Ready ... Set ... Go!!
So ... you've bought your magical electric bass, a fitting amp, and maybe an enticing collection of teach-yourself-bass-guitar-from-scratch books and the odd subscription to online fast-track-to-musical-nirvana courses. You're ready to HIT THE GROUND playing! ...and then ... ...half way through lesson 1 you start sinking into an ever-intensifying sense of confusion, despair, discouragement ... even fury ... as you try to untangle a pile of new terms, concepts and techniques. It leaves you simply wanting to hit all your bass strings at once just to make some kind of sound!! If this is the case - you're in the right place! This blog is written with YOU – the self-instructed budding musician – in mind; not the publisher’s typical 200-odd A4 page format that dictates the content of many instructional books, nor the I-can-learn-anything-in-an-instant fast-tracking online courses. Restricting an educational book to a specific content length invariably mea