Rockschool Bass Grade 1 (2024)

The Bass Grade 1 book has everything you need to sit your Debut Grade exam – all in one place. It covers all the essential technique and theory you need to progress smoothly onto Grade 2.

What you’ll learn at Grade 1

• Staccato markings, simple syncopation, dotted note values and eighth notes
• Major and Natural Minor scales; Major and Minor Pentatonic scales; Major and Minor arpeggios; riff playing
• Playback skills

Rockschool Bass Grade 1 Hit Tunes

• Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
• Nirvana – Come As You Are
• Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tracks Of My Tears
• Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits
• Bob Marley & The Wailers – Three Little Birds
• Boston – More Than a Feeling

Rockschool Originals | Bass Grade 1

• Ignite
• Downtown Detroit
• As Night Falls