Mel Bay's Complete Jazz Bass Book

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Summary: The Best Jazz Bass Book
Review: Gatley did an amazing job putting this book together. It is comprehensive, user-friendly and fun. One can tell from this book that Gatley is a remarkable TEACHER of the bass in addition to being a professional muscian.

Rating:
Summary: The Best Jazz Bass Book
Review: Gatley did an amazing job putting this book together. It is comprehensive, user-friendly and fun. One can tell from this book that Gatley is a remarkable TEACHER of the bass in addition to being a professional muscian.

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Summary: Not for the novice
Review: If you are a graduate of Julliard and are approaching jazz bass with a background in classical piano, perhaps this book will be useful to you. Lots of theory. Jazz explained from the top down.

If you are trying to learn jazz bass from the ground up, as I am, you may want to look elsewhere. The fine print in this book makes the examples hard to read when you sit down to practice.
There is so much information presented so thick and fast that, unless you have some solid grounding already, you'll simply get lost or frustrated.

Maybe it depends on your learning style. And maybe I'm too much of a beginner It might be used in a classroom situation or as a reference book. But I have not been able to use it to practice and learn walking lines. I have found Jay Hungerford's book more useful.

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Summary: the Real complete jazzbass book
Review: when i got my first copy of cjbb i thaught that it would be just another beginners book with no indepth aproach to its contenents. i was totaly wrong this book aproaches the methode of playing jazz bass in a real creative way which will help many people who are intrigued by jazz to starts playing it without feeling confused. the book has an exellent layout and it chapters are very well organized to fully prepare you in this style.It covers walking bass lines chords theory soloing over chords how to play jazz prgoression and how to improvise on them.Earl Gately has put a mamoth job into one single book ,if you really want to play jazzbass this is the book to buy