diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7db38dd..e7b0beb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ You will now have the following rake tasks available:
     rake version:bump:minor  # bump minor version (x.y.z -> x.y+1.0)
     rake version:bump:patch  # bump patch version (x.y.z -> x.y.z+1)
 
+(Since `version:bump:major` is a lot of typing, there are also shortcuts:
+`v:b:major`, `v:b:maj`, `v:b:minor`, `v:b:min`, `v:b:patch`, `v:b:pat`, and
+`v:b:p`)
+
 By running any of those, a new tag will be created representing the newly
 incremented version number at the current commit.  If no tags currently
 exist, the previous version will be taken to be `0.0.0` and then incremented
diff --git a/lib/git-version-bump/rake-tasks.rb b/lib/git-version-bump/rake-tasks.rb
index 5615bce..c087c3c 100644
--- a/lib/git-version-bump/rake-tasks.rb
+++ b/lib/git-version-bump/rake-tasks.rb
@@ -24,3 +24,17 @@
 		end
 	end
 end
+
+namespace :v do
+	namespace :b do
+		task :major => "version:bump:major"
+		task :maj   => "version:bump:major"
+		
+		task :minor => "version:bump:minor"
+		task :min   => "version:bump:minor"
+
+		task :patch => "version:bump:patch"
+		task :pat   => "version:bump:patch"
+		task :p     => "version:bump:patch"
+	end
+end