Bass Guitar Lessons & Instruction

eHow offers videos on the different parts that make up a bass guitar, getting started with bass guitar, stringing a bass, stretching the new strings before playing, tuning the instrument by ear or by electronic tuner, fretboard markers, bass scales in C Minor, bass chords, picking hand technique, popping and slapping, writing a bassline and more.

This website offers online bass guitar lessons, exercises and examples, including print fretboard diagrams, a bass clef note quiz, and information about technique.

This website offers bass guitar lessons for beginners and videos from current bass guitarists. It is assumed that the musician can read music and knows how to find the notes on the guitar.

Information about how to play the bass guitar for beginners. Topics include the parts of the guitar, basic techniques, playing notes, playing scales, playing patterns, understanding rhythm, and practicing.

This website discusses steps and tips for how to play the bass guitar. It also provides information about things you will need and warnings about things that might happen when you first start playing.

Bass Alliance is the revolutionary online bass guitar training site. Includes exercises, basics, scales, and a directory of songs to learn. 

Bass Guitar Secrets offers instructional bass guitar lessons. Learn to play bass guitar in 81 days. Available in hard copy, cd-rom or digital versions.

MMP is a low cost learning tool that will help the beginner to intermediate bass player to advance. Includes a total of 200 bass lessons.

Danny Morris, Berklee College of Music faculty member and renowned bass player, will show you the legendary bass guitar instruction taught at Berklee College, applying it to rock bass guitar lessons for the beginner.

Bass Guitar Tips provides lessons and tips to quickly learn how to play.

Learn to play the bass online through a variety of free lessons using video, audio, flash, MIDI and tablature.

Offers online bass guitar lessons that gets you playing quickly with no music reading required. Lessons for all levels of development. Moderately priced lessons with professional results.

Provides a platform for musicians who want to learn bass. Offers a variety of basic bass lessons.

The Learning Dock, LLC presents "Teach Me Bass Guitar", a most comprehensive, effective, and entertaining program of self-instruction. This 10 DVD set, created by player/instructor Roy Vogt, includes 16+ hours of video instruction, a 160+ page, and over a hundred videos that invite the beginner to play along with Roy's band of Nashville studio musicians at normal or slow speeds.