eMedia Bass Method v2 - Learn at Home

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.

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.BUTyou 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.

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.

Would not work on my 27" imac but did work on my wife's macbook. Tech support was not helpful at all. In fact the response I got was IMHO arrogant and rude. I returned the item more because of the attitude of the support person. They clearly didn't want to help so I sent it back. Not my job to figure out why their app wouldn't launch. From what I saw on my wife's laptop it seems like it could be OK, but not much different than a lot of the free online stuff you can get. Not suer if it;s worth the cost.

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.

There are times the software cannot detect the note that I'm playing. Maybe it's my hardware, but overall very useful software.

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.

Waste, not on the book part.

Had to return.