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Title: Excellent. Defines the Genre. Develops Chops.
Review: This is an excellent bass book, a great study of the blues and how the bass functions within the genre. The author breaks the genre down clearly and provides exercises that have real world examples. It's great that he describes the example and points to a song that exemplifies the technique used. (I put together a nice blues playlist using the examples in this book.) The author moves us gradually through levels of complexity and finishes the lesson off nicely by providing a section of several blues standards that are most likely to be called out at a gig. The examples are provided on the CD and are great little jams in themselves, very entertaining. The bass track on the CD is provided on one side. Tabbed notation is included, which speeds things up for those of us with limited time reading music. To get a grip on blues bass, get this book.
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