Left Channel: Melody/Lead Guitar
Right Channel: Rythem Guitar, Bass, and Drums.

This is what it SHOULD be:

Left Channel: Bass
Right Channel: Melody Guitar, Rythem Guitar and Drums.

Unfortunately it's impossible to isolate the bass or remove it so that you can improvise with the CD.

Don't waste your time or your money on this.


DO NOT BUY   January 27, 2004
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Jazz retards Jimmy Haslip and Barry Coates like to RIP OFF bass players. You would think that the words: "..For Bass" on the front cover of this piece of crap would actually MEAN something, but, UNFORTUNATELY, they do not. Like me, do you like to improvise with play along CDs? Well, with this play along CD you CAN'T! Why? I'll tell you why; because the stereo seperation is ALL WRONG! These idiots are either lazy, stupid or nothing but rip off artists becaused they used the SAME CD as the one they used with "..For Guitar".
The stereo seperation is:
Left Channel: Melody/Lead Guitar
Right Channel: Rythem Guitar, Bass and Drums
If this book was REALLY meant "..For Bass" then the stereo seperation would have been:
Left Channel: Bass
Right Channel: Melody/Lead Guitar, Rythem Guitar and Drums
Do yourself a favor, don't get ripped off like I did;

DO NOT BUY!!!!


Major Disappointment   September 1, 2003
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I was expecting a book of jazz bass lines. Instead, this was a collection of jazz melodies written in bass clef. Very limited appeal IMO.


A Travesty, Plain and Simple   May 7, 2003
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This book will not teach you how to play jazz bass. Instead it attempts to teach you how to play jazz GUITAR on the bass! Pretty stange, huh? The authors of this book are instructing people to incur the worst possibility transgression a bass player can make: to play the lead line instead of supporting the solo instrument as part of the rhythm section. Perhaps if they called the book "How to Use the Bass as a Solo Instrument" it might have made sense, but that obviously is not the case. What were the authors thinking? What were the authors drinking? I'll never know...