Title: Disorganized
Product review: This book is advertised as a "comprehensive method for the electric and upright bass", but it's really more of a basic intro and a number of exercises without much text tying it all together. I suspect it had it origin as a set of handouts for the author's students that was later assembled into a book.The few examples of applied bass lines use only roots and fifths. There are a number of scales and arpeggios worked out in various keys, but no discussion of how to apply these to build bass lines.There's a lack of discussion of upright bass technique- just a few pictures- and not much more for electric. I wouldn't recommend it at all for the beginner attempting to teach him orherself. For the advancing student looking for scales and arpeggios, I'd recommend Rufus Reid's "The Evolving Bassist". The price is the same, but there's much more useful material there.
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