Absolute Beginner's Bass (with CD and DVD)

by Hal Leonard Corp. (Created by)

Overview

(Music Sales America). Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backup track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your bass guitar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780825629709
Publisher:	Music Sales America
Publication date:	07/01/2004
Series:	Absolute Beginners
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	4
	Tuning	5
	Position and posture	6
	Which position?	7
	Plucking	8
	Picking	9
	Left hand position	10
	First steps	12
	Tablature	13
	Your first note A	14
	First note groove	15
	From A to E	16
	Speed up your learning	18
	Up to D	19
	Your first 12-bar blues	22
	Playing with both hands	24
	The C Major scale	25
	Speed it up!	26
	Exploring arpeggios	27
	Minor arpeggios	28
	Right hand stamina	29
	B[flat] boogie	31
	Playing songs	32
	A blues classic	33
	Get ready!	35
	Let it rock!	36
	Congratulations	38
	Bass Classics	39