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This reading book came about because of a series of bass department meetings at Berklee College of Music. We all agreed that there was a need for more emphasis on the importance of reading with our students. The more difficult thing to agree on, was our expectation of students’ reading abilities at various levels within the department. We came up with the idea of having all the teachers write an example of reading material and submit it. This way we could get an idea of different teachers’ expectations of students at different levels. This idea evolved into a number of us wanting to put those materials and more together into a book we could recommend to our students to work on their reading skills. That’s how this book evolved. The teachers in the bass department at Berklee are so diverse stylistically, that I was able to compile a book of a great variety of styles, time signatures, key signatures and difficulties. The teachers’ names appear next to the examples. The name of the song is included if a bass line was written to a specific standard. The examples are loosely arranged from easiest to most difficult.