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I'm a great fan of people learning how to play bass to learn some basic technique and acquire some basic fingerboard knowledge and then apply that to some real world songs. But I'm also realistic enough to know that it's difficult for those new to learning how to play bass to work bass lines out for themselves from records. A lot of beginners use the tabs that proliferate on the Internet - often these are inaccurate or even plain wrong. Published books of transcriptions usually form a much better source of material for beginners to learn from.
One such book is Play Bass With The Police.
Now this book is published by Wise Publications and is easier to find in the UK and Europe than it is in North America. However you can find it - and if you're a beginner I do recommend that you make the effort to track it down and order it.
This book contains nine Police bass lines. They are notated out in standard music notation and bass tab. Additionally there is a CD that comes with the package that has versions of the track with the bass on - so you can hear how it is supposed to sound - and then also has a version of the track without the bass on so that you can play along in a reasonable simulation of a band setting.
The songs included in the book and on the CD are:
Can't Stand Losing You
Don't Stand So Close To me
Every Breath You Take
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Message In A Bottle
Roxanne
Spirits In The Material World
Synchronicity II
Walking On The Moon
The book is presented in a soft binding. If you've read any of my reviews you know that I favour spiral binding for music books. Also another minor gripe, some songs are spread out over three or four pages so it's impossible to 'read' from the notation for a complete song.
The CD that comes with the package is well recorded - the instruments are well recorded and the standard of playing doesn't let the tunes down.
I recommend this book/CD package for beginners learning how to play bass because although Sting's bass lines are often easy, they very often contain interesting little rhythmic quirks, or interesting choices of notes. These reflect his background both as a jazz musician and a song writer (and a detailed working knowledge of harmony and how chords function).
The advantage of this book over the other Police bass lines book that is out there is the CD and the playalong aspect. This book gets a 4 star rating, and is recommended for beginners and low intermediates.
If you want to learn how to play bass to 10 songs head over to my website at http://www.how-to-play-bass.com/ and subscribe to my free monthly ezine. You can instantly download PDFs with notation and bass tab to 10 songs in return for subscribing. Plus there are how to play bass videos, articles, reviews and tutorials and more.
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