Customer Reviews

Progressive Bass

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
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This is one of the better bass instruction books I have found and I have looked at or bought a good many of them. I use other books, but I always come back to Progressive Bass Guitar. It really helps the student learn the fretboard. It also teaches a variety of blues/rock riffs that can make someone sound good in a short time. It also touches on transposing skills, finger patterns and music theory. I pretty good buy for the price. I showed it to my bass teacher, who thought it would be good to develop your chops. Most of his students study jazz and have a tendency to play most types of music in a jazz style. Since the book is slanted more towards early rock/pop, he plans on recommending it to some of them to expand their styles of playing. The only negative comment is that the riffs on the CD are lumped together with four-five riffs per track. That makes it hard to reach a specific riff, but that is really a minor complaint. Other than that, I can't recommend Progressive Bass Guitar enough!

Learning Bass could not get less complicated than this. In minuets you will be following the riffs on screen and playing your bass. It does feel like guitar hero, but you are really playing music on an instrument.

Bought this lesson to learn bass. I like this work because the lessons run from beginner to advanced. All this stuff is here in one book! I also like the fact that alot of information is found in a few pagess. Get this bass lesson if you want to get playing fast. The author gives you alot to get your feet wet! You will have to learn more down the line and do a little back tracking if you are serious about playing bass. BUT...YOU know this already because no book has it all! So go ahead and try out this course! You'll learn a lot from this puppy!

CD has the songs without the voices so you can clearly hear and play along. Get buy!!!

Lots of material to cover in this book. It's the lesson book suggested by my instructor. Full of information and the DVD & CD are helpful. It could use a bit more discussion, but, along with a 'live' instructor, it works well.

This is a very good method, but must be used with others books. I think that the learning curve is uprised at some point, turning the reader confused. It's didatic, but you should have a solid background or some kind of help with your teacher.
This is the reason for 4 stars. I've been using this book with others, and this turns the process more easier.

I use this book to introduce my bass students to music reading. It's well organized, straight forward, and effective.

Don't expect it to make you a world class bass player by itself, though. Get a good teacher, practice, and use this book as a starting point.