I am a guitarist of many years who has started dabbling in playing bass (out of curiosity and recording necessity) and this book is just perfect for improving my bass fundamentals and my ear for harmony. No special knowledge theoretical is required going in, Friedland explains everything you need to know in the introduction, although approaching it knowing a LITTLE bit of theory (like intervals and the circle of fifths) will make it easier to process the examples.
Aside from some brief explanations at the start of each section, this book is almost entirely applied exercises, and they are paced very nicely for a beginning-intermediate player, and the play-along CD is very nice.
For those reviewers who are complaining about the lack of tabs in this book, it's true, there are no tabs, but it is a great way to practice sight reading on the bass clef in a gently-paced fashion; you just have to WANT to learn.Get more detail about Building Walking Bass Lines (Bass Instruction).
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