Bass for Kids – Hal Leonard Beginner Bass Method | Step-by-Step Lessons with Popular Songs | Learn Notes, Counting, and Technique | Online Audio ... Instruction Book (Hal Leonard Bass Method)

Got this for my son who wanted to learn the bass. He is a visual learner. This book has lots of pictures of hand and finger placement for chords. My son was originally skeptical about it. After a couple days though he asked if they have an advanced book cause it was so helpful for him.

Fantastic book for kids. Teaches using pieces of cool rock songs, not stodgy old songs and exercises like a lot of method books. Our 7-year-old really responded well to this book and learned quickly. The MP3 examples and jam-along tracks were a great confidence builder. Many have a slow version with a metronome and the bass only as well as a band arrangement minus the bass at the normal tempo. He loved jamming along and "rocking out" with the band arrangements.My only complaints (which are minor) are... 1. The arrangement is incorrect for the "Every Breath You Take" excerpt that is used in the book. This required some "unlearning" when he started working on the complete song.2. About halfway through the book is the song "Hard Days Night" which has the student learn the intro, verse, and chorus sections. I don't know why they didn't include the bridge section as well. It's any harder than the rest of the parts and would allow the student to be able to play a complete song. I showed my son how to play the bridge section in a couple of minutes and with a few tries he was playing the whole song.3. I wish the band arrangement play-along MP3's were much longer. They are mostly just a couple of bars long which is OK. However, having play-along MP3's that are longer promote two things, stamina and learning the ability to find your place in the song if you mess up. I ended up using a DAW to cut up and extend many of the MP3's so that they were at least two minutes long.All-in-all I highly recommend this book! It was a very successful first method book for our son and got him excited about playing the bass.

Love this beginner's book. Has songs we can recognize. Very jazzy.

Well-written book but I can't find the audio tracks that go with it.

This is good curriculum from both the teacher and student perspective.

Perfect for beginners at any age level. Helps keep your interest in playing, by easy lessons on popular songs.

He loved it

My son loves it and is picking it up very quickly.

Sono molto contento di questo metodo, lo sto usando con mia figlia di 6 anni e risulta molto efficace. Spero facciano un secondo volume!

Un bon llibre d’intoducció al baix, accessible per als més joves i amb una corba de dificultat acceptable per què no perdin l’interès. Hi ha força riffs i melodies conegudes (també és important de cara a encoratjar els pares a acompanyar els fills en l’aprenentatge), encara que només unes tres cançons senceres. En definitiva, un petit tast per entrar al món del baix elèctric i un aperitiu per seguir endavant amb il·lusió. Prou recomanable i a un bon preu.

Perfect for teaching individual or in groups.Easy for kids to grasp with a teacher to guide them. Worth the money.

I love this new series for guitar and bass. I am a teacher and the backing tracks are so excellent,, singing and all! One fleetwood mac track almost sounded like the original! It's amount time we had more updated material for beginners books. So looking forward to more of these from Hal leonard.

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