Learn to Groove with the Hal Leonard Bass Method!
Ready to lay down the foundation of great music? The Hal Leonard Bass Method is your step-by-step guide to mastering the electric bass–designed for beginners who want to play with confidence and style.
Developed by renowned bassist and educator Ed Friedland, this fully revised second edition brings together decades of expert instruction and the best bass teaching techniques from around the world. With new engravings, updated photos, and modern lessons, this method meets the needs of today's aspiring bassists.
This complete edition includes three books in one: Books 1, 2, and 3, for a thorough bass education that will take you from the absolute beginning to slapping. popping, and playing great pop songs.
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Learn to Groove with the Hal Leonard Bass Method!
Ready to lay down the foundation of great music? The Hal Leonard Bass Method is your step-by-step guide to mastering the electric bass--designed for beginners who want to play with confidence and style.
Developed by renowned bassist and educator Ed Friedland, this fully revised second edition brings together decades of expert instruction and the best bass teaching techniques from around the world. With new engravings, updated photos, and modern lessons, this method meets the needs of today's aspiring bassists.
This complete edition includes three books in one: Books 1, 2, and 3, for a thorough bass education that will take you from the absolute beginning to slapping. popping, and playing great pop songs. This edition includes access to online full-band audio tracks for practice and performance.
The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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| List | $29.99 |
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 uses tablature combined with rhythmic symbols to make learning fast and easy! Topics covered include: parts of the bass guitar • tuning • basic hand and finger positions • interpreting chord symbols and musical charts • major, minor and pentatonic scales • arpeggios • easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos and illustrations • and much more!
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| List | $9.99 |
Learn to Groove with the Hal Leonard Bass Method!
Ready to lay down the foundation of great music? The Hal Leonard Bass Method is your step-by-step guide to mastering the electric bass–designed for beginners who want to play with confidence and style.
Developed by renowned bassist and educator Ed Friedland, this fully revised second edition brings together decades of expert instruction and the best bass teaching techniques from around the world. With new engravings, updated photos, and modern lessons, this method meets the needs of today's aspiring bassists:
• In Book 1, you'll learn:
• How to tune up and find your perfect playing position
• Essential musical symbols and rhythm patterns
• Notes across the first five frets
• Must-know bass lines, grooves, and techniques
• More than 100 legendary songs, riffs, and exercises to get you playing fast
Start your bass journey with the method that will get you grooving in no time!
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| List | $10.99 |
The Hal Leonard Bass Method is designed for anyone just learning to play electric bass. It is based on years of teaching bass students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best bass teaching ideas from around the world! The second edition has been totally revised and features all new engravings and photos. The books have been updated to meet the needs of today's bass students by renowned bassist and author Ed Friedland.
Book 1 teaches: tuning, playing position; musical symbols; notes within the first five frets; common bass lines, patterns and rhythms; rhythms through eighth notes; playing tips and techniques; more than 100 great songs, riffs and examples; and more! The audio, accessed online for download or streaming, includes 44 full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along.
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Everything you need to know about playing the bass, including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples. Audio examples accessed online for download or streaming.
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Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with online audio access by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique.
Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more – all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using Bass Aerobics will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination – not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying online audio contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along.
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A walking bass line is the most common approach to jazz bass playing, but it is also used in rock music, blues, rockabilly, R&B, gospel, Latin, country and many other types of music. The term 'walking' is used to describe the moving feeling that quarter notes create in the bass part. The specific goal of this book is to familiarize players with the techniques used to build walking bass lines and to make them aware of how the process works. Through the use of 90-minutes' worth of recorded rhythm tracks available online using the unique code in the book, players will have the opportunity to put the new learning directly into action. This book literally gives bassists the tools they need to build their own walking bass lines.
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Covers 180 bass scales, in all 12 keys, with fingering suggestions and five different scale positions. Includes a handy fretboard diagram that illustrates each scale pattern.
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| List | $19.99 |
All you need to know about the bass fretboard, including: scales, intervals, triads, modal patterns, and fundamentals; keys, fingerings, position playing; arpeggios, turnarounds, walking bass lines; horizontal and vertical playing; and more! For all styles of playing!
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| List | $22.99 |
This handy resource was created to assist bassists in learning to play today's most commonly used scales. It's a fast and fun way to gain instant access to 120 scale patterns through easy-reference diagrams. It also features a useful section on scale theory.
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The Hal Leonard Blues Bass Method is your complete guide to learning blues bass. This book with online audio uses classic blues songs and standards to teach you how to lay down your own solid blues bass lines. Learn to play by studying the songs of famous bluesmen such as B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan (Tommy Lee Shannon), Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, The Allman Brothers, Otis Rush, T-Bone Walker, Louis Jordan, and many more. Learn actual riffs from blues classics including: Born Under a Bad Sign • Hideaway • Hoochie Coochie Man • Killing Floor • Pride and Joy • Sweet Home Chicago • The Thrill Is Gone • and more.
Audio is accessed online for download or streaming and includes PLAYBACK+ tools that enable you to adjust the tempo without changing pitch, loop passages, and more.
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| List | $19.99 |
The Hal Leonard Bass Method is designed for anyone just learning to play electric bass. It is based on years of teaching bass students of all ages and it also reflects some of the best bass teaching ideas from around the world. Book 2 teaches: the box shape; moveable boxes; notes in fifth position; major and minor scales; the classic blues line; the shuffle rhythm; tablature; and more!
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| List | $10.99 |
Everything you need to know about playing the bass, including music notation, tablature, riffs, licks, and scales, syncopation, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 75 songs and examples.
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| List | $9.99 |
Bass for Kids is a fun, easy course that teaches children to play bass guitar faster than ever before. Excerpts from popular songs such as “Crazy Train,” “Every Breath You Take,” “A Hard Day's Night” and “Wild Thing” keep kids motivated, and the clean, simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time. The method can be used in combination with a bass teacher or parent, even if they've never had any musical training themselves. Lesson topics include selecting a bass, holding the bass, hand position, reading music notation and counting, and more. Audio examples are accessed online for download or streaming.
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| List | $16.99 |