First 15 Lessons – Bass Guitar

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 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 features lessons on:

• bass fundamentals
• music reading
• tuning
• the 1-5 pattern
• arpeggios
• grooves
• position shifts
• scales
• syncopation
• chromatics
• swing/shuffle feel
• and blues, funk and rock styles.

Includes full bass lines from five real songs: Get Ready (The Temptations), I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley and The Wailers), Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes), Smooth (Santana) and Super Freak (Rick James).