AUTHOR COMMENTS

This book addresses a common problem I have found with bass students: their ability to groove and to play styles based on a sixteenth note pulse is usually very weak, and their ability to read sixteenth note rhythms is spotty at best. This book takes the chord progressions found in Chord Workbook for Guitar Volume One and presents them in a funk style. Bass players will find that this book helps to build a firm foundation in the understanding of sixteenth note rhythms and grooves. All examples are presented in regular staff notation which prepares the serious bassist for reading funk rhythms. It is recommended to work through the Rhythms Volume 2 as a companion book to the Comping Styles Volume 2. This will help to build recognition of sixteenth note rhythms. Audio files on the muse-eek website are provided to check accuracy.