Learning bass?

[PHC]

Can anyone point me to a good resource for learning to play bass?
Recently I've been asked to play bass on my LP in a little jam project with my friends.
Althogh I know music theory quite good, I'd like to see the things from a bass players perspective, but I can't seem to find a good bass book/pdf/site that would be good for aplicating bass playing techniques to a monophonic synth. Piano bass playing is also diffrent, no bend, slide etc.

[hieronymous]

As a bassist, I would just suggest that you learn basslines in the genre you'll be playing and play along with recordings - that's how I learned to play bass guitar myself!

[mysterycircuits]

How about these for inspiration?
You can apply their approach of the instrument to your own stuff.
Bernie Worrell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYV_v2Fo1U

Jordan Rudess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hufwMENvhI
Just type 'Moog Bass' on Youtube...

[EricK]

THe ones that I have are
F Simandl-New Method for the Double Bass
Funk Etudes (from Jamey Abersold Jazz...a book and tape thing)
Bob Cranshaw-Basslines
Studio Bassist-Dan Dean
Blues in All Keys (more jazz oriented)

some books my father reccomends for piano development

Complete School of Technic for the Piano (Isidor Phillipp)
The Virtuoso Pianist (C. L. Hanon) T

"The Phillipp has all the scales and arpeggios with fingerings, plus a lot of good exercises. This is one of the best books to help your chops. The Hanon is strictly mechanical exercises designed to strengthen all your fingers equally."


Heres a link to the Phillipp
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-School-T ... 979&sr=1-2



Heres a link to the Hanon
http://www.amazon.com/Hanon-Virtuoso-Pi ... 920&sr=8-2

[Derek]

Cool stuff shared here about the Learning bass?,...
many others needs this kind of stuff,...

thanks,.

[EMwhite]

Moog Bass is great to watch because you can pick up quite a bit of technique by seeing how folks are playing (when they are tweaking and how) as well as left hand/right hand technique. Very tough to watch a string bass player and pick up much because so much is beneath your fingers and has to do with physical feel.

One of the guys here (Yah*Moog*be*there) is adept [in my opinion] at the Mini and posted a really well done Michael Jackson P.Y.T. bassline. Once you get to his YouTube page you can see a bunch of other vids that he put together.

http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopi ... son#p78072

Also, if you read Bass Player magazine, there was an article just after Michael Jackson passed (Feb 2010 issue) that focused on the Bass Players that he's enlisted over the years and in particular a story about Alex Al, the bassist that was to play the This Is It show. There's a bit of discussion in the mag about the famous MiniMoog bass and the programming of it.

[PHC]

I just received http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Keyboard- ... 0793569273 in the main and it's nice, but it's a Jazz book, focuses on walking bass. Seems ok. I've always wanted to learn walking bass, so here it is

[agungpratama82]

i have trouble about my sound bass, please let me know what should i do, thanks

[anchovyd]

I just wanted to interject a few things about learning bass lines on the Moog. I really wouldn't look at the Simandl book or most other books written for bassists. The Simandl has all sorts of exercises to help you learn and navigate the upright bass fingerboard. It simply is not relevant to the keyboard. It doesn't teach you how to build your lines. Only how to play scales and finger positions on the upright bass.

The guy who posted the Youtube videos of Worrell and Rudess is on the money. Really what you want to be doing is learning by copying the awesome basslines that you dig in the style that you like. If you want to learn walking bass like in jazz then the Valerio book is okay but the Rufus Reid book is great too. Rufus's book does cover some technical stuff specific to the bass but most of it is focused on building bass lines. Again though if you are looking to learn jazz style bass, listening and copying from Jack McDuff and Jimmy Smith would be best. Bass players play somethings that are easy to do on bass but difficult on the keyboard. By studying McDuff and Smith you will learn basslines that fall under your fingers easier and are more natural to play on the keyboard.

Likewise for funk I would listen and copy from Worrell and Stevie Wonder and all those other cats using the Moog for bass. I don't know if there are any books but after you figure out a handful of songs you will start to see how things go together and fit and start putting things together on your own.

The only way to really learn is by copying a bunch of basslines once you do that your set. Basically you are mentoring with greats when you lift the lines off the records and eventually you will dig how to do it on your own for new tunes.

Peace Out,
AnchovyD