Bass Guitar Lesson Reviews

Bass Guitar Secrets is a multimedia eBook package for people looking to learn the bass guitar from the comfort of their own home. Bass Guitar Secrets (or BGS) is taught Alex Sampson, is an extremely gifted bassists who has an engaging and inspirational writing style. He is easily able to explain and demonstrate concepts and bass guitar theory, which Bass Guitar Secrets has a lot of.

Bass Guitar Secrets also has great value. When you compare the cost of the download version of the course and a couple 30-minute private lessons, you’ll come out much further ahead with Bass Guitar Secrets every time!

Some people might be turned off by the over-the-top sales pitch that BassGuitarSecrets.com employs, but if you can get past that, you’ll find  Bass Guitar Secrets a top resource for bassists... either ones that are just starting out, or have been playing for a while.

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It can be rather difficult to find good-quality learning products that specifically teach how to play bass guitar online. So we were highly interested when we discovered that Alex Sampson (Bass genius and author of Bass Guitar Secrets or BGS) had recently released a new multimedia bass guitar course called Fretboard Formula. We placed our order for the course as soon as it became available, and were pleasantly surprised with what we found.

The Fretboard Formula contains many learning elements that other bass courses leave out, such as video training, solid musical theory, and audio demonstration tracks. The video element of the course is fairly substantial containing over nine and an half hours worth of instruction.

There are three versions of Fretboard Formula; The Platinum, Gold, and Lite version. I’ll just take moment to explain a few of the differences. While the teaching material is virtually identical, the Lite version comes with electronic copies of the manuals, and the Gold & Platinum have printed workbooks. Gold and Platinum also have better support options (such private email support) and several other valuable bonuses which you can read more about on their site. However, besides being more expensive the Gold & Platinum packages are very limited in their releases. (The next release date is in October of 2009) However, the Lite version is usually always in stock, ships immediately and is a better economical choice for most people.

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Aptly named, Guitar and Bass is learning software that teaches both the bass guitar as well as regular guitar. Those who opt to purchase the downloadable version of the course will end up getting both mini-courses, which is pretty good value if you’re interested in eventually learning both stringed instruments.

Guitar and Bass has a very enticing price, is interactive, and makes a great tool for people who are self-motivated and just need a good start in learning the bass. They definitely would want to further training in the bass guitar after completing the Guitar and Bass course, but at least they would have a solid foundation on which to build. We recommend that you use Guitar and Bass in tandem with the Bass Guitar Secrets course, thereby providing higher level theory and training with the nuts and bolts that Guitar and Bass provides.

Be aware that Guitar and Bass doesn’t have much in the way of video elements, so if you want to learn bass guitar in a visual manner, you might want to go elsewhere.

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