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Praise for The Music Lesson

Victor Wooten has been doing things on the bass that nobody dreamed of, and we bass players cant help but hunger for some insight into what inspires him and how he does it. Here, as in his Music, he surprises us and gives us more depth than we expected, more of himself than many would dare. This is his journey, his mystical quest, not merely to play the bass but to fully encounter and understand Music itself.

Tony Levin, world-class bassist, Peter Gabriel Band

Wooten takes readers on a firsthand journey of his own musical self-discovery. Through his warm, humorous narrativeand with the help of some larger-than-life, guru-vy guidesWooten reveals the laws of sound, vibration, rhythm, and creation in ways that help unlock the musical being in each of us.

Chris Jisi, senior contributing editor, Bass Player magazine

Read a chapter and change your playing. Read the book and change your life. This little book will inspire you to grow as a musician and a better person... Lacing the book with imaginative metaphors and unlikely comparisons, theres more wisdom contained in these pages than most musicians will ever learn in a lifetime.

Tony Rogers, guitar instructor, 95 North recording artist

A masterpiece of a book written by a master musician. Illuminating, motivating, riveting, and honest, its a book you cant put down, one that youll want to read over and over again... I feel it is destined to become one of the most important instruction books of the new millennium. Its the best I have ever read.

Bob Franceschini, saxophonist, composer, and arranger

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THE MUSIC LESSON

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Copyright 2006 by Victor L. Wooten.

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PRINTING HISTORY
Vix Boox editions / October 2006, March 2007
Berkley trade paperback edition / April 2008

eISBN : 978-1-436-22066-8

An application to register this book for cataloging has been submitted to the Library of Congress.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to everyone at Penguin Group (USA) for publishing this book. Special thanks go to David Shanks, Norman Lidofsky, Leslie Gelbman, Susan Allison, Howard Wall, and Shannon Jamieson Vazquez. Thank you all for helping me achieve this dream.

There are many people who deserve credit in making this book a reality. All of U have taken part in my life knowingly or unknowingly in a way that has allowed me to become who I am. Whether U know it or not, U are a contributor to everything that I do.

This book is but one aspect of our endeavors together. I would like to thank U all for reading, proofreading, editing, advising, teaching, suggesting, criticizing, complimenting, putting up with, and helping me in some way or another, or not. It is all very much appreciated.

Special Thanks, Kisses, and Hugs go to:

My wife, Holly, and my kids, Kaila, Adam, Arianna, and Cameron, for loving, teaching, and inspiring me and for helping me to be a better me. I Love U!

My parents for teaching me about Life; My brothers Regi, Roy, Rudy, and Joseph for teaching me about Music; Paul Hargett and Rod Taylor for countless hours of help, editing, ideas, advice, and inspiration;

Danette Albetta, Steve Bailey, and Dave Welsch for continued friendship, guidance, help, and support;

All the members, crews, and supporters of The VW Band and Bla Fleck & the Flecktones;

My Music teacherstoo many to mentionfor sharing your gifts and her gifts with me;

My Nature teachers Tom Brown Jr., Charles Worsham, Richard Cleveland, Seth Recarde, Hilary Lauer, Colleen Katsuki, Jon Young, and others for awakening me to a new world and for showing me another way to see;

All the participants of the Bass/Nature Camps and Bass at the Beach for allowing me to experiment on U;

Richard Bach, Neale Donald Walsch, James Twyman, John Mc-Donald, Genevieve Behrend, and others for your inspired writings;

Kay Roberson, Denise Pilar Yver, Jennie Hoeft, Michael Kott, Sam Hunter, Jonathan Chase, and all who have helped and inspired in a special way;

And a big THANKS to my musical instruments for allowing me to express through them.

A Very Special Thanks goes to Michael and to Music for allowing me to write about them.

Thank U!
I Love U All!
Peace!

Victor L. Wooten

WARNING

Everything in this book
may be
all wrong.
But if so,
its
all right!

Truth? What is truth?... And by the way,
if I always tell you the truth, you might
start to believe me.
Michael

Grace Note

I believe that Music, herself, had something to do with you holding this book. What does that mean, "Music herself ? I once asked myself that same question.

Ive been playing the bass guitar since I was two years old, but I started playing Music before that. The youngest of five musical brothers, I was welcomed into a unique world rarely seen by outsiders. It is a mystical musical world where, it seems, all are allowed to visit but only the chosen are allowed to remain.

Whether you play an instrument (or not), this world awaits you. How to get there is up to you. There are no directions given. My mom used to give hints when I was younger. She would say to my brothers and me, You are already successful; the rest of the world just doesnt know it yet. I will put that into musical terms. You are already musical; you just dont know it yet.

When I was younger, my brothers were like my extra parents, guides, and teachers. Actually, they are still that way to me. But now that Im older, I understand the value of what they didnt teach me. I also understand their reasons for occasionally and strategically saying nothing when I asked a question. Under their guidance, I was allowed, and sometimes forced, to figure things out on my own. Thus, at an early age I became my own teacher.

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