eMedia Bass Method v2 - Learn at Home

3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars | 28 ratings

Price: 41.96

Last update: 07-25-2024


About this item

Learn how to play bass guitar with over 140 step-by-step lessons carefully crafted by professional bassist and bass instructor, John Arbo.
Over 200 songs and exercises include lessons on walk ups, walk downs, scales, rhythms, technique, and much more. Songs include hits made famous by Bob Dylan, CCR, Steve Miller, and the Grateful Dead.
Instructional videos feature split-screen close-ups for helpful guidance.
eMedia’s Animated Fretboard displays fingerings and makes it easy to learn how to read bass tabs and music notation.
Interactive Feedback shows when you play the correct notes.
The software features built-in bass tools: Automatic Bass Tuner, Metronome, Recorder, Guitar Chord Reference, Note Tracker, and Finger Tracker!

From the manufacturer

bass guitar lessons, bass lessons, bass instruction, learn bass, teach bass, bass curriculum

Step-by-Step Bass Guitar Lessons

eMedia Bass Method makes it easy for anyone to learn guitar. The over 140 step-by-step full-screen lessons start with the basics, such as tuning the bass, and move on to playing simple bass lines and catchy rhythms with fills and syncopation. You will learn walk ups, walk downs, and licks; practice reading tablature; and learn to standard music notation. A chapter on music theory covering intervals, scales, and chords shows how to create your own bass lines.

Also includes:

  • Metronome
  • Recorder
  • Guitar Chord Reference
  • Intervals
  • Scales

Easy-to-Use Interface

Learning is easy with techniques demonstrated in split-screen videos showing multiple angles and close-ups. You'll learn popular songs, including hit songs made famous by the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Steve Miller, and others. Many of the songs in eMedia Bass Method are found in eMedia Guitar Method so bass and guitar students can jam along with each other as they learn.

Interactive Feedback on Your Playing

Instant Feedback listens through the computer's microphone as you play and highlights correctly played notes. Note Tracker even shows you the notes you play in standard music notation, making learning to read music easier than ever!

Songs and guitar lessons are available as both audio and variable-speed MIDI tracks. You can even highlight, loop, and slow down difficult sections to make learning them easier.

Built-in Bass Tools

eMedia's Animated Fretboard makes seeing fingerings for chords and notes easy, with Note and Finger Tracker technology that shows notes you play on an animated fretboard and as standard music notation. Bass-only and no-bass options only you to perfect your technique as you play along with the band.

Integrated bass software tools include an Automatic Bass Tuner, Recorder, Guitar Chord Reference with audio playback for over 250 chords, and a Metronome to help your rhythm.


Top reviews from the United States

PhilUSAFRet
5.0 out of 5 stars In some ways, better than a live teacher
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2013
This course is amazing. I'm just getting started with bass and have known about it for some time. Features are unbelievable. With perfect accuracy, even tells me when I'm off key or off tempo. I can change temp as needed, pause at will, and absolutely go at my own pace. I can repeat the same lessons as needed. I've had guitar lessons, and being a good musician doesn't make you a good teacher......it's a whole different skill set. The instructor kept trying to get me to progress more quickly than my ability allowed. I've used the old Guitar Method DVD, which is good, but limited in content and features. This course is light years ahead of it. Young or old (I'm 72), if you find learning to play a stringed instrument difficult, this course may be your salvation. I can't say enough good things about it......I'm not sure I'd have tried to learn bass without it. I'm getting the Singing Method next.
jeiel
1.0 out of 5 stars Mustache Guy from 70's
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015
Old old fashioned software. The mustache guy who presents the classes is from the 70's. I loose interest in the first 5 minutes. May will work for beginners who really can't distinguish between a bass guitar and a shove.
jlschuett
5.0 out of 5 stars eMedia Bass Method
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2013
So Far so good. Received package and excited to start relearning the bass guitar! I am sure it is a wonderful product!
Jack Householder
3.0 out of 5 stars Product Package Was Crushed
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2019
Prime Envelope was used for shipment and Product Box was completely crushed. Software loaded successfully. Only just starting to use the software. First impression is Positive.
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Jack Householder
3.0 out of 5 stars Product Package Was Crushed
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2019
Prime Envelope was used for shipment and Product Box was completely crushed. Software loaded successfully. Only just starting to use the software. First impression is Positive.
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J. Patton
4.0 out of 5 stars Good product
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2013
The product works great, but my son is impatient (wants to be able to play free bird the first day), so he has already quit using it.
PPP
2.0 out of 5 stars Great bass lesson program BUT spiritual church ballads, old fashioned folk songs, and outdated music ugggggg
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2013
The song choices are mostly all for for a very long ago era.
This program has potential, BUT most of the music is not for me (except for songs listed in the product description).

Here is an example of how old fashioned and lame the lyrics are of the featured songs:
"All day, all night, Marianne, down by the sea side siftin' sand. Even the little children love Marianne down by the sea side siftin' sand."
There are 4 pages of lessons based on this song. The lessons are great, but the song itself is awful so practicing the lessons is misery. SO BUMMED. :(

I was SO EXCITED to use this, but there is no way I can practice along this music with so many old fashioned church ballads. I will type some out below. If you can handle these, great, get this program. If not, you will end up sadly wasting your $ like me,

So yes, the bass lessons themselves, and the bass lines, are very good.
BUT
you really have to be cool with this type of music because you have to listen and play over and over to practice. I could not handle the music personally. I wish this had been disclosed before I spent the $. How about some good, classic, popular religiously neutral songs eMedia?

Some of the other songs:
Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Brother John, Brother John.
Morning bells are ringing, morning bells are ringing. Ding, ding, don; ding, ding, don.

Love, oh love oh careless love, oh love, oh love, oh careless love. My love was one to kiss and run, you see what careless love has done.

Will the circle be unbroken by and by, Lord, by and by? There is a better home a waiting in the sky, Lord, in the sky.

Swing low sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home. (repeat)
I looked over Jordan and what did I see, comin' for to carry me home.
A band of angels comin' after me, comin' for to carry me home.
Swing low sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home. (repeat)

Down in the valley, valley so low, late in the evening, hear the wind blow.
Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind blow, late in the evening, hear the wind blow.

She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes.
She'll be comin' round the mountain,
she'll be comin' round the mountain,
she'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes.
She'll be puffin' and a blowin' when she comes. (repeat like above)

AND more, just like these....
Many of these songs have pages and pages of lessons on them.
gasguy111
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy a mic so the program can hear you!
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2019
Good program gets you started on the right path to being a bass player, follow this and you will be playing in no time. The program listens and lets you know if you are playing the right notes.
Lorren
5.0 out of 5 stars Great software!
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2012
I'm a more "let me see how you play it then I can play it" type of guy. And this software does that for me by showing me what string and what fret to use while the music is playing. Learning simplified.

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