If you are a beginner looking for something to hear your new bass with, this amp will be a good choice. It not only comes with multiple effects, it also comes with a drum machine coupled with a lesson book. The book explores different style from rock to reggae to disco and of course, funk.

Excerpts from www.bassplayer.com:

"Teacher presets are designed to deliver the basics, with a guide bass track and a drum kit to keep you playing in time. Topics covered in these presets include: warm up exercises, scales, intervals, arpeggios, rhythm studies, slap-and-pop style bass playing exercises and more. "

"Each preset inside the B-DEC™ 30 is represented in the method book. Along with a transcription of the bass line in both musical notation and tablature, the method book also provides insight for the player in regard to technique, music theory and the main objective for each piece of music. The player can learn the recorded bass track or mute the bass track and create their own part."

"The B-DEC ™ 30 is a 30 Watt bass combo with a 10" speaker and high frequency piezo horn providing low-end thump and top-end clarity for both the bass and the programmed music backing tracks. It features front & rear instrument inputs for multiple players, a headphone output for silent practice, Line Out for recording or PA applications, an AUX input for use with a CD or MP3 device, and MIDI In and Out ports to send and receive MIDI songs, and to facilitate future software upgrades from Fender. "

For more information check out http://www.fender.com/products/bdec30/.

Add this to my new wishlist, matey! And no they did not pay me anything to blog about their new product. Fender is just good man.

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