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Massive big-up to Ed Friedland's bass method

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Can I just say this book is awesome - I've been playing for about 15 odd years and never learned to play bass from staff notation. I have started teaching my students from this book recently, and working through it by myself have got through the entire first book in one day because it's so well laid out. It'll take students longer no doubt but I've made several attempts to learn to read and all of them up til this have failed miserably.

If you are wanting to learn to read and want to get results rather than frustration then I recommend this book.

I have a load of jazz transcriptions that are all in staff notation which I've been dying to be able to play for ages and if I can make it through all three of these books I may stand a chance. Brilliant book and great playalong tracks.
 
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I have been taking once a week hour long lessons for about 2 months and am just finishing up the first book. It's GREAT - I have never come this far in my attempts to learn to read music. I can now buy all these other books about different genres/styles and read the music, see the rhythm. It's just a great thing to be knowing how to read music.

Still have a ton left to do, but having not even completed the first of three books I can pick up a lot of sheet music and be able to play it.

Any beginner/non-reader should have this book, and use it!
 
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That 3 book series published by Hal Leonard is a great first step. I used it with all my bass students. His other books are equally good. I haven't ever had a face to face with Ed, but have communicated via email a couple times and he is a great guy.
 
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karter2000 said:
Which version do you have? I've been looking at the Complete Bass Method book (one with all three editions) myself.
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I have all three in one - I'd recommend getting all three as one volume because if you concentrate you can get through the material really quick.

Have fun with it. I have a book called 'jazz bass book - technique and tradition' which is all in notation - no tab - so I'm really looking forward to being able to play it. That book similarly is very very good - it has a bio on just about every great jazz bassist ever.
 
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@ afromoose ... i agree with you on ed's book. i have the complete edition, and am about 3/4 of the way through book 2 (minor triads are up next). i've been playing for only 4 months, using this book for the past 3. the only deviation was i skipped tabs. i don't have an interest in the slap/popping sections, either, so i'll skip those when i get to them.

the way the material is presented is easy to understand/practice, and the sequence of lessons just flows logically from one to the next imo. i'd definitely recommend it.
 
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blendermassacre said:
Everyone seems testy today on talkbass. It's like we're having board wide PMS.

ANnnyway: just ordered the book on amazon. Hopefully it's as awesome as everyone says. I hope to suck less after completing it.
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i've heard nothing but positive feed back about ed's stuff......check out the sher,aebersold bass books too .....sher's is a method,aebersold is transcribed bass lines
 
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blendermassacre said:
I'll probably stick to one at a time ( a veiled attempt to maintain sanity). I love Ed's bass reviews etc, so I thought I would give it a whirl. Amazon is selling it for less than $20 shipped.
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what kind of stuff are you looking for......i find that i'm getting to the point where i go through books fairly quick ..... fortunately i have lots so i don't get bored.....in conjunction with methods a few gw/bp back issues give you some songs to work on too....your local used book probably has them for a dollar or two.....five transcribed bass lines for a buck is decent....if you hang out in tab forum there is stuff available there too
 
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blendermassacre said:
I'll probably stick to one at a time ( a veiled attempt to maintain sanity). I love Ed's bass reviews etc, so I thought I would give it a whirl. Amazon is selling it for less than $20 shipped.
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Its a great book, and you can't loose at that price. It starts at the absolute basics, but there's enough material in the three volumes that just about anyone should find some useful stuff in there.
 

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