Johnny Cox Releases New Instructional Book, “Improve Your Groove”
Johnny Cox has released a new instructional book called Improve Your Groove: The Essential Guide to Mastering Time and Feel on Bass Guitar. The new book focuses on playing in the pocket with topics including cracking the code of rhythm and groove, building your internal clock, Konnakol vocal counting, and more.
The book has five complete songs to practice with backing tracks as well as over 140 exercises with downloadable supporting audio. “You’ll discover grooving bass guitar rhythms and develop devastating accuracy and feel,” Cox writes. “Rock, Funk, Jazz, Blues, and Latin feels on bass are all intimately addressed with over 140 examples and backing tracks.”
Improve Your Groove: The Essential Guide to Mastering Time and Feel on Bass Guitar is available now in paperback and Kindle versions.
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
