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Here you will find links to sites on the web that provide instruction or instructional materials for bassists.

MusicianUniversity.com - Online Jazz Bass Guitar Basics Course/Method
Some of the lessons included with this online course: Bass All Access: ultimate bass guitar learning system, Bass Guitar Tuner: Tuning Your Strings Online, Circle of Fifths in Music and Music Theory, What is Jazz Music?, Jazz Chord Progressions: Notation Basics, Jazz Chord Progressions: 12 Bar Blues, Jazz Chord Progressions: common patterns in jazz harmony, Jazz Chord Progressions: the vamp, Jazz Song Structure and Form, Jazz Song Structure and Form: The Head, The 16 Bar Blues in Jazz, Jazz Chord Progressions: A Standard, Jazz Chord Progressions: A Turnaround, Reharmonization in Jazz Music, Jazz Reharmonization: Leading Chords, Jazz Reharmonization: Blues Leading Chords, Jazz Reharmonization: Tritone Substitutes Example, Jazz Reharmonization: 251 Tritone Substitute, Basic Jazz Chords...

Free Bass Lessons with Cliff Engel
My online bass lessons are very similar to how I teach privately and through my correspondence course lessons. In fact, much of the material that I have posted here has been taken directly from my private, one-on-one bass lessons and my correspondence program. I have been teaching privately here in Hays, Kansas for 10 years and in the correspondence format for over four years to students located around the globe. All of these online bass lessons have been grouped into the following categories: The Bass Greats, Solo Bass, Jazz Improvisation, Slapping, Tapping, Sight Reading, Transcriptions.

Bassist, Jim Stinnett: Online Video Lessons
ONLINE VIDEO LESSONS (Download only): Jazz/Walking, Tap, Slap, Soloing, Technique, Reading. also: JIM'S BASS TIPS. Check this section often for new movie lesson and tip additions.

Bassist, Carol Kaye's Official Website
Lot's of great thorough and in-depth playing tips (over 100!). Definitely a "must read" for jazz bass players. Also has instructional materials available.

"The Jazz Bassist - Blues, Bebop, & Beyond"
From Visionmusic.com, every lesson contains two to three related assignments, including a famous jazz tune arranged for bass. Each bass lesson also features a classic walk...

Online Jazz Bass Lessons @ ActiveBass.com
There are 352 lessons in the Jazz directory

Online lessons from rubim.com
Online lessons from acoustic/electric bassist and audio producer, Rubim de Toledo.

Multimedia Bass Lessons
12 Private Bass Lessons for just $9.95 covering all the basics: 1. Scales 2. Positions and Fingering 3. Harmonic Intervals 4. Pulse Excercises 5. Modes 6. Alternate fingering 7. Intervals & Chords 8. Time Signature Exercises 9. Sight Reading 10. Thumb Slap 11. Harmony 12. Jazz Standards

Fender Player's Club - Bass Lessons
Lessons and videos for players of all ability levels.

VictorWooten.com
Online lessons from bassist, Victor Wooten.

The International Institute Of Bassists | Anything But BASSic Since 1997
Nice site for bass. Online lessons, news, reviews, forums, links.

Bob Gollihur's Double Bass Links Page and Double Bass Luthier Directory Project
Great resource for accoustic bass. This links page began in 1996 as a list of double bass resources pulled from my personal bookmarks, to share them with other players. The page changes and grows on almost a daily basis due to new discoveries and submissions. There are a ton of "Electric Bass Links" pages out there, so I've narrowed my entries to those that appeal to the Double Bass side of the world.

The Bass Education Project
This work is intended to disseminate the fundamentals of playing the double bass. Mastering the fundamentals of the instrument will allow the student to play any music. Lessons: Philosophy, Cognitive Objectives, Psychomotor Objectives, Instrument Selection, the Bow Holding the Instrument, The Right Arm and Hand, Placing the Bow on the String, Moving the Bow Across the String, Tone Production, More Fundamentals Moving the Bow

MostlyBass.com
MostlyBass.com is for music educators, string teachers -- particularly those who are not bass players -- students, and parents. There is information on maintenance, technique, construction, tips, and more. There is also some general information for those teaching strings in the public schools.

BassWork: Articles On Bass Playing
The aim of this site is to provide a collection of articles covering various topics of bass playing. Every article will be a closed, independent part. As lessons become available the appropriate link will be activated.

BassLobster.com
Online lessons (some in mp3 and wav format), links and more.

Bass Transcriptions
Nice site for jazz bass transcriptions.

Scott F Bass Place
Bass transcriptions.

Bass Bits and Pieces
Online lessons, transcriptions, forum, etc...

BassExercises
Twenty-two Online lessons.

Books/CD/DVD/Video:

Books: Mel Bay: Walking Jazz Lines for Bass - by Jay Hungerford
Walking Jazz Lines for Bass is Designed to help bassists create beginning to advanced walking patterns (smooth-sounding lines) that can be usind in jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, latin and country music. By explaining the basics of intervals, chords, and scales, the author builds a framwork for understanding walking bass line patterns. The book presents one, two and four-measure patterns that can be used in playing the blues, rhythm changes, the II-V-I progression, and 20 popular jazz standards....

Books: Mel Bay's Complete Jazz Bass Book - by Earl Gately
Available from Amazon.com

Books: Inventory of books available from ActiveBass.com
Nice collection of books available for jazz bass from ActiveBass.com.

Books: The Jazz Bass Line Book
by Mike Downes. A comprehensive approach to the construction of improvised bass lines. Intended for beginners and professionals alike, the book deals with playing in "2", creating walking bass lines, 3/4 time, using a "broken feel", modal and slash-chord harmony, ballads and much more. Each chapter is full of fundamental and advanced concepts and ideas, accompanied by transcribed examples from the masters of jazz bass playing.

Quiet Places
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Quiet Places is Ted's latest CD. It's an album made up of 10 solo jazz guitar arrangements of standards, with the exception of his original composition, "Perfect Night." Nothing here but Ted and his guitar.

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Essential Concepts: A Comprehensive Guide for the Contemporary Guitarist
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

This new 2nd edition provides over 200 pages of comprehensive scale patterns, chord forms and more than 60 step-by-step exercises providing an easy way to learn theory applied to guitar. Be able to play and solo in any key from one end of the fretboard to the other.

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Soloist Series: Soloing Over Altered Chords
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Altered dominant chords are one of the staples of jazz. Being able to not only solo over those types of chords, but also create those kinds of sounds in your solos is an invaluable strength to have as a player. This book and CD provides step-by-step instruction along with audio accompaniment that makes the learning process simple and enjoyable.

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Perfect Night
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Containing several top-10 hits featured on MP3.com, The smooth jazz, funk and latin sounds of Perfect Night features ten of my original compositions, mixed with instrumental jazz guitar arrangements of R&B hits by Roberta Flack and Marvin Gaye.

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The Guitarist's Book of Scales and Arpeggios
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

A thorough knowledge of scales and arpeggios from one end of your fretboard to the other is priceless. It frees you up to express your musical thoughts without having to think of the mechanics of how to do it. Over 50 pages of complete scale and arpeggio patterns and exercises, this book is a great resource for any soloist.

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