Book with online audio & video. A step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs. Designed for self-teaching or with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, and practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts. The bass guitar book features lessons on: bass fundamentals, music reading, tuning, the 1-5 pattern, arpeggios, grooves, position shifts, scales, syncopation, chromatics, swing/shuffle feel, and blues, funk & rock styles. Includes full bass lines from five real songs: "Get Ready" (The Temptations), "I Shot the Sheriff" (Bob Marley & The Wailers), "Seven Nation Army" (The White Stripes), "Smooth" (Santana), and "Super Freak" (Rick James). Note/tab. 32 pp.