THE COMPLETE ELECTRIC BASS PLAYER - The Method by Rainey, Chuck - 1985

New York: Amsco Publications, 1985. (vii) 192 pp. Oversized. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and diagrams. The Chapers are: The Instrument and Its Equipment: Strings; Fingers and Hands; The Body Amp; Right Hand Position - One Finger Playing Technique; Left Hand Position; The Staff - Lines and Spaces; Pitch; Tuning; Open String Tuning; Using Harmonics to Tune; The Fingerboard - Open Strings and Their Fretted Notes; Bar Lines - Measures and Signs; Instrument Range; Tones, Semitones and Scales; Fingerboard Charts - Natural Notes. Fingering Major Scales: Note and Rest Values - C. Major Scale; Tied Notes and Dotted Notes; Strenghtening the Left Hand; Two Finger Playing Technique; Triplets; Sixteenth Notes and Sixteenth Rests. Accidentals: Flats; Key Signature - Flats; Fingerboard Charts - Flats; F Major Scale; B Flat Major Scale; E Flat Major Scale; A Flat Major Scale; D Flat Major Scale; G Flat Major Scale; Sharps; Key Signature Sharps; Fingerboard Charts - Sharps; G Major Scale; D Major Scale; A Major Scale; E Major Scale; B Major Scale; F Sharp Major Scale; C Sharp Major Scale; Major and Dominant Sevenths. Minor Scales: Natural Minor Scales; Fingering the Natural Minor Scales; Minor Scale and Key Signature Placement; Harmonic Minor Scales; Melodic Minor Scales; Chromatic Minor Seventh Scale Exercises; Parallel Scales; Relative Scales. Dimished Scales: The Tritone; Augmented Scales; Dynamic Expressions of Force; Signs and Abbreviated Expressions; Accent Marks; and Musical Term Markings; followed by an index.. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. Book.