What you’ll learn at Grade 4
- Dynamic control, ghost notes, vibrato, solo and improvisation work
- Major and Natural Minor. Major and Minor Pentatonic scales. Blues scales, Major, Minor and Dominant 7th arpeggios
- Playback and performance skills
Repertoire
Rockschool Bass Grade 4 Hit Tunes
- Skunk Anansie – Weak
- Pearl Jam – Alive
- James Taylor – Your Smiling Face
- Paul Weller – The Changingman
- Sam Fender – Getting Started
- The Supremes – You Can’t Hurry Love
Rockschool Originals | Bass Grade 4
- Conjunction
- The Jump
- Promise
Errata
Pages 29-30 “You Can’t Hurry Love” Due to an error in the initial print run, some copies of the book may be missing part of the song “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
To address this issue, a PDF of the missing pages has been included in the audio download. If your copy of the book is affected, please redownload the audio to access the missing pages.
If the song spans four pages in your copy, your book is complete, and you do not need this file. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. (Updated 4 September 2024)
Pages 31-33
Conjunction
Bar 32: The note on beat 3 has been updated to D natural at the 5th fret of the A string. (Updated 4 September 2024)
Pages 36-37
The Jump Section D (bar 29): Solo section title updated to “Improvise Solo”.
