Warming Up for Viola, Book Two combines exercises with pieces at a fourth-year playing level. Studies include warm-up exercises and lively pieces that focus specifically on playing in different keys and shifting. The book can be used as part of a string class, in conjunction with Warming Up for Violin, Book Two, Warming Up for Cello, Book Two, and Warming Up for Bass, Book Two.

(Bass Builders). Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with audio by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more -- all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using "Bass Aerobics" will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying audio contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along.

Warming Up for Bass, Book Two combines exercises with pieces at a fourth-year playing level. Studies include warm-up exercises and lively pieces that focus specifically on playing in different keys and shifting. The book can be used as part of a string class, in conjunction with Warming Up for Violin, Book Two, Warming Up for Viola, Book Two, and Warming Up for Cello, Book Two.

The quality of your warm-up determines the success of your practice routine, and subsequently, how great of a player you can become. The Bass Player's Warm-Up puts the process of one of the world's best bassists right into your hands. Janek Gwizdala shares his personal exercises to prepare your fingers and mind for playing your instrument; whether it's setting up for a ten-minute maintenance session, or moments before walking on stage to a sold-out show. These warm-ups were written with every bassist in mind, so if you've just picked up the bass or have played your whole life, let The Bass Player's Warm-Up become your new method for greeting your instrument every day.

Steve Bailey is a consummate musician and bassist. In Rock Bass, he presents one of the most comprehensive bass technique books available. The exercises provided have both studio and live-playing applications, and cover such topics as hand dexterity, bass-line construction, double-stops, and chords. Try the Finger Buster" and "Hazard" exercises for a real workout, and put it all to use in each "Lick of the Week." This book will help any bassist develop the necessary technique to produce quality recordings, as well as the technical prowess to rock out at any live show."

George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.

The exercises in Sight Reading Mastery are limitless and continually challenge, develop and improve your sight reading skills - however far you advance.