✅ Do you long to create your own bass lines and feel stuck trying to create great ones?
✅ Have you always wanted to learn music theory but felt it was too overwhelming a task?
✅ Have you given up on books that are geared toward pianists, advanced Jazz players, or classical musicians?
✅ Do you know lots of songs, but don’t know how the chords are put together or how they work with the melody?
👉 If so, this is the book for you!
Here’s why:
🎯 Starting with intervals as music’s basic building blocks, you will explore scales and their modes, chords and the basics of harmony.
🎯 Packed with fretboard diagrams, musical examples, and exercises, this resource features over 180 pages of essential information, along with mind-bending quizzes, effective mnemonics, and engaging learning approaches.
🎯 Extensive and detailed photo demonstrations show why relaxed posture and optimized fingering are vital for good tone, timing, and chops.
🎯 You can even work your way through the book without being able to read music which becomes easier once theory is mastered.*
👉 Music Theory for the Bass Player is a foundational and immediately applicable guide to making you a well-grounded groover, informed bandmate, and all-around more creative musician.
📺 This book comes with 89 online streaming videos.
✏️ This is a workbook, so have bass and pencil ready!
👉 Learning theory on the fretboard using diagrams is very accessible and immediately usable.
Get the 89 videos that come with it below
Smaller Stores we love who are carrying our book:
Spiral binding allows the book to conveniently lie flat on a music stand.
US buyers can get it on Amazon;
International buyers, please check out our store.
TIP: if you already bought the perfect bound version you can go to a print shop (FEDEX, Office Max, UPS) and ask for the spine to be cut off and coil binding put in. They often do this while you wait. It will look exactly like our version!
NOTE: this book is not available as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. Counterfeit versions sometimes circulate on Amazon/Kindle which are of low quality (scanned hard copies) and not approved by the author.
If you come across such a book please send us the link where you bought it and we can help you get a refund.