What you’ll learn at Grade 5
- Slap and pop, hammer-on, complex syncopation, developed solo work
- Major and Natural Minor, Major and Minor Pentatonic scales, Blues scales. Harmonic Minor scale
- Major and Minor arpeggios and Major 7th and Minor 7th arpeggios
- Playback and performance skills
Repertoire
Rockschool Bass Grade 5 Hit Tunes
- Stevie Wonder – For Once In My Life
- Greta Van Fleet – Black Smoke Rising
- Queen – Keep Yourself Alive
- Jamiroquai – Canned Heat
- Dua Lipa – Levitating
- The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Rockschool Originals | Bass Grade 5
- 7th and 42nd
- Flight Check
- Down at The Abbey
Errata
Pages 11-13
Black Smoke Rising
Bar 7: The A note on beat 4 has been moved to fret 7 of the D string.
