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Check out the Bass Tab White Pages [it includes standard notation]. You'd get a wide variety of styles and a huge range of difficulties. From walking lines to rock to motown.
I think you will have a challenging time finding a book that isn't progressive.
The others have given great recommendations for learning how to walk a bass line.
If you want to read heads, Real Book 6th Edition in Bass Clef would be great. I use my real books [both bass & treble clefs] for sight reading practice constantly. I know that if I don't read one clef for awhile, my reading will be rusty...and that's when i need to sight read something the most.
If you want just easier jazz heads, the recommendation of the Aebersold play-a-longs is great. Check out Volume 54 "Maiden Voyage". I believe they also sell the transcribed bass lines. I think you will learn a LOT more if you transcribe them yourself.
In a later post, you put that you want easier reading practice yet don't want to learn how to play jazz. For that, check out the transcribed bass lines for the Aerbsolds. If you want to get some great reading practice-nothing too complicated reading wise, buy Vol 54. Learn to play the heads, and then to learn how to walk a line, start off by transcribing their lines. The fact that you can isolate the line so heavily will make things much easier. Add into it that you have the changes, and you're well on your way.
More reading fun-the Electric Bass Lines book series that Carol Kaye put out is great. Great lines, great writing. Some of them are quite challenging, but that's why we practice.
I believe that you shouldn't limit yourself to solely quater-half note based reading. Get a progressive book that way you can improve.
I like the idea of a real book that way you can learn heads. Start off with tunes like "When I fall in Love", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "All the Things You Are". They are largely just quarters and half notes, yet once you're feeling more confident, you can move onto heads with a bit more rhythmic variety. Tunes like "Straight No Chaser" and "Chitlins Con Carne". You will gain a lot of reading practice. Add into it that associated listening element-finding people who's phrasing you like, and you will grow a lot as a player without a whole lot of work.
all the best.
I think you will have a challenging time finding a book that isn't progressive.
The others have given great recommendations for learning how to walk a bass line.
If you want to read heads, Real Book 6th Edition in Bass Clef would be great. I use my real books [both bass & treble clefs] for sight reading practice constantly. I know that if I don't read one clef for awhile, my reading will be rusty...and that's when i need to sight read something the most.
If you want just easier jazz heads, the recommendation of the Aebersold play-a-longs is great. Check out Volume 54 "Maiden Voyage". I believe they also sell the transcribed bass lines. I think you will learn a LOT more if you transcribe them yourself.
In a later post, you put that you want easier reading practice yet don't want to learn how to play jazz. For that, check out the transcribed bass lines for the Aerbsolds. If you want to get some great reading practice-nothing too complicated reading wise, buy Vol 54. Learn to play the heads, and then to learn how to walk a line, start off by transcribing their lines. The fact that you can isolate the line so heavily will make things much easier. Add into it that you have the changes, and you're well on your way.
More reading fun-the Electric Bass Lines book series that Carol Kaye put out is great. Great lines, great writing. Some of them are quite challenging, but that's why we practice.
I believe that you shouldn't limit yourself to solely quater-half note based reading. Get a progressive book that way you can improve.
I like the idea of a real book that way you can learn heads. Start off with tunes like "When I fall in Love", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "All the Things You Are". They are largely just quarters and half notes, yet once you're feeling more confident, you can move onto heads with a bit more rhythmic variety. Tunes like "Straight No Chaser" and "Chitlins Con Carne". You will gain a lot of reading practice. Add into it that associated listening element-finding people who's phrasing you like, and you will grow a lot as a player without a whole lot of work.
all the best.
