Modern Band Method – Bass, Book 1

A Beginner's Guide for Group or Private Instruction

The Modern Band Method series provides a guided lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and many popular songs by the biggest artists of the day! This bass method works in tandem with the other instrument methods in the series, allowing students to play the same songs together as a full band!

Bass lessons include:

• Tuning

• Reading music and tablature

• Walking/picking patterns

• Notes and scales

• Using passing tones

• Popular rock and pop bass lines

• Creating solid grooves

• Muting and slides

• Syncopation

• Composing a song

• Writing lyrics

Song List

Baba O'Riley
Back In Black
Bad
Best Day Of My Life
Billie Jean
Can't Stop The Feeling!
Come As You Are
Come Together
Dazed And Confused
Doo Wop (That Thing)
The Edge Of Glory
Evil Ways
Ex-Factor
5446, That's My Number
Free Fallin'
Give It Away
Haiti
Halo
Heathens
Hey There Delilah
Hypnotize
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
I Gotta Feeling
Imagine
Kick Push
Larger Than Life
Let's Groove
Livin' On A Prayer
My Own Worst Enemy
One Nation Under A Groove Oye Como Va
Runnin' With The Devil
Sail
Say It Ain't So
See You Again
Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
Seven Nation Army
Shout
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Someone Like You
Stir It Up
Stray Cat Strut
Sunshine Of Your Love
Supermassive Black Hole
25 Or 6 To 4
U Can't Touch This
Umbrella
Under Pressure
Underneath It All
Uptown Funk
Waiting In Vain
Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)
Wake Me Up
Wannabe
What Makes You Beautiful
Wild Thing
With Or Without You
Without You
World-A-Music
You Know I'm No Good
Zombie

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