Bass Player Q&A: Questions and Answers about Listening, Practicing, Teaching, Studying, Gear, Recording, Music Theory, and More

By Tommy Gordon

Here's a Q&A (question and answer) book for beginner and intermediate bass players looking for answers to various music-related questions. It's a collection of answers compiled by me — and other professional musicians — about playing your instrument as a hobby, on a part-time basis, and eventually as a professional, if that's what you want. 

The topics in this book cover everything from how to practice, how to get more gigs, and how to approach different styles of music. It also covers specific ideas about basses and bass-related gear, and various broader issues dealing with basic music theory for all musicians, practicing, issues about taking and teaching bass lessons, and the process of recording at home and in a professional recording studio.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fretboard Media Group
• Release date: May 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386360902

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BASS PLAYER Q&A

BASS PLAYER Q&A

What Our Readers Are Saying!

Good, morning coffee read (Five Stars) *****

Not going to change your life, but it's a pleasant read with a lot of useful tips. The sort of stuff you would hear from musicians on break rather than read in books.

A Reader named JCB

Bass Player Q&A (Five Stars) *****

Great book all essential topics covered easy 2 read this is my second book by this author I would recommend this 4 all

A Reader Named RS

BASS PLAYER Q&A

Questions and Answers

Tommy Gordon

Fretboard Media Group

Copyright © 2017, 2018 by Tommy Gordon, Fretboard Media Group.

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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ISBN-13: 978-1718766990 

ISBN-10: 1718766998 

First edition.

Dedication

For my awesome wife and daughter

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Tommy Gordon

Chapter One

Overview

Here’s a Q&A (question and answer) book for beginner and intermediate bass players looking for answers to various music-related questions. It’s a collection of answers compiled by me — and other professional musicians — about playing your instrument as a hobby, on a part-time basis, and eventually as a professional, if that’s what you want.

The topics in this book cover everything from how to practice, how to get more gigs, and how to approach different styles of music. It also covers specific ideas about basses and bass-related gear, and various broader issues dealing with basic music theory for all musicians, practicing, issues about taking and teaching bass lessons, and the process of recording at home and in a professional recording studio.

As a guitarist who also plays bass, I started a project like this with

Reviews for Bass Player Q&A

[stefan gurga · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fun to read during the trip. However I didn't find it that helpful.