Bass Methods

An indispensable book on scales and modes for the bass guitarist. The lessons contain diatonic, modal, pentatonic, whole tone, and diminished scales as well as modes of both the harmonic and melodic m...

The New Method for Electric Bass, Book 1 opens the door to the world of the electric bass by providing a full, step-by-step guide for all aspiring students. Topics are presented and expanded gradually...

Scales are one of the foundations of good playing and Essential Scales for Electric Bass is a quick and simple guide for music students of all levels, specifically tackling this important topic. It is...

The New Method for Electric Bass is designed like a textbook with topics that are easy to follow, gradually increasing in difficulty, and that present the self-taught student with a step-by step appro...

Bill The Buddha Dickens is a phenomenal bass talent whose reputation has reached legendary cult status as one of the top session bassists in the world. Bill Dickens teaches all of his amazing funk gro...

Roscoe Beck, one of today's leading authorities on the blues bass style, guides you through everything you need to know to begin mastering blues bass. Lessons include the 12-bar blues progression, tec...

Bass harmonics expert Dean Peer reveals his revolutionary techniques for expanding the range of the bass guitar using harmonics. He begins with basic techniques and then shows how to create fabulous l...

If you want to spend more time making music and less time bogged down in mind numbing theory, then this book is for you. The best entry level book for wannabe bassists - the Xtreme series provides a f...

Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy bass lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to play the bass guitar including how to play bass with a pick and ho...

Introduces slapping and popping techniques as well as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, ghost notes and cross hammers. Also includes a thorough study of all the important rhythms and syncopations used in...

A comprehensive, easy to follow guide introducing all the necessary techniques to enable you to use the tapping technique as played by the world's top bass players. Techniques include: right hand tapp...

Features over 130 Heavy Metal bass licks played in the style of the worlds best players. Contains lots of extra examples incorporating all the important techniques, sounds and rhythms. Includes slap a...

Features 130 classic Heavy Metal licks including slapping and tapping styles. Great for players looking for new ideas to expand their playing or find new grooves to jam on. Also makes an excellent sup...

A comprehensive, easy to follow guide introducing all the important skills used to play Heavy Metal bass. Includes: finger-style playing, playing with the pick, hammer-on's, riffs, bass runs, scales,a...

Introduces all the techniques necessary to play great heavy metal bass. Over 120 examples demonstrating slides, harmonics, double stops, runs, speed picking , two handed tapping, and vibrato. Both mus...

Features over 190 bass licks incorporating modern music styles and techniques used by the worlds best bass players. Including: Rock, Blues, Heavy Metal, Funk, Reggae, Jazz, Latin etc. Also includes ha...

An easy introduction to the basics of bass guitar playing. Includes riffs, licks, arpeggios, slides, hammer-ons and progressions covering Rock, Metal, Blues, Funk and Reggae styles. Music and tablatur...

Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy bass lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to play the bass including playing walking bass lines and arpeggios....

Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy jazz bass lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to play the jazz bass including how to play intervals, chord arp...

Learn to read and play bass music using standard music notation and easy read tab. Also scales, riffs and arpeggios so you can create your own bass lines.

Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy 5 string bass guitar lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to play the 5 string bass plus how to play bass notes, bass...

Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy bass lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to play the bass guitar including how to play bass with a pick and ho...

A great introduction to the exciting sounds of slap bass. Covers slapping, popping, left hand hammers, slides, bends, ghost notes and double stops, as well as showing you which scales, arpeggios and f...

A great introduction to the fundamentals of Funk bass playing. Covers all essential Funk rhythms and syncopations along with staccato, left hand hammer-ons and pull-offs, ghost notes, slapping, poppin...