Hi everyone,

I feel I'm quite a good bass player, especially for what I normally play. (rock/experimental metal type stuff)

I want to step up my playing to sort of tapping, fast licks, clever playing, solo standard basically. I've sort of dabbled with bits of Jaco, marcus miller and one or two wooten songs. I'm looking for any other artists or more specifically good solid albums of theirs that I can try and work through. Especially artists were sheet music/tab is readily available. I've just ordered a Bill Dickens book/cd if anyone can recommend any tuition aids that might help me too?

Thanks a lot

I can recommend Rush. They have a pretty good anthology bass book out that will cost you about 24 American dollars.

are there any albums you'd recommend?

"Moving Pictures"
"Permanent Waves"

rush "spirit of the radio" album

Permanent Waves is the "Spirit" album. It also has "Freewill" on it. That should keep him busy for a while!

thanks =) any more for any more?

"Kill 'Em All" by Metallica is fun to play, especially "Pulling Teeth"

The bass playing on John Mayer's Trio album is mindblowing. That Paladino guy sure can play! If you can match what he does, your career in music is assured!

Best of Jame Brown. Learn how to groove and keep good time.

Return to Forever:"No Mystery" and "The Romantic Warrior". Both of those albums are way ahead of their time. Some of the stuff that Stanley Clarke plays on those albums is pretty sick!

Also, if you really want to step to some challenging stuff check out
Frank Zappa's: "Roxy and Elsewhere" or "You can't do that on stage anymore Vol. 2/ The Helsinki Concert". It's hard to believe that human beings could actually perform such complex music without the assistance of studio magic :confused: ...

Ya, Patrick O'Hearn was Zappa's best bassist if you ask me. Hard to believe that he went on to play 8 to the bar in Missing Persons then went on to record new age music, but to me that's a sign of class to be able to hold yourself back for the good of the music. If he had played like he did with Zappa in Missing Persons, they wouldn't have had any hits.

thanks i'll check out some of that!

Check out 'The Octave of the Holy Innocents' by Jonas Hellborg.

:bassist:

I'm a newb when it comes to bass and music theory, but I'm definately not a newb when it comes to listening to music.

Yes - Fragile
Victor Wooten - A show of hands
Incubus - Fungus Amongous
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Primus - Sailing the seas of cheese
Tool -Anything, really. 10,000 days and Aenima are my personal favorites

Maybe some of those were 'no ****, sherlock' reccomendations, but if you havn't heard any of em I'd reccomend em.