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Another book that I can recommend: Slap it!, Funk Studies for the Electric Bass, by Tony Oppenheim. A very good book, starting with the basics, all the way to pretty complicated stuff, in just 30 pages. My two cents for those who want a book about slap and love tabs 💀 as much as I do...

This is, definitely, a thread of my full interest. This guy makes some excellent bass transcription books, no tabs. https://www.facebook.com/ByHumanHand/. He has made books of Nathan East, Pino Palladino and Tony Levin. The books are wonderful (I have the Pino Palladino one), hand written (with very clear notation) and I think I remember that the comments are also in English. I can also recommend the book Chord Studies for Electric Bass, by Joseph Viola. An excellent book too, originally intended for trombon, to the best of my knowledge. It is quite easy to find, also in Amazon. I also have Bach's cello suites. There are many versions for bass guitar out there, but I think that the original score is just perfect, as long as you have a bass with 24 frets (or, even better, with a high C). Edit: I just noticed that the thread wants to be about tuition books, therefore the only valid proposal in this post would be the Joseph Viola book. But I will leave there other two, anyway, just in case somebody finds them interesting (hopefully they are).

There are official grades in modern music and jazz, although I have not taken any (aside from the local music school). I assume that jazz standards would be the equivalent of those pieces you mention. Very near to where I live, in San Sebastian (Sp), there is Musikene, a registered school of music with official degrees in modern music and students from all over the World. There are many others, of course. Up there in the UK you surely have more than anywhere else in Europe.

You mean like a bass? I think that Oscar Pettiford had it like that. But I am not sure.

Interesting... 7.99 pounds + delivery (to Spain ). It's at the very least worth consideration, when I finish reading my current book.

My little daughter plays violin, and I am usually by her side helping her during practice. The different tuning feels of course alien, but nothing you may not come to grips with relatively quickly. The main problem, though, is time. I play bass and guitar and started playing upright this year. I cannot with everything and will have to drop something sooner than later. The same thing may happen to you. Cello is also a very time demanding instrument. Now, if you have that extra time, go for it. It will even help you in some aspects of your bass playing.