Serious Electric Bass The Bass Player's Complete Guide To Scales And Chords

It's a great resource for learning the different scales and modes and different ways to play them. The five position system that is included is also pretty helpful. I have had this book for a while, and still haven't gone through it all. It's all in standard notation (sometimes with fingerings indicated). The charts that are included are very helpful to visualizing the scales and modes on the fretboard. If you are serious about playing bass this is a great book to get.

Excellent book indeed ! If you're not familiar with theory and/or fingerboard, here is a good way to start. It tremendously improves your knowledge of the fingerboard. What's also good about this book is that you can put it aside for a while, then get back to it and learn even more. and it's always handy as a little reference book about chords, scales and bass setup.

This is the book that pushed me headfirst into music theory as a whole subject. Chapter list: [1] The "Gee I Did It Myself" Guide To Setting Up & Adjusting Your Bass. [2] The 1st Position [3] Major Scales & Chords In The 1st Position [4] On To Some Serious Shifting [5] Major Scales & Chords Outside Of The 1st Position [6] Major Scale Modes & Chords [7] Major Scale Modes & Chords Part II- Putting Them All Together [8] Two Octave Major Modes & Arpeggios [9] The Five-Position System [10] The Harmonic Minor Scale [11] The Melodic Minor Scale [12] Symmetric Scales [13] The Last Chapter. This book covers everything from appropriate and inappropriate shifting, to tetrachords, to bass setups (fine tuning, truss rod adjustment), etc. I think that the only way the author could have improved the book was to go a little more in depth with the minor/harmonic minor/melodic minor scale modes... I didn't quite grasp that the first time around. My favorite aspect of this book is that it teaches you theory, sight-reading fundamentals, and that the author has a good sense of humor, which makes the book fun to go through, no matter how boring the lessons themselves may sometimes be.