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el Trentoro posted:Hey, I've been playing for a few years now and I'm starting lessons for a music major soon. I asked my teacher to recommend me a method book for learning sight-reading and just to improve all around in general, and he suggested New Method for the Double Bass by F. Simandl: http://www.amazon.com/New-Method-Double-Bass-Book/dp/0825801524 Simandl is great if you're playing double bass. On electric, not so much. Simandl is designed specifically to educate the beginning bass player on the basic whole-step hand positions. Electric bass playing isnt very well suited using the hand positions put forth in Simandl (I should know, I always lapse into it when I'm doing any sort of intensive sightreading on electric and it makes a mess out of my technique.) There's an excellent book called "Building walking bass lines" designed for electric bass that teaches hand positions, note reading, and music theory in a way that I feel is very effective. I've used it with several students since I've discovered it and it's worked wonders. The premise of the book comes from a jazz/blues standpoint, but everything in the book can be applied to any style of music you'd want to play, and it also gives you a nice beginning background in jazz in case anyone ever asks you to jam with them out of The Real Book or something. I must confess I forget the name of the author, I leant my personal copy out to a student a few years ago and never got it back. Look it up, though, it makes an excellent self-teaching method.
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