100 Funk/R&B Lessons: Bass Lesson Goldmine Series

All the books in this series are great to work out of. When you buy a Bass book you need the meat, and these have it. With over two hundred pages you get plenty to work on and its broken down into 100 lessons. Do the math...$21.00 divided by 100 = 21cents a lesson, how can you go wrong. The books present exercises that are not over complicated, you get some theory and you get audio tracks online to match up with the lessons. Remember these books are tailored toward different genre. Funk, Jazz, Blues, Rock - Must have for your library.

This is an essential Funk book. This book includes great bassline examples in the funk music style (obviously). Every sub-genre of funk is represented as far as I can see. This book also features the different playing styles of seminal funk bass players such as bootsy, flea, victor wooten, Louis Johnson, and many more.

Book doesn't lie flat.

CD's are NOT included as stated . I just received the book so the review is not based on content just the fact the the description states 2 CD's included . They are not . Online audio access is included . Haven't checked it out yet . I would have preferred CD's .

Nice book.

Awesome

Trying to improve my playing and reading skills. This will help.

Good book

I already have several of the books in this series, mainly for guitar as I’m really a guitarist, but as I picked up the bass around a year ago and haven’t been able to put it down decided that I ought to put some serious study time in.I really like the way these books are arranged. There are 100 separate lessons which really just touch on the individual topics but are a great starting point for further study and reading. The initial lessons work on basic technique such as timing, feel, pop & slap etc. Then as the book progresses it looks at more advanced techniques such as chords, double stops, etc. Finally it looks at the work of some of the greats e.g Bernard Edwards, Marcus Miller, etc.Each chapter has audio samples that are available on the the Hal Leonard website. The samples start with the full band (played along to metronome) including the bass so that you can listen to how it is supposed to sound then the bass is removed so that you can play along with the band yourself. I actually prefer the logging on method to CD as once you are logged on to the website you create your own library using the access code from the book. As I have several books it’s easy to access all the audio tracks this way. You have the option to either stream or download them.Overall I think these ‘100 lesson’ books are an excellent study aide, my only criticism with any study book like this is that it’s preferable to have a coil bound copy so that he pages stay open without having to weigh them down. Despite that, highly recommended.

Hola!! El libro me parece estupendo hace un recorrido por multitud de bajistas y diferentes estilos y epocas dentro del bajo funk. Tienen un sinfin de lineas de bajo... me gusta mucho las grabaciones y sus transcripciones para cada ejercicio. Espero practicar mucho y disfrutar de cada nota con este libro. Sus escritores han hecho un gran trabajo para mi gusto.

A tiempo. Todo correcto.

As described and on timeThank you

Livre 208 pages + audio à télécharger ou à écouter en ligneCette nouvelle série de Methode basse Blues Funk Rock Jazz vient de faire son apparition.Si vous cherchez des références de méthode de basse pour les vacances ou pour poursuivre en autodidacte l’étude de la basse, ne cherchez pas plus loin.Petit inconvénient pour certains, ces méthodes sont en anglais. A ma connaissance, il n’y a aucune méthode en français de cette qualité.Les partitions sont en notation tablature et solfège et chaque livre propose un code pour télécharger les fichiers audios ou les écouter en ligne.Il est à noter que les fichiers audios sont de très bonne qualité.En complément de travail, il est important de saisir tous les exemples musicaux dans un logiciel comme Tabledit ou Guitarpro.Chaque volume fait 200 pages, divisé en 100 chapitres, 1 concept important par chapitre ce qui offre une véritable organisation de travail.Je dispose de nombreuses méthodes de basse mais aucune ne propose une telle réflexion sur les styles Blues, Funk, Rock, et Jazz.Avec ces nouvelles méthodes, on retrouve désormais sur papier des formations du niveau de ce que propose des sites d’enseignements en ligne comme Truefire ou Berklee School.Attention au rupture de stock et à la non réédition. De nombreux livres sont très rapidement introuvables.Jean – Marc BontempsMusiques ActuellesIle de la Reunion