The Best of Victor Wooten: transcribed by Victor Wooten

Editorial Review:

Highly regarded as a bass innovator, Victor Wooten has made a name for himself laying down the low-end for both Béla Fleck and during his guest stints with the Dave Matthews Band, and in his own successful solo career. The Best of Victor Wooten features his playing on 14 great tunes, which Wooten transcribed himself! This deluxe songbook includes note-for-note transcriptions of: Amazing Grace · Blu-Bop · Cherokee (Indian Love Song) · Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) · Sex in a Pan · A Show of Hands · The Sinister Minister · You Can't Hold No Groove · and 6 more, as well as Wooten's performance notes for each song, an insightful biography, an article on his gear, and fantastic photos!A Show Of HandsAmazing GraceBlu-BopCherokee (Indian Love Song)Classical ThumpHeaven Is Where The Heart IsMore LoveNorwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)Sex In A PanSinister MinisterSometimes I LaughStomping GroundsThe VisionYou Can't Hold No Groove

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

In for a challenge?:

This book has very difficult songs as well as quite simple songs in it. I would suggest this book if you are an advanced player. For the beginner it may be waaaaay to difficult. The accuracy of the TABS are questionalbe. The music part is accurate, but I have found several mistakes in the tabs... they just don't match up with the music notes in certain sections. Despite these few inaccuracies, I would highley reccomend this book for your bass music library.

A great tool for advanced bassists:

For a really long time I had been wondering how Vic played that one little arpeggio at the beginning of Sinister Minister, how he pulled off two bass melodies at once, and just how he was doing that thumb stuff. Everything in here is transcribed note for note by Vic himself. After I bought this book, not only did I learn how he did it, but I integrated some of his techinques into my own musical vocabulary. The combination of the rhythms shown in the staff and the precision of the tablature makes it much... more info

Best of Victor Wooten:

What more can you ask for - the best of Victor Wooten transcribed by the man himself. Top book.

Got bass?:

Let's be real here, folks; you won't learn a lotta these songs any other way than to buy this book. And they're not even transcribed by someone else, Victor himself wrote out the pieces so you know they're accurate. I transcribed "Norwegian Wood" by watching his hands on the Bass Day video and warped the tape because I rewound & paused it so much. If only this had been available then, I wouldn't have had to spend another $25 on the DVD....
Seriously though, if you're an avid Wooten fan you'll be... more info

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