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03-04-2008, 10:54 PM
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03-05-2008, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by rllefebv  Just ordered mine... I heard there was some kind of center-fold...
-robert | True dat! 
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03-05-2008, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Wendell, bob and Roger -
Thanks for the nice words.
re: thin - one of the things I will be forever grateful to Chuck for is his ability to rein me in. It was VERY hard for me to not try to write EVERYTHING anytime I sat down to work on this; I think that the fact that this a cogent and concise explication of a few very specific skill sets is what separates this book from the many others out there and, hopefully, fills a need.
One of the things I wish I had made a little more explicit was - use the example of the chord line for SEPTEMBER IN THE RAIN as a template/example and make chord lines for the other "standards" in the book (they aren't titled, but starting at track 9 they are the changes for DOXY, IN A MELLOW TONE, I'M GETTING SENTIMENTAL OVER YOU, I'M JUST FOOLIN' MYSELF, SEPT IN THE RAIN {which you already have one example of}, WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE)
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03-15-2008, 02:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Nice job, Ed. I'm gonna have to pick this up.
I've known that you're a wonderful teacher for years. It's nice to have it out in the open now. |
03-23-2008, 05:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: No' Cal (light) | | | Dear Ed
Good work!
I bought it two weeks ago and have been working my way through it.
I think it fills a gap because of the focused topic = walking. And you've done this in more detail and with more stimulating insights than other books in which this is just one of many topics to be covered.
Congratulations and many thanks!
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03-24-2008, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by bonaventura Dear Ed
Good work!
I bought it two weeks ago and have been working my way through it.
I think it fills a gap because of the focused topic = walking. And you've done this in more detail and with more stimulating insights than other books in which this is just one of many topics to be covered.
Congratulations and many thanks!
Bill |  Aw shucks now guys, I'm gonna get the BigEgoHead...
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03-24-2008, 05:45 PM
|  | Journeyman Clam Artist Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, baby | | | BigEgoHead? Is that like the Clarus or something? You don't like your Walter Woods anymore?
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03-25-2008, 09:01 AM
| | | | "Focus" is definitely the word. I'd been bouncing around through a shelve for of bass books, which have been put aside so I can focus on Ed's book. And I'm walkin'! Albeit with a mere handful of 'paths' but as one gets fluent add another and it starts adding up to some music. I'm happy. |
03-27-2008, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua Aw shucks now guys, I'm gonna get the BigEgoHead... | In describing your methods you've always made it quite plain that no matter how hard you work there will always be a lot of work left to do; that the point of the work is not a goal in the future but resides in the moment. It's actually one of the great services you've done to anyone who's read your stuff. So I seriously doubt you're going to be swaggering around NY like Jesus' little brother. |
03-27-2008, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ashkenazy So I seriously doubt you're going to be swaggering around NY like Jesus' little brother. | What, are you kidding? You can barely get near the guy! He's got the "big ego head" alright, but luckily for him he still has a lot of hair on it.  |
03-27-2008, 12:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Damn, where my nose at?
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03-27-2008, 12:52 PM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | Ed, bassbooks.com has already sold out. Load the stationwagon and head west with some more copies.
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03-27-2008, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: West Orange, NJ | | | Sorry about the nose, but I'm slightly delirious with fever...you know, as opposed to the rest of the time. |
03-27-2008, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by etoncrow Ed, bassbooks.com has already sold out. Load the stationwagon and head west with some more copies. | That's a good sign... people buying a book about walking bass. It seems simple, but there are a lot of people who don't seem to know how to approach it.
I think I'll order a copy... I can walk, but I sometimes have a hard time explaining the concepts to students. Having a set of guidelines would be really helpful to me as a teacher. |
03-27-2008, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by milomo Sorry about the nose, but I'm slightly delirious with fever...you know, as opposed to the rest of the time. | When you're hilarious with beaver?
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04-05-2008, 12:22 PM
| | | Got my copy today. Looking forward to working through it.  |
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03-04-2012, 02:31 AM
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03-04-2012, 06:50 AM
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Uh, oh.....here come all them Oriental jokes, I can see it now.
Congrats, man, that's very cool.
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