Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Bass Method is the newest addition to the family, and features clear, well-paced instruction covering popular styles like rock, blues, country, and jazz. Lots of photos and diagrams make learning easy, and the included DVD contains iPod-compatible video for the visual learner. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Bass Method - the first and best choice for today's beginning bass students. Book 1 covers all the necessities including how to hold your bass, tuning your bass, right- and left-hand technique, the basics of reading music, notes on all four strings, scales, licks, songs, how to read TAB, and playing slides and accents.

You are beginning to play the bass and would like to make progress while having fun and without delay? Then you are holding the right method in your hands! On the menu no less than 50 simple bass lines accessible to beginners and inspired by the greatest artists past and present: The Beatles AC/DC Bob Marley Deep Purple Eric Clapton Elvis Presley Police ZZ Top James Brown Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding U2 Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones... In order to help you each bass line is preceded by an explanatory text detailing its technical rhythmical and theoretical aspects. Difficulty increases progressively throughout the pages. The Video DVD allows you to hear andmoreover to watch these 50 bass lines as they should be played giving you the opportunity to see the correct moves to pick the right fingers and to be rhythmically accurate! The mp3 CD contains as many tracks as bass lines that is 50 play-along tracks featuring two different tempos: the objective tempo (normal) and the practice tempo (slow). On the normal tempo track the bass plays over the first cycle and is mute hereafter to let you take the place! Lastly these tracks have a deliberately long duration (3 to 4 minutes each more than 7 hours of music then!) to give you time to practise in the best possible conditions. You are beginning to play the bass and would like to make progress while having fun and without delay? Then you are holding the right method in your hands! On the menu no less than 50 simple bass lines accessible to beginners and inspired by the greatest artists past and present: The Beatles AC/DC Bob Marley Deep Purple Eric Clapton Elvis Presley Police ZZ Top James Brown Jimi Hendrix Otis Redding U2 Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones... In order to help you each bass line is preceded by an explanatory text detailing its technical rhythmical and theoretical aspects. Difficulty increases progressively throughout the pages.The Video DVD allows you to hear andmoreover to watch these 50 bass lines as they should be played giving you the opportunity to see the correct moves to pick the right fingers and to be rhythmically accurate! The mp3 CD contains as many tracks as bass lines that is 50 play-along tracks featuring two different tempos: the objective tempo (normal) and the practice tempo (slow).On the normal tempo track the bass plays over the first cycle and is mute hereafter to let you take the place! Lastly these tracks have a deliberately long duration (3 to 4 minutes each more than 7 hours of music then!) to give you time to practise in the best possible conditions.

The Improviser's Bass Method by Chuck Sher, is the complete method book for electric or upright Bass. This is a well tested and proven method, endorsed by bass greats such as Eddie Gomez, Rufus Reid and others, this is acomprehensive start-to-finish method for bass that includes everything from, holding your instrument to improvising with other musicians. Taking into account both beginners and more experienced players, the book isfilled with charts of how all the scales and chords lie on the fingerboard, hundreds of foundation exercises to help bassists gain mastery of their instrument, ideas for constructing bass lines, soloing and more. Alsoincludestranscriptions of bass lines and solos by dozens of the greatest jazz bassists, all of which combine to form a fabulous method.