Music Reading for Bass - The Complete Guide

Music Reading for Bass - The Complete Guide (A Comprehensive Source for Sight-reading Fundamentals) Written by Wendi Hrehovcsik. Instructional book for electric bass guitar. A comprehensive source for sight-reading fundamentals, including notes, rhythms, keys, positions, and scale forms. Also teaches reading from chord symbols, following charts, creating walking bass lines, slides, ghost notes, and other techniques. Music Reading for Bass - The Complete Guide

FastTrack Bass Method

FastTrack Bass Method - Book 1 (Book/CD) Written by Blake Neely, Jeff Schroedl. Instructional book (includes tablature) and examples CD for electric bass guitar. Series: Hal Leonard Fasttrack Music Instruction. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (HL.697284) ISBN 0793574080. With bass tablature, standard bass notation, black & white photos, performance notes and illustrations. Everything you need to know about playing the bass, including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples. Great for Beginners "I was already playing accoustic guitar when I decided to get this book and learn bass. There's the essentials in music reading and some easy to play beginning songs. I was able to finish the book in a couple of days. Highly recommend it for beginners." -- LeftyB from Dallas, Texas, April 16, 2007 Great for starters! "I got this book when I first got my bass for my birthday. I learned all the book had to offer in about 2 weeks.It has tabs and brief warm-ups. The bad thing is that it basically has all the frets from one to five, which is a downer. So if you want to learn the standard notation for frets 6 and further, it's not here. (It's probably in part 2). But after you read this book you'll be well on your way to impress your friends. So after you get this book, get a songbook with it. Great book overall." -- Joe from Newport News, VA, August 29, 2005 FastTrack Bass Method - Book 1

FastTrack Bass Method Review

FastTrack Bass Method - Book 1 (Book/CD) Written by Blake Neely, Jeff Schroedl. Instructional book (includes tablature) and examples CD for electric bass guitar. Series: Hal Leonard Fasttrack Music Instruction. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard. (HL.697284) ISBN 0793574080. With bass tablature, standard bass notation, black & white photos, performance notes and illustrations. Everything you need to know about playing the bass, including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples. Great for Beginners "I was already playing accoustic guitar when I decided to get this book and learn bass. There's the essentials in music reading and some easy to play beginning songs. I was able to finish the book in a couple of days. Highly recommend it for beginners." -- LeftyB from Dallas, Texas, April 16, 2007 Great for starters! "I got this book when I first got my bass for my birthday. I learned all the book had to offer in about 2 weeks.It has tabs and brief warm-ups. The bad thing is that it basically has all the frets from one to five, which is a downer. So if you want to learn the standard notation for frets 6 and further, it's not here. (It's probably in part 2). But after you read this book you'll be well on your way to impress your friends. So after you get this book, get a songbook with it. Great book overall." -- Joe from Newport News, VA, August 29, 2005 FastTrack Bass Method - Book 1

A review of 101 Bass Tips

101 Bass Tips (Stuff All The Pros Know And Use) Written by Gary Willis. Instructional book and examples CD for bass guitar. With standard notation, bass tablature, chord names, instructional text, instructional photos and introductory text. Ready to take your playing to the next level? Renowned bassist Gary Willis presents valuable how-to insight that bassists of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying 64-track CD provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: techniques, improvising and soloing, equipment, practicing, ear training, performance, theory, and much more. 101 Bass Tips

A review of Bass Fitness - An Exercising Handbook

Bass Fitness - An Exercising Handbook   The purpose of this book is to provide the aspiring bass player with a wide variety of finger exercises for developing the techniques necessary to succeed in today's music scene. It can also play an important role in a bass player's daily practicing program. The 200 exercises are designed to help increase your speed, improve your dexterity, develop accuracy and promote finger independence. Recommended by world-acclaimed bass players, music schools and music magazines, this is the ultimate bass handbook. The added use of photos makes the lessons complete! About Guitar School: Guitar School takes you to class when it comes to learning how the hottest guitarists play. Every book comes complete with lessons on the guitar techniques and styles that make that artist special. Solos, riffs and all relevant guitar parts are discussed in the lessons, followed by exact transcriptions of these parts in both notes and tab. If you want to improve your chops, this series provides you with special exercises and lesson books by experts in the field. Worth SIGNIFICANTLY more than it costs! "If you are a begining bass player. This is all the workout you'll need for months. Just follow the instructions and by the time you're satified with your performance using this book. You'll be an intermediate player with some serious control and cordination between your hands. " -- Tony Mo from San Deigo, January 04, 2006 Bass Fitness - An Exercising Handbook