Stuff! Good Bass Players Should Know

Stuff! ... A new instructional book and CD series featuring tips from renowned instructors. Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book and CD pack for Bassists. Provides valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments and equipment (including electronics), grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care and maintenance, and more. Covers rock, jazz, blues, R&B and funk through demos of authentic grooves. The accompanying CD includes many of the examples in the book performed both in solo bass format and in a full-band setting so you can hear how important concepts fit in with other instruments and ensembles. Topics include: arpeggios, chucking, fretless bass, ghost note, isometrics, raking, slapping and popping, walking bass lines, zydeco bass and more!