Online Lessons - Bass for Guitarists

Some of the best sources for learning how to create bass lines on the guitar are books for Bass. I have a few of these and they are great. You wan to get as close to what I good bass player would do.

And, of course check out Joe Pass's solo work. One o Joe's tips on his teaching videos was to develop the bass line first then add chords where possible

	The Art Of Walking Bass - Book/CD (A Method For Acoustic Or Electric Bass) Written by Bob Magnusson. For bass. Includes instructional book and accompaniment CD. With standard notation, bass tablature, chord names and instructional text. Instructional and Jazz. 64 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Musicians Institute Press. (HL.695168) See more info...
	Walking Jazz Lines for Bass by Jay Hungerford. For Electric Bass. rhythm/backup. Jazz. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 9x11.75. 96 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (99605BCD) See more info...
	Building Walking Bass Lines Written by Ed Friedland. For bass. Includes instructional book and accompaniment/examples CD. With chord names, instructional text and introductory text. Instructional and Jazz. Series: Hal Leonard Bass Builders. 64 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard. (HL.695008) See more info...
	Walking Bass Solos [for Guitar] by John E. Lawrence. For Guitar (Flatpicking & Fingerpicking). solos. Jazz. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.68x11.75. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (97180BCD) See more info...
	Walking Bass Lines for Guitar By Jean-Marc Pillard. For Guitar (Flatpicking & Fingerpicking). licks and phrases. Jazz. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 56 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (99406BCD) See more info...
	Walking Bass by Johnny Rector. For electric bass. method. Jazz. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 96 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (95547BCD) See more info...

Some of the online sites that I have checked out.

Jim Kroger has posted his page of links to online jazz guitar lessons.

Here are sites that I have visited and found to be very useful.

Guitarists

• Curt Sheller - www.curtsheller.com/lessons.html
• Jimmy Bruno - Jimmy Bruno - Jimmy has several great books and videos available. Jimmy cuts right to the point.
• Mark Stefani - One of the biggest and long running sites on the net, Great stuff. visionmusic.com - Probally on of the best sites on the net for jazz guitar. One of the oldest site from a long time educator.
• Steve Carter - www.frogstoryrecords.com - Steve Carter is a former Berklee teacher and posts lots of lesson to his site. - former teacher at Berklee. Putting lots of lesson stuff online.
• Rick DelSavio - www.rickdelsavio.com
• Joe Finn - www.joefinn.net
• Bob Russell - www.bobrussellguitar.com
• Joey Goldstien - joeygoldstein.com - Joey has a book available that has lots of great information in it. Very, very knowlegable musician. Located in Toronto, Canada.
• Tuck Andress (Tuck & Patti) - Pick & Fingerstyle Technique. Tuck describes various picking techniques of well known artists and popular picking styles.
• Jody Fisher - jodyfisher.com
• Dana Rasch's Beyond Chops - www.beyondchops.com
• Frank Vignola - www.FrankVignola.com The Frank & Joe School The Frank & Joe Show The Frank Vignola Quintet VM Entertainment Group
• Perry Terhune - Jazz-Primer.com by Perry Terhune
• Jack Zucker - www.sheetsofsound.com
• Freddie Green Style - (www.freddiegreen.org) a great site on Rhythm guitar.

  (From the freddiegreen.org site) Devoted to jazz rhythm guitar and the man who epitomized the big band guitar style.

  This site is dedicated to the master of the rhythm guitar - Freddie Green, and was created for the purpose of collecting and sharing information that will aid the big band jazz guitarist in keeping this style alive and well. This is strictly a not-for-profit endeavor carried out by volunteers.

Non-Guitarist

Remember that the guitar is just your instrument of expression. We can and should learn from other instruments.

• Charlie Banacos (www.charliebanacos.com)
  

  [from the Charlie's Banacos Site] - originator of the now classic exercises on such tunes as Autumn Leaves ,Giant Steps ,Anthropology (I Got Rhythm changes), Moment's Notice ,Countdown , major and minor blues, etc. using chord tones, tensions, passing tones, approaches, tonal paralypsis, bitonal pendulums (double mambos), hemiola substratum elisions, modal sequences, 23rd chords, intervallics, pivots, facets, agogics, number permutation systems, voicings in clusters, fourths, fifths, reverse tensions, interconnecting scales, entatonics, tetratonics, hexatonics, chord-on-chord, upper structure triads, pandiatonics, uperimpositions, harps, overlaps, etc. and 9-Basic Rhythm Systems and Sprays for sight-reading, etc.) is, in addition to his private in-person teaching in the Boston area, teaching by mail to people not in close proximity to Charlie's studio. The lessons are personalized using a cassette tape which is sent back and forth.

• Jerry Bergonzi (www.jerrybergonzi.com)
• Alain Benbassat ear training resource (www.miles.be)
• Here are the sites that I found to be useful.
• Hal Garper - These are some of the best articles I've ever read!!!

The Touring Musician: A Small Business Approach to Booking Your Band on the Road Buy It!!! Great book on organizing a jazz tour.

• Micheal Furstner - (www.jazclass.aust.com)
• Marc Sabatella's (Jazz Improvisation Primer). One if the first online resources for jazz improvisation.

• Dan Cross's Central Park North - Promoting Canadian jazz music, and it's musicians
• Dominic "Dominator" Pieranunzio's Ukulele Tab Page - link
• Guido's jazz guitar transcriptions
• Adam Good - Jazz Guitar Solo Transcriptions
• The Jazz Guitar Transcription Site by Dirk Laukens
• Jenny's Jazz
• Jazz Resource Center.
• Kelly Bucheger Jazz Pages
• Marco Accattatis - bassist, composer
• Music Music Music ? Transcriptions
• Music Transcriptions - Brent D. Stuntzner
• EJMA Woodwinds Transcription page (French)
• Jazz Trumpet Transcriptions by Jacques Gilbert & Claude Gilbert
• Tim Cummiskey Transcriptions

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