How to Play Bass Guitar in 14 Days: Daily Bass Lessons for Beginners (Play Music in 14 Days)

I like this book alot. It is a methodical approach to learning the bass guitar and the online soundbites help. It took me alot longer to get through the book because my non calloused fingers simply got sore! Anyone could follow the instruction, just don't expect a 2 week miracle where you play like Paul McCartney.

It takes more than 14 days! But my grandson says it’s good.

This book went way too fast to learn anything as you couldn't practice as you were trying to learn. Too advanced for a real beginner.

The book starts off really slow, but don't gloss over the exercises, you will definitely need to build on them as you go. The lessons build in intensity with the exercises and counting until the last two lessons, where it will catapult you into the world of Bass. If you have understood and practiced each section carefully during the last week, the excitement is hard to contain and tremendous restraint is required on day 13 to keep you off of day 14 until you really own the previous day. Day 14 has you playing a couple of intense songs which are really good, throwing in all the tricks. The last song, as they say, "is above your paygrade", but a real delight to practice for the days to come.When you have played the Day 14 songs until you own them and start goofing around after the 1 beats, you are ready to get into a local band that is preparing to gig parties and similar events while the band tightens it's chops together to start clubbing.You will have done everything you have to know how to do with the book, (Rhythms, bends, Hammerons/pulloffs passing notes, etc), then it's a matter of spending time putting them into the songs that the band wants to play. Record every practice with the band, and work in the things you learned between jam/practice sessions with the band. Practice hard until you get a set, and you'll never look back.

Easy to follow.

If you have just picked up a bass for the first time and are looking for some direction beyond tab videos on YouTube, this is surprisingly decent. Though If you have been playing for any amount of time at all this book is most likely useless to you.

I am an experienced guitar player but want to learn to play bass, so I have a pretty good knowledge of music theory. This book has definitely helped me, I am about halfway through and I've discovered that bass is more of a different instrument to learn. The lessons are manageable, but instead of 90 minute sessions I've found it's effective to go through a session in 30-40 minutes, then repeat it the next day for another 30-40 minutes. The early lessons are a little boring, but you build on the early stuff later on. I definitely recommend this book.

I was the last person to ever think I would learn bass from a book and not video instruction, but this is a well written book and it definitely broke the ice for me! It is a must buy! So good, i purchased the pentatonic scale version as well. The included audio clips make it 100% worth every penny. Listen as you read, then play it back.

I found this to be a good book but I was quickly in over my head with some of the terminology within a few pages. The authors should spend more time explaining things like 3rds and 4ths before jumping right into them without more basic background about what they are talking about. Hopefully they will consider this in the next version.

Of course, you will not be a Marcus Miller after 14 days, but if you give this book the time it asks for and follow it lesson by lesson, you will already be deeper in than most methods will take you in a couple of months.If, like me, you are starting from absolute zero on the bass, then this book will be both challenging and rewarding, and give you a firm enough footing to to not feel totally out of your depth when you start on longer, more involved courses. Be prepared for a pretty spartan slog, but a slog that leaves you feeling exhilirated at the end.The book uses tabulature which, compared with standard musical scoring, is a shockingly easy-to-use form of musical notation. So it won’t help you if you want to talk to other musicians in terms like “C scale” or “F sharp,” but it will get you playing quickly, and reading a very common type of sheet music for basses and guitars. At the beginning, this is what you want the most.I started from zero, and pretty much followed the plan laid out by the author, though I would spend the first half of practice reviewing the previous day’s lesson, and hit then new stuff in the second half. This meant it took me more like 3 weeks than two, but it sank in much better that way.By the time you make it through the song at the end of the first week, you will feel amazing, and completing the songs at the end of the second week will give you confidence to approach anything.

for a beginner too much theory & complicated to understand

Well laid out and effective. Excellent value.

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