Teach Yourself to Play Bass Guitar – Beginner’s Guide with Easy Tablature, Chords, Scales, Music Theory | Step-by-Step Lessons for Electric and Acoustic Bass

I purchased this to teach myself to play Bass guitar. I'm now playing at my local church. I've been playing for 9 weeks, 6 of which have been in front of the congregation. You'll learn the very basic techniques to get you started, the rest is up to you and your own dedication to the art. It's great for beginners.

Learn at your own pace. Easy to understand with lots of info for beginners. The graduated step exercises help build confidence and skills. Using this book along with YouTube offers various methods and instructor opinions.

Starts with basics that many other books skip. It's nice to have all basic techniques and exercises in one book: plucking, fretting, muting with each hand, useful muting exercises, 3 fingers per 4 strings near the nut, 4 fingers per 4 strings on higher frets, etc. There are too many errors in this book to give it 5 starts. For example, the tabulature for E and F on the same string is identical in the book, but must be different on the instrument.

Great book to learn to play a bass

A tool for every beginner bass player. Everything you need in one book.

I bought the hard copy book without realizing that the audio tracks are only available if you buy the Kindle version…..

A very good book for beginners. Buy it!

Useful content

Nice for a first book

Goed boek

I bought this as a learning aid.

Such a great starting off book. I played music a bit 25 plus years ago and have done nothing since. The book just flows with no music reading needed at all, but it throws snippets in which are great to get a taste. So good to use what you learn for progressing further into playing bass and learning to read music in the future if that's what you fancy. I've really enjoyed it. It isn't overwhelming. I got some other books that go from 0-60 and left me overwhelmed. This is a great book. Learning bass is obviously difficult but this book is as accessable as you'll get.

Great beginner