Don't trust strangers on the internet with your musical dreams! The Do-It-Yourself series from Hal Leonard helps adults (and young adults) achieve their music-making dreams with carefully-curated instruction by trusted experts. Complete with audio demos and video instruction, these books provide you with easy-to-learn lessons to give you a solid foundation to start making music as soon as you'd like! Written with the use of well-known songs, you'll be making music while still learning to play!
Do-It-Yourself Bass Guitar is a fun, independent, and easy way to get started playing. Using well-known pop, rock, and funk tunes, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started and sounding like a pro in no time. It includes audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video instruction by bass guitarist and instructor Travis Dykes.
Includes:
• 100 audio tracks!
• Bass guitar fundamentals
• Reading bass guitar tablature
• Left-hand and right-hand techniques
• Intervals and chords
• Scales
• Playing styles and articulations
• Song structures and chord charts
• Nashville Number System
• Demonstration and play-along audio tracks
• Video instruction and demonstration
• and much more!
Don't wait another day: Start making music on your own terms with Do-It-Yourself Bass Guitar.
The audio and video recordings are accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include 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 | $24.99 |
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 instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading with tab while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome!
The bass guitar book, written in rhythm tab notation, features lessons on: bass fundamentals, tuning, the 1-5 pattern, arpeggios, grooves, position shifts, scales, syncopation, chromatics, swing/shuffle feel, and blues, funk & rock styles. Includes full bass lines in tab from five real songs: Get Ready (The Temptations) • I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley & The Wailers) • Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) • Smooth (Santana) • Super Freak (Rick James).
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| List | $12.99 |