Blues Bass - Book/Online Audio (Bass Builders)

The book is written based on a simple premise, to expose you to many different bass lines, in different blues styles, in many different keys so that you can build your repertoire. The benefit of this is you should be able to identify which bass lines "speak", get a feel of the genre you're playing in, and maybe even rearrange them to something more suited to your flavor.The section on soloing is similar. There are 20+ solos that span a full 12 bars each and 1 that spans 24 bars. Most of them are based on a simple call/response and repetition with variations.The only thing I wish this book covered was the major blues as it is used in the book but doesn't really explain how to adjust to it. But to be fair, I may have over looked it. You can deduce some of that yourself because each example does provide the chord changes but it may not be apparent for some players.

This is a blues educational book you must have. You download backing tracks and play along as many times as you need!

Dear Mr. Liebman, you're boring.Not one example from an actual Blues classic?Your own riffs are repetitious, I listened through your CD and found myself marking, maybe ten of the 74 tracts as interesting, thats about 10-15% of your work, that's a poor average. Not worth the list price.Your bass sound is the deal buster, sounds like you're playing a fretless Jazz Bass with a midrange preference on your amp? That's a jazz sound, not blues.Your drummer and guitarist, some of your students maybe?I think you can do well playin' that way in the Borsch Belt, but not on the Chitlin circuit.For me this book is a dust magnet.Sorry.

Comprehensive book that covers blues from its roots in the Delta and gives the aspiring bassist a good start with easy to follow direction.

Very useful.

Excellent learning tool. Leibman is an amazing bass player and has broken down the bass lines so that hey are easy to learn. I look forward to getting to the section of solos. Good for any beginning to intermediate student.

Easy instructions with CD, plenty blues lines to keep you busy. This is the A to Z bass book for the blues.

I have all his lessons and there outstanding. Tons of information to keep you busy.

This will keep me busy for years!

The book looks nice. But It doesn’t come with a CD as advertised. I prefer a CD to the online app. It suits my workflow better. I should have gone for a less expensive CD version second hand

I dislike that it is little as for material. I like the endings on blues songs it provides, also the little blues solo section in the end

Great method, I use it with my students 👍

I am enjoying this even though I'm a beginner