Music and technique combined in one powerful package! Acoustic and Electric Bassists: Improve your knowledge of the fingerboard; Practice scales used in this book’s etudes in a comprehensive scale section; Improve your intonation and time; Develop your melodic interpretation and phrasing skills; Learn to play with more flexible time by practicing rubato passages; Strengthen your ear and learn to hear the five basic chord sounds within the diatonic major scale: major, minor 7, dominant 7, & more