The Evolving Bassist -- Millennium Edition: A Comprehensive Method in Developing a Total Musical Concept for the Aspiring Jazz Bass Player

A comprehensive new edition based on major revisions to Reid's The Evolving Bassist and Evolving Upward. Contains more transcriptions of Reid's recorded solos, original compositions arranged as duets, new etudes, and additional ways to learn tunes and conceive better bass lines. The Evolving Bassist will continue to be an all-inclusive bass player's reference book as well as a classic method book. Physical positions -- Developing a great sound -- Getting to know the fingerboard -- Walking bass line construction -- Developing dexterity -- Soloistic concepts -- Bass duets (City slicker ; Elegy ; Almost but maybe ; Perpetual stroll ; No place is the end of the world ; Waltz for Doris ; It's the nights I like) -- Transcriptions of recorded solos (Nightcap ; Summer's on its way ; No place is the end of the world ; Tricrotism ; On Green Dolphin Street ; Embraceable you ; Bat's blues ; You're my everything ; Body and soul) Being physically comfortable with your bass, whether it be the double bass or the electric bass is, in my opinion, one of the most overlooked aspects in learning about playing the bass.