Deluxe Jazz & Rock Bass Method

As a method is nice because it teaches you to read music notation without the infection called "tabs" , till here is nice but the problem is that without tabs and without audio samples then it gets complicated, slow and boring. There is no way to know if you are doing it right or wrong, unless you have a maestro next to you. So, if you are studying with a teacher, then great method! But if you are alone, I would better advice you to get something with tabs and audio.Anyway, the book is like a bible, it offers a great variety of topics, great stuff, different grooves from different genres of music, scales, chords, arpeggios, progressions, scales, it has it all! As a reference tool is also great.

I'm a guitar player who changed to bass guitar and I'm looking for a good book who have compelte informations about the bass guitar and I found that! Really good book it's complete and have a similar method I've found in Modern Method for guitar by Berklee. A book for a serious bass player who interested in know all about your instrument. It's not a stylistic book but have all informations about scales, postions, reading and serious learning.Very nice book!Sorry about my poor english I'm a brazilian musician and read better in english that write!

This is a great method, teaching, theory book period!!!!!! I ordered it for my bass student.

easy to read and follow

Excellent condition..

Perhaps the most complete method for electric bass music theory I have found. Also, numerous practice exercises. I think it is going to take quite some time to work thru all this material. I don't see how anything could be missing.

I've read and owned lots of bass guitar books, but this is the one book that seems to cover everything. Starting with the most basic introductory material such as "how to hold the bass guitar", the book advances all the way down to things like "Lydian Augmented scales in the 12th position". Besides the expected subjects (scales, modes, progressions, intervals, key signatures, etc.) there are even lessons on bass duets and general subjects like relative pitch training for your ears. The book indirectly teaches better sheet music reading by cleverly making each successive exercise more rhythmically complex as the book goes on. Of course, when you cram so much information into a single book, the material inevitably moves a bit fast (otherwise, you'd have to write the book twice as long). So my only complaint is that it's not very user-friendly as a beginner's total self-instruction book. And I know there are many who don't particulary like the typical Mel Bay methods of instruction. Still, the book is perfect if you have an instructor helping you along, or you're a moderate or advanced player who just wants to review certain sections and maybe pick up something new. I've been playing bass for over a dozen years, but I still like to occasionally review sections and play some of the exercises for practice. Despite its fast pace, the incredible span of information in this single book makes me give it 5 stars. If you had to buy just one bass book to last your whole lifetime, I recommend this one without a doubt.

Played bass for twenty years. Self taught. Learned through guitar worlds tabs and playing to the radio. I was a bass player but not a bass musician. A jaco video inspired me to learn how to read bass clef. This book has no tabs!!! Only criticism is it doesn't have an audio recording to go with it. (At least not to my knowledge) takes you in depth teaching how to tap your foot to keep time to positions to modes. It even tells you what fingers to play with for that position. Very enlightened stuff. The bass book on my very crowded shelf that I pick every time. For those who want to learn and study bass this is a great asset.