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(Bass Method). The Hal Leonard Funk Bass Method is your complete guide to learning funk bass. It uses real funk songs to teach you the basics of grooving and soloing funk bass in the style of Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Rocco Prestia, and many others. Songs include: Brick House * Can't Stop * Fire * Higher Ground * I'll Take You There * Let's Groove * Pick up the Pieces * Stay * Sumthin', Sumthin' * What Is Hip * and more.

RnB, Soul & Motown Style Basslines is your complete guide to mastering the essential skills of Soul bass guitar.

Discover fully-formed musical grooves, riffs and licks you can incorporate into your playing right now - each one carefully crafted to develop dexterity, timing and feel.

Providing over 90 bass lines played over 45 fully produced tracks reminiscent of old school funk combined with new groove R&B, the New Sound of Funk Bass is a must-have for any bassist's repertoire. Each example is followed by a play-along version without the bass. These tracks will not only help you learn and perform the dozens of recorded and transcribed bass line, but will also serve as a springboard to help you create your own original bass grooves.

(Bass Instruction). Critically acclaimed as the best single source for the techniques used to play funk and slap-style bass! Includes a foreword by John Patitucci and is endorsed by Rich Appleman of the Berklee College of Music, Will Lee, Mark Egan, Stuart Hamm and many others. Features several photos and a special section on equipment and effects. A book for everyone -- from beginners to advanced players! Includes a 58-minute audio accompaniment.

This book provides guidance for the bassist as well as the percussionist and rhythm guitarist on creating individual reggae grooves. The numerous challenging 2 and 4-measure rhythm patterns make a great rhythm reading workout, and the advice the author provides on equipment selection and rhythmic styles will be appreciated by the whole band. The audio recording available online features a full rhythm section both with and without the bass part, so you can jam as part of the group. Written in both standard notation and tablature

The Total Jazz Bassist is a complete jazz method, giving equal treatment to both electric and double bass. Covering styles like bebop, Latin, funk and fusion, this book provides examples and lessons that will help you become a well-rounded bassist. The Total Jazz Bassist also covers theory, technique, tunes, solos, jazz styles, and includes great advice for practicing and doing business. You'll learn to develop walking bass lines, how to solo, bass lines and solo patterns for blues changes and major and minor "two-five-one" progressions, dominant 7th chord scales, approaches for playing "Rhythm Changes," and much, much more! This is the one place to get everything you need to make you not only a great jazz bassist but an asset to any band. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.

(Book). This invaluable guide and accompanying CD give bass players both the musical background and training needed to get on with their grooving. With lessons guided by a metronome and presented in various musical styles and rhythmic applications, bassists increase their ability to internalize rhythm. The book also breaks down classic styles and grooves from rock, blues, R&B, jazz, Afro-Caribbean, and other traditions. Each example includes a notated version of the drum part and details how to program it into a drum machine.