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Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy 5 string bass guitar lessons for beginners.

***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***

"This book explores the potential that the added string gives you on a 5 string bass. It's also great for learning chord arpeggios and scales, which are essential for writing your own bass lines. This book is invaluable for anyone who has bought a 5 string bass. I love this book! This is my favorite bass book!" - Jim Patterson, Honolulu HI

Progressive 5 String Bass contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great 5 string bass player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson 5 string bass tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the bass is required to teach yourself to learn to play bass from this book.

Teach yourself:
• How to play five string bass guitars
• How to play bass notes, bass arpeggios, bass grooves and beginner bass scales used in 5 string bass music
• All the fundamental techniques of 5 string bass playing
• Bass theory for learning how to read bass music for beginners and how to read bass tabs for beginners
• How to tune a bass
• 5 string bass tips and bass tricks that every player should know when learning bass
• Shortcuts for how to learn bass fast by getting the most from bass practice sessions

Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the bass today.

Features include:
• Progressive step-by-step easy beginners bass lessons written by a professional bass teacher
• Complete with photos and diagrams
• Easy-to-read bass music for beginners and easy bass tabs for beginners with chords for accompaniment
• Bass chord pattern diagrams for all important bass chord arpeggios
• 68 bass exercises, bass scales and bass arpeggios

Beginner bass lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the bass, fast.

LearnToPlayMusic.com's 5 string bass guitar lessons for beginners are used by students and bass teachers worldwide to learn how to play bass. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted bass lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

Here's a book intended to challenge you. Here’s a book meant to inspire you.

This book is a wake-up call to the global problems and roadblocks for you as a bass player. This book is meant to be a reality check. Even if bass playing is a hobby for you, your level of enjoyment and satisfaction will increase exponentially if you get better, start to like your playing and sound, and then continue to move forward. But if you aspire to be a part-time gigging and recording musician or full-time musician/bassist, this book is filled with the ten reasons that are seriously holding you back. (It might even give you enough clues to help you teach bass lessons for years to come!)

I want you to attack any or all of these problems that apply to you, and get your momentum back as a bass player. I’ve always believed that the expression “momentum builds motivation” is the key to developing as a musician. Once you’re truly excited about your playing, your creativity, and your growth, amazing things can happen with your music.

If you’re here reading a book called “Why You Suck at Bass” then it means that you’re finally ready to deal with those issues that plague aspiring musicians everywhere. It means that you’re brave. Brave enough to face the facts.

Get your copy today!

Teach yourself how to play bass with our easy bass lessons for beginners.

***Comes with online access to free bass videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***

"I love this book! It taught me everything I needed to know about playing bass." - Harry Smith, Watertown MA

Progressive Beginner Bass contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great bass player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson bass tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses including electric bass and acoustic bass. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the bass guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play bass guitar from this book.

Teach yourself:
• How to play beginner bass notes and beginner bass scales used in popular bass lines and bass licks
• All the fundamental techniques of bass playing including how to play bass with a pick or fingers and how to play using alternate picking, slides and hammer-ons
• How to read bass music for beginners and how to read bass tab for beginners
• Bass theory for reading key signatures, time signatures, intervals, sharps and flats, ties, rests, triplets and syncopation
• How to tune bass
• Bass tips and bass tricks that every player should know when learning bass guitar
• Shortcuts for how to learn bass fast by getting the most from bass practice sessions

Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the bass today.

Features include:
• Progressive step-by-step easy beginners bass guitar lessons written by a professional bass teacher
• Full color photos and diagrams
• Easy-to-read bass music for beginners, accompanying guitar chords and easy bass tabs for beginners
• 61 bass exercises, bass riffs, bass arpeggios and popular easy bass songs for beginners in classic rock styles
• Diagrams showing all notes on the bass guitar fretboard

Beginner bass lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the bass guitar, fast.

LearnToPlayMusic.com's bass lessons for beginners are used by students and bass teachers worldwide to learn how to play bass guitar. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted bass lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy jazz bass lessons for beginners.

***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***

"I think it is excellent. [...] it presents Bass theory in a method that I subscribe to [...] a very useful way to look at bass lines and solos." - ZedsDead [Harmony Central]

Progressive Jazz Bass contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great jazz bass player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson jazz bass tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses including precision bass and jazz bass. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing the bass is required to teach yourself to learn to play bass from this book.

Teach yourself:
• How to play intervals, chord arpeggios and extensions, inversions, turnarounds, jazz and jazz blues progressions, scales and runs
• All the fundamental techniques of jazz bass playing
• Bass theory for learning how to read bass music for beginners and how to read bass tabs for beginners
• Jazz bass tips and bass tricks that every player should know when learning bass
• Shortcuts for how to learn bass fast by getting the most from bass practice sessions

Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the bass today.

Features include:
• Progressive step-by-step easy beginners bass lessons written by a professional jazz bass teacher
• Full color diagrams
• Easy-to-read jazz bass music for beginners and jazz bass tabs for beginners with jazz chord symbols for accompaniment
• 73 jazz bass exercises, jazz bass progressions, jazz bass solos and popular easy jazz bass music for beginners

Beginner bass lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the bass, fast.

LearnToPlayMusic.com's jazz bass lessons for beginners are used by students and bass teachers worldwide to learn how to play bass. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted bass lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.