4 comments about Complete Electric Bass Method: Beginning Electric Bass (Complete Electric Bass Method).

1. The book is packed with useful information. However, I simply don't find it that useful for learning how to play the electric bass.
   
   Hi, here's a bass, here's how you hold your hand. And now... here's a major tetrachord (what!?). Here's how to play these up and down the neck of the bass. Go have FUN with that! Rrriiiight. . .
   
   I prefer the FastTrack book maybe I'm just not sharp enough to really grok what Beginning Electric Bass teaches. If you already have a guitar background, I'm sure this book would make absolute 100% sense to you.



2. This is an awesome book! It is definitely the best book I have seen
   for any beginning bassist who can play a few notes. This book is
   not a note reading book, Dave has other books serving that purpose.
   This book does a great job in teaching the beginning bassist the
   tools used to create bass lines and shows in a stepwise fashion how
   to do show. He also goes beyond the standard perspective of playing
   major scales. Instead of showing just one, two or three fingerings,
   the books shows a way to come up with nine different one octave
   fingerings, and shows multiple fingerings for triads and 7th chords.
   I think this is great for beginning bassists who really wants to
   explore the instrument and become a creative bassist. You also learn
   about diatonic harmony, commonly used chord progressions, triads, 7th
   chords, how to use all of these to create bass lines in the styles of
   rock, blues, funk reggae and more. I have seen many beginning books
   but this one is an original. I remember seeing a very good review of
   this book as well as Dave's Intermediate and Mastering books in Bass
   Player Magazine a couple of years ago. This gets my highest
   recommendation.



3. Am I glad I got this book! I found this book to be one of the more, if not the most informative beginning electric bass book I have ever seen. Though it is probably designed for the bassist whom can already play a few notes, the book opens many doors for any beginner bassist. The major tetrachords chapter shows how to play a one- octave major scale in as many as 9 ways. The book teaches musical concepts and how they apply to the bass. In a well-written format this book doesn't just show you a scale or chord and move on, but rather it not only presents material, but also explains and demonstrates how it is used to create bass lines in a real world bass playing situation. If you want to be a creative bassist and eventually be able to create your own bass lines, this beginning book is where to start. Not only do you learn some great bass lines, but also you begin to understand how to create your own by learning about rhythm, triads, 7th chords, diatonic harmony, blues, funk, rock, common chord progressions and much more. I can't wait to get the Intermediate book of this series. 5 stars all the way!



4. This book is not just puff but has real musical information and shows you how to use it to create bass lines with. Great Stuff! I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn about the bass. Because the information is explained clearly this is a great book for someone to work through it on their own but it is also a great tool for teachers to use with their students. 5 Stars for this book! The DVD that is available with it is great but I am also getting the CD.

1 comments about Electric Guitar Lessons: Learn how to play Electric Guitar the Smart Way! (Smart Way).

1. Waste of my money and time. They don't teach you the same way that your favorite rock legends learn. They use music tab just like piano players use instead of guitar tab. In my opinion, this book is not the smartest way to learn at all. Go with Guitar for Dummies, much better.

3 comments about Music Man: 1978 to 1982 (And Then Some!): The Other Side of the Story.

1. As an owner of a 1980 Music Man 212-75 amplifier, I was pleasantly surprised to see this book come out, however it is not exactly what I had in mind. It is not the nuts-and-bolts look at the amplifiers or guitars that players might have in mind. It does not cover in depth the reasons behind the development of the guitars and amps and why they were made the way they were. Rather this book is more in tune to the business side of things and how the instruments were promoted and sold over the years they were made. The book is a "tribute to Tom Walker" and makes him the star of Music Man with Forrest White at his side. Leo Fender comes out to a lesser degree than I had known before, to my disappointment. All in all, the book is interesting to the hard core Music Man owner or fan, but there is more to be written.



2. This is a good book from a historical standpoint, but yuck, what horrible paper & type and the pictures look like cheap photocopies of photocopies etc.
   I was hoping for a nice, slick glossy colored photo tribute to a great chapter in music history.



3. As the owner of a Music Man HD-130 Reverb amp, I was looking forward to reading about a neglected era. Music Man was active from 1972-82, and the amplifiers underwent some interesting changes during that period.
   
   Alas, you won't learn about any of that here. There are lots of photos of NAMM show exhibits, and promotional doodads, and of the author with various persons he worked with.
   
   What is lacking is any substantive history of MM (the author joined in 1978, and he treats the period prior -- the most interesting to the reader -- as unimportant).
   
   Worse, he is addicted to exclamation points! There are ten on title page!! When he uses one to end a paragraph, he has to use two to end the next one, and then three!!!
   
   It's like being yelled at by someone with bad breath.
   
   Poorly edited (surely someone in a position of authority would have excised all those "!" out of the text), ramblingly written with little focus on the actual company and its technology and much lingering over how much fun the author had on European jaunts, it does not fulfill the still-existing void of information. I don't know any more about Music Man than when I started, except that the deification of Tom Walker is a sort of counterbalance to his image from books by his colleagues and contemporaries.
   
   I wanted to like this book, but there's nothing there.

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1 comments about Mel Bay FAQ: Electric Guitar Care and Setup.

1. All guitar players must know the material in this book. This small, short booklet shows how to set up an electric guitar. It teaches adjusting the truss rod, adjusting the bridge, adjusting the nut, adjusting the level of the pick-ups and adjusting the intonation. It also has a small chapter on troubleshooting. These are just everyday adjustments that guitar players should be familiar with.
   
   It does not go into a lot of detail, and it certainly is not a comprehensive manual and guitar set up or guitar repair. Nevertheless, it's very good for what it is. Every guitar player should have access to this information.

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