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Good books to learn walking bass?

#8
Ed Friedland has a couple of excellent book/CD instructional combos that are good for self-learning. Start with the basic book and then move to the advanced book.

There is a web site, visionmusic.com, that has an excellent remote learning course for bass. It is run by guitarist/bassist Mark Stefani. The course covers standard head arrangements, walking lines and solos for bass. There are 24 modules and each lesson, a CD and notation/tab of the module material, comes in the mail every 2 weeks. The CD includes recordings of the lesson materail as well as detailed explanations by Mark. HE is available by phone or e-mail to answer questions, and he has a rapid response time.
 
#9
I would second NOT getting a book with tabs - no time to enhance your reading skills like the present!

Fred Euqua literally wrote the book on walking. Check out his post above!

(Though this might be a more entertaining read: Invalid Link Removed )
 
#11
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1230923...ng bass&rh=i:stripbooks,k:walking bass&page=1

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And, as shameleesly promoted (see link) by Mr. BigEgoHead, his and other books from the people at Sher Music.

The Bob Magnusson book (Amazon) includes tabs.
I wouldn't promote the use of tabs, but if it gets you started, more power to ya. Do yourself a favor though, use the tabs as a tool to wean yourself away from them. Most of the books are written in standard notation.
 
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#12
BluesWalker said:
Ed Friedland has a couple of excellent book/CD instructional combos that are good for self-learning. Start with the basic book and then move to the advanced book.
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+1

I always learn valuable things from Ed's books, and they are well-written and easy-to-follow.

His books on walking bass are available from Bassbooks.com: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
(scroll down to Building Walking Bass Lines at the bottom of the page.)

or from Ed (who is a TBer) directly: www.edfriedland.com.

Bluesy Soul :cool:
 
#14
Another one for ED Friedlands building walking bass lines. Good intro book.

Also don't worry about not being able to read. Even just pencilling in the notes on the notation would get you through a walking bass book. Especially since (I'm assuming here) most of them will just have quarter notes or eight notes. So you wouldn't really have to worry about rhythm,
 
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