This electronic download of Bass Method v2 for Mac from eMedia Music features over 140 lessons and over 30 videos that provide a fast and easy way to learn the basics of playing the bass guitar. Some of the topics teacher and bassist John Arbo delivers include how to tune the bass, read bass tabs and notes, play bass scales, and how to master common bass parts.
Interactive feedback technologies, like the Note and Finger Tracker, make learning bass faster and fun, especially the bass lessons that use popular songs. Music tracking highlights notes as they are played, and variable speed MIDI tracks allows for slowing down songs for detailed practicing. Bass-Only audio and No Bass tracks aid in understanding how parts fit together.
Over 140 step-by-step lessons
Animated Fretboard displays bass fingerings to make it easy to learn how to read bass tabs, notes and how to play bass parts
Note and Finger Tracker, which lets you see the bass notes you play in notation and on the Animated Fretboard as the bass software listens to your playing using the computer's microphone/audio input
Bass lessons with split-screen video that display both right and left hand bass technique
Automatic bass tuner, recorder, guitar chord dictionary and digital metronome - crucial tools to learn how to play bass
Easy bass songs and bass parts to keep it fun while you learn how to play bass
Songs and bass guitar lessons as audio and MIDI tracks where selections can be looped, slowed or sped up
Chapter on music theory covering intervals, bass scales and chords shows how to create your own bass lines
Includes popular songs with distinct bass lines
Songs include bass-only and no-bass options so you can play along with the band, plus MIDI versions of the bass part you can slow down or speed up
Song looping lets you repeat any section of music
Guitar chord strums are available for reference
Many songs also used in eMedia Guitar Method, so you can play along with friends taking guitar lessons