Rockschool Bass Grade 8 (2024)

The Bass Grade 8 book will be indispensable as you tackle the complex performance and theoretical challenges of Grade 8, which also earns UCAS points towards a university application.

What you’ll learn at Grade 8

• Time signature changes, two-handed tapping, fast blues basslines
• Whole Tone, Diminished, Natural Minor and Altered scales, Dominant 7♯5, Dominant 7♭5, Dominant 7♯9, Dominant 7♭9 Arpeggios and Dominant 7th, Major 7th and Minor 7th chords. Diminished arpeggio and Stylistic Study
• Session work

Rockschool Bass Grade 8 Hit Tunes

• Chick Corea – Spain
• Haitus Kaiyote – Breathing Underwater
• Rush – Anthem
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
• Marcus Miller – Run for Cover (Live)
• Vulfpeck – Dean Town

Rockschool Originals | Bass Grade 8

• Copenhagen
• The Switch
• Four By Twelve