Alfred's PLAY: Beginning Electric Bass: Bass Guitar CD-ROM

Structured yet unhurried. The video format eliminates the pressure of a live lesson while keeping you accountable to real musical content across genres that matter to modern players. You're learning from someone who knows bass deeply, without having to find a practice slot that works for both of you.

Beginning electric bass players who learn better from video than from printed exercises, and anyone who cannot commit to a fixed lesson time each week. This works equally well for self-taught players building fundamentals and for students preparing for or supplementing private lessons.

• Play along with the video lessons at half speed first. Most players rush the early exercises, and slowing the tempo trains your hands to lock in before you try matching the instructor's pace.
• Mute the strings with your left hand while focusing on right-hand technique for the first week. Clean technique matters more than speed, and isolating one hand eliminates the cognitive load of coordinating both.
• Return to the same lesson three times over a month instead of moving forward after one viewing. Muscle memory develops through repetition, not breadth.

Use this as the foundation for a self-paced bass curriculum in your studio or school, particularly for students whose schedules make traditional lessons difficult. It also serves as a reinforcement tool between lessons, giving students structured material to work on independently.

• Proper left-hand finger placement and fretting technique
• Right-hand muting, pick control, and tone production
• Basic major and minor scales across the fretboard
• Reading bass clef notation and correlating it to fretboard position
• Playing common rhythmic patterns in rock, blues, jazz, country, and folk idioms
• Finger strength and endurance for sustaining longer practice sessions