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Hal Leonard; 2nd Revised ed. edition (May 1, 1996)

Hal Leonard Bass Method - Complete Edition: Books 1, 2 and 3 Bound Together in One Easy-to-Use Volume! by Ed Friedland

Hal Leonard Bass Method - Complete Edition: Books 1, 2 and 3 Bound Together in One Easy-to-Use Volume! by Ed Friedland is Returning to bass playing after a long layoff, I find this book interesting, up to date, and very helpful rebuilding my skills. I'd recommend this book to a beginner in an instant. There is no CD in this book, all recorded material is online. You can choose to download the recorded material, but I have to mention the online player is terrific, with A-B repeat, speed and pitch adjustments! I've found myself simply logging in and using the online player instead of downloading all the content. I also like the spiral binding, all music books should be bound this way. I'm using this book in parallel with Friedland's Blues Bass book. The two pair well together.

Hal Leonard Bass Method - Complete Edition: Books 1, 2 and 3 Bound Together in One Easy-to-Use Volume! by Ed Friedland is I’ve played bass casually for close to 15 years and professionally for the last two - in this time I’ve learned a lot of songs and hardly anything about theory. I’ve tried other books that used bass clef and tabs. While this seems convenient, I found it impossible to ween myself off of tab. This book has no tab and eases you right in. I received the book about two and a half hours ago and for the first time in my career I’m looking at a bass clef and knowing which notes I’m supposed to play. I look forward to the rest of what this book has to offer. So far it’s very user friendly and has helpful mnemonics that have been missing from my compendium of bass knowledge for years. I highly recommend for a beginner, or for someone like me who knows a lot of songs and plays a lot but can’t read or understand the theory.

Hal Leonard Bass Method - Complete Edition: Books 1, 2 and 3 Bound Together in One Easy-to-Use Volume! by Ed Friedland is If you are a Kindle, Android or PC Cloud user DO NOT get the KIndle addition!!!! I feel as though I have been conned by Amazon on this book. No where do they reveal that the audio will only work on Apple products.As for the book itself I have used Hal Leonard books for several instruments and find them well written and extremely helpful. The accompanying audio is one of the biggest assets. T So while I love the book (5 stars) I am extremely annoyed at Amazon for devaluing the experience by more than half. If I could give a rating to Amazon on this eBook experience it would be zero stars.

Hal Leonard Bass Method - Complete Edition: Books 1, 2 and 3 Bound Together in One Easy-to-Use Volume! by Ed Friedland is I bought this book because Mel Bay's Deluxe Jazz & Rock Bass Method was such a turn off for me. Mel Bay's exercises were intentionally not melodic, and the technique Mel Bay recommends (One Fret Per Finger) is painful for my hands -- I had to pivot in order to do it at all, and Mel Bay told me not to do that! This Hal Leonard book is miles better -- each of the exercises is fun! And in every way their technique suggestions directly address the problems I actually had. And I'm glad I got the 3-volume set...the first volume, I more or less got down in about a month (I have a lot of experience with non-guitar instruments), but the second volume is still giving me loads of challenge. I can tell it will be months before I am ready to even look at the third volume, and even after I've "mastered" (hah, right) all of the material, the exercises will be fun for a lifetime. And one other thing I loved is how easy it was to download all of the exercises as one big .ZIP file from the website. For me, I could use the MP3 players I already know and love, and that is a big deal to me. I was worried there would be some sort of DRM nightmare, and it was the exact opposite.