Electric bass pioneer Bunny Brunel and prolific author and session bass player/record producer Josquin des Prés team up to write this great introduction to the fretless electric bass. Complete with an indexed audio CD that shows how every lesson and exercise should sound, this easy to follow course starts with the fundamentals of accurate fretless bass hand positioning and leads to examples of Rock, Pop, Funk Fusion and Latin Jazz bass lines. Chapter 1 starts you on intonation and interval exercises and ends with modal scale workouts. Chapter 2 shows many different techniques you can work into your playing like vibrato, slides and octaves and there is a melodic example and advice about playing melodies on the bass. Brunel also shows off his famous sliding harmonic technique here. Chapter 3 is on Styles and includes typical bass parts used in Pop, Rock, and Funk, Funk Fusion, Traditional Latin and Jazz Latin music. Chapter 4 completes the book with songs you can play written by Brunel and Tristan Des Prés.

At $17.95 MSRP for the book and CD, Fretless Bass (Item #00695696) is a great introduction to the fretless bass by the master himself, Bunny Brunel and Josquin des Prés. Available at most music and bookstores or through www.musicdispatch.com or call 800-637-2852.


Fretless Bass