Product Description

Literally the best bass book in the business.

This professional reference tool contains thousands of diagrams, charts, illustrations and fretboard patterns along with clear and concise theory and instruction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46360 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 141 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780825821813
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Customer Reviews

In a nutshell...
this book spends the first dozen or so pages explaining how scales and chords are built up off the Major scale, and then how they progress/tie-in to that same scale. The rest of the book is pretty much a reference on all the scales/chords/fingerings on the neck of the bass. I doubt from the depth that there are any missing.

This is not a music theory book, it is more of a reference manual. I found the early primer quite helpful and succinct in getting across the idea of how the chords are built, however, if you have NO idea of scales & chords, you will be lost for sure.

Simply Fantastic
I am an intermediate/advanced bassist fluent in many styles of music and I first had seen this book advertised in Guitar World's Bass Guitar Magazine. It looked very promising in the fact that it had very a very conprehensive way of fretboard theory and the modes for all of the types of scales. This book is more than I expected and I'm sure that it will be a reference I will use for the rest of my learning experience with bass and with music in general.

I would recommend this book for any sort of player: from beginner to intermediate, from jazz to metal. There's something for everyone, especially the budding musician interested in the theory aspect of the music he/she plays.

"Complete" it is
I purchased this book about one year after I started playing. About a year into playing, it was vastly in depth and a bit beyond my current experience as a player.

I purchased it cause it had every scale imaginable and the depth it went into on the scales. At the time I tried to learn them I was fretting incorrectly and had'nt quite reached a point in my novice experience to learn them right.

2 years and 2 bands later, I picked the book back up after wanting to progress at my craft. It's full of a wealth of knowledge and the way its laid out and the fact that I can now fret correctly, makes it easy to learn all these scales.

What this book is: a reference manual with every scale on the fretbaord and WHERE to play them.

What this book is not: a book detailing music theory or telling how or teaching you how to play your instrument.

This book seems to be written with the understanding that you may already know how music works. This will make you a better musician, but if you dont know how music theory works or music in genreal, this book wont help you. You can learn all the scales in the world and learn them fast, but creating a musician-this book will not do. Help you be a better one and help you pgoress at your isntrument- for years to come- it will do.

Other books would go into much more detail thats un-needed here. This will be in my possession for a very long time and I feel I might have to get multiple copies as this one is going to wear out.

I would suggest this to any bass player, at any level. This is a reference manual and will progress your playing or push you to progress.

If you find a used copy of this, its probably going to be in bad shape with dog ears and marks on it.

This is a reference manual that I think will stand the test of time. A very good investment that they should sell with every persons first stringed instrument.