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Double Bass Real Book

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SullyMan

Feb 10, 2007
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#1
Hello All,
I'm looking to get my hands on my first real book. I noticed on eBay there are sellers that will sell you a link to download a .pdf file of the book. This leads me to believe that there may be a website out there where you can download it for free. Does anyone know of such a site. Also, I noticed that trhey sell real books for just bass. Would you reccomend that I get a bass book or a standard book and just read the chord progressions. Thanks all.

SullyMan
 
#2
I remember having links to them a few years ago but I think they were taken down. You can still find them on P2P networks though. For which version you get is up to you. I have one book in treble and anouther edition in bass clef. I can read both clefs fine so it doesn't bother me but if I lend my bass clef one to my piano player, he sometimes has trouble adjusting to it. I'd say go for the bass clef one if you can't read treble since playing the melodies will help your soloing.

Rob
 
#10
Hey all,
I ordered a CD from ebay with 45 different fake books on it. It has all th versions in all the keys plus the bass versions. If anyone wants any books i'll be happy to try and e-mail you the .pdf files. Let me know.
 
#11
I'd just like to plug Chuck Sher's series of real books here while we're at it. Some people may disagree with some of the changes they've settled on in this series, but these are thoroughly researched books and as I understand Chuck has gone the extra mile to make sure the composers/artists are getting fair compensation for the inclusion of their songs.

My problem with some of the .pdf or downloadable real book sets - at least those that have a cost involved - is that someone is making money off of a myriad composers' work because they scanned some real book at some point and burned a bunch of CD's. The worst are those who have scanned the Sher real books and are selling them on places like eBay. I don't know about the freely shared real books mentioned above and what's up with that...

(I am in no way affiliated with Sher Publishing, although I do regularly use many of their books in teaching and performance.)

Beyond that, I'd chime in to stick with treble clef versions if you're buying real books. Learning to read treble will pay off big dividends throughout your career.

Tanglehead
 
#13
I was gonna pipe in with the same comment but feared it might come off as some kind of official TalkBass policy or something. I might be wrong, but by publishing links to that stuff, isn't TalkBass facilitating a wrong against the rights holders?

The Sher books are better and they don't cost much, really, especially if you look at them as tools of the trade. A single legal fakebook costs about as much as one string for your bass -- maybe two.
 
#14
The real book site above is touted often as a
'transpositional tool' as opposed to a 'fake' book.

I am kind of on the fence on the ethics of that. I'd
be curious as to how you DB guys feel about this
particular topic. (So I am subscribed.)


Olafur Gislason
 
#19
Tanglehead said:
I'd just like to plug Chuck Sher's series of real books here while we're at it. Some people may disagree with some of the changes they've settled on in this series, but these are thoroughly researched books and as I understand Chuck has gone the extra mile to make sure the composers/artists are getting fair compensation for the inclusion of their songs.

My problem with some of the .pdf or downloadable real book sets - at least those that have a cost involved - is that someone is making money off of a myriad composers' work because they scanned some real book at some point and burned a bunch of CD's. The worst are those who have scanned the Sher real books and are selling them on places like eBay. I don't know about the freely shared real books mentioned above and what's up with that...

(I am in no way affiliated with Sher Publishing, although I do regularly use many of their books in teaching and performance.)

Beyond that, I'd chime in to stick with treble clef versions if you're buying real books. Learning to read treble will pay off big dividends throughout your career.

Tanglehead
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I agree 100%. It's time those illegal RealBooks go away. I don't care who has them or how long they've been used or this is how we've always done it.

The Sher books are good. Some tunes have lyrics, horn backgrounds, arrangments, suggested bass lines an dcomping rhythms, intos and endings, etc. We are trying to get everyone around here to use them.
 
#20
Tanglehead said:
My problem with some of the .pdf or downloadable real book sets - at least those that have a cost involved - is that someone is making money off of a myriad composers' work because they scanned some real book at some point and burned a bunch of CD's. The worst are those who have scanned the Sher real books and are selling them on places like eBay. I don't know about the freely shared real books mentioned above and what's up with that...
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Yup. It's called "stealing". A student gave me a copy of "the disc" once, and it stays on my computer at school; I don't mind having it because I already own all of the legal books (and many of the illegal ones as well), and it's more of a convenience than anything. But for some fool to be SELLING somebody else's work on ebay...that's just plain ****ed up.
 

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