Bass Guitar for Dummies

Additional Bass Guitar for Dummies Information

Imagine your favorite music without bass. It doesn't work, does it? The bass is the heartbeat of the music, the foundation of the groove, and the glue that holds together all the different instruments. You can feel the vibrations of the low notes – sometimes subtle and caressing, sometimes literally earthshaking – as they propel the song. The bass is the heart. So leave center stage to the other musicians – you have more important work to do. The limelight may be cool, but bassists rule!

You can find everything you need to dominate the bass in Bass Guitar For Dummies – whether you're a beginner picking up a bass for the first time or an experienced player looking for way to improve. And you won't drown in complicated music theory, either; this easy-to-understand reference gives you just enough music theory to get you on your way.

Bass Guitar For Dummies includes the following topics and more:

• Exploring the anatomy of a bass guitar
• Getting started: Holding your bass, positioning your hands, and striking notes
• Reading bass notation and understanding chords, scales, and octaves
• Creating a groove and playing solos and fills
• Examining different bass-playing styles, from rock and funk to blues and reggae
• Caring for your bass: Cleaning, changing strings, and so on
• Buying your own bass and accessories
• Top Ten lists on bassists you should know about

Bass Guitar For Dummies also comes with a CD that includes audio clips of all the examples in the book.

So put away the air bass guitar and get yourself the real thing. With the help of Bass Guitar For Dummies, you'll be groovin' in your own band in no time!

What Customers Say About Bass Guitar for Dummies:

It's helpful for beginners (like me) and a friend of mine with 25 years' playing experience found it worth his while too. This is a great book, it's easy to follow and full of useful tips.

I suspect the fatal flaw here centers on the "Bonus Audio CD."--conjuring up associations with a prize in a Cracker Jack box. "Bass Guitar" seems built around the CD.

I'm afraid the author assumed that a shiny piece of plastic would so dazzle that readers wouldn't notice the indifferent writing. Kick out the CD prop and you'd have no book.

Usually I have nothing but praise for the "For Dummies" guides. It's essential.

It's a slight-of-hand that simply does not work. Not this time.

About halfway through the book it dawns why the material is flying over my head.The CD is not incidental to the book.

The initial/basic exercises are great for a beginner like myself, and make of lot of sense in the learning process. I might need to change the settings on my computer or CD player, but I think it would be better if it stopped after each track so I could manually play the tracks, one-by-one, and look at the book at the same time to see exactly what is being played. I'm a new bass player and this book is great -- I actually sleep with it, hoping to absorb even more through osmosis. The CD is helpful, but it keeps playing straight through from one example/track to the next. Hopefully, when I become a great bass player, after using this book and practicing a lot, I will be quoted on the cover :) right up there with Adam Clayton. I love Patrick's straight-forward approach and sense of humor. While I haven't looked at many other bass guitar books, I like how this one uses music, tabulature and the grid to show what to play.

So, as a beginner in playing the bass, I had to purchase this book immediately and I found out that it's exactly as I expected: an introduction to the world of bass guitar, written in a funny manner, without the usual boring details that a "normal" guide would provide. I simply love the "For Dummies" book series.

BOOK AND CD ARE A GREAT LEARNING TOOL BOTH WERE VERY GOOD.I RECOMEND IT FOR ANYONE JUST STARTING OUT LEARNING BASS GUITAR.