| The Mel Bay Complete Blues Bass Book with CD.
This book helped me tremendously. This is mainly a blues book, but it has explanations and exercises of twelve bar blues form and blues and pentatonic scales, plus explanation and exercises in many styles of blues, blues rock and rock and roll as it moves moving toward increasingly complex music, including some introduction to jazz.
Having a solid lock on the material in this book will help a musician in many styles of music, not just blues.
It is written in standard notation and tab, except for the most complex exercises, which by the time you get there, you should be reading anyway. Plus many exercises are on the CD, too, so you can hear how they should sound and play along too.
It is a style book, but not a technique book. If you need help with slap, tap, harmonics, pull offs, string bendiing, string muting, etc., this book will not help you much.
__________________
"Jazz sounds like a very good blues band that fell down a flight of stairs."
Michael Buble, Canadian standards singer | 
ntal players too.
