Looking for an intermediate method book (or some general advice on what to practice)

[Loring]

SBL or Nathan Navarro or talking bass...

 

[Snarf]

Hi, first time poster here!
I've been dabbling with bass playing for a few years and decided to take some lessons next fall. Now I'd like to work on a few things over the summer for about half an hour per day.
What I know: I practiced the majority of exercises in Reznicek's "Rock Bass" book, a few transcriptions and tabs of Rock, Funk and Soul songs. I took a few individual lessons. My main instrument is drums. I also play some piano, so I know how to read and I have some knowledge about harmony and scales.
What I have: a Yamaha BB 604 with Flats. Books: "Bass Bible", Friedland's "Building Walking Bass" and "The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections" - while these are good books, I feel like I could benefit from some more explanations. For example, the Friedland book gives you all kinds of options but not so much guidance, when to use what (like "use this chromatic approach if you go to a minor chord / don't do X on a Maj7").
What I'd like to learn: get faster at finding the right fingering and position on the fret board / planning ahead when seeing chord changes or transcribed bass lines. I'm not too interested in Slapping or anything too technical. I mainly want to become decent at playing some grooves that work. It's not my main instrument.
What I intend to do over the summer: play different scales / modes over two octaves
and say the note names to get more knowledge of the fret board, work on some Funk grooves from the book or online resources.

So if anything comes to mind (songs that are not too hard but have some nice progressions, a great exercise or a good book that also gets into some theory and concepts), I'd be happy to read your suggestions.

I strongly recommend my first teacher's books, The Complete Electric Bass Method by Dave Overthrow. I use them with my students. They're well-paced and are good overview books.

 

[Rick Penrose]

I strongly recommend my first teacher's books, The Complete Electric Bass Method by Dave Overthrow. I use them with my students. They're well-paced and are good overview books.

I wholeheartedly recommend Joe Hubbard if you are really interested in learning bass and music.