Whether you've never held a bass before or you're looking to improve your skills, this resource is a complete guide to playing bass guitar. Pfeiffer provides fresh, updated practice lessons, teaching techniques, and access to online sample tracks to hone your skills.

Provides step-by-step instructions on the basics of playing the guitar and reading music.

The incredible diversity of the bass guitar is revealed in this newly revised, all-inclusive style guide. Each chapter covers particular styles or families of styles, gradually introducing players to techniques that will allow them to get the most out of their instrument and easily increase their bass repertoire. More than 400 bass grooves are presented, spanning an excess of 100 styles that musicians can follow along with on each of the two accompanying...

The story of the instrument and its great makers, a graded course of exercises help you master folk, rock & pop, blues, country, jazz, bluegrass, celtic, bottleneck, world music, gipsy jazz, and advanced fingerstyle.

Presents a guide to playing the guitar for young readers, explaining how to hold a pick, find each chord, and improvise. If you're a beginning guitarist, this book will guide you through everything you need to know. Holton explains how to hold a pick, find each chord, and improvise.

A realistic approach for beginners or guitar players with little experience, guitarist Jason Shepherd guides you through eight weeks of lessons designed to show you all the basics of beginning guitar, acoustic and electric.