Jazz Standards Book

[santucci218]

eah, this is off topic a little i guess.

I was reading my Jaco biography and read that he used to just learn 100's of jazz standards. anybody have any advice of where i can get a book of just jazz standards for bass? i need to work on my chord walking.

 

[Passinwind]

Real Book sixth edition.

 

[santucci218]

can ya link me to it please? i google the real book and i get every book known to man

 

[Jeremy Crockett]

Here you go.

 

[santucci218]

thank you much

 

[santucci218]

isnt this the treble cleft version? should i get the bass cleft version at the bottom there i guess. is that the same songs?

 

[Passinwind]

Make sure you get the bass clef version if that's what you want. I just use the treble clef version myself though. It's the same tunes either way.

 

[Jeremy Crockett]

My bad:

Better Linky

 

[santucci218]

thank you much guys. i will order this for myself for christmas =]

 

[Passinwind]

thank you much guys. i will order this for myself for christmas =]

Welcome to the world of jazz standards players, bro. Once you get it figured out a bit you'll be able to jam with more different people than you can imagine.

 

[santucci218]

im only 18 years old so im trying to get a head start on this kind of stuff.

anybody else want to recommend any other books that can really teach a lot?

 

[Aaron]

I think the Real Book has better selection, although I think that the New Real Book has more accurate/traditional/common changes. The problem with the New Real Book is that you even miss a lot of standards, even when you have all three volumes. I think the New Real Books wasted a lot of space with tunes like "Portrait of Tracy" and "River People".

I think it is the Hal Leonard jazz real book (grey cover) that has the best selection, although some of the changes are absurd.

 

[santucci218]

well im just starting out, not to mention i love portrait of tracy and river people =]

 

[Aaron]

anybody else want to recommend any other books that can really teach a lot?

Transcribing your favorite basslines for jazz standards and learning arpeggios and scales are going to help you a lot more than any book.

Although - Mark Levine's Jazz Theory book is great. What has worked great for me is reading one topic thoroughly (i.e. x7alt vs. x7#11 chords), play the examples about 10 times, reread the information, and play the examples about 10 more times. The examples are really essential to the book.

 

[Aaron]

well im just starting out, not to mention i love portrait of tracy and river people =]

They're a bit of an investment at around $40 a pop, so it nice to have something that you can use for a number of years.

The problem with including tunes like PoT and River People, in addition to most fusion stuff, is that they are not tunes you "fake". You have to have learn the tunes from the recordings. So having charts of them in a fakebook is pointless. If you're at a jam, someone isn't going to call out "Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy".

 

[santucci218]

lol i get what you mean. this is mainly for me though, i dont really have anybody to play with =[

 

[Luke73]

lol i get what you mean. this is mainly for me though, i dont really have anybody to play with =[

...after learning all those standards you will

 

[santucci218]

18 year olds in pittsburgh dont play jazz!

 

[JimK]

Anybody have this one from Sher?
I have the 1st 3 Sher Real Books + the Sher Latin Book...never picked up the Standards' one.
http://www.shermusic.com/standard_real.htm

...also, see there's a "European Real Book" at www.shermusic.com.
Cool.

 

[Luke73]

18 year olds in pittsburgh dont play jazz!

So find somebody who does