Building Walking Bass Lines

Rating:
Summary: Great book overall!
Review: Being a musician already, I like this book because it doesn't move to slow through the beginning. It gives a few pages of introduction to music, but it doesn't overkill. The progression through the material is excellent as well. The pace is good, and explanations helps to make these exercises worthwhile.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to expand on their prior bass knowledge, and get into some jazz and blues. I have taken big leaps in my playing, and I haven't had it for very long.

Rating:
Summary: Great book overall!
Review: Being a musician already, I like this book because it doesn't move to slow through the beginning. It gives a few pages of introduction to music, but it doesn't overkill. The progression through the material is excellent as well. The pace is good, and explanations helps to make these exercises worthwhile.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to expand on their prior bass knowledge, and get into some jazz and blues. I have taken big leaps in my playing, and I haven't had it for very long.

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Summary: It's easy to start "walking"
Review: It's a very interesting book, with lots of good exercices. I particularly liked the way how Ed Friedland introduce the reader in the way how to construct your own bass lines. He gives you space for you to do your own bass line, for you to express your own imagination. If you are a starter in this walking bass business, I recomend you to buy this book, you won't be deceived.

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Summary: walk this way...
Review: This book delivers the goods. You'll be playing good bass lines right away, and steadily adding more elements as you progress. The book gets five stars, but
I didn't give the package five stars because the CD sounds fairly dull. All the tracks are recorded at slow tempi without much feeling. A few alternate takes with with faster tempi and more complex accompaniments would have been a big plus. A nice complement to this book is Epstein's "Blues Bass Handbook", which has the good grooves minus most of the music theory.

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Summary: could be better
Review: This is probably a great book for beginners or for people just learning how to read music. I think most people who listen to music can figure out the infamous r-3, r-5, r-8, progressions just from listening or transcribing bass lines off records. I was fairly disappointed that this was all that he covered in more than great detail in the book. I recommend walking jazz lines for bass, and blues bass. This is not a completely bad book but just is geared toward beginners with probably less than 1 month of playing or who have bad ears.

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Summary: Ed friedland is a great master
Review: Well, i think this is one of the best books out there that can teach you walkin'... or at least that can put you on the right track, the approach is very progressive and it has also 10 track of 2 minutes each on wich you can practice; it is very well done in the course of the book there are also some track to play along on wich you can practice the lesson you've just learned... the examples are very helpful, there are no flashy things that can distract you,there is just what is explained... with it's number two i think it's all you need to begin to learn how to walk and then you can go your own way