Rockschool Bass Grade 5 (2024)

The Bass Grade 5 book will help you put together what you’ve learnt so far, covering more sophisticated solo and syncopation techniques including slap-and-pop and hammer-on styles and more.

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

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