Bass Methods

The most comprehensive and complete scale book written especially for the 5-string-bass. Divided into 4 main sections: 1) Scale Terminology 2) Scales 3) Fingerboard chart and diatonic triads 4) Scale...

This slap bass method book, designed for advanced beginning to intermediate bassists, is based on the understanding and application of modes. The focus is on the concept of groove sculpting from modes...

This book for beginning to advanced 4- & 5-string bassists offers a practical approach for playing scales over any chord progression to strengthen bass lines, groove patterns and solo ideas. Players w...

Pentatonic scales are widely used in all styles of music. This book focuses on the most often used, including ethnic and exotic scales. For each, this book presents the structure and construction, the...

For the first time, the legendary Louis Johnson Star Licks bass instruction videos are being made available in book format with online access to all the classic video footage. This package compiles Vo...

Designed by John McCarthy, this Master Edition combines all levels of this award-winning series in a complete course! Learn the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music. Start with how...

This innovative method for electric bass guitar picks up where Book One leaves off. Learn notes up the fretboard with riffs like 'Sunshine of Your Love' and 'Sweet Emotion,' scales with songs by Ozzy...

Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series. Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, 100 Blues Lessons includes detailed instruction with playing example...

Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series. Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each of these 100 Jazz Lessons includes detailed instruction with pl...

Expand your Bass knowledge with the Bass Lesson Goldmine series.Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Funk/R&B volume includes detailed instruction wit...

Do you want to learn how to play the bass guitar quickly, but don't read music or have little to no musical experience? If so, this book is for you! Instead of standard music notation, this method use...

Do you want to learn how to play the bass guitar quickly, but don't read music or have little to no musical experience? If so, this book/audio pack is for you! Instead of standard music notation, this...

In this exciting new video/audio/book combo, Mark Michell, bassist for the progressive-rock band Scale the Summit, breaks down the techniques that make him one of the most skilled bassists on the prog...

The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an inst...

Learn the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music. Start with how to hold the bass and proper hand position for comfortable playing. Next learn rhythm, timing, basic bass lines and how...

The Rock House Method makes learning music fun, easy and effective. That means no more confusing explanations or mind-numbing, outdated songs to learn. Rock House is a modern method that helps make le...

The Rock House Method makes learning music fun, easy and effective. That means no more confusing explanations or mind-numbing, outdated songs to learn. Rock House is a modern method that helps make le...

This book is based on the scale types that are necessary to master and understand the chord/scale relationships found in many styles of music. By keeping things simple and uncluttered, each page consi...

This is the bass method students and teachers have been waiting for. Learn the notes of the bass with riffs like 'Day Tripper' and 'Stand by Me, ' reading rhythms and tab with classics by the Who and...

This DVD describes the parts of the bass, and covers: how to tune and set up an amp; finger technique; positions and scales; harmonics and octaves; making a tight rhythm section; blues, funk and rock...

There's more to rock bass playing than just following the guitarist's left hand! This book with audio demo exercises and full-length tunes available online for download or streaming gives you all the...

Bass Chops covers a cross section of musical genres with a unique step-by-step approach for strengthening your overall facility on the instrument. The lessons in this book include standard notation, t...

Following the success of his critically-acclaimed groove-oriented bass technique books, including 'Funk Bass' and 'Funk/Fusion Bass,' Jon Liebman is back with a whole new collection of funky instructi...

This budget-saving pack features all of the content from the Level 1 and 2 Play Bass Today! books as well as 196 professional-quality full-demo audio tracks and video lessons online for download or st...

Features 64 pages of bass manuscript paper with both standard notation and tablature staves, plus a bass notation legend and a music notation guide. Pages fit perfectly in 3-ring binders!