Hal Leonard Bass Method Complete Edition

De los muchos métodos que he usado para aprender a tocar instrumentos este es uno de mis favoritos. Cada ejercicio va acompañado de una pequeña composición musical que es interesante y suena bien. El bajo está en un canal, con lo que se puede practicar primero con bajo y luego sin. Mi orden de práctica preferido es: con caja de ritmos, con metrónomo, con la grabación normal, con la grabación sin bajo.
Este mismo autor tiene otros libros para bajo también muy recomendables. También hay 3 libros titulados Easy Pop Bass Lines que son adecuados para tocar con cada parte de este método.

Es un buen método para empezar, aparte de ayudar a conseguir vocabulario musical en inglés, es fácil de seguir, y echando un poco de tiempo cada día, se puede aprender mucho..........sólo falta practicar, que es lo divertido.

Lo único negativo que se me ocurre mencionar es que la encuadernación no es de buena calidad, y que las anillas se pueden estropear con mucha facilidad.

Pero por lo general, es un método recomendable.

As a guitarist, I record some bass line simply by playing the root note of a chord.
I wanted to improve myself and I was looking for a book who helps me to discover to play the bass more further

So, I decided to buy a bass course by buying this one with 4 keyswords:
- Bass (obviously)
- English
- Tabs
- Good rated

So i found this book, order it and it arrived quickly

Backtracking songs :
- With this method, you have an acces code that allows you to go to the Hal Leonard web site and you find backtracking songs to play with
- You can download thoses tracks or play online
- If you chose the online version, you can loop a part of the backtrack song or modify the pitch of it

So why such a poor total note ?
As I write above, I found this book by several keywords and I was exited to start with... until the first exercice: No tabs at all. Only notes :(
I tought there was an error and look further. In fact, very few of the exercices use Tabs (the first I saw is exercice n° 32)

So I can say there are two ways to rate this book:
1) If you are ok to learn notes with the metronom beating the rythme, it's a 5/5 stars and you will find a book who take the time to teach you along 105 exercices. It reminds you how to play to next exercice very well with nice backtracking songs
2) Personnally, I have tried for several weeks to learn it. I try be positive for the reasons i mention above and I know this is the most complete method to learn music ... but it's also the boring way to do it. I was hopping to have notes + tabs so I could chose between the two. Unfortunately, this is not the case by lacks of tab. This is why my title is ?feeling fooled? and such poor total note

My conclusion :
This book is well made, the backing tracks are pleasant, the online site is nice, but I just can't learn if I don't enjoy it.
And saddly, it's the case here. I just have the feeling to try to eat a meal I hate. No matters how good it is.

If I knew that the tabs were just few exercices of the method, I just wouldn't buy it. I have try to return it but it doesn't work with books (at least this one).

My recommandations:
- If you like the school way to learn bass, buy this book. You will enjoy it
- Otherwise, you may buy it for nothing with this book just taking dust