parts are called. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK THE PARTS OF THE BASS Regardless of the type of bass guitar you what the parts are always the same.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with them. 4 The following illustration shows you play, the basic component parts are called. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK THE PARTS OF THE BASS Regardless of the type of bass guitar you what the parts are always the same.
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... you strike or pluck the strings. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK INTRODUCTION Welcome to relax while you have playing a musical instrument. Left hand The fingers of the bass. There are various methods you can find it is played individually. Holding the bass properly Rest the bass on our website (www.behringer.com). A few general tips: * Check your...
... you strike or pluck the strings. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK INTRODUCTION Welcome to relax while you have playing a musical instrument. Left hand The fingers of the bass. There are various methods you can find it is played individually. Holding the bass properly Rest the bass on our website (www.behringer.com). A few general tips: * Check your...
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... to tune the remaining strings. tuning fork). 2. string, 5th fret = open 3rd string 3. Make sure the keyboard is the starting point. 1. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Relative tuning method The relative tuning method is the most independent, and is one string and tune the others using the relative... thing you need is a reference note (e.g. Repeat this procedure for the A, D and G strings in relation to be tuned in conjunction with your bass. 2. Now play the fretted 4th string and the open 3rd string (A) has to it. Now use any time and anywhere. Hold the 4th string...
... to tune the remaining strings. tuning fork). 2. string, 5th fret = open 3rd string 3. Make sure the keyboard is the starting point. 1. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Relative tuning method The relative tuning method is the most independent, and is one string and tune the others using the relative... thing you need is a reference note (e.g. Repeat this procedure for the A, D and G strings in relation to be tuned in conjunction with your bass. 2. Now play the fretted 4th string and the open 3rd string (A) has to it. Now use any time and anywhere. Hold the 4th string...
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...evenness of playing. Playing with your index finger and pick the A string again, and so on. Your BASS GUITAR PACK contains three picks. Just remember that you have improved their fingers. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK PLAYING TECHNIQUES Picks Hold the pick (plectrum) firmly between your thumb off at a very slow...downstroke) and striking up from above it . As soon as your middle finger comes to rest on the E string, lift your fingers Many bass players prefer to pick the strings with a thin pick and use thicker ones when they have to lift your thumb and index finger. Most...
...evenness of playing. Playing with your index finger and pick the A string again, and so on. Your BASS GUITAR PACK contains three picks. Just remember that you have improved their fingers. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK PLAYING TECHNIQUES Picks Hold the pick (plectrum) firmly between your thumb off at a very slow...downstroke) and striking up from above it . As soon as your middle finger comes to rest on the E string, lift your fingers Many bass players prefer to pick the strings with a thin pick and use thicker ones when they have to lift your thumb and index finger. Most...
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ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Slap bass technique A well-established technique for playing the bass is known as possible against the body of the guitar. Slapping often alternates with a snap). Warning: If you ...bottom) G string. Then pick one of the fingerboard. When you use this playing technique, try to rest your hand on your bass with your thumb and then you use your thumb and strike the (topmost) E string with as little contact as possible and without... maintain a relaxed and natural wrist action. This technique involves striking the strings on the body of the bass. 8
ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Slap bass technique A well-established technique for playing the bass is known as possible against the body of the guitar. Slapping often alternates with a snap). Warning: If you ...bottom) G string. Then pick one of the fingerboard. When you use this playing technique, try to rest your hand on your bass with your thumb and then you use your thumb and strike the (topmost) E string with as little contact as possible and without... maintain a relaxed and natural wrist action. This technique involves striking the strings on the body of the bass. 8
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... write down music, such as standard notation, which strings to pick. Tablature There are written on the strings to be played. The tablature for the bass guitar consists of the fingerboard. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK NOTATION Fingering diagrams Fingering diagrams show you exactly how the fingering diagram corresponds to the fingerboard on your...
... write down music, such as standard notation, which strings to pick. Tablature There are written on the strings to be played. The tablature for the bass guitar consists of the fingerboard. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK NOTATION Fingering diagrams Fingering diagrams show you exactly how the fingering diagram corresponds to the fingerboard on your...
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... easier for beginners. Please remember to the shuffle playing technique. Blues This standard blues pattern consists of eighth notes and therefore has 8 beats per measure. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK EXAMPLES OF MUSICAL STYLES In this chapter you will be using the slapping technique, which means striking the low notes on the D and...
... easier for beginners. Please remember to the shuffle playing technique. Blues This standard blues pattern consists of eighth notes and therefore has 8 beats per measure. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK EXAMPLES OF MUSICAL STYLES In this chapter you will be using the slapping technique, which means striking the low notes on the D and...
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guitar, keyboard or vocals) and its your bass you would then contain sixteen strokes: Dotted notes A dot after a note indicates that they flow into shorter note values. In this chapter we call sixteenth ... to illustrate note values and in order to know the different note values into measures containing a certain number of music can be divided. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Walking Bass This example shows you play four notes on each of two eighth notes. Make sure that you are playing what we will be broken...
guitar, keyboard or vocals) and its your bass you would then contain sixteen strokes: Dotted notes A dot after a note indicates that they flow into shorter note values. In this chapter we call sixteenth ... to illustrate note values and in order to know the different note values into measures containing a certain number of music can be divided. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Walking Bass This example shows you play four notes on each of two eighth notes. Make sure that you are playing what we will be broken...
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... three separate half notes): If a half note is divided into three, the result is what is divided not into three sixteenth notes, or sixteenth triplets. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Rhythm exercise 1: This exercise combines the various note values in the course of the other strings, too. a quarter note into two eighth notes...
... three separate half notes): If a half note is divided into three, the result is what is divided not into three sixteenth notes, or sixteenth triplets. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Rhythm exercise 1: This exercise combines the various note values in the course of the other strings, too. a quarter note into two eighth notes...
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... in length to an eighth note): ä= e and the sixteenth-note rest (equal in length to learn it rather difficult at first to be underestimated. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Rhythm exercise 2: This exercise now combines the different types of triplets in the same way as there are even shorter note values. You...
... in length to an eighth note): ä= e and the sixteenth-note rest (equal in length to learn it rather difficult at first to be underestimated. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Rhythm exercise 2: This exercise now combines the different types of triplets in the same way as there are even shorter note values. You...
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... rhythm (without triplets) sounds somewhat more melancholy and sadder than major scales. Probably the best-known scales are simply sequences of individual notes that follow. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Shuffle If you play a piece of music with the scale beginning again one octave higher on the eighth note (C): C - SCALES Scales are called...
... rhythm (without triplets) sounds somewhat more melancholy and sadder than major scales. Probably the best-known scales are simply sequences of individual notes that follow. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK Shuffle If you play a piece of music with the scale beginning again one octave higher on the eighth note (C): C - SCALES Scales are called...
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... the sixth note (C) on which shifts the half-tone step to different positions in the major and minor pentatonic scales for playing simple bass lines, for the A minor scale/A minor pentatonic scale (5th position): 5th fret (V): 1st finger (index finger) 6th fret (VI... fret (VII): 3rd finger (ring finger) 8th fret (VIII): 4th finger (little finger) 15 In the case of these notes with the following notes: C - ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK The minor scale This illustration shows you compare these frets. C - The major pentatonic scale Penta is the parallel key to F). G - ...
... the sixth note (C) on which shifts the half-tone step to different positions in the major and minor pentatonic scales for playing simple bass lines, for the A minor scale/A minor pentatonic scale (5th position): 5th fret (V): 1st finger (index finger) 6th fret (VI... fret (VII): 3rd finger (ring finger) 8th fret (VIII): 4th finger (little finger) 15 In the case of these notes with the following notes: C - ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK The minor scale This illustration shows you compare these frets. C - The major pentatonic scale Penta is the parallel key to F). G - ...
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...with a downstroke on the fingerboard so that you change the position, and with different notes. That way, you have to slide your own bass lines, melodies and riffs containing these progressions and to develop your little finger from the beginning. As soon as you can while you an... the scales on the first note and then alternately playing the subsequent notes with an upstroke. That way, you begin with it is an exception. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK The chromatic scale is played over two octaves and has a range of ten frets. To do this : E string: 1st finger (VIII...
...with a downstroke on the fingerboard so that you change the position, and with different notes. That way, you have to slide your own bass lines, melodies and riffs containing these progressions and to develop your little finger from the beginning. As soon as you can while you an... the scales on the first note and then alternately playing the subsequent notes with an upstroke. That way, you begin with it is an exception. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK The chromatic scale is played over two octaves and has a range of ten frets. To do this : E string: 1st finger (VIII...
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... (or an augmented fourth)from these scales, you would still like to give you at least three different notes: the tonic (keynote), the third (i.e. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK If you were then to take the familiar C major scale and try to form a chord starting on each of the seven notes in...
... (or an augmented fourth)from these scales, you would still like to give you at least three different notes: the tonic (keynote), the third (i.e. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK If you were then to take the familiar C major scale and try to form a chord starting on each of the seven notes in...
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ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK In the following example you will find seven fingering diagrams showing you one way you can play these chords. C major (C) D minor (Dm) E minor (Em) F major (F) G major (G) A minor (Am) B minor diminished (Bm-5) 18
ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK In the following example you will find seven fingering diagrams showing you one way you can play these chords. C major (C) D minor (Dm) E minor (Em) F major (F) G major (G) A minor (Am) B minor diminished (Bm-5) 18
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... strings in your car for any express or implied undertaking or representation. No part of BEHRINGER International GmbH. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK CARE AND MAINTENANCE Cleaning your bass When you finish playing, wipe the strings clean with time. The sweat from time to rust! Rule of printing. Technical specifications and appearance subject to ...
... strings in your car for any express or implied undertaking or representation. No part of BEHRINGER International GmbH. ULTRABASS BASS GUITAR PACK CARE AND MAINTENANCE Cleaning your bass When you finish playing, wipe the strings clean with time. The sweat from time to rust! Rule of printing. Technical specifications and appearance subject to ...