Ray Brown – Bass Method for Jazz and Blues | Learn Essential Exercises for Double Bass and String Bass | Master Walking Bass, Chords, and Arpeggios | Hal Leonard Instructional Book

Excellent resource - my Bass teacher used it as our primary resource.

I bought this book for my daughter. The exercises are good, and very appropriate for developing jazz chops, but they're not beginner material. You need to know your way around the fingerboard before you'll make good use of this book.

This book is the quintessential book for the developing double bassplayer since the Simandl method. Full of exercises, Etudes and fingering ideas this book is fantastic for developing the skills to negotiate the fingerboard. Don't expect to come out of this book as the next Ray Brown but certainly expect to become a more accomplished bass technician. Musicality comes from years of transcribing, playing and making mistakes. That said, none of the above can truly be executed unless you can master the rudimentary technical side of bass playing and this book as a brilliant start.

This is a very good book, especially if you are an experienced player and know how to read. Good for any level from intermediate to pro. Most of it is filled with repetitive exercises to develop good technical and harmonic skill with various chordal structures and rhythm. It's all there; patterns, drops, rakes, diminished, augmented, whole tones, blues, double stops, etc... He's got some really great sample blues lines that any player could easily add to his trick bag. Most of the fingerings are not specified, making you experiment and think for yourself how to get around. He states that this was his intention. Overall you can't go wrong with this method book. I feel honored to be able to vicariously study with the best upright player in the history of commercial and jazz music, for a mere thirteen bucks! He was truly the greatest!

I study under Danny Morris and he suggested this book to me. I am an electric bass player and want to take a deeper dive into walking bass. He recommend this book as an introduction to alternate fingering patterns (upright vs electric). I've only had this book a few days and look at my fretboard in a whole new manner. There is a simple elegance to Ray's approach. And yes, it's a ton of scales, but if you're serious about bass playing, especially jazz, it's one of the fundamentals you will need to fully understand.

There is a lot of great information in this book, but it is not necessarily presented as a "method", meaning there is not a great deal of descriptive advice on how to apply the information. This book would prolly be best used with a teacher, more so than for self study, but it is a great book- one that every bassist should own, imho.

he just gets right into the meat and potatoes. almost without an explanation. it's basically saying if you want to get good practice your scales... and that's basically what he starts you doing, then intervals etc. i.e. the master of the instrument is basically saying you wanna get good you need to practice your fundamentals

Son learning stand up base and feels that the information is useful

This is a practical workbook starting with the basics. Having played fretless electric bass for many years it is great to work through this book as it instills in the reader the biomechanics of playing a double bass (which are notably different to electric bass) as one progresses through the exercises. Top notch!

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Spedizione Amazon perfetta ed in tempi rapidi. Il volume era ben imballato ed in perfette condizioni. Lo trovo, rispetto alla vecchia edizione, molto più chiaro nella grafica. Credo che sia indispensabile per iniziare lo studio del pizzicato sul contrabbasso e, senza nulla togliere al Metodo Classico "Billè" molto utile per ripassare velocemente le scale ed i salti con l'arco. La diteggiatura è 1 - 2 - 4 e non 1 - 3 - 4, ma poco importa se si ha già studiato la seconda, cioè, quella classica. Consiglio l'acquisto del volume perché è accessibile a tutti, si evitano faldoni fotocopiati sgradevoli in libreria ed aiuta chi lavora nell'editoria. Questo testo non può mancare a chi studia il contrabbasso.

Super méthode ! Livre bien emballé et livré dans les temps. Maintenant faut bosser !

Rather a classical approach. But classical gives you a terrific foundation.