Book excerpt: The New Method for Electric Bass is designed like a textbook with topics that are easy to follow, gradually increasing in difficulty, and that present the self-taught student with a step-by step approach to a more complete understanding. This book covers advanced concepts, providing the bassist with useful tools to improve playing technique and enhance musical knowledge. All the exercises are written in standard notation and tablature and include full fingering and technical tips for practicing. Topics include: advanced techniques, modes of the major scale, ninth chords, chord inversions, melodic minor modes, harmonic minor modes, and harmonic analysis.