You Can Teach Yourself Electric Bass (You Can Teach Yourself)

Rating:
Summary: It would be better to get the version with a cassette or CD
Review: In theory, this book also is available for purchase with a cassette or a CD. The paperback book alone really is not very helpful for a bass novice. Being able to hear the music would be more helpful. However, right now, no one seems to have the book for sale with the CD or with the cassette. Good luck!

Rating:
Summary: this book ain't got soul
Review: This was the book I purchased leaving the music store after getting my first bass. I sat at home and learned how to read the notes in the first position, mastered tablature reading and even learned the C Major Scale in the first position. But the only problem was that the book gave zero application possiblities for any of the things I took my time to learn. It was a good thing that I immediately enrolled in private bass lessons or I probably would've gotten frustrated with this four-string beast and quit the instrument. I really don't recommend this book to anyone. It has a few slap lines to learn and could improve your music reading abilities, but other than that it is useless.

Check out on of the following...
The Evolving Bassist-Rufus Reid
The Jazz Bass Book-John Goldsby
The berklee bass practice method

Rating:
Summary: this book ain't got soul
Review: This was the book I purchased leaving the music store after getting my first bass. I sat at home and learned how to read the notes in the first position, mastered tablature reading and even learned the C Major Scale in the first position. But the only problem was that the book gave zero application possiblities for any of the things I took my time to learn. It was a good thing that I immediately enrolled in private bass lessons or I probably would've gotten frustrated with this four-string beast and quit the instrument. I really don't recommend this book to anyone. It has a few slap lines to learn and could improve your music reading abilities, but other than that it is useless.

Check out on of the following...
The Evolving Bassist-Rufus Reid
The Jazz Bass Book-John Goldsby
The berklee bass practice method