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I'm a great fan of people learning how to play bass to apply their knowledge of the bass in real world situations - i.e. songs - as quickly and as often as possible. It's a great way to push your playing forward - much better than the rote learning of scales for example - and for those interested in rock bass lines who want to move onto some harder material the bass lines of the band Muse give great material to work on.
The one problem for players looking to push their technique on is that often their playing ability in the early days of their how to play bass journey outstrips their 'hearing' ability - and so finding accurate representations of these bass lines is critical. The internet is awash with inaccurate or incorrect tabs, so it is often best to seek out published books of bass lines.
For those bass players who want to play rock, and especially those of intermediate standard who want to push their playing on, a great book they can use is Play Bass With Muse.
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 Muse 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:
Bliss
Hyper Music
Hysteria
Muscle Museum
New Born
Plug In Baby
Stockholm Syndrome
Sunburn
Time Is Running Out
The book comes in a soft binding and weighs in at around 55 pages. The actual music itself is printed very legibly and is very easy to read and use. As well as the bass lines themselves you also get the chords for the tunes and the melody line notated out - so you can do some in depth analysis of what Chris Wolstenholme is playing and work out why it works so that you can reproduce that for yourself.
I recommend this book/CD package for intermediate bass players looking to push their techniques and abilities forward. Chris Wolstenholme of Muse plays hard, fast and aggressive bass lines - often with distortion. So it's a chance to add some pedals to your collection too!
This book gets a 4 star rating and is recommended for 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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