Basses Loaded • Primer

The “Quickstart Primer” includes an instructional audio recording with over 50 tracks of lessons and rhythm section play-a-longs.

Here’s a quick glance at what you’ll find inside this incredible book; Parts Of The Electric Bass • Tuning Your Electric Bass • The Fingerboard • Proper Thumb Position • Fingering Systems • Basic Rhythms and Rests • Reading and Playing Tablature • Beginning Pick • Style Technique • Pick-Style Quarter Notes • Pick-Style Eighth Notes • Practicing Basic Rhythms • Beginning Finger-Style Technique • “Doom” Sounds • “Dump” Sounds • Bass Line Approach: Pedaling, Pedaling Quarter Notes, Pedaling Eighth Notes • In the style of “With Or Without You” • The Mighty Riff; Your First Riff, Riff #2, Riff #3, Riff #4 • Bass Styles: Walking Bass, Walking The Blues, More Bass Runs • Beginner Blues Runs • Bass Styles; Alternating Bass, Root / 5th • In the style of “Uneasy Rider” • In the style of…”Good Hearted Woman” • Traditional Country Alternating Bass Style • Basic Latin Alternating Bass Style • Classic Rock Riffs: Themes and Variations; In the style of “All Day and All Night” • In the style of “You Really Got Me” • In the style of “Gloria” • In the style of “Gimme Some Lovin” • In the style of “Hang On Sloopy” • In the style of “Louie, Louie” • In the style of “Another Brick In The Wall” • In the style of “Cocaine” • Reading Scale Diagrams • Moveable: The Box Pattern, The Major Triad, The Major 6 Arpeggio • Bass Styles: The Baion Style, Applying The Baion Rhythm • Early Rhythm and Blues Style • Beginning Slap and Pop Technique • Slap Bass Style • Slap Bass Groove • Basic Theory: Whole Steps Vs. Half Steps • Basic Theory: Sharps vs Flats • Open Position: Note Inventory • What’s Possible?? • Matching: Bass Players.