How To Play Bass Guitar In 50 Songs Module 5: An 80-20 Device Method Book (How To Play Bass In 50 Songs - From Beginner To Intermediate)

How To Play Bass Guitar in 50 Songs is a comprehensive learning method for bass guitar beginners split into 5 modules that encompasses key technique development from rhythmic awareness to plucking hand to fretting hand to fretboard mastery and incorporates the 10 most common and foundational devices used in bass lines. These foundational techniques and ideas are also taught with practical applications using “practice songs” that are based on the kind of real world chord progressions you’ll find when you start playing with other musicians.Most importantly: in this Volume a process that you can use to create your own bass lines is introduced. I've only ever seen this process taught in two other bass resources (and one of those was a throwaway) - and there's a good chance you've got neither of those resoruces. I referenced them on Page 133 if you're interested.Some of what you'll learn in Module 5 include:Building your “Bass IQ” with more deliberate composition exercisesTime And Groove Exercises to work on your internal sense of time - making you responsible for keeping time on up to 8 beats of spaceFive Practice Chord Progressions that cover every two-chord movement you’ll ever encounter in 'real-world' chord progressionsLevels 3 and 4 of Fretboard Mastery - understand the fretboard in a more musical wayDetailed Two-Chord Matrixes for each of the Five Practice Chord Progressions to make your Deliberate Composition task easierLayering Deliberate Composition: go from a quarter note bass line to a sophisticated 8th note bass line incorporating modifying devices and connecting devicesPractice Songs that build up to 170 BPM in constant 8th notesHow to create a bass line thematicaWhen you’ve completed Module 5 you’ll have achieved a low intermediate level in technique, but your ‘Bass IQ” will be streets ahead of your contemporaries.Point is...a good bass teacher will charge $75 and up for a 30 minute/45 minute lesson. So even if there were only the equivalent of 5 face to face lessons in this book (so equivalent to $375 in teacher's fees), you should be able to make a value judgement on this volume as it's less than half the price of a face to face lesson.Additionally, there's an "online" version of the book with the majority of the musical examples filmed and presented at two tempo levels and with picture in picture editing so you get close ups of the fretting hands and plucking hands and don't need to get distracted by "pretend" bass faces. (Go onto most YouTube bass videos and you'll quickly see what a 'pretend' bass face is). That online version is free if you pruchased new at Amazon: just email/forward me a copy of your Amazon receipt as soon as per the instructions in the book and I'll add you as soon as I see the email and will let you know how to log on to this. Note: Marketplace orders and other 2nd hand book stores do not qualify for the bonus.There are also over 200 MP3 practice tracks to download to help you with the different practice exercises in this volume. You'll find those on the individual lesson pages in the online version of this volume.As far as I'm aware, this is the first song based method for bass guitar beginners that's been developed. If you want to continue the song based bass journey you started with Module 1, then get Module 5 now. Read more