Bass Guitar for Dummies by Patrick Pfeiffer (2003)

The book is easy to read and follow. It has been actually fun to learn some more on the Bass. The price was good and the service was excellent. Look forward to using this book for a long time.

This book explains everything. In plain simple english it tells you everything from postitioning your hands to playing technics. It even tells you how to tune your bass. I like the fact that it breaks it down for you and you don't go, what the hell is he talking about? It's very easy to understand. This guy taught Adam Clayton from U2 so you know he probably knows what he is talking about. This teaches you to play everything from Rock 'N Roll to New Wave. This is definatly a must for a beginner or bassists that just wants to be on top of their game. This is also great because it teaches you to even read music. I'm still blown away by this book. Over all this book is great. You will learn so much from it!

Overall this book was good. I am still going through it, but it has really helped me. It teaches the basics, but some of it is dumb in the sense that it teaches you how to hold the bass. You will want to create your own style. I give it a thumbs up overall.

I THINK ALL THE "FOR DUMMIES" BOOKS ARE PRETTY WELL DONE. THEY USE HUMOR TO HOLD YOUR ATTENTION. THIS BOOK IS ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR BEGINNERS I THINK. I'VE BEEN DOING THIS AWHILE BUT I ALSO READ SOME TIPS AND IDEAS I HADN'T THOUGHT OF OR HAD THOUGHT OF IN A DIFFERENT WAY. I'M ALWAYS LOOKING FOR GOOD IDEAS. THIS BOOK HAS SOME.

A Good General Overview, not as nice as the guitar version.
Theses books make nice refrence material and intro to various concepts and technquies.

I do strongly disagree with the previous statement of: You can find everything on the internet and it's free. Not True. While there is tons of info out there it dosen't mean it's all good advice or even written by someone who remotely knows what there doing. In short there's only 12 notes. There is really nothing new under the sun anywhere. What makes a book a good book is what is covered, how it is covered and how it is explained. That's what your buying.

You don't need anyone to show you say a Major Scale.
It's simply a series of WWHWWWH (whole and Half Steps) thus every diatonic mode is simply coming from the Intial Scale.
It's all a matter of how that info is expressed to you and teaching you to do it for yourself. A Scale Pattern is simply a result of the previious information. Etc on down the line.

What makes a book good or bad depends on the How it is expressed to you/What is expressed to you/and if they teach you how to go about doing it for yourself.

Yes there is some nice info online, but unless you can tell good from bad, how would you know what is usefull and what is misconceived.

So Yes a nice handy refrence guide, not a complete method book.
Useful but perhaps a bit on the pricey side.