Bass Method: For the Beginning Electric Bassist

I bought this for my 14-year-old son who recently decided to give the bass a try after watching me play it for so long. While I can teach him what I know, I wanted him to learn how to read sheet music, which I have limited experience with (I just play by ear).Seeing as how this is marketed to the "beginning electric bassist," I thought I'd give it a try for him. BAD DECISION ON MY PART! I can't believe how rapid the instructor moves through the lessons. My son had this blank look on his face during the first 30 minutes and I could tell that he was not absorbing a thing. This DVD really needs an instructional booklet to follow along with.I do NOT recommend you waste your money on this DVD. I ordered "Bass Guitar for Dummies" yesterday (although he's NO dummy) because those series of instructional books do a great job at explaining the subject very well. After he finishes the book, he may revisit this DVD. We'll see how it goes.

For some reason, I thought I was getting the book and the DVD but only got the DVD. Then I read the description again and sure enough, it's just the DVD. So it pays to READ before you buy. But it's still good. I did, however, go to a music store and buy the book because I need to see the music. It wasn't real clear on my very old TV.

I would recommend this DVD tutorial for a beginning bassist--- I have learned quite a bit from being able to follow the very well laid out lesson chapters. I was not aware of how well Ed Friedland was going to cover studying recognition of "reading music" but I think he covers it very well---It is very challenging to try and learn to recognize / read the music and also be able to play quickly but that's what learning is all about!! It isn't easy but is well rewarding--- I will continue to learn from this DVD and enjoy the fact that you can go back over each chapter and still pick up a lot of great knowledge--- It gets a "thumbs-up" from me---

It works. Ed Friedland teaches it and he is known as the bass whisperer. Boring yes but teaches a beginner well. We were all there once. All of the more advanced stuff by Ed is like "holy cow this guy is good".

I have been playing guitars for years and have always liked to pick up a bass and pluck it. I finally decided to buy my own to learn to actually play it. Once I got this DVD I realized I was already beyond what is taught on most of this video but I still learned some details I didn't know. It is very good as intended for a total beginner and is a very good value for what it teaches so I recommend it.

This book is actually three books in one and the contains three DVDs. The books are well written and the DVDs are very clear and you can backup what you don't understand and play it again. The two best how to do books and DVDs that are purchased are Bass Method: For the Beginning of Electric Bassist and Bass Guitar for Dummies. I have advanced Parkinson's disease which makes playing difficult, but with the two books and DVDs that I just mentioned I am able to go over and over until I am able to do it correctly.

I guess there's some information in there but Mr friedland is utterly boring and dry, so much so it is impossible to learn, he never stops or repeats it's just right onto the next thing and your like wait! Even in the section that is supposed to help you tune your guitar he only plays each note ONCE, like SERIOUSLY? Tuning takes many small adjustmeets and I had to rewind like 10 times for each note. I also bought the book and it's awesome! Way better and it comes with cds for tuning and all the examples, way better than This im pretty sure it's just Mr friedlands idea to make the Manimum amount of money off of his program. The book gets a 5 out of 5 but don't be tricked by this, you won't end up using it and it's just gonna sit on your shelf.

the dvd gave me a good start to learning to play the bass

Wer sich mithilfe der "Hal Leonard Bass Method" (am besten gleich die dreibändige 'Complete Edition') des gleichen Autors, das E-Bass Spielen autodidaktisch beibringen will, sollte gleich - oder vorher - diese DVD mitbestellen. Hier wird visualisiert, was man in den ersten Stunden bzw. Kapiteln wissen möchte. Und das zu einem fairem Preis. Und wer die DVD hat, sollte umgekehrt das Buch dazu erwerben ...Zur Methode selbst: Ed Friedland benutzt die '1-2-4 Fingering' Technik (im Ggs. zum 'one finger per fret' System) und kommt mit den Übungen schnell und ohne Ballast mit vielen Übungen zur Sache.

Ed macht das auf eine sehr profunde, erfahrene und sympatische Weise. Macht Spass und ein Lerneffekt stellt sich auch ein.