Led Zeppelin -- Bass TAB Anthology: Authentic Bass TAB Paperback – November 1, 2009

It's not "all" the best hits, but it's a very good start. If you don't want to go buy the whole album by album set of bass books from Alfred's, it's good that they provided this collection pulling many of the best songs/biggest hits out. With this plus the Led Zeppelin II bass book, I have many of the songs I am likely to play. In fact, the band I'm in just handed me a sheet with a dozen zeppelin tunes on it. I had all of them covered except 2 with this book plus the Led Zeppelin II book.The quality of the tabs has been great on the ones I've used so far, so I have to give this 5 stars.Thanks Alfred's for doing this collection in one book.Here's some songs I wish they had included, but DIDN'T. There are others even not shown here that they did not include as it's a fairly large body of work from Zeppelin, but I feel like some or even most of these should have been in an "anthology" especially one for bass. They probably didn't want to cannabilize the individual album books completely. There's easily enough to put out a 2nd Volume Led Zeppelin Bass Anthology book if they wanted to.(NOT INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK)I Can't Quit You Baby ( I ) (also CODA version)You Shook Me ( I )Moby Dick ( II ) (can't believe this didn't make this book! )Bring it On Home ( II ) (can't believe this didn't make this book!)Celebration Day ( III)Since I've Been Loving You ( III )Gallow's Pole ( III )Tangerine ( III )Four Sticks (IV)Misty Mountain Hop ( IV ) (technically no bass guitar, bass was on key, but still could/should transcribe for bass.)The Crunge (Houses of the Holy)D'yer Mak'er (Houses of the Holy)Custard Pie (Physical Graffiti)The Rover (Physical Graffiti)Ten Years Gone (Physical Graffiti)The Wanton Song (Physical Graffiti)Nobody's Fault but Mine (Presence) (There is NOTHING from presence in this book.)Hots On For Nowhere (Presence)Fool In The Rain (In Through the Out Door)All My Love (In Through the Out Door)Hot Dog (In Through the Out Door)We're Gonna Groove (Coda)I Can't Quit You Baby (Coda)Travelling Riverside Blues (Coda)Hey Hey What Can I Do (Coda)

just what I needed!!!! its true, these are the simple versions of the Zep bass lines. but I am an amatuer musician, and this book is a perfect beginner. I love Zep, and the way Jones plays. These tabs are accurate and easy to follow. I will be using them to play these great tunes!

Good book

As a new bass player this is pretty awesome to have I read tabs and I’m leaning to read music and it’s all there some stuff is a tad bit off just a tad!About the solos do your own I see people complaining about it that’s JOHN PUAL JONES solo not yours make it yours if you can play the Lemmon song you can play your own solo.

But a couple of pages were damaged

Accurate bass scores throughout. There are artist who give a damn and give you your moneys worth and Zep (J.P. Jones) is one of them.The Doors are another band who took pride in the accurate scoring of their music. Eagles too are totally accurate.Bob Seager could learn from these acts. I don't blame it on the moon, I blame it on his lazy rip-off ass. What, he don't have enough dough? Does he really need to beat us for 15 bucks selling bogus bass lines?

A great reference point for playing Zep songs. John Paul Jones was a BIG part of the Led Zeppelin sound and doesn't get enough credit. It wasn't just Page and Plant, like they'd like you to believe. A multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the top studio musicians of his time.

let's just use "the lemon song" as an example of what's wrong with this book. we're talking about one of john paul jones's best bass lines. taking the time to learn all the awesome round licks in that breakdown section is like taking a master class in line-construction. frigging excellent solo.disappointingly, this book takes you through one measly twelve-bar segment of the solo and then slaps a repeat symbol on the end of that last bar. there's so much more great material in those "repeats" and whoever did the transcribing completely skimped on all of it to save pages.so this book becomes less about learning great bass parts and more about playing songs. and there's nothing wrong with that, but i wish i'd known that before i bought it. i'm now going to give this as a gift to one of my students.this book is a fine starter book for beginner to early intermediate bass players, but if you're an advanced player really trying to step up your game and infuse your playing with new ideas, you're not going to get them here.