Bass Books

Easy Beginniner Bass Guitar Book
This beginner bass book teaches the basics of tab, tuning, and caring for the bass guitar. Includes several easy songs.

B-EBBG Easy Beginniner Bass Guitar Book
Special $2.95

Best of Bluegrass Book/CD
Ten must-know songs arranged note-for-note for fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, reso, and bass. CD contains original recordings by Jimmy Martin with Ricky Skaggs, Mac Wiseman, Merle Travis, Jim & Jesse, and others. In tab, notation, and chords.

B-690636bcd Best of Bluegrass Book/CD
List $24.95 Our Price $21.45

Upright Bass Primer Book/CD
B-BA-UPB Upright Bass Primer Book/CD
This book has everything the novice upright bassist needs, with an emphasis on technique and several bluegrass standards to learn right away.

Our Price $14.95

D-BA-UPB Introduction to Upright Bass DVD
Split screen for left and right-hands, tab, and several "bass-ic" songs make this a fine beginners DVD from Andy Hohwald.
List $14.95 Our Price $12.50

All Star Bluegrass Jam-Along for Bass BOOK/CD
These fabulous collections for players of all levels feature 21 must-know bluegrss songs & instrumentals, created especially for learning players by the genre's leading artists.

B-641947 All Star Bluegrass Jam-Along for Bass BOOK/CD
List $19.95 Our Price $17.95

A Bass Player's Guide To Jamming by Carl Yaffey
Book and CD
This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate bass player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe the anatomy of a jam session, jam session etiquette and chords and keys for jamming.

B-21289bcd Bass Player's Guide To Jamming List $14.95
Special $12.75

Electric Bass Chord Reference Wall Chart
Presents chord arpeggio diagrams for fourteen chord types from each chromatic root.

WC-94403 Electric Bass Chord Reference Wall Chart - Your Price $5.95

First Lessons Bass BOOK/CD/DVD from Janet Davis Music - The Banjo Store

First Lessons Series Book/CD/DVD
First Lessons is an ultra-easy instruction manual for beginners.
It can be used by those with no previous experience with the instrument.

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List Price: $14.95
B-99933set - Bass Book/CD/DVD SPECIAL: $13.45

Bluegrass Bass Favorites by Fred Neumann from Janet Davis Music - The Banjo Store

Bluegrass Bass Favorites BOOK by Fred Neumann
This timeless book presents suggested bass lines for dozens of bluegrass favorites, offering the root
and the fifth for each chord in the progression in guitar-friendly keys. No music, tab, or lyrics are
included in this book.

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B-20314 - Bass Favorites List Price: $9.95 SPECIAL: $8.95

50 Tunes for Bass from Janet Davis Music - The Banjo Store

50 Tunes for Bass - BOOK/3 CDs
The parts in this book range from beginner to advanced.
arranged in "basic," "active" and "solo" levels. Basic, a standard accompaniment mode is
the simplest level of bass playing. Active bass is a mixture of basic accompaniment and
"walking" which is common in jazz music.
3 CDs enclosed. Written in notation and tablature.
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B-99940bcd - 50 Bass Tunes List: $29.95 SPECIAL: $26.95

New!!! Mastering The Bass - Book 1 with CD!!!
A Comprehensive Method For Upright Bass as well as Electric Bass This comprehensive course provides a thorough, gradual study which is excellently written and easy to follow. The author provides the student with a strong rhythmic foundation, upon which bass playing must be built. Examples and studies are written for upright bass as well as for electric bass. Also included are a myriad of open string and first position studies, vamp patterns and more. The intention is not to limit the player to the low positions but to insure the mastery of the bass register as well as all other registers of the instrument and introduce a wide range of musical examples.
B-96878bcd Mastering The Bass - Book 1 Book and CD $21.95

New!!! Mastering The Bass - Book 2
A Comprehensive Method For Electric And Upright Bass
In Book 2 you will continue to build strong technique, ears and musicality, with obtainable goals,
relative to those accomplished in book 1. A good deal of shifting and position studies are
presented to help players learn to navigate the fingerboard. For Upright bassists there are bowing
exercises and variations, as well as an explanation of bow articulations. In addition you will find
further explanation of theory, which includes: triads, inversions, basic, diatonic harmony, minor scales,
modes and simple chord-progressions analysis.

B-99567bcd Mastering The Bass - Book 2 Book and CD $21.95

Ray Brown's BASS METHOD
Recommended for EVERY bass player!
Essential Scales, Patterns, Chords and Exercises
In notation and fingering tab.
135 pages (List: $12.95)
B-695308 Book: $10.95

The Lost Art of Country Bass by Ketih Rosier
This book is full of helpful instruction and information for upright and electric bass players. 33 songs with the full band backing, in the style of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzel, Marty Stuart, Cedric Rainwater, David Ball, Ray Price and more. Most is very applicable to the bluegrass bass player as well. Exercises, lessons, learn to play in any key and more.
B-695107 Book/CD: $17.95

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