i was thinkin abiut buying a blues guitar book to learn to solo on my guitar, then transfer that to bass, i kno i would be soloing like a guitarist for a while buti gott astart somewhere, but i really dont wanna have to learn treble cleff:bawl:

so are there any bass solo books?









p.s i weould luv to be able to solo like blues guiatirsts or w/e, but i would also luv to be able to solo in blues like a bassist....or like cliff burton when he did his solos in concerts

Sounds like you might be better off switching to guitar.

There are many books of bass transcriptions and some online. There are some Paul Chambers transcripion that have some Blues solos. You'd learn more practicing using the Blues scale and other pentatonics. Then transcribe some solos. You'll learn a lot more that way.

There's a bass improvisation book, that focuses on improvising solos. Gives you a bunch of theory, and some examples of solo spacing, and note choices, etc...

idk if you'd be interested.

My personal advice? Suck it up, learn treble clef, and get solos of other instruments besides bass. I have learned more about soloing from a good sax or guitar solo than I have any 10 bass solos. Treble clef isn't that hard to learn, so there's no reason why you shouldn't.

Chuck Sher's 'Concepts for Bass Soloing' is great, as is Ed Friedland's 'Bass Improvisation' book. They both helped me out.

Stu