Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Bass (book/CD)

Publisher : Alfred Music
Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!
By Morton Manus and Ron Manus

Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about buying a bass guitar, tuning, fingering and picking styles and getting acquainted with standard musical notation and tablature. You will then move right along to playing different notes, scales, and bass lines, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and TAB.
You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues, Country, and Jazz.
Near the end of the book you will be introduced to the concept of playing from chord sheets, which will assist you in coloring your and others' musical creations with your own unique, rockin' style. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play from popular bass TAB folios and be ready to play in a band.

The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons:
* TAB licks and bass lines
* Bass fingerboard chart
* Complete chord chart
* Photos showing hand positions and more

The accompanying CD provides a helpful reference for play-along and practice.

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