Free bass guitar patterns sheet music

Here are a few common bass guitar patterns that can be useful. They are arranged with sheet music and tabs in PDF format. They are only intended as suggestions that you can modify according to taste and style of music!

101 Blues Patterns for Bass Guitar

This collection by Larry McCabe showcases a variety of bass patterns that can be applied to blues recordings and performances, even by the novice. Included among the 101 patterns are ten standard blues turn-arounds and ten standard blues endings that can be used in literally thousands of songs. In addition, the book provides several pages of valuable music theory and other information on blues progressions. In notation and tablature. The companion CD is in split-track play-along format with each bass played four times.

"Great stuff. You can use these patterns for just about everything. It definitely gives you more versatility."

"Easy to follow and understand, good theory at beginning.Some good turnarounds and endings.I showed it to my Bass tutor and he was very impressed !!!"

"Mr. McCabe was my first bass teacher. I have kept all of the material he ever used w/ me and to this day i use them in practice. He was one of the best teachers i've studied under and am still benefitting from his lessons." (Customer reviews)