This has been an interest of mine for a long time. Obviously I've written a fair amount about jazz playing, among other styles, but I've always been fascinated with finding educational approaches that are directed toward superstitious rock and blues players - you know, the ones that think learning about music will somehow cripple their ability to "feel" it, or perhaps stunt their "creativity." Although I had a classical upright background on bass, I was a teenaged blues/rock guitarist (sounds like a horror movie) and I learned it all the same way everyone else did - by ear, picking things up off records, and playing a lot. I remember that well, and while my classical training helped me read music, it never helped me understand what the hell I was playing. So... as most of my students over the years have been rock players, I deal with this all the time. Not everyone wants to learn jazz, not everyone has the patience to get in there and sweat over music they don't like, will never play, and don't grasp. I've spent a lot of time coming up with ways to make things palatable and accessible without watering them down... My book "Building Rock Bass Lines" was an attempt at taking the basic principles of "Building Walking Bass Lines" and applying them to rock-oriented progressions and rhythms... while not a perfect book - I think there's a lot of good info and examples in that one. Also, "Pentatonic Scales For Bass" has a lot of info geared toward rock players... Maybe one day I'll really try to tackle this... but by then... who would buy a "rock" bass book written by some 60-year old dude?
