By Gary Turner
Progressive Beginner Bass contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great bass player – in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson bass tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses including electric bass and acoustic bass. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the bass guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play bass guitar from this book.
Teach yourself:
- How to play beginner bass notes and beginner bass scalesused in popular bass lines and bass licks
- All the fundamental techniques of bass playing includinghow to play bass with a pick or fingers and how to play using alternate picking, slides and hammer-ons
- How to read bass music for beginners and how to read bass tab for beginners
- Bass theory for reading key signatures, time signatures,intervals, sharps and flats, ties, rests, triplets and syncopation
- How to tune bass
- Bass tips and bass tricks that every player should know when learning bass guitar
- Shortcuts for how to learn bass fast by getting the mostfrom bass practice sessions
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