eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies
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Start Playing Bass Today the Bass Guitar For Dummies Way
Now you can learn bass the fast and easy way with a great combination of For Dummies fun and eMedia interactive music technologies in eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies. Accomplished bassist and teacher John Arbo takes you through a complete bass tutorial with over 70 bass lessons that show you how to tune the bass, read bass tabs and notes, play bass scales and master common bass parts. eMedia Interactive Feedback technologies, like the Note and Finger Tracker, make learning bass faster. Bass lessons use popular, easy bass songs like “Rock’n Me” by Steve Miller and the Grateful Dead’s “Uncle John’s Band” to make learning how to play bass fun.
The Fast and Easy Way to Learn to Play Bass Guitar!
Over 70 step-by-step bass guitar lessons are arranged in four chapters, the lessons cover the basics from holding, stringing, and tuning the bass guitar to playing simple bass lines and catchy rhythms with fills, syncopation, and shuffle rhythms. Lessons include a variety of exercises and songs. There are over 30 high quality videos that are now viewable at full-screen size! On-screen teacher John Arbo provides clear and friendly instruction.
eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable! Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as:
- Bob Dylan (“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”)
- The Steve Miller Band (“Rock’n Me”)
- The Grateful Dead (“Uncle John’s Band”)
- Los Lobos (“La Bamba”)
- Creedance Clearwater Revival (“Midnight Special”)
Also included are popular songs, including “Scarborough Fair” and many others!
Anyone Can Learn How to Play Bass

John Arbo has been teaching bass for over 25 years and has served on the music faculty of the New School in New York City. He has performed with Liza Minelli, Les Paul, and has been the bassist for many Broadway shows.





Instant Feedback Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your bass as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a bass in your hands, play the notes in the exercise (or song) on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in the upper right corner and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green.




Attention Educators, please visit our academic product page for information on using this product in schools or for private group instruction.
Start Playing Bass Today the Bass Guitar For Dummies Way
Now you can learn bass the fast and easy way with a great combination of For Dummies fun and eMedia interactive music technologies in eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies. Accomplished bassist and teacher John Arbo takes you through a complete bass tutorial with over 70 bass lessons that show you how to tune the bass, read bass tabs and notes, play bass scales and master common bass parts. eMedia Interactive Feedback technologies, like the Note and Finger Tracker, make learning bass faster. Bass lessons use popular, easy bass songs like “Rock’n Me” by Steve Miller and the Grateful Dead’s “Uncle John’s Band” to make learning how to play bass fun.
The Fast and Easy Way to Learn to Play Bass Guitar!
Over 70 step-by-step bass guitar lessons are arranged in four chapters, the lessons cover the basics from holding, stringing, and tuning the bass guitar to playing simple bass lines and catchy rhythms with fills, syncopation, and shuffle rhythms. Lessons include a variety of exercises and songs. There are over 30 high quality videos that are now viewable at full-screen size! On-screen teacher John Arbo provides clear and friendly instruction.
eMedia Bass Guitar For Dummies features songs in a variety of genres to make learning fun and memorable! Our latest version includes dynamic, enhanced, multi-track audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists, such as:
- Bob Dylan (“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”)
- The Steve Miller Band (“Rock’n Me”)
- The Grateful Dead (“Uncle John’s Band”)
- Los Lobos (“La Bamba”)
- Creedance Clearwater Revival (“Midnight Special”)
Also included are popular songs, including “Scarborough Fair” and many others!
Anyone Can Learn How to Play Bass

John Arbo has been teaching bass for over 25 years and has served on the music faculty of the New School in New York City. He has performed with Liza Minelli, Les Paul, and has been the bassist for many Broadway shows.





Instant Feedback Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your bass as you progress through an exercise. With a microphone connected to your computer and a bass in your hands, play the notes in the exercise (or song) on any screen featuring the “ear” icon in the upper right corner and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green.




Attention Educators, please visit our academic product page for information on using this product in schools or for private group instruction.
Contents Summary
Introduction
I. About the Bass
Types of basses and their parts; stringing; tuning; holding the bass; string numbering; hand and finger position; musical alphabet and the fretboard; right- and left-hand exercises; first bass line.
II. Simple Bass Lines with Catchy Rhythms
String dampening; right- and left-hand finger techniques; major scales; creating bass lines using major triads; rhythmic possibilities for bass lines; the “Intergalactic Bass Rhythm” with variations; first syncopated rhythms.
III. Developing More Bass Lines and Fills
Shifting from triad to triad; building bass lines combining rhythms with triads; changing bass patterns within a song; fingering rule exceptions; minor scales; minor triads; creating bass lines for songs using major and minor triads; fills and how to use them; bass lines with slash chords.
IV. Walkups, Walkdowns and Syncopation
Walkups and walkdowns; changing positions; connecting chords; fills within sections; eighth-note fills; understanding the blues or shuffle rhythms; learning new syncopated rhythms; using syncopation with chord notes; introducing the eighth-note groove and its rhythmic possibilities.
Appendix
Button symbols; commands and shortcuts; Animated Fretboard; song looping; tools (Metronome, Recorder, and Finger Tracker); bass set-up; amplifying the bass; Instant Feedback.
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System requirements
Windows®: Windows 11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XPDownload or CD-ROM Macintosh®: macOS 10.5 to 10.14 *
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