Upright Bass Primer Book for Beginners

Book excerpt: The Upright Bass Primer Book for Beginners with Online Video & Audio Access by Andy Hohwald is an instructional course that focuses on the beginning bluegrass player and emphasizes proper playing technique. This instrument may also be known as a double bass, contrabass, standup bass, bass violin, or bass fiddle. These beginner lessons will guide the student through learning parts of the bass, proper playing position, tuning the bass, right and left hand technique, marking the positions, how to read tablature, playing notes, and how to play with other instruments. The book focuses on playing in a folk or bluegrass style and will teach the beginner how to play several bluegrass standards. This course includes online access to audio tracks and over an hour of video instruction with split screens that allow for close up views of the left and right hand along with on-screen tablature. Songs include Tom Dooley, Pretty Polly, Going Down That Road, Worried Man Blues, Rueben's Train, Soldier's Joy, John Hardy, Nine Pound Hammer, Sittin' On Top Of The World, Dark Hollow, Billy In The Lowground, Cryin Holy, Little Maggie, Pallet On Your Floor, Wabash Cannonball, and Way Downtown. - Watch & Learn, Inc.