Liebman Media

From James Jamerson and Bootsy Collins to John Entwistle and Flea, this book examines the genesis of the bass. It includes transcriptions, lessons, bios, equipment, photos, historical facts and more (click on product for full description).

This enjoyable and challenging exercise routine will prepare you for the rigors of contemporary bass playing and sharpen your technique. Don't let another day go by without making this a perfect new addition to your bass library (Click on product for full description).

This book/CD set teaches 101 jazz bass patterns played over chords fundamental to jazz. Ideal for those who play blues, country, folk, classical or rock and want to venture into jazz. Companion CD included. (Click on product for full description)

This book/CD collection showcases a variety of bass patterns that can be used in literally thousands of songs. The book also provides several pages of valuable music theory and other information on blues progressions (Click on product for full description).

Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backup track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your bass guitar.

This fun-filled, easy-to-use guide includes: an introduction to bass, step-by-step music reading instruction, how to play by ear and improvise, performing tips and a CD with over 90 tracks for demo and play-along. Over 40 popular songs (Click on product for full description).

This book/CD will open new horizons for you with this step-by-step tutorial into the techniques, theory and practical application of solo bass. Includes actual arrangements, recordings, notation and tablature (Click on product for full description).

Topics covered include intervals, chord symbols, key centers, passing tones, chromatic tones, sequences, blues, rhythm changes and other common progressions. In standard notation and TAB (Click on product for full description).

This is the ultimate method book for every bass player. It covers techniques, styles, grooves and their evolution, using more than 1000 musical examples! A most useful reference (Click on product for full description).

The Ultimate Beginners Series gets aspiring musicians started immediately with classic rock and blues riffs, chord patterns and more (Click on product for full description).

Bass for Kids is a fun, easy course that teaches children to play bass guitar faster than ever before. Popular songs such as “Crazy Train,” “Every Breath You Take” and more (Click on product for description and song list)

All you need to know about the bass fretboard, including scales, intervals, triads, modal patterns, keys, fingerings, position playing; arpeggios, turnarounds, walking bass lines, horizontal and more! For all styles of playing!

This instrumental guide offers expert advice on everything from choosing your bass to playing basic scales to improvising lead solos. You'll discover how to tune your bass and keep it in great shape, and much more. Companion CD (Click on product for full description).

This indispensable handbook helps players of all levels produce better, more creative, and more varied bass lines. This book provides an unrivaled digest of bass information that might otherwise take an entire career to amass (Click on product for full description).

Over 100 bass lines, including Chicago blues, Texas blues, surf, doo wop, heavy metal, punk, funk, bebop, modal jazz, reggae, bossa nova, samba, bluegrass, Texas swing, and many more. An indispensable reference guide that every bassist should have (Click on product for full description).

This handbook details the ins and outs of basses and equipment. Seminal interviews with great bassists include Jeff Berlin, Stanley Clarke, John Patitucci, Bill Wyman, and many others (Click on product for full description).

This one-on-lesson includes loads of exercises, diagrams, patterns, styles, and real-life applications to study and practice. The 43-track accompanying CD lets you play along with recorded examples to further fine-tune your jazz chops (click on product for full description).

Explore the creative process through your bass with this unique book/CD experience by opening your mind, identifying your strengths and weaknesses, and examining the many mental and physical aspects of being a bassist (Click on product for full description).

A guide to the essentials for double bass and electric bass (click on product for full description).

An in-depth look at 30 visionary players in styles ranging from pop and rock to world music and jazz. Players include Marcus Miller, Flea, Will Lee, Tony Levin, Jeff Berlin, Les Claypool, Christian McBride and many others (click on product for full description).

Bunny Brunel presents his methods for understanding modes, scales, chords, harmony and substitutions. Includes transcriptions of Brunel's mind-blowing solos, and his performance of the solos and examples on CD (click on product for full description).

The exercises in this book teach you new scales, fingerings, patterns and ideas, helping you master phrases that seemed impossible. Bunny's unique approach will get your fingers thinking in new ways on the fretboard (click on product for full description).

Ron Carter illustrates the basic concepts of creating bass lines. Includes a play-along CD with an all-star rhythm section and isolated bass parts (click on product for full description).

A collection of 36 different progressions with both guitar and bass parts written out. Includes a CD with guitar, bass and drums, demonstrating proper execution of each style (click on product for full description).

This book/CD set teaches the basics of country bass playing in a fun, "quick access" format. Includes the bass parts to 22 popular traditional songs, written in both tablature and standard notation (click on product for full description).

An excellent and thorough bass method designed for the development of technique and theory in the jazz and rock idioms, ear training, transposition, modulation, syncopation, duets, progressions, substitutions and much more.

This book will help you overcome your technical limitations and clear the path for true musical expression! With 100+ exercises to increase strength, flexibility, position-shifting skills, endurance and more (click on product for full description).

Renowned bassist Dom Palmer presents an in-depth insight into the key bass styles of rock and pop music from 1950 to the present. The CD contains backing tracks as well as demos played by Dominic and sought-after musician from London's pro circuit (click on product for full description).

A must for the beginning bass player. It not only provides hints on choosing the right instrument, but prepares you for practical exercises and different playing techniques. Features all the basic techniques of rock, soul, funk, blues and reggae (click on product for full description).

This book will teach you the fundamental knowledge to pursue your ambitions as a bass player, including the basic fundamentals, various playing techniques, finger exercises and rhythm exercises, scales, musical examples and more. Accompanying CD included.

This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything from basic to advanced techniques. An MP3 CD demonstrating examples in the book is included (click on product for complete description).

Electric Bass Technique Builders is a logical, organized, and concise method in which Todd teaches how to control the shape, attach, decay and articulation of the notes you play. Learn from a true artist and master! (Click on product for full description)

This book demonstrates different styles of music for bassists to play and provides ideas about what to play in different situations. Styles include Blues, Rock, Country, Funk, Latin, Jazz and Rhythm and Blues. CD included.

How to Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot and Modify Your Bass. In glorious full color throughout, this deluxe hardcover features 600+ photos and expert advice on choosing a bass, with detailed model histories (Click on product for full description).

A comprehensive source for learning the theory and geometry of the bass fingerboard by one of today's leading players and instructors. Audio features Gary Willis demonstrating 99 examples and exercises.

Learn the art of creating a solid fingerstyle funk bass groove, including hand position, tips for muting, and getting a good fingerstyle funk sound. Groove with attitude and confidence and take your bass playing to the next level! (Click on product for full description)

Flamenco Bass method is divided into Rumbas, Tangos, Tanguillos and Bulerías. The exercises are conducted in a progressive manner to assist in learning. CD includes 94 exercises + 4 loops. English/Spanish (Click on product for full description).

This book collects the very best interviews, lessons, and gear and maintenance guides with insight from over 25 masters, including Tony Levin, Marcus Miller, Gary Willis, Jimmy Haslip and Percy Jones (click on product for full description).

Learn to play in the style of Jaco Pastorius, Flea, Jack Bruce, Will Lee, Sting, Gary Willis and many others. 18 great songs: Continuum, Even Flow, Lady in Red, Tears in Heaven and more. CD features 92 full-band tracks (Click on product for full description).

Designed for drummers and bass players, this book/CD lays out a step-by-step approach to combining Afro-Cuban rhythms with rock, funk and jazz.

With this book and CD package you'll learn how to groove like the masters. You'll learn: phrasing and note placement, developing time feel, using your ears, tips for practicing, physical and mental techniques, and more (Click on product for full description).

Plenty of exercises and tons of groove ideas will put you in the pocket in no time. The companion CD includes full-band demo tracks of many of the examples in the book (Click on product for full description).

This book/CD provides bassists with insight into many of the scales used in jazz, as well as a thorough understanding of the wide variety of scales available for improvising. Applicable to both electric and upright bass (Click on product for full description).

This must-have manual for all bassists teaches how to play Afro-Cuban and Brazilian styles. Also includes a list of artists for recommended listening (Click on product for full description).

A thorough method for both electric and upright bass, designed to guide bassists to mastery. Covers rhythmic skills, grooves and practice in all styles, plus ear training, theory and more (Click on product for full description).

Picking up where Book 1 leaves off, Book 2 continues to build strong technique, ear skills and musicality with obtainable goals. Includes further explanations of theory and simple chord progression analysis and much more (Click on product for full description).

A thorough method for both electric and upright bass, designed to guide bassists to mastery. Buy both books together and save (Click on product for full description).

A thorough study of blues bass, covering many different blues styles from Texas swing to jazz and rock. Great for beginners to advanced players, this book will teach you everything you need to know to play the blues (Click on product for full description).

Now Roger Filiberto's widely-used beginning bass method is available in this all-inclusive book/DVD/CD set. This method has gained widespread acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study! (Click on product for full description)

This book/CD combination covers technique, articulation, fingerstyle and slap style funk, scales and modes, playing with a drummer, moving between chords and more. FREE U.S. SHIPPING!

This comprehensive method includes every conceivable aspect of jazz bass performance, including walking, 2-beat, syncopation Latin, bebop, blues, deadened-string technique, funk and more (Click on product for full description).

Open up your mind, and make playing bass a no-brainer! This all-in-one book takes a no-nonsense approach to learning bass in the styles of John Paul Jones, Jaco Pastorius, Flea and Billy Sheehan (Cick on product for complete description).

This amazing book and demonstration CD uses proven methods for comprehending and performing complex rhythms to make understanding, performing, and composing in odd meters easy and natural (Click on product for full description).

Glenn Letsch offers you a complete guide to learning the styles and techniques of James Jamerson, Bootsy Collins, George Porter, Jr., Donald (Duck) Dunn, Bob Babbitt and many others (Click on product for full description).

This book/CD provides guidance for the bassist, percussionist and rhythm guitarist on creating reggae grooves. CD features full rhythm section, both with and without the bass. Written in both standard notation and tablature (Click on product for full description).

This book will help any bassist develop the necessary technique to produce quality recordings, as well as the technical prowess to rock out at any live show (Click on product for full description).

A gold mine of riffs and lines found in your favorite rock tunes, exercises to help you develop your own rock bass lines and strategies for locking in with the drummer. Play along with the killer tracks on the CD (Click on product for full description).

Bass basics, scales and modes, arpeggio patterns and much more. Serious Electric Bass is a definitive, comprehensive, user-friendly guide for electric bassists of all levels (Click on product for full description).

Learn the art of creating a solid slap bass groove. Includes helpful exercises, strategies for locking in with the drummer, tips for reading chord symbols, standard notation and tab, an accompanying CD and more (Click on product for full description).

This excellent book/CD pack delivers all you need to become a master soloist, no matter what style of music you play (Click on product for full description).

A variety of eleven of today's greatest studio bassists, including Lee Sklar, Nathan East and Dave Pomeroy, openly discuss their recording experiences, techniques and more and offer actual basslines (Click on product for full description).

Valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments and equipment, grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care and maintenance and much more (Click on product for full description).

This book will teach you all the skills you need to master blues bass. You can create your own style on the bass as well as prepare for any blues situation you encounter. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included (Click on product for full description).

The Total Jazz Bassist is a complete jazz method, covering bebop, Latin, funk, and fusion, this book provides examples and lessons that will help you become a well-rounded bassist. Book/CD (Click on product for full description).

Learn the technique, theory, and song forms needed to be a great bassist, and take the stage in your own rock band. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included. Features examples in a wide variety of styles (Click on product for full description).

Bassist and educator Max Palermo takes you through more than 700 easy, step-by-step exercises (Click on product for full description).

This complete method for the musician covers intervals, rhythms melodic shapes; inversions, scales, chords, extensions and alterations; fretboard visualization, fingering diagrams and more (Click on product for full description).

Topics include time and groove, chord charts, ear training, doubling, thumb technique, keeping time, faking tunes and much more. Includes lots of musical examples and exercises, both in the book and on the play-along CD (Click on product for full description).

This book profiles 18 distinct styles of world music. The accompanying CD features full-band demos of all 18 styles, including: bossa nova, calypso, mambo, maracatu, merengue, reggae, rumba, salsa, samba, ska, tango, tumbão, zydeco and more (Click on product for more info).

This method is both easy to understand and thorough! It provides the theory and technique needed to play contemporary bass and covers modern styles like slap and pop and right-hand hammering techniques. CD AND DVD included (Click on product for full description).