70s Funk and Disco Bass: 101 Groovin' Bass Patterns with CD (Audio) (Bass Builders) Paperback – 10 April 2001

this book very good...need to produce another one called 80s funk bass pattern,,

This is one of many books I use with students to get their playing up to speed and develop a sense of rhythm and groove. Great little book and the CD that goes with it sounds really good. If you were seriously working with this book you'd take the CD and loop the tracks into longer pieces on your desktop PC. In that process you could add a count-in. But this is what you need to do with most CDs that accompany books. Working through these books is more work than most people believe. If you work up a schedule of how to study, it will look like this; each two bar exercise needs to be played though at least for 20 minutes spread over 10 days (say 2 minutes a day for each exercise x 10 days) and there's 101 exercises = 33 hours of work. That will translate into about an hour and a half a day for a month. Or if you are like some of my students that will spread out over three months because you mix a load of other stuff into your practice sessions. Practice is the key with books like these - putting the work in pulls you ahead of the crowd.

It does exactly what it says. It is a no frills guide to 101 familiar sounding funk lines. There is no explanation about HOW to play them and some knowledge of music notation is advised (or you will learn quickly). Without some reading ability you are left with the CD.I find the best way to use this is to load each one into a clever sound file editor. That way you can slow it down without changing pitch (and you will want to). This will help you get the riff into your fingers, and also help you to follow the notation.101 riffs will keep you busy for a long time.

It clearly stated in the listing and the order conformation it was the cd version I would receive not the download copy

Not a good buy.There is no tuning reference at the start of the CD, this is not helped by the fact that the bass tuning on the recording wavers from exercise to exercise.Another anoying thing is no count in to the riffs?This could have been a superb book.