Let's face it---we all practice in front of the TV sometimes, so why not make the best of it? The Couch Potato Bass Workout is a fun, straightforward, no-frills approach to building bass technique while watching your favorite TV show or just vegging out on the couch. It's perfect for bassists of all levels and styles looking to develop speed, strength, and accuracy. Learn the proper posture for sitting on a couch while playing bass, how to practice without driving your couchmate crazy, basic finger mechanics, and even ways to work your flexors and extensors. With tons of exercises and licks to develop your technique in astonishing ways, The Couch Potato Bass Workout is your ticket to advancing as a bassist---all while sitting on your couch! "...packed with cute, clever, and comprehensive tips for exercising both brain and body." - Bass Player magazine Learn More

With DiY Electric Bass there are no limitations to how, when, or where you learn. This clear and easy-to-follow approach is your blueprint to playing right away. No teacher is necessary since lessons are simple to follow---with corresponding video lessons and audio accompaniments. The included media is available to stream or download, so you can watch video lessons, hear examples, and play along anywhere you have a computer or mobile device. Do it yourself---even if you have never touched a bass! No prior musical knowledge is needed. Make your dreams come true with this perfectly priced book and media package. Learn More

Bass basics, major scales and modes, harmonic and melodic minor scales and modes, arpeggio patterns and symmetric scales (whole tone and diminished). Serious Electric Bass is a definitive, comprehensive, user-friendly guide for electric bassists of all levels. 279 pages. Learn More

Jazz Philharmonic is a series of original jazz compositions offered in a carefully constructed pedagogical order. All of the tunes, backgrounds and solos are self-contained performance vehicles. Absolutely no improvisation is necessary for the successful use of this book! Development of some skill with improvisation will be a natural result of its use. The accompanying Compact Disc creates a great avenue for beginning improvisation as well as playing some great jazz tunes. Learn More

Well-paced with lots of photos, diagrams and music in TAB, this book makes it easy to go from buying your first bass to mastering fundamental techniques. 48 pages. Learn More

Todd takes the mystery out of learning to play walking bass lines by breaking it down into small bite-sized chunks that anyone can digest. Featuring standard notation and TAB for all exercises on topics such as strong beat/weak beat theory, ear training, major and minor triads, chromatic approaches, and more, this is an opportunity to learn from a true artist and master of the electric bass! Learn More

A comprehensive new edition based on major revisions to Reid's The Evolving Bassist and Evolving Upward. Contains more transcriptions of Reid's recorded solos, original compositions arranged as duets, new etudes, and additional ways to learn tunes and conceive better bass lines. The Evolving Bassist will continue to be an all-inclusive bass player's reference book as well as a classic method book. Learn More

The Ultimate Beginners Series gets aspiring musicians started immediately with classic rock and blues riffs, chord patterns and more. Now, for the first time ever, the UBS Bass Basics, Rock Bass and Blues Bass are combined in one complete book and DVD set. Follow along with 4 hours of DVD instruction and 3 hours of audio tracks, with the help of on-screen graphics and printed diagrams. Learn More

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Alfred's Basic Bass Method is the newest addition to the family, and features clear, well-paced instruction covering popular styles like rock, blues, country, and jazz. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Bass Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning bass students. Book 1 covers all the necessities including how to hold your bass, tuning your bass, right- and left-hand technique, the basics of reading music, notes on all four strings, scales, licks, songs, how to read TAB, and playing slides and accents. Learn More