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10-22-2006, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Seattle WA area | |  Name your FAVORITE bass instruction book
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Lots of stuff out there, but if you had to have only one, what
would it be?
Also, when you started, which one was most helpful for you? |
10-22-2006, 06:14 PM
| | | | "The True Cuban Bass Book" from Chuck Sher Publishing. |
10-22-2006, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | The one that was most useful to me at an impressionable age was Electric Bass Technique, vols. I & II, by Valda Hammick, Gwyn Publishing Co.
The basics I got from How To Play Electric Bass, an instructional LP record by Harvey Brooks that came with a 20-page booklet (Elektra EKS-7312, 1967).
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10-22-2006, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Central Minnesota | | | Bass Guitar for Dummies ... I refer to it often ... dont let the name fool you, without a doubt the most useful book that I have used .... and unfortunately since I have found it so useful, it may be an accurate title ... |
10-22-2006, 08:58 PM
| | born lefty | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ashland, Oregon USA | | Hal Leonard Bass Method, Complete Edition by Ed Friedland
For a beginner I don't think you could do better and it's only $15 at Amazon. There are three books and three CDs in a spiral bound format. http://www.amazon.com/Hal-Leonard-Ba...e=UTF8&s=books
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10-22-2006, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by tjh Bass Guitar for Dummies ... I refer to it often ... dont let the name fool you, without a doubt the most useful book that I have used .... and unfortunately since I have found it so useful, it may be an accurate title ... | Me too  |
10-22-2006, 09:21 PM
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10-22-2006, 09:50 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Bach Cello Suites
Carol Kaye Jazz Improv and exercise books
Slap It by Tony Oppenheim
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10-22-2006, 09:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NYC | | | The Mel Bay Instruction books are great. I owe a lot to them. And my teacher for recommending them. |
10-22-2006, 10:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | I didn't really use a lesson book eary on.
A book that I really like is Mike Dimin's "Chordal Approach".
I also dig Gary Willis' book "Fingerboard Harmony", it really works your mind.
A non-bass specific book I like Levine's Theory Book.
If I could do it all over again, I'd probably go with a DVD (in addition to a private teacher). Todd Johnson has some great stuff on DVD.
Joe
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10-22-2006, 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by lmoh The one that was most useful to me at an impressionable age was Electric Bass Technique, vols. I & II, by Valda Hammick, Gwyn Publishing Co. | Valda is still around playing and teaching. I took a few lessons from her is good teacher, but like taking lessons from your grandmother.  Funny watching her with her big Smith 5-string. She still doings Jazz casuals around town. |
10-22-2006, 11:32 PM
| | [acct disabled - multiple aliases] | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Venice, CA | | | Standing in the shadows of Motown.
This book/CD on Jamerson and transcpions of some of his famous basslines is such a great education in feel and note selecton. You learn his lines and start seeing his roots of playing double-bass and being a Ray Brown fan coming through. That book and the origianl Motown recordings are a lifetime of rhythm section education. |
10-23-2006, 12:05 AM
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10-23-2006, 08:41 AM
| | Enjoy The Ride | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bedminster, New Jersey | | +2
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10-23-2006, 09:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Chicago, Il | | | As a teenager, I worked with Ray Brown's Bass method book, as well as Rufus Reid's "The Evolving Bassist". Later, came "The Improviser's Bass Method" by Sher, and then recently "Serious Electric Bass" by Joel DiBartolo. I couldn't pick a favorite one, they were all very helpful. The Omnibook is filled with Charlie Parker licks, so that one is always on my shelf! |
10-23-2006, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: So. N.H. | | | Favorite Bass Method Book
Edouard Nanny Classical Bass |
10-23-2006, 06:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Austin, Texas | | Rabbath. 
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10-23-2006, 06:47 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: outta this world | | | yeah defintely bass guitar for dummies, so much helpful info packed into that book, and yes this is coming from someone who has probably 12 bass instruction books |
11-06-2006, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Camden, AR, USA | | | I haven't seen many, but I really like the MIT Bass Fretboard Bassics. A friend gave it to me out of his library and I learned a lot from it and still am. I've just started teaching a kid using this book and the Hal Leonard Bass Method, Complete Edition by some other dude.
Can anyone compare the 2 Hal Leonard Bass Method, Complete Edition versions? I didn't realize that there were 2 versions when I bought the set of eBay.
thanks, kenny |
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Originally Posted by avid  | +3, the play-alongs are great fun.
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