Jazz Practice Exercises

[Bobsax]

Oh, man! Do yourself a huge favor and forget tabs. Teach yourself to read music, i.e. standard notation. This book IS for jazz double bass players with standard notation throughout. I've seen Bob many times, and i've never seen him play anything but double bass.

Jazz musicians use standarrd notation charts. I've never even heard of a jazz double bassist who used tabs for anything. How can you read note duration with tabs? Standard motation is not that hard to learn. Really, you can teach yoursellf to read music.and you'll always be glad you did.

lol
I've been reading music since birth:O
I'm actually having a hard time with the tabs but I assume they are the suggested fingerings for the bass guitar and so I'm trudging through them going up the neck in closed position unlike you would do on the double bass.

I would love to see tabs for the DB though. I'm going through some Ron Carter transcriptions and you can see how he uses open strings and thumb pos for certain licks.
It would be very helpful if this book had tabs/fingerings.
For example some of the early exercises on open chord voicings are easy on bass guitar but pretty advanced for DB