Learn to read and play Bass music using standard music notation and Easy Read TAB.  Also scales, riffs and arpeggios so you can create your own bass lines.  You do not need to read music to use this book.

Introduction

Approach to Practice

Bass Guitars, Amplifiers

Strings

Using the CD

Tuning Your Bass

How to Read Music, Tablature

The Four Four Time Signature

Playing Position

The Right Hand

The Left Hand

LESSON 1

• Notes on the 1^st String
• The Quarter Note, The Whole Note
• Chord Symbols
• Notes on the 2^nd String
• The Half Note

LESSON 2

• Notes on the 3^rd String
• Left Hand Fingering
• Notes on the 4^th String
• 12 Bar Blues

LESSON 3

• The Eighth Note
• Alternate Picking

LESSON 4

• The Dotted Quarter Note
• Turnaround Progressions
• Staccato
• The Slide

LESSON 5

• Sharp Signs, The F Sharp Note
• Flat Signs, The B Flat Note
• Ghost Notes
• The C Note (1^st String)

LESSON 6

• The C Major Scale
• The Octave
• The Chromatic Scale
• Notes on the Bass Fretboard
• The G Major Scale
• Major Scale Pattern
• Walking Bass in the Key of G
• First and Second Endings
• Hall of the Mountain King

LESSON 7

• The Sixteenth Note The Hammer-on
• The Quarter Note Triplet

LESSON 8

• The Tie
• Rests
• Syncopation

LESSON 9

• The Eighth Note Triplet
• Shuffle Rhythm

LESSON 10

• Creating Your Own Bass Line
• Arpeggio Playing
• Major Chord Arpeggios
• Seventh Chord Arpeggios
• Minor Chord Arpeggios
• Six Eight Time

How to Tune Your Bass

How to Read Sheet Music

Easy Chord Table