I want to dedicate this work to my sweet Elizabeth, without her love nothing would have been possible.
I want to thank, with infinite love, my son Martino for his loving support, and his advice on computer techniques, audio-visual advice and his sound generational comparison which he never misses out on.
With great gratitude I would like to thank all of my students for their courage, enthusiasm and love for music and for having stimulated me in always improving my work.
I would also like to thank some of my musician friends, Massimo Villani, Giuseppe Joe Candido, Emiliano Cappelli, Alex Barberis, Laurent Digbeu and Tiziano De Angelis, with whom I have shared wonderful moments with them and thanks to them I have been able to take many steps ahead in music and in my life.
It is with immense gratitude that I would like to thank my exceptional maestros Valerio Serangeli, Gianfranco Gullotto and Massimo Giorgi. I want to thank Martin Joseph and Maddalena Deodato at the Scuola Popolare in Testaccio (Rome) and also the maestros at the Berklee in the summer of 1992, among whom I particularly remember Anthony Vitti. I also have an everlasting gratitude to all of the maestros that have written tutors and essays from which I have outlined entries and auriferous, inspirations, among the many, I want to mention an electric bassist, a classic double bass player and a modern guitarist that have left an impression in the didactics and especially in my course, starting from Tony Oppenheim, Isaia Billé and Mick Goodrick.
My heart is full of gratitude for the multitude of artists that have inspired me, practically the list would never end but after carefully thinking it over, I would like to thank Frank Zappa for Frank Zappa and Charlie Parker for the bebop and Prince for his endless energy; to the three J: Jaco Pastorius, Jimi Hendrix and James Brown for having respectively invented the electric bass, the rock (obviously together with the Who) and funk; to the three B: Bob Marley for the reggae and the spirit, Beatles and Johann Sebastian Bach for having created all of the rest (so to say…).
Thanks to Africa and to the Africans for having donated the Blues to the world and for the Rhythm that keeps us alive.
I want to thank Claudio Watson Garabelli at Your Music in Rome, an amazing dealer of electric bass and amplifiers, for his availability to all of my requests and questions.
Thanks to Riccardo Damiani of Markbass, for his precious advice that he has given me for the chapter of lesson 1 Amplifying the electric bass.
A bass guitarist without good strings will have difficulty every time he/she plays, therefore I would like to thank Alfonso Annecchiarico at the Cocco Strings, for his top quality products.
I want to thank Guido Pastorello for having found a way to give new life to my Fender Precision bass.
A big thank you goes to Riccardo Romagnoli,a great musician and webmaster, for his inestimable contribution to the creation and development of this site.
Thanks to Enzo Cerullo, proof-reader of the texts that you are going to read, a great intellectual of Magna Grecia, and to Tiziano De Angelis, official translator of the course!
Lastly, I would like to thank my parents Fiorella and Giuseppe, a big hug to you both, you are always in my heart.
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