Jason Raso’s Soloing on Electric Bass: A Chord Tone Approach provides the next step following his first book for Mel Bay Publications, Improvising on Electric Bass. The primary focus of this second book is to help you develop a more melodic approach to solo bass playing. The author suggests avoiding root notes, concentrating instead on chord tones of a 3rd, 5th, and 7th as fertile ground to begin revising your approach to more creative soloing. Following a series of standard notation exercises exploring intervals and goal notes in all keys, Jason presents a dozen original solo etudes in notation and tablature.

• Includes 5 Bonus Études (only on jasonrasomusic.com)

The primary goal of this book is to help improve your chord spelling and fingerboard knowledge. Mastering chord tones will help you build more interesting bass lines. In addition, greater harmonic awareness will help you become a stronger writer, improviser, and soloist.

Jason's two Mel Bay book titles...

Improvising on Electric Bass Soloing on Electric Bass

Shapes, sequences, and exercises for electric bass!

Get your pentatonic game in shape!

Shapes, sequences, and exercises for 5-string bass!

Get your pentatonic game in shape!

12 backing track mp3's and chord chart PDF's.

One backing track for every key!

Shapes, sequences, and exercises for guitar!

Get your pentatonic game in shape

New eBook!

Untangling Chords: Triad Spelling for Guitar

The primary focus of this book is triad spelling. Many guitar players know the chord shapes but may not be able to identify the individual notes. Mastering triad spelling will help you build more interesting chord voicings, write better melodies, and improve your soloing.

12 backing track mp3's and chord chart PDF's.

One backing track for every key!