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Beginning Bluegrass Bass
This is the first of a unique set of tutorials exploring the Bluegrass Double Bass style and technique. Mark Schatz teaches basic scale patterns, arpeggios, passing tones, chord progressions and much more, applying each discipline to some wonderful Bluegrass standards.

Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641787

Essential Techniques For Acoustic Bass: Lesson One
Whether you intend to play bluegrass, country, pop or jazz, your success in acoustic bass playing will rely on good technique and a solid musical foundation. On this outstanding lesson, Todd Phillips gets beginning players off to a great start with his step-by-step, hands-on approach to the instrument.

It's important to have your bass set up properly, and Todd goes over the instrument from top to bottom to be sure yours is ready to play. He then provides left and right hand exercises to train the ear and develop the accurate fingering neccesary for playing with good pitch. Using unique on-screen diagrams and close up camera work, Todd guides you in visualising the geometric grid of notes on the fingerboard. Major scales and chords in both open and closed positions are shown, and in no time you'll be playing chord progressions and bass lines with a full understanding of their underlying musical concepts.

Moving to the right hand, you'll learn how to achieve volume, tone production,

Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641672

Essential Techniques For Acoustic Bass: Lesson Two
This lesson brings a beginning bass player firmly into intermediate territory with the teaching of minor scales, leading tones, a variety of time signatures and more complex chord changes. Todd Phillips provides invaluable exercises to help you strengthen and stretch your fingers and develop strong rhythmic technique. Important advice is given about how to function as a bassist in a group, listening, supporting and responding to other players.

As in lesson 1, our unique on-screen diagrams and close up camera work will help you make sense of the scale patterns, and will enable you to accurately locate the notes on the fingerboard. Todd's careful, step-by-step approach will demystify the upright bass and will shownyou how to play with professional-level tone, timing and technique.

Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641673

Intermediate Bluegrass Bass
The second in this set of DVDs explores more in-depth and specialist disciplines of the Bluegrass Double Bass. Techniques and styles in clude slap, syncopation, hammer-ons and pull-offs, waltz time, walking lines and much more, all with the distinctive tonalities and rhythms of Bluegrass.

Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641788

Rockabilly Slap Bass
Since the 1950s the upright Bass has performed a distinctive role in the Rockabilly sound, a Lee Rocker's unique DVD gives you a close-up guide to the exciting slap technique. By combining plucked bass notes with the slap of the palm hitting the strings against the fingerboard, spectacular multi-rhythmic patterns can be created that will stop any show!
Rocker's tutorial includes a wealth of information concerning amplification, Bass set-up and getting the best possible sound, as well as providing a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the slap technique. Furthermore, you will be treated to some breathtaking performances by Big Blue, showing you exactly how the upright Rockabilly Bass should sound as part of a band.

Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641855

Rufus Reid: The Evolving Bassist
You will learn bass-line construction, technique, and music theory, and most important, you will apply these concepts to playing classic jazz standards such as Have You Met Miss Jones and much more.

Price:£22.90
Product Code: IMP905699

Danny Thompson: Basically Speaking
In this video, Danny demonstrates his breadth of musical vision, while talking about his life in music, his early beginnings, his influences, and his career-long love affair with Victoria - the 160 year old lady with whom he's lived with for the past 35 years: the lady in question is his double bas.

He plays unaccompanied folk, jazz and blues pieces, as well as some of his own musical tributes to other musicians and demonstrates how the bass can be authentic and distinctive unaccompanied voice, in addition to its customary role as the bedrock of beat and harmony in a band.

Price:£21.50
Product Code: IMP21816

Jazz Bass Facing
A guide for those interested in jazz bass playing. Covers chord analysis, harmonic accompaniment and typical rhythmic figures, as well as basic playing techniques.

Price:£14.90
Product Code: WH28280

Explorations: Double Bass Student Edition
The first and only music resource book for instrumental teachers and students that is dedicated solely to creative music making. Contains progressive activities for playing 'by ear,' memorising, improvising, composing graphic scores and exploring musical elements.Contains a 75-track backing CD to support teaching and learning

Price:£9.99
Product Code: TWM00107

Team Strings 2: Double Bass With CD
Team Strings 2 is ideal for individual, group and class tuition, allowing the violin, viola or cello and double bass to be taught in the same lesson. This method contains carefully-graded music in a wide variety of styles, developing instrument-related aural skills, improvisation and composition.

Price:£9.95
Product Code: IMP7475ACD

Team Strings: Double Bass With CD
This contains a wide variety of musical styles, from the Baroque and Classical eras to Christmas carols, folk music, and popular favourites. In addition, there are many original pieces, studies and technical exercices.

Price:£9.95
Product Code: IMP6777A

Team Strings 2: Double Bass
Team Strings 2 is ideal for individual, group and class tuition, allowing the violin, viola or cello and double bass to be taught in the same lesson. This method contains carefully-graded music in a wide variety of styles, developing instrument-related aural skills, improvisation and composition. Book only edition.

Price:£7.95
Product Code: IMP7475A