Recommended learning materials
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The Music lesson by Victor Wooten
Fantastic book about playing, practicing and evolving as musician and human being. Not a method book as such – but so inspiring and will open your eyes and send you back to square 1 (in a good way). The rhythm / time advice alone is reason eneough to buy it – and thats just a fragment of the gold buried in this book. Im practicing hard again… |
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Chord studies for electric bass by Joseph Viola
Great for expanding your upper register skills |
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Groove Mastery by Onedia James A fine method to understand and find “the groove” or “pocket”. Good playalong examples and the practice advice offered in this book is right on the money. Standard notation, reading skills required. Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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Standing in the shadows of Motown – the Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson by Allan “Dr. Licks” SlutskyHistorical facts and exact transcriptions of Jamersons greatest basslines with recorded versions played by the worlds greatest bassplayers. Standard notation, reading skills required. Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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The Funkmasters – the Great James Brown Rhythm Sections by Allan “Dr. Licks” SlutskyHistorical facts and exact transcriptions of bass, drums and guitar with playalong tracks with the original players. Standard notation and TAB Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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Slap it- Tony Oppenheim
The first book on the slapstyle made and the first one of two ive used on that subject, all the the basic slap techniques. Level: Beginner/Intermediate/advanced |
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Evolving Bassist by Rufus ReidOne of the 2 books that taught me to “walk”
Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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The Improvisor’s Bass Method: For Electric & Acoustic Bass by Chuck SherGreat book on scales, chords, improvisation
Level: Intermediate/advanced |
DVD’s I’ve been inspired by and learnt from |
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Jaco Pastorius – Modern Electric BassEven though it wasnt Jaco in his prime, theres a lot of great exercises and inspiration to be had from this title. Includes some great jams with John Scofield on guitar and Kenwood Dennard drums.
Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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John Patitucci – Complete Electric Bass, Vol. 1 and 2A compilation of his vol 1, playing grooves in different styles and the vol 2, with eartraining and the best “how to solo over scales” i’ve ever experienced. A lot to be learned from this dvd. Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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Louis Johnson: Instructional DVD For BassHad this on video and wore it out
Its the real funk played by the real funkateer! Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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Chuck Rainey – the legendary bassistHad this on video Great slap technique and playing tips from one of the studio masters Level: Intermediate/advanced |
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The Slap Bass Program by Alexis SklarevskiGreat DVD to get the slap techniques down
Level: Beginner/Intermediate/advanced |
Software that I can recommend: |
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Band in a box
Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program, which means that you can go from nothing to complete song arrangements in as little as a few seconds. Simply enter chords to a song, choose a style of music, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, generating a full band arrangement complete with Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar, Strings, and more. I use it all the time for practicing playing over chords and progressions, makes scale practice fun! |
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: Hi guys!
: hi, GospelBassMan
: Hello community!!
: Will your bass be mass produced? Do you think it will be affordable (relatively speaking) Will it be offered online for us Americans that wanna buy it?
: Thank you very much.
: Im really not into playalongs these days, more fun (and meaningfull for me) to do original music
: My sig bass is going to be released at the Frankfurt musikmesse in midmarch. I dont know anything about price yet
: Hey MarloweDK! Thanks for all you do! I've gotten into more funk over the last year thanks to your lessons and playalongs. How about a playalong of December 1963 (oh What a Night) by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons?
: Hey Marlowe, any words on when your signature bass is being offered on the market? Any idea on the price range? Really excited about it but I've only read one article about it.
: hey thomas! i was hoping to get a tutorial request from you. it from the "funky filter fun" vid you did. i would like a tutorial from the 2:45 part to the end 3:17. i luv this groove. i've learned alot from u here!!!! thanks mdk!!!
