Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary in this all-encompassing book/CD package for bassists. You'll receive valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments and equipment (including electronics), grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care and maintenance, and more. Styles such as rock, jazz, blues, R&B, and funk are represented through demonstrations of authentic grooves appropriate for each genre. The accompanying CD includes many of the examples in the book, performed both in solo bass format and in a full band setting to hear how important concepts fit in with other instruments and ensembles.