Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy slap bass lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to play the slap bass including thumb slapping, popping, left hand hammers, slides, bends, ghost notes and double stops. Suitable for all ages and all types of basses including precision bass and jazz bass. Includes 109 slap bass exercises using funk chord progressions, slap bass riffs, slap bass licks, slap bass solos and popular easy slap bass music for beginners in heavy rock, pop rock, funk, blues and R&B styles. In full color throughout with photos, diagrams and easy-to-read slap bass music for beginners and easy slap bass tabs for beginners with chords for accompaniment. Comes with online access to free bass videos and audio for all examples. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing bass guitar is recommended but not required to teach yourself to learn to play bass from this book.