Members Dr. Strangelove Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 Is it worth reading or are there better books out there? I'm talking about the Jaco book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ToeJamFootball Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 Read it, it's the only way you'll find out whether or not it was worth reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Strangelove Posted April 26, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 The thing is... I've got many other bass books and I don't know where to begin! Here's the list: Modern Electric Bass - Jaco Complete Bass Lines - Ron Carter Bass Lines - Bob Cranshaw Berklee Practice Method for bass Berklee Jazz Improv. Bass Extremes - Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten Concepts for Bass Soloing - Chuck Sher & Marc Johnson The True Jazz Bass Solo - Joe Kast Improvisation for Bass - Jazz Studio A comprenhensive chord tone system for mastering the bass - Jeff Berlin Progressive Bass Concepts - John Myung Bass Method - Ray Brown Reading contemporary bass rythms - Rich Appleman Real Book Bass vol. 1 & 2 Bass Lines - Rufus Reid Slap style techniques 4 bass - Superchops4bass The Latin Bass Book The Real Book fifth ed. so, which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lonerstoenr Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 Depends what you want to learn. Getting Jaco's book if all you want to do is slap wouldn't be the best idea, dig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vladoicho Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 The thing is... I've got many other bass books and I don't know where to begin! Here's the list: Modern Electric Bass - Jaco Complete Bass Lines - Ron Carter Bass Lines - Bob Cranshaw Berklee Practice Method for bass Berklee Jazz Improv. Bass Extremes - Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten Concepts for Bass Soloing - Chuck Sher & Marc Johnson The True Jazz Bass Solo - Joe Kast Improvisation for Bass - Jazz Studio A comprenhensive chord tone system for mastering the bass - Jeff Berlin Progressive Bass Concepts - John Myung Bass Method - Ray Brown Reading contemporary bass rythms - Rich Appleman Real Book Bass vol. 1 & 2 Bass Lines - Rufus Reid Slap style techniques 4 bass - Superchops4bass The Latin Bass Book The Real Book fifth ed. so, which one? Looks like somebody got into the thread with the bass books before it got deleted For me, personally, Jaco's book was useless as learning material, but I thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless... I'd say that any of the books will be helpful (Jaco's one - least so in my opinion ) if you have the patience to go through it thoroughly and do all scales/chords/arpeggios etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xuf Posted April 26, 2009 Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 Uh, you have all those books and havent read ONE yet??? My guess is to pick one and start reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Strangelove Posted April 26, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 26, 2009 According to the book FAQ, Bown's Method is very good. But its focused on Double bass... is there a difference? (sorry to seem noobish) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vladoicho Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 Left hand technique is quite different on the double bass. Right hand - not as much, if we're not talking about arco playing. The theory is the same though, so if you already have some experience with fingerings this should work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 78pbass Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 if you want to learn slap:Slap-It by Tony Oppenheim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cpt. Spliff Posted April 27, 2009 Members Share Posted April 27, 2009 Way to go. Read more, practise less.Wait... errh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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