The only book ever published specifically designed to improve your soloing!
Includes 2 CDs of Marc Johnson soloing on each exercise
(Marc has been the bassist with Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Lyle Mays, etc.)
- Includes transcriptions of bass solos by:
- Eddie Gomez * John Patitucci * Scott La Faro * Jimmy Haslip
- George Mraz * Gary Willis * Dominique Di Piazza
- Also Includes:
- Over 150 pages of exercises to help you create more beautiful, horn-like solos.
- Many transcriptions of Marc Johnson's astounding improvised solos on the accompanying tapes.
- Complete chapters on: 1) Choice of Notes In One Mode, 2) Phrasing Exercises in One Mode, 3) Choice of Notes On A Given Chord, 4) Typical Jazz Licks, 5) Practicing Soloing On Tunes.
Steve Swallow - "Chuck Sher and Marc Johnson have given us a wonderful book. One which should provide players at all levels with months of good hard work, a lot of fun, and a healthy measure of frustration. (I'd swear some of the things Marc plays on the accompanying tapes just can't be done). It's a pleasure to encounter a Bass Method so well conceived and executed."
