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An instant classic, this book provides you with a complete overview of all the elements of music you will need to know to successfully play bass with others. Suitable for complete beginners, amateur bass players looking to improve, or bass teachers looking for a comprehensive and creative method book. Divided into 33 easy-to-comprehend lessons, the book progresses from elementary to intermediate lessons on each topic, including: learning where the notes on the bass are and how to make them sound like music right away; learning how to hear bars of music and then how to count basic rhythms of quarter notes and eighth notes; learning how to read music, starting with fingerboard diagrams; organising the notes on the bass into major, minor and mixolydian scales, with a logical sequence of exercises on each, leading to the ability to create your own bass lines in each mode; learning correct hand positions, fingerings and how to shift between positions on the bass; basic ear training exercises designed to help you progressively discover your own musical voice on bass; rhythm lessons emphasising improvising around the signposts of beats 1 and 3, and then learning to hear and play off of ""target beats"" so that every eighth note in a bar feels like home to you; learning where the arpeggio notes of major, minor and dominant 7th chords are on the bass; creative ways to practice various aspects of one tonality, including interval studies, scale chords, pentatonics, the blues scales, chromatic passing notes; and much. much more. For bass teachers, this is a gold mine of ready-to-use lessons for all your students.