This book by Berklee bass prof Anthony Vitti will help you make your bass lines more creative, unique and memorable. Tap into the groove and evolve your bass lines by using fills. This book brings you beyond the basics and helps you incorporate figures into your lines that are natural to the groove, and applicable to many styles. The play-along recordings let you hear the fills in context, then practice them with a rhythm section.

Bass Fingerstyle Funk Grooves Made Easy by Chris Matheos. For Electric Bass Guitar. Rhythm/Backup. Bill's Music Shelf. Funk. Beginning. Book + Online Audio. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21443). ISBN 9780786675777. Funk. 8.5" x 11" inches. Electric Bass. Fingerstyle funk bass playing can be found in many styles of modern music. Some of those styles include: funk, soul, fusion, contemporary jazz, hip-hop, pop, and dance. This book focuses on advanced rhythmic studies. It is loaded with grooves and funky progressions. The companion free downloadable audio files feature all of the examples recorded with a full band. There are play-along tracks for many of the full band examples available for download as well. This can help students focus on groove and time. All examples are written in bass clef and tablature. Free audio files available from the publisher.

Performed by: The Jackson 5: Rockin' Robin Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass/Vocal;Bass Tab, instruments: Bass Guitar; 7 pages

Performed by: Chic: Good Times Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass/Vocal;Bass Tab, instruments: Bass Guitar; 7 pages

Performed by: Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass/Vocal;Bass Tab, instruments: Bass Guitar; 11 pages

Performed by: KC & The Sunshine Band: Get Down Tonight Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass Tab, instruments: Bass Guitar; 7 pages

Performed by: The Ohio Players: Love Rollercoaster Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass/Vocal;Bass Tab, instruments: Voice;Bass Guitar; 9 pages

Performed by: A Taste Of Honey: Boogie Oogie Oogie Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass Tab, instruments: Bass Guitar; 7 pages

Performed by: Sister Sledge: We Are Family Scorch file - instantly downloadable sheet music, scoring: Bass/Vocal;Bass Tab, instruments: Voice;Bass Guitar; 6 pages

Hailed as the "greatest bass player who ever lived," Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) lives on through his groundbreaking legacy of musical brilliance. And now for the first time, one of Jaco's private students imparts the wisdom gained from one-on-one lessons with the bass genius himself.Complete with songs, solos, techniques, theory, and personal experiences with Jaco, this one-of-a-kind book/CD is finally here to give the world what it craves - Bass Guitar lessons with Jaco Pastorius. We've even included a few scans of actual pages of Jaco's personal practice book – in his own handwriting – for the ultimate personal Jaco experience. The accompanying CD includes audio tracks of all the examples in the book. The song list includes: Chromatic Fantasy; Continuum; Donna Lee; Havona; Opus Pocus; Portrait of Tracy; Teen Town and more.