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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).

9 hours ago, NickA said:

@Grangur

Do they do grades for electric bass now then?  Anyone on here taken them?  Fretless / fretted?  Four string / five string?  What kind of pieces are set ie what is considered to be the bass equivalent of Elgar's Cello Concerto and Bach 2 prelude, Portrait of Tracy?

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.

4 hours ago, Twigman said:

Could one tune a cello in 4ths ?

say C F Bb Eb

or D G C F ?

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. 

On 5/4/2018 at 19:16, BreadBin said:

Putting frets in this would be criminal, in my opinion 

+1

Lovely bass, by the way.

I have got Bass Heroes, #6 (not the one on sale here, let us clarify...). It is a great book to read, and at that price tag is a real steal. 

Great collection of books, Peter.

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I don't think many people are worthy of playing Victor's bass, we feel inferior enough as it is...
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That applies for me indeed... But no doubt many, many people in this forum could make magic with this instrument.

Free bump for a great bass.

"GLWTS from a former Exeter student" type of bump.

Amazing town, I keep it in my heart. And amazing bass, I keep it in my dreams.

Once again I regret living so far away... GLWTS.

Just for knowing it: is it 4/4 or 3/4?

A real stunner. Very, very beautiful bass. GLWTS

Any chance for expedition? This is really tempting

The playing on that video is quite amazing (the whole band) . Loved it, sounds great. A very funky rendition of that classic.

Congrats for the sale and for the new V.W.

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Cool. Let me check what it might end up at with taxes and stuff and I'll get back to you asap.

Thanks
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There should not be any taxes for shipping anything from UK to Sweden. Both are (yet...) EU territory.

As for the shipping, I would count on some 40-70 pounds, if it was UK-Spain. I don't think it should be much different from UK to Sweden.

Great bass at extremely good price, by the way.

And sold . Thanks to everyone interested.

On hold

Let's give it another push, to help those about to pull the trigger: 1460 pounds, home delivery

Up with a pricedrop: 1490 pounds, shipping included.

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I already have another one . That's the only reason I'm selling this.

Thanks for your words in any case, bubinga5

Up

Up again.

A fretless that sounds truly fretless, but plays as easy as a fretted one. One of the best basses produced by Fender in many years.

Up again. We drop the price to [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]£[/font][/color]1530, shipping included.