Hal Leonard

A Beginner's Guide for Group or Private Instruction

Authors: Scott Burstein, Spencer Hale, Dave Wish, Mary Claxton
Format: Book with Media Online
Instrumentation: Bass

Winner of the 2021 "Best Tools for Schools" award for best method!

The Modern Band Method series provides a guided lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and many popular songs by the biggest artists of the day! This bass method works in tandem with the other instrument methods in the series, allowing students to play the same songs together as a full band!

Bass lessons include:

• Tuning
• Reading music and tablature
• Walking/picking patterns
• Notes and scales
• Using passing tones
• Popular rock and pop bass lines
• Creating solid grooves
• Muting and slides
• Syncopation
• Composing a song
• Writing lyrics

Song List:

• Baba O'Riley
• Back In Black
• Bad
• Best Day Of My Life
• Billie Jean
• Can't Stop The Feeling!
• Come As You Are
• Come Together
• Dazed And Confused
• Doo Wop (That Thing)
• The Edge Of Glory
• Evil Ways
• Ex-Factor
• 5446, That's My Number
• Free Fallin'
• Give It Away
• Haiti
• Halo
• Heathens
• Hey There Delilah
• Hypnotize
• I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
• I Gotta Feeling
• Imagine
• Kick Push
• Larger Than Life
• Let's Groove
• Livin' On A Prayer
• My Own Worst Enemy
• One Nation Under A Groove
• Oye Como Va
• Runnin' With The Devil
• Sail
• Say It Ain't So
• See You Again
• Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
• Seven Nation Army
• Shout
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Someone Like You
• Stir It Up
• Stray Cat Strut
• Sunshine Of Your Love
• Supermassive Black Hole
• 25 Or 6 To 4
• U Can't Touch This
• Umbrella
• Under Pressure
• Underneath It All
• Uptown Funk
• Waiting In Vain
• Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)
• Wake Me Up
• Wannabe
• What Makes You Beautiful
• Wild Thing
• With Or Without You
• Without You
• World-A-Music
• You Know I'm No Good
• Zombie