Stuff! Good Bass Players Should Know (book/CD)

Publisher: Hal Leonard
STUFF!... A new instructional book/CD series featuring tips from renowned instructors.

Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book. Provides valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments and equipment (including electronics), grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care & 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 notes
 • isometrics
 • raking
 • slapping & popping
 • walking bass line
 • zydeco bass
and more!