The Worship Bass Book: Bass Espresso and the Art of Groove (Worship Musician Presents)

This book is great for someone who needs a jack-of-all-trades toolbox. It covers a wide-variety of techniques and approaches that help you develop your voice on your instrument. I highly recommend this book to someone who is starting out on the instrument. For those who are more seasoned, this book will serve more as a reminder, or clear up any areas that are not as clear to you.

A strange title, as there's not very much here about playing bass, and practically nothing about worship. There are a few finger board exercises, which may or may not be helpful. Alas, these are rendered in a strange font which is both small and simulates handwriting, making the notations, especially the chord designations, hard to read. There are extensive "espresso" (whatever that means) inserts evidently consisting of pointless ramblings from bass players. But how that helps is beyond me. There is a great deal of talk about "finding the groove" (whatever that means) with little or no effort to explain what that is or how to go about accomplishing it. I admit I am new to the instrument (although having played other stringed instruments for nearly 50 years), but I had hoped to find something here that would assist me to become my church's bass player. I guess I'll have to look elsewhere.

The book is excellent and I am very happy with my purchase with one exception. I am a middle aged beginner and the book goes into far more advanced teachings than I will probably ever benefit from. If I was 45 years younger and had more time to learn it would have received 5 stars.

very practical and informative!

Great resource book with a good mix of instruction and personal sharing. Good explanation of chart reading, playing styles and equipment use.

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If your into worship music and need to have an insight into its movement get this one...You will be surprised at what you thought you knew.

I love this book series and how it takes the playing techniques and the spiritual techniques that go into being a worship team bass player!