Mikeg Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 im quite happy with my technical ability but my theory is somewhat lacking. i know the pentatonic scales well but not many others. i want to be able to improvise in the major and minor scales and dip into modes but i dont realy know where to start. Any books you would advise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devinebass Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Search Ed Friedland in google, he's got loads of great books and each one is really well written. Can't remember which publishing company it is but they're all on amazon anyway. There's a couple covering walking bass lines, one which covers soloing and another one which incorporates bits from the latter ones calles 'jazz bass'. You won't go far wrong with any of these. easy, Scott. [url="http://www.scottsbasslessons.com"]http://www.scottsbasslessons.com[/url] [url="http://www.scottdevinemusic.com"]http://www.scottdevinemusic.com[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doddy Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Check out 'Serious Electric Bass' by Joel DiBartolo. It's not a basic book by any means,but it has plenty of scale and modal exercises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foal30 Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 foal endorses that DiBartolo book too reading for days in there also the Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine play some keys good for your ears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essexbasscat Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Rudiments and theory by the Royal schools of music. Red book, covers all eight grades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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